| Steve Kondik | 2111ad7 | 2013-07-07 12:07:44 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Please keep in alphabetical order so utilities are easier to find. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Thanks, |
| 4 | Anton |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ********** |
| 8 | * mkntfs * |
| 9 | ********** |
| 10 | |
| 11 | - Correct support for creating volumes with larger sector sizes (mft record |
| 12 | size, cluster size, and index block size must be >= sector size), so for 1k, |
| 13 | 2k, and 4k sectors, we need to set the default mft record, cluster, and index |
| 14 | block size to be at least the sector size. |
| 15 | - Correct the odd last partition sector not being accessible under 2.4 kernels |
| 16 | by setting the device block size to the sector size (default is 1k on 2.4 |
| 17 | kernels and they can't cope with partial sectors). |
| 18 | - Got a report that creating a floppy with mkntfs failed. Difference between |
| 19 | this floppy and the floppy created by the special tool found on the net was |
| 20 | said to be that the bitmap is 256kib on the special floppy while mkntfs will |
| 21 | make it much smaller. Need to verify this and experiment with the bitmap |
| 22 | size to make it work. Note, reporter was using win2k. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | |
| 25 | ************* |
| 26 | * ntfsclone * |
| 27 | ************* |
| 28 | |
| 29 | - get rid of the unneeded lseek()'s during reads/writes (probably it |
| 30 | doesn't improve performance much, or any at all) |
| 31 | - catch if source and dest are the same |
| 32 | - disable consistency check for --metadata (e.g. if the check is crashing) |
| 33 | - option: --inode |
| 34 | - option: --data |
| 35 | - metadata cloning: skip more non-needed inodes |
| 36 | - manual: document LFS issues (smbfs' lfs option, nfs) |
| 37 | - manual: mention optimized seeks |
| 38 | - manual: optimal backup if disks have bad sectors |
| 39 | - manual: ntfsclone guarantees the restored image works only |
| 40 | if one restores to the exactly same partition. For example, |
| 41 | one can not copy system partition to a different partition: |
| 42 | minimum "hidden sectors" field and BOOT.INI need modifications. |
| 43 | We could do these adjustments optionally. |
| 44 | - check if kernel block size = GCD(page size, device size) makes |
| 45 | effect on performance (Al Viro says no) |
| 46 | - check whether the O_WRONLY -> O_RDWR change made effect on performance |
| 47 | |
| 48 | |
| 49 | *********** |
| 50 | * ntfscmp * |
| 51 | *********** |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - compare mft record headers |
| 54 | - exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, other if trouble |
| 55 | - optionally ignore less interesting fields (e.g. attribute instance) |
| 56 | - new option: --metadata mode |
| 57 | - unnamed resident attributes with same type are ignored |
| 58 | - code cleanup, remove many cross-util duplicates |
| 59 | - handle deleted records |
| 60 | - performance: special handling for sparse files |
| 61 | |
| 62 | |
| 63 | ********** |
| 64 | * ntfscp * |
| 65 | ********** |
| 66 | |
| 67 | - add ability to copy multiple files at once. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | |
| 70 | *********** |
| 71 | * ntfsfix * |
| 72 | *********** |
| 73 | |
| 74 | - Cleanup to use ntfs_attr_* API for editing $MFTMirr, $Volume, and $LogFile. |
| 75 | This has the immediate benefit of enabling attribute list support and making |
| 76 | the code simpler. |
| 77 | - On ntfs 3.0+ volumes need to disable the usn journal if it is active. This |
| 78 | means deleting file $UsnJrnl from /$Extend directory. |
| 79 | - On ntfs 3.0+ volumes need to mark the quota out of date? - Probably, but |
| 80 | it shouldn't cause any corruption not doing so for the moment so this is |
| 81 | not a showstopper bug for the first release. (AIA) |
| 82 | |
| 83 | |
| 84 | ************* |
| 85 | * ntfslabel * |
| 86 | ************* |
| 87 | |
| 88 | - Support ioctls for kernel driver and ntfsmount for reading/changing the label. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | |
| 91 | ************* |
| 92 | * ntfsmount * |
| 93 | ************* |
| 94 | |
| 95 | |
| 96 | |
| 97 | ************** |
| 98 | * ntfsresize * |
| 99 | ************** |
| 100 | |
| 101 | High priority |
| 102 | - move ntfs consistency check to libntfs (for ntfsck, ntfsclone, etc) |
| 103 | - use different exit codes (e.g. corrupt volume detected, unsupported case, |
| 104 | bad sectors, etc) |
| 105 | |
| 106 | Medium priority |
| 107 | - cope with the rare, unsupported cases, see man ntfsresize 'KNOWN ISSUES' |
| 108 | - save $Bitmap if it was modified and an error occures (e.g. bad sector). |
| 109 | - handle signals (^C, etc) |
| 110 | |
| 111 | Low priority |
| 112 | - fully support disks with bad sectors (attrlist attr, unknown bad sectors) |
| 113 | - move volume start |
| 114 | |
| 115 | |
| 116 | **************** |
| 117 | * ntfsundelete * |
| 118 | **************** |
| 119 | |
| 120 | - undelete by name rather than inode number |
| 121 | - support for compressed files |
| 122 | - support for internationalisation |
| 123 | - recover by type? |
| 124 | - mass undelete (using wildcards) |
| 125 | - display parent directory |
| 126 | - name "<none>" to MFTn |