From c43f9411236723df9b0881e0cca37ea69fcbb07a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:10:48 +0000 Subject: release 2.4-pre1 --- NEWS | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 27b65de..ba1d668 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,32 @@ +What is new in 2.4 + + - Simplify device opening. Now '/dev/fuse' is a requirement + + - Allow module auto-loading if user has access to '/dev/fuse' + + - Allow mounting over a regular file for unprivileged users + + - Allow mounting of arbitrary FUSE filesystems from /etc/fstab + + - New mount options: 'umask=M', 'uid=N', 'gid=N' + + - Check for non-empty mountpoint, and refuse mount by default. New + mount option: 'nonