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2009-07-27 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.48 is released. 

Modifications from V0.46:


Features  implemented or bugs fixed:

    1, Acronis TrueImage compatible issue solved:
        Verified with Acronis True Image Home 2009. Also verified with
        FreeOFTE 3.0, TrueCrypt 6.2a.
    2, Driver code-signed for Vista and Server 2008
    3, Bo Branten's 5+ patches merged, lots ifstest failures resolved
    4, Code improvements for FastIo routines and drive letter & mount
        points management
    5, Mount point automatic assignment for USB key and other removable
        disks or removable media devices

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
   
1, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    2, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    3, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
   
Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o
    loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and
    stability are highly, improved especially stability. A new
    and strong era of  Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 
WARNINGS: 
 
   
The driver may crash your system and ruin your data
    unexpectedly, since there might be software conflicts
    and I could only test it on some of the popular platforms.
    You should use it with care and use it at your own risk! 

You can help ! 

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2008-05-24 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.46 is released. 

Thanks to feiwei lei, Pedro Lopes, Mike Frysinger, Lisenbee Jason, hinote, JinXXXX Kili Billl, Bart Thissen, Gregory Mavropulo-Stolyarenko nguyen, Charles Wu, Tsukiyama Norihiro, lommetennis, Luca Malossi, Vincent Crevot.


Modifications from V0.45:


Features  implemented or bugs fixed:

    1, ext3 journal check and replay implemented. If the journal is
        not empty ext2fsd will replay the journal and make the file
        system consistent as an ext2 file system.

    2, flexible-inode-size supported. recent Linux are using 256-byte
        inode that fails 0.45 and before to show all the files.

    3, FIXME: 2 minor issues that mislead EditPlus. EditPlus is always
        trying to open any file with directory_only flag set to judge
        whether the target is a directory or file, when the file isn't s
        directory, the open request should be denied. But Ext2Fsd 0.45
        and before doesn't. Another issue is that ext2 file time on disk
        has different precision against windows (1 second vs 100 nano
        second), which causes EditPlus thinks the file is being changed.

    4, FIXME: a severe bug (likely happen on win2k system) which cause
        dirty caches missed and slow down the whole system. 

    5, many other minor changes: bulk block allocation/release, possible
        inode allocation dead-loop when all inodes are used out, Ext2Mgr
        win2k support, other performance improvements.

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
   
1, LVM support 
    2, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    3, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    4, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
   
Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o
    loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and
    stability are highly, improved especially stability. A new
    and strong era of  Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 
WARNINGS: 
 
   
The driver may crash your system and ruin your data
    unexpectedly, since there might be software conflicts
    and I could only test it on some of the popular platforms.
    You should use it with care and use it at your own risk! 

2008-02-19 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.45 is released. 

Thanks to Eddie Chu from Vinpowerdigital Inc for his persistent support, and lijw, Nicola Barbini for valuable advices. 

Modifications from V0.44:


Features  implemented or bugs fixed:

    1, set hidden attribute for all files starting with "." 
    2, update cache window size when writing to file end 
    3, reaper resources allocated during file creation    

Features to be implemented in future: 
 
   
1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
   
Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o
    loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and
    stability are highly, improved especially stability. A new
    and strong era of  Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 
WARNINGS: 
 
   
The driver may crash your system and ruin your data
    unexpectedly, since there might be software conflicts
    and I could only test it on some of the popular platforms.
    You should use it with care and use it at your own risk! 

2008-02-09 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.44 is released. 

Modifications from V0.42:


Features  implemented or bugs fixed:

    Ext2Fsd:  1, hidden/system attribute handling
                    2, LastWriteTime/LastAccessTime update

    Ext2Mgr:  1, Added manifest to cope with Vista UAC
                    2, Show driver/app versions in About dialog

2008-01-27 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.42 is released. 

Thanks to all the people
who are supporting Ext2Fsd, especially: 
 
Benjam_Valero_Espinosa, Beno_Huet, Cameron Villers, Dan Larsen, Eddie Chu, geo, Lewis Skinner, Pedro Lopes, Samuel thornhill  

Modifications from V0.40:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, Some files couldn't be shown in explorer with utf8 codepage 
    2, System always pops "device is busy" when removing USB disks
    3, Mountpoint auto mount/removal supported for removable disks
    4, Re-queue the request for later when Cache manager couldn't
         get ready for us when writing tons of files in Vista
 
Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Ext2Fsd: Updated codepage encodings to latest Linux kernel 
    2, Ext2Mgr: Added Chinese translation which is in high demand 
    3, Ext2Mgr: Enhanced mountpoints management for removable devices 

2008-01-25 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.41 is released. 

