NTFS-3G Community Edition

Along with commercial development we continue to contribute towards open source community through Tuxera NTFS Community Edition. The package includes popular NTFS-3G driver and ntfsprogs projects, maintained and updated on regular bases. You can find more information about the software on Tuxera Community.

In late February we published a new update: version 2014.2.15.

The following summary lists some of the included improvements and major changes in the driver:

libntfs: added use of hd library to get the legacy BIOS geometry

libntfs: switched to /proc/mounts for checking existing mounts

libntfs: fixed usa checking by ntfsck on 4K sector disks

libntfs: fixed processing compressed data beyond file size (Windows 8 compliance)

libntfs: fixed expanding a resident attribute without inserting holes

libntfs: allow DACLs to not have any ACE

libntfs: ignore unmapped regions when checking whether sparse

libntfs: upgraded the Win32 interface for use with ntfsprogs

ntfsresize: enabled relocating the MFT when shrinking a volume

ntfsresize: fixed trying to update the MFT and Bitmap on a test run

ntfsresize: fixed updating all the MFT runs in a relocated MFT

ntfsresize: set the backup boot sector when the size is reliable

ntfsresize: reserved a single sector for the backup boot sector

ntfsundelete: output the modification time when scanning files

ntfsundelete: ported to Windows

ntfsclone: fixed wiping fragmented metadata when creating a metadata image

ntfsclone: allowed cloning a file system despite allocation errors

ntfsclone: fixed bad copying of the backup boot sector

ntfsclone: ported to Windows

ntfsdecrypt: made compatible with libgrypt-1.6

Thanks go to all the contributors!

For a high-performance, fail-safe commercial version with advanced features, see Tuxera NTFS for embedded systems and Mac OS X. Together with our other file systems solutions and related products it is widely deployed across industries.