Fedora 7 Test Update: ntfs-3g-1.913-1.fc7

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2202
2007-09-18 22:30:55
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Name        : ntfs-3g
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.913
Release     : 1.fc7
URL         : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Summary     : Linux NTFS userspace driver
Description :
The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation
Linux NTFS driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding
access to encrypted files, writing compressed files, changing file
ownership, access right.

Technically it’s based on and a major improvement to the third
generation Linux NTFS driver, ntfsmount. The improvements include
functionality, quality and performance enhancements.

ntfs-3g features are being merged to ntfsmount. In the meanwhile,
ntfs-3g is currently the only free, as in either speech or beer, NTFS
driver for Linux that supports unlimited file creation and deletion.

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Update Information:

*  change: significantly improved the performance of writing many files, typically by 50-1000% (copying files, unpacking, untarring packages, compilation, directory synchronization, ...).
* change: improved the performance of writing multi-GB size files, particularly after the creation of many thousands of other files. Previous disk space defragmentation is highly advised for the best possible speed. File level defragmentation is not enough.
* change: improved concurrent write performance. 
* change: free disk space calculation was highly CPU intensive during write activity. This could reduce write performance severely, especially for huge volumes if a file manager or desktop applet regularly polled for disk space usage. Now the calculation is constant time, around only 10 microseconds on a typical desktop, and it's completely independent of the volume size.
* fix: hibernation check was too rigid and mount was refused in read/write mode unnecessarily in some cases. 
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Sep 17 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 2:1.913-1
- bump to 1.913
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Updated packages:

389972eb5510cb66b6b5398290131fc00aa482a0 ntfs-3g-1.913-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
43e5feb4c7553dfc61fdc328a9e40dceaa6e7511 ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
78915ceb5ed6176acefef2d5e31606990efd67b5 ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
3bc8b8a46ac13717c4ca1c8e178346b8cfcc9601 ntfs-3g-1.913-1.fc7.i386.rpm
f0fe862b280b3170280fe84bdcf7cb28e6bfd1d5 ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-1.fc7.i386.rpm
c95060c57c3d59399e3cad54e9c279f6520dde65 ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-1.fc7.i386.rpm
a480adb33b3066299ed3aae8444ea04b038436fe ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
cac7fb1aebc272e518bfc8beb78de53b8c2dbb99 ntfs-3g-1.913-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
d17756541a8428938373fa41f2744e564bb22d2b ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
3f43fcb7b906e9101cf96debec51ee1ef5a14c10 ntfs-3g-1.913-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
0da0bff5e541990f630e08268ceb11864b4d1af4 ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
ef656836bf93dab6d03b9e8404e3d1ebb6a28e0f ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
e5f6d24e5bf32f2a8804375bae65bd13e944bfde ntfs-3g-1.913-1.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ntfs-3g' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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