Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-25 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 00:59 26/05/2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > NTFS 1.1.15 - ChangeLog > > === > > - Support for more than 128kiB sized runlists (using vmalloc_32() instead > > of kmalloc()). > >If you are running into kmalloc size limit, please consider some >alternat

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available(1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Martin von Loewis
> I would love to move inode metadata to the page cache. That would simplify > so much in the NTFS driver and would result in an incredible speed boost > due to getting rid of all the silly copying of data back and forth inside > the driver as we could just pass pointers around instead (to lock

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 12:23 27/05/2001, Martin von Loewis wrote: > > I would love to move inode metadata to the page cache. That would simplify > > so much in the NTFS driver and would result in an incredible speed boost > > due to getting rid of all the silly copying of data back and forth inside > > the driver as

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Martin von Loewis
> Yes and no. They will be uncompressed but not when opening the inode. It > will be "uncompress required extent's run list on demand". Are you sure this can work? Initially, I thought I could use the attribute list to only uncompress the extend that has the VCN I'm interested in. That would no

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 13:53 27/05/2001, Martin von Loewis wrote: > > Yes and no. They will be uncompressed but not when opening the inode. It > > will be "uncompress required extent's run list on demand". > >Are you sure this can work? No. >Initially, I thought I could use the attribute list to only uncompress the

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-27 Thread Yuri Per
Martin von Loewis wrote: >That would not work: NT would split individual runs across extends >(i.e. split them in the middle). Did I misunderstand, or do you have a >solution for that as well. > Are you sure that it's true? My NTFS resizer interprets parts of runlist stored in different FILE rec

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Martin von Loewis
> >That would not work: NT would split individual runs across extends > >(i.e. split them in the middle). Did I misunderstand, or do you have a > >solution for that as well. > > > Are you sure that it's true? My NTFS resizer interprets parts of runlist > stored in different FILE records independe

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 12:10 28/05/2001, Martin von Loewis wrote: > > >That would not work: NT would split individual runs across extends > > >(i.e. split them in the middle). Did I misunderstand, or do you have a > > >solution for that as well. > > > > > Are you sure that it's true? My NTFS resizer interprets parts

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Yuri Per
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I > know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know > the driver would fail on them... - I am aware of only one person stil > using NT 3.51 and he doesn't believe in the NTFS

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 14:08 28/05/2001, Yuri Per wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >>Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I >>know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know the >>driver would fail on them... - I am aware of only one person stil using >>NT 3

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-28 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:49:28PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > At 14:08 28/05/2001, Yuri Per wrote: > >Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > >>Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I > >>know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know the > >>

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-29 Thread Martin von Loewis
> > Anyone know about 3.1? > > > > It's an HPFS variant. No. NT was using NTFS right from the start. Regards, Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-

Re: [Linux-ntfs] Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ANN: NTFS new release available (1.1.15)

2001-05-29 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:18:41AM +0200, Martin von Loewis wrote: > > > Anyone know about 3.1? > > > > > > > It's an HPFS variant. > > No. NT was using NTFS right from the start. > > Regards, > Martin No. They were not. Their first cuts of NT used an HPFS variant until NTFS could be compl