NTFS-3G

NTFS-3G for OS X is a software project designed to bring NTFS read/write support to the Mac platform, along with additional advanced features. It is based on NTFS-3G, the leading open source NTFS driver that is ported to numerous platforms, but also includes other software projects to build a complete toolset for managing NTFS volumes.

NTFS-3G itself is included in hundreds of Linux distributions; for example Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE and Ubuntu use NTFS-3G as the default NTFS driver. Development has been ongoing since 2006.

Changes to NTFS-3G

• Fixed inserting a new ACL after wiping out by chkdsk
• Fixed Windows-type inheritance
• Fixed ignoring the umask mount option when permissions are used
• Fixed checking permissions when Posix ACLs are compiled in but not enabled
• Disabled option remove_hiberfile on read-only mounts
• Implemented an extended attribute to get/set EAs
• Avoid full runlist updating in more situations
• Update ctime after setting an ACL
• Use MFT record 15 for the first extent to MFT:DATA
• Ignore the sloppy mount option (-s)
• Implemented FITRIM (fstrim) ioctl
• Re-engineered the compression algorithm

Changes to ntfsprogs

• Return success from ntfsprogs utilities with options -version and the like
• Implemented configure option -enable-quarantined for non functional utilities
• Added manuals for ntfsdecrypt, ntfswipe, ntfstruncate and ntfsfallocate