1Please keep in alphabetical order so utilities are easier to find. 2 3Thanks, 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 101High 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 106Medium 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 111Low 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 127