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About Ext2Fsd
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The Ext2Fsd project is an ext2 file system driver for WinNT/2000/XP.
It's a free software and everyone can distribute and modify it under
GNU GPL.
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Author & Homepage
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Matt<mattwu@163.com>
http://ext2.yeah.net
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Credits
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Here, I owe all my thanks to Bo Branten<bosse@acc.umu.se> for his
project romfs and his great contribution of the free version ntifs.h
Everyone can get to him at http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/.
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Revision history
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37, V0.45: 2008-02-19
Modifications from V0.44:
1, set hidden attribute for all files starting with "."
2, update cache window size when writing to file end
3, reaper resources allocated during file creation
36, V0.44: 2008-02-09
Modifications from V0.43:
1, Ext2Fsd: LastWriteTime/LastAccessTime update
2, Ext2Mgr: Show driver/app versions in About dialog
35, V0.43: 2008-02-01
Modifications from V0.42:
1, Ext2Fsd: hidden/system attribute handling
2, Ext2Mgr: Added manifest to cope with UAC
34, V0.42: 2008-01-26
Features implemented:
1, Mountpoint auto mount/removal supported for removable disks
33, V0.41: 2008-01-25
Modifications from V0.40:
Bugs/Problems Fixed:
1, Some files couldn't be shown in explorer with utf8 codepage
2, System always pops "device is busy" when removing USB disks
Features implemented:
1, Ext2Fsd: Updated codepage encodings to latest Linux kernel
2, Ext2Mgr: Added Chinese translation which is in high demand
Enhanced mountpoints management for removable devices
32, V0.40: 2008-01-13
Modifications from V0.39
Bugs/Problems Fixed:
1, Directory inode isn't freed after directory deletion
2, Retrieval pointers implemented for extents mapping
3, Correct the handling of STATUS_CANT_WAIT. Vista's Cache
Manager often fails us on PingRead when copying bunch of
files/directories from ext2 volumes, and thus it results
in zero-data-content in copied files
4, Optimize space allocation to minimize fragments
31, V0.39: 2008-01-09
Modifications from V0.38
Bugs Fixed:
1, Disk space isn't released after deleting big files larger than
(BLOCK_SIZE * (12 + BLOCK_SIZE/4 + BLOCK_SIZE * BLOCK_SIZE / 16))
That's 4,299,210,752 in case BLOCK_SIZE is 4096.
30, V0.38: 2008-01-04
Modifications from V0.37
Bugs Fixed:
1, File block extents management improved to decrease CPU usage
2, Re-queue request when cache manager can't prepare pages in time
3, Possible deletion of it's hardlink entry when removing a file
4, Prohibit to create file with same names to dead symlinks
5, Wrong inode type in directory entry for symbol links
6, Possible memory leak when failed to overwrite file
7, Memory leak in Ext2FreeMcb, it's counted but not freed.
8, Possible loss of inode/dentry update: Ext2WriteVolume might
miss the dirty windows with SECTOR_SIZE aligned borders
9, SpinLock related routines shouldn't be resident in paged zone
10, Possible lost of files in directory listing
29, V0.37: 2007-12-25
Bugs Fixed:
1, files >=4G couldn't be copy&paste to ext2 volume, caused by a hardcode
limit in Ext2CreateFile
2, failure of "No enough memory" when renaming files under directories
it likely happens when renaming files under subdirectory with Samba
or Linux kernel CIFS.
3, possible deadlock in renaming with simultaneous access on the same file
4, possible wrong entry (hardlinks) deletion instead of itself: it's
rare to happen but possible when renaming, moving or deleting files.
5, entry management routines enhancement
6, 64k-block support
28, V0.36: 2007-12-22
Bugs Fixed:
1, BSOD caused by symlink pointing to itself or others
2, bug in new inode allocation algorithm
3, "." and ".." are treated as separate inodes
4, remove unnecessary local variables to reduce stack
overflow chances especially for nested symlinks
5, overall optimizations on block allocation/release/mapping
6, non-consistent Mcb reference issue (broken by symlinks)
7, memory leaks of BLOCK_DATA when expanding file
8, buffer overflow in Ext2Printf only for checked build
9, bug in handling exception of working cdroms ejection
Features Newly Implemented:
1, remove the execute bit ('x') for all newly created files
2, enhance memory reaper mechanism of all Xcbs (Fcb/Mcb)
3, big block support (up to 32k)
4, statistics of memory allocation / irp handling
Ext2 Volume Manager:
1, crash with RAW disk (non-partitioned)
2, wrong message box poped when setting service property
3, more partition types recognized
4, support memory/irp statistics
5, keyboard handling, as convenient as using mouse
27, V0.35: 2007-12-02
Bugs Fixed:
1, Corrected change notification message for renaming
2, e2fsck i_size issue: Ext2SetInformation doesn't free
extra blocks when shrinking FileEndOfFileInformation
3, BSOD with symlink since it's treated as a file
Features Newly Implemented:
1, Symbolic link support on most operations but creating
2, Property settings per volume, more flexible
3, Hiding files with specified prefix and suffix
4, Different implements on driver letter assignment
5, CDROM support to mount CD/DVD burned in EXT2 format
6, "Move and Replace (overwrite)" support
7, Install Ext2Mgr as a service
26, V0.31A: 2007-01-06
Bugs/Problems Fixed:
1, Disable the partition type changing, which causes linux could not boot
2, Added the test-signature to AMD64 drivers for vista system
25, V0.31: 2006-11-06
Bugs Fixed:
1, Wrong ERESOURCE referenced in Ext2DeleteFile
2, Stale path name referenced for directory notification
3, Codepage names inconsistent between Ext2Fsd and Ext2Mgr
Features Newly Implemented:
1, Vista supported
24, V0.30: 2006-10-21
Main Bugs Fixed:
1, Incorrect removable media support
2, Wrong file size, timestamps reporting
3, Some minor memory leaks
4, Improper usage of ERESOURCE locking
5, Wrong handling of some special I/O
6, Incorrect codepage loading sequence
7, Mke2fs is much improved
Main Features Newly Supported:
1, Network sharing, Oplocks handling
2, Ext2 Volume Manager (codepage, attributes)
23, V0.25: 2005-07-27
Bug Fixed:
1, File allocation blocks are not freed when being deleted
2, Other minor modifications on the program logics ...
Features Newly Supported:
1, Floppy support implemented.
2, Win64 (X86 64) support.
22, V0.24: 2005-03-28
Bug Fixed:
1, Codepage support errors fixed.
2, Ext2LookupFileName: should fail when it's not a real path.
3, Ext2FastIoQueryNetworkOpenInfo: Fcb not initialized.
Features Newly Supported:
1, Sparse file support.
2, Setup and config tools by Jared Breland.
21, V0.23: 2005-01-09
Bug Fixed:
1, Ext2ReadSync: Thread stack is paged out, which causes "Event" is invalid.
2, Ext2InitializeVcb: Ext2Global->McbList is referred before initializing.
Features Newly Supported:
1, Multi codepages supported
In registry, there's a new item named "CodePage", just change it to the
codepage name you want to use. The codepage name is the same to linux