Fedora 14 Update: ntfs-3g-2010.8.8-1.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-13045
2010-08-19 01:03:02
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Name        : ntfs-3g
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2010.8.8
Release     : 1.fc14
URL         : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Summary     : Linux NTFS userspace driver
Description :
NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS
driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe
handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can
create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams;
it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including
streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links,
devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full
file access right and ownership support.

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Update Information:

Update to 2010.8.8:    * New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
* New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).  * New:
Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.  * Change:
Re-enabled compression in root directory.  * Change: Reversed default for
showing/hiding hidden files.  * Change: Redefined default user mapping.  *
Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if option
hide_dot_files is used.  * Change: Renamed option default_permissions to
permissions.  * Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.  *
Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.  * Fixed a possible crash
when creating a stream.  * Fixed all reported and found compressed write related
bugs.  * Fixed partially overwriting sparse clusters on highly fragmented
volumes.  * Fixed checking write errors in setxattr().  * Fixed processing end
of partial runlist for compressed files.  * Fixed updating file compressed
sizes.  * Fixed checking the device mount state.  * Fixed processing of options
silent and no_def_opts.  * Fixed excessive cluster allocation within big holes.
* Fixed creating empty encrypted extended attributes.  * Fixed too permissive
sanity check before compressing.  * Fixed error returns when writing compressed
data.  * Fixed sanity checked when closing a compressed file.  * Fixed zeroing
the end of an ex-hole cluster of compressed files.  * Improved sanity checks on
security descriptors.
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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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