1 Please keep in alphabetical order so utilities are easier to find.
11 - Correct support for creating volumes with larger sector sizes (mft record
12 size, cluster size, and index block size must be >= sector size), so for 1k,
13 2k, and 4k sectors, we need to set the default mft record, cluster, and index
14 block size to be at least the sector size.
15 - Correct the odd last partition sector not being accessible under 2.4 kernels
16 by setting the device block size to the sector size (default is 1k on 2.4
17 kernels and they can't cope with partial sectors).
18 - Got a report that creating a floppy with mkntfs failed. Difference between
19 this floppy and the floppy created by the special tool found on the net was
20 said to be that the bitmap is 256kib on the special floppy while mkntfs will
21 make it much smaller. Need to verify this and experiment with the bitmap
22 size to make it work. Note, reporter was using win2k.
29 - get rid of the unneeded lseek()'s during reads/writes (probably it
30 doesn't improve performance much, or any at all)
31 - catch if source and dest are the same
32 - disable consistency check for --metadata (e.g. if the check is crashing)
35 - metadata cloning: skip more non-needed inodes
36 - manual: document LFS issues (smbfs' lfs option, nfs)
37 - manual: mention optimized seeks
38 - manual: optimal backup if disks have bad sectors
39 - manual: ntfsclone guarantees the restored image works only
40 if one restores to the exactly same partition. For example,
41 one can not copy system partition to a different partition:
42 minimum "hidden sectors" field and BOOT.INI need modifications.
43 We could do these adjustments optionally.
44 - check if kernel block size = GCD(page size, device size) makes
45 effect on performance (Al Viro says no)
46 - check whether the O_WRONLY -> O_RDWR change made effect on performance
53 - compare mft record headers
54 - exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, other if trouble
55 - optionally ignore less interesting fields (e.g. attribute instance)
56 - new option: --metadata mode
57 - unnamed resident attributes with same type are ignored
58 - code cleanup, remove many cross-util duplicates
59 - handle deleted records
60 - performance: special handling for sparse files
67 - add ability to copy multiple files at once.
74 - Cleanup to use ntfs_attr_* API for editing $MFTMirr, $Volume, and $LogFile.
75 This has the immediate benefit of enabling attribute list support and making
77 - On ntfs 3.0+ volumes need to disable the usn journal if it is active. This
78 means deleting file $UsnJrnl from /$Extend directory.
79 - On ntfs 3.0+ volumes need to mark the quota out of date? - Probably, but
80 it shouldn't cause any corruption not doing so for the moment so this is
81 not a showstopper bug for the first release. (AIA)
88 - Support ioctls for kernel driver and ntfsmount for reading/changing the label.
102 - move ntfs consistency check to libntfs (for ntfsck, ntfsclone, etc)
103 - use different exit codes (e.g. corrupt volume detected, unsupported case,
107 - cope with the rare, unsupported cases, see man ntfsresize 'KNOWN ISSUES'
108 - save $Bitmap if it was modified and an error occures (e.g. bad sector).
109 - handle signals (^C, etc)
112 - fully support disks with bad sectors (attrlist attr, unknown bad sectors)
120 - undelete by name rather than inode number
121 - support for compressed files
122 - support for internationalisation
124 - mass undelete (using wildcards)
125 - display parent directory
126 - name "<none>" to MFTn