Wednesday, January 28, 2009

NTFS-3G 2009.1.1

What's new:
  • All in the official release notes.

  • An NTFS-3G preference pane has been added after some time in development. The preference pane can be used to set NTFS-3G options and uninstall NTFS-3G. Open your System Preferences application after installation to try it out.

  • Filename normalization code has been added to increase compatibility with Windows filenames including western filenames with accents, and korean filenames.
    Normalization is enabled by default, but can be switched off using the preference pane.
    Note that using normalization may render the filenames that you have previously created using Mac OS X / NTFS-3G inaccessible, so please test which mode works best for your particular drive.

  • The driver now supports returning the create date for a file/directory. (This has been integrated in the main ntfs-3g source tree.)

  • All file names returned that break the 255 byte limit are now truncated to 255 bytes to avoid breaking a directory listing.
Download NTFS-3G 2009.1.1 [ublio] (performance patches applied)
Download NTFS-3G 2009.1.1 [stable]

Packaging, patching, some OS X-related development and testing is done in the context of my development efforts with the Catacombae projects.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4/10.5, a PowerPC or Intel computer, MacFUSE 2.0.2/2.0.3 or later installed.
This package has been tested with Mac OS X 10.4.11/Intel and Mac OS X 10.5.6/Intel.

Information on how to install and use NTFS-3G for Mac OS X can be found in the User Guide.
If you are having problems with NTFS-3G, write a post about it in the NTFS-3G Forum (or post a question as a blog comment if you're just unsure of how things work).

Known issues:

  • After installing ntfs-3g, all NTFS drives will disappear from the "Startup Disk" preference pane. Disabling or uninstalling ntfs-3g brings them back. I don't have a solution for this, but you can still choose your startup drive by:
    • Holding down the Option key during boot (or Alt for non-Apple keyboards).

    • Intel users only: Install the rEFIt boot manager for better control of the boot process.

    • Using the command line utility bless (see man bless for more information)
    If you have any information on a pretty way of solving this issue, I'd love to hear about it.

Sources:
ntfs-3g 2009.1.1 (patched)
ntfsprogs 1.13.1
NTFS-3G prefpane 0.9.6
fuse_wait.c
ntfs-3g_daemon.c
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8 comments:

  1. Clovis T.January 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM

    I cant edit and save a file on my ntfs partition.
    With or without filename normalization. :S

    Im going backward.

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  2. ErikJanuary 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM

    Clovis T.:

    Are you sure the partition gets mounted with ntfs-3g? Check in Disk Utility.
    What are your system/OS specs?

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  3. Clovis T.January 28, 2009 at 10:23 PM

    Yes, it is.
    I've found that the problem is with TextEdit specifically. I can edit with another editor (smultorn, NeoOffice) but TextEdit can't save the file.
    I always edited txt files with TextEdit in the NTFS partition.

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  4. Clovis T.January 28, 2009 at 10:31 PM

    Actually if i save the file as another file, it saves.
    If i try to just save the opened file, TextEdit says that cant save.
    Any clue on that?

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  5. ErikJanuary 29, 2009 at 3:04 AM

    Clovis T.:

    This is really strange. I can reproduce this, so I'm working on a finding out what the problem is.

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  6. ErikJanuary 29, 2009 at 4:26 AM

    Clovis T.:

    Found the bug! Expect an update soon...

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  7. ErikJanuary 29, 2009 at 4:27 AM

    (It wasn't really a bug, but an unexpected side effect of the newly introduced creation time implementation.)

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  8. Clovis T.January 29, 2009 at 4:15 PM

    Thanks Erik for the fast fix ;)

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