Thanks to all the people
who are supporting Ext2Fsd, especially: 
 
Benjam_Valero_Espinosa, Beno_Huet, Cameron Villers, Dan Larsen, Eddie Chu, geo, Lewis Skinner, Pedro Lopes, Samuel thornhill  

Modifications from V0.40:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, Some files couldn't be shown in explorer with utf8 codepage 
    2, System always pops "device is busy" when removing USB disks 

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Ext2Fsd: Updated codepage encodings to latest Linux kernel 
    2, Ext2Mgr: Added Chinese translation which is in high demand 
    3, Ext2Mgr: Enhanced mountpoints management for removable devices 

Features to be implemented in future: 

 
    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate 
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization 
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree) 
    4, LVM support 
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support 
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions 
 
    Since 0.38, Ext2fsd is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, 
    both for reading and writing. Performance and stability are 
    highly, improved especially stability. A new and strong era of 
    Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :) 
 
WARNINGS: 
 
    The driver may crash your system and ruin your data unexpectedly, 
    since there might be software conflicts and I could only test it 
    on some of the popular platforms. You should use it with care and 
    use it at your own risk! 

2008-01-13 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.40 is released. 

Modifications from V0.39:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, Directory inode isn't freed after directory deletion
    2, Retrieval pointers implemented for extents mapping
    3, Correct the handling of STATUS_CANT_WAIT. Vista's Cache
        Manager often fails us on PingRead when copying bunch of
        files/directories from ext2 volumes, and thus it results
        in zero-data-content in copied files.
    4, Optimize space allocation to minimize fragemnts

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions
    7, Update codepage codings to latest Linux kernel

    Ext2fsd 0.40 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for
    reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved,
    especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd in product
    shape is coming :)

    Happy New Year !

2008-01-09 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.39 is released. 

Modifications from V0.38:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, Disk space isn't released after deleting big files larger than
        (BLOCK_SIZE * (12 + BLOCK_SIZE/4 + (BLOCK_SIZE/4)**2)
       That's 4,299,210,752 in case BLOCK_SIZE is 4096.

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions

2008-01-04 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.38 is released. 

Modifications from V0.37:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, File block extents management improved to decrease CPU usage
    2, Re-queue request when cache manager can't prepare pages in time
    3, Possible deletion of it's hardlink entry when remvoing a file
    4, Prohibit to create file with same names to dead symlinks
    5, Wrong inode type in directory entry for symbol links
    6, Possible memory leak when failed to overwrite file
    7, Memory leak in Ext2FreeMcb, it's counted but not freed.
    8, Possible loss of inode/dentry update: Ext2WriteVolume might
        miss the dirty windows with SECTOR_SIZE aligned borders
    9, SpinLock related routines shouldn't be resident in paged zone
  10, Possible lost of files in directory listing

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support
    5, Pnp and removable (USB) disk support
    6, Automatic check & update of new versions

2007-12-25 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.37 is released. 

Modifications from V0.36:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, files >=4G couldn't be copy&paste to ext2 volume, caused by a
        hardcode limit in Ext2CreateFile
    2, failure of "No enough memory" when renaming files under directories
        it likely happens when renaming files under subdirectory with Samba
        or Linux kernel CIFS.
    3, possible deadlock in renaming with simultaneous access
    4, possible wrong entry (hardlinks) deletion instead of itself: it's
        rare to happen but pissible when renaming, moving or deleting files. 
    5, entry management routines enhancement 
    6, 64k-block support

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)
    4, LVM support

Merry Christmas !

2007-12-21 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.36 is released. 

Modifications from V0.35:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, BSOD caused by symlink pointing to itself or others
    2, bug in new inode allocation algorithm 
    3, "." and ".." are treated as separate inodes
    4, remove unnecessary local variables to reduce stack
        overflow chances especially for nested symlinks
    5, overall optimizations on block allocation/release/mapping 
    6, non-consistent Mcb reference issue (broken by symlinks)
    7, memory leaks of BLOCK_DATA when expanding file
    8, buffer overflow in Ext2Printf only for checked build
    9, bug in handling excpetion of working cdroms ejection

Ext2 Volume Manager:

    1, crash with RAW disk (non-partitioned)
    2, wrong message box poped when setting service properity
    3, more partition types recognized
    4, support memory/irp statistics
    5, keyboard handling, as convenient as using mouse

Features Newly Implemented:

    1, remove the execute bit ('x') for all newly created files 
    2, enhance memory reaper mechanisym of all Xcbs (Fcb/Mcb)
    3, big block support (up to 32k) 
    4, statistics of memory allocation / irp handling

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)

 

2007-12-02 Projects -> Ext2fsd v0.35  is released. 

Modifications from V0.31a:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, Corrected change notification message for renaming
    2, e2fsck i_size issue: Ext2SetInformation doesn't free extra blocks
        when shrinking FileEndOfFileInformation
    3, BSOD with symlink since it's treated as a file

Features Newly Implemented:

    1, Symbolic link support on most operations but creating 
    2, Property settings per volume, more flexible
    3, Hiding files with specified prefix and suffix
    4, Different implements on driver letter assignment
    5, CDROM support to mount CD/DVD burned in EXT2 format
    6, "Move and Replace (overwrite)" support
    7, Install Ext2Mgr as a service

Features to be implemented in future:

    1, Documents improvement: clear and elaborate
    2, Performance improvement, code optimization
    3, EXT3 features support (journal, htree)

2007-01-06 Projects Ext2fsd v0.31a is released. 

Modifications from V0.31:


Bugs/Problems Fixed:

    1, Disable the partition type changing, which causes linux could not boot
    2, Added the test-signature to AMD64 drivers for vista system

Supporting OS:

    1, 32 bits: Windows 2000, windows xp, windows 2003
        64 bits: Windows xp, windows 2003
    2, NT4 system is no longer supported.
    3, Vista: you need disable system's driver signature checking
2006-11-06 Projects Ext2fsd v0.31 is released. 

Modifications from V0.30:


Bugs Fixed:

    1, Wrong ERESOURCE referenced in Ext2DeleteFile
    2, Stale path name referenced for directory notification
    3, Codepage names inconsistent between Ext2Fsd and Ext2Mgr

Features Newly Implemented:

    1, Vista supported 

Supporting OS:

    1, 32 bits: Windows 2000, windows xp, windows 2003
        64 bits: Windows xp, windows 2003
    2, NT4 system is no longer supported.
    3, Vista: you need disable system's driver signature checking
2006-10-21 Projects Ext2fsd v0.30 is released. 

Screenshot Pictures:

    1, http://www.ext2fsd.com/screenshot/screen01.jpg
    2, http://www.ext2fsd.com/screenshot/screen02.jpg
    3, http://www.ext2fsd.com/screenshot/screen03.jpg
    4, http://www.ext2fsd.com/screenshot/screen04.jpg
    5, http://www.ext2fsd.com/screenshot/screen05.jpg

Modifications from V0.25:

Main Bugs Fixed:

    1, Incorrect removable media support
    2, Wrong file size, timestamps reporting
    3, Some minor memory leaks 
    4, Improper usage of ERESOURCE locking
    5, Wrong handling of some special I/O
    6, Incorrect codepage loading sequence
    7, Mke2fs is much improved

Main Features Newly Supported:

    1, Network sharing, Oplocks handling
    2, Ext2 Volume Manager (codepage, attributes)

Tasks to do next step:

    1, Improvement for the programs, Help documents
    2, Vista/Longhorn support
    3, Performance issues MUST be solved
    4, Possibe LVM support, ext3 journal

Supporting OS:

    1, 32 bits: Windows 2000, windows xp, windows 2003
       64 bits: Windows xp, windows 2003
    2, NT4 system is no longer supported.
    3, This version does not support Vista/Longhorn

2005-07-27 Projects Ext2fsd v0.25 is released.  
......
2004-10-04 Projects Ext2Fsr 0.2 released.
2003-12-27 Projects Mke2fs v0.02 is public now.
2003-12-27 Projects Insider v0.11 is released.
2002-04-24 Documents Add article "Understanding IRQL"
2002-04-20 News New Site launched...
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Dec. 21, 2007


Ext2fsd 0.36 is much stable even under heavy i/o loads, both for reading and writing. Performance and stability are highly improved, especially stability. A new and strong era of Ext2Fsd in product shape is coming :)

Here's still the same comment/advice for you: If you really need very heave writing with Ext2Fsd, you are strongly recommended to create an ext2 partition as a swap between windows and linux.

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