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File systems: updates of NTFS and Ext2 drivers
Marek Szyprowski released updates to his file system handlers for the New Technology Filesystem (NTFS) and the Second Extended Filesystem (Ext2) for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS.

Please read the disclaimers in the readme files - you use these beta versions on your own risk.

New in NTFS driver v0.4:

updated to latest Ext2FS filesystem skeleton - this adds support for removable media, handler inhibit and shutdown
added unicode to local charset translation (read more below)
minor bug fixes

New in Ext2 driver v0.20:

added support for software write-protection (ACTION_WRITE_PROTECT packet)
made cache buffers flush asynchronous - this makes all write operations a lot faster
fixed problem with incompatible volume names (like these containing characters '/' and ':')
the driver now is able to format disk and create all EXT2 filesystem structures (ACTION_FORMAT packet)
by default the filesystem is case insensitive, but you can change this by setting the control field in the mountlist to "CASESENSITIVE"

Download:
ext2fs_0.20.lha (92 KB)
ntfs_0.5.lha (66 KB)

Update: (08:30, 31.10.05, snx)
Meanwhile the NTFS driver has been updated to version 0.5. The updates fixes a bug which caused crashes during startup on some systems. (snx) (Translation: wk)

[News message: 29. Oct. 2005, 10:08] [Comments: 0]
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