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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/ChangeLog')
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog index 3b8ff231808..03015c7b236 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog +++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog @@ -1,16 +1,15 @@ ToDo/Notes: - Find and fix bugs. - - In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between - simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem - on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized - are prepare/commit write and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_sem - is held. Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers + - The only places in the kernel where a file is resized are + ntfs_file_write*() and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_sem is + held. Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers not running under i_sem that we play nice... Also need to be careful - with initialized_size extention in ntfs_prepare_write and writepage. - UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are - prepare/commit_write as well as the compressed write and the other - attribute resize/write cases like index attributes, etc. For now - none of these are implemented so are safe. + with initialized_size extension in ntfs_file_write*() and writepage. + UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are the compressed + write and the other attribute resize/write cases like index + attributes, etc. For now none of these are implemented so are safe. + - Implement filling in of holes in aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its + helpers. - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino) causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror @@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ ToDo/Notes: - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications. -2.1.25-WIP +2.1.25 - (Almost) fully implement write(2) and truncate(2). - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and {__,}ntfs_cluster_free() to also take an optional attribute search @@ -49,7 +48,12 @@ ToDo/Notes: extend the allocation of an attributes. Optionally, the data size, but not the initialized size can be extended, too. - Implement fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]::ntfs_truncate(). It only supports - uncompressed and unencrypted files. + uncompressed and unencrypted files and it never creates sparse files + at least for the moment (making a file sparse requires us to modify + its directory entries and we do not support directory operations at + the moment). Also, support for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones + whose data attribute is split across multiple extents, is severly + limited. When such a case is encountered, EOPNOTSUPP is returned. - Enable ATTR_SIZE attribute changes in ntfs_setattr(). This completes the initial implementation of file truncation. Now both open(2)ing a file with the O_TRUNC flag and the {,f}truncate(2) system calls @@ -61,6 +65,16 @@ ToDo/Notes: and cond_resched() in the main loop as we could be dirtying a lot of pages and this ensures we play nice with the VM and the system as a whole. + - Implement file operations ->write, ->aio_write, ->writev for regular + files. This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and + the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write. + This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and + uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2) + code path. There are two limitations at present and these are that + we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support + for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split + across multiple extents. When such a case is encountered, + EOPNOTSUPP is returned. 2.1.24 - Lots of bug fixes and support more clean journal states. |