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@@ -1,3 +1,36 @@ +What is new in 2.2 + +Userspace changes: + + - Add fuse_file_info structure to file operations, this allows the filesystem + to return a file handle in open() which is passed to read(), write(), flush(), + fsync() and release(). + + - Add source compatibility with 2.1 and 1.4 releases + + - Binary compatibility with 2.1 release is retained + +Kernel changes: + + - Make requests interruptible. This prevents the filesystem to go + into an unbreakable deadlock with itself. + + - Make readpages() synchronous. Asynchronous requests are deadlock + prone, since they cannot be interrupted (see above) + + - Remove shared-writeable mapping support, which could deadlock the + machine + + - Remove INVALIDATE userspace initiated request + + - Update ABI to be independent of sizeof(long), so dual-size archs + don't cause problems + + - Remove /sys/fs/fuse/version. Version checking is now done through + the fuse device + +============================================================================ + What is new in 2.1 * Bug fixes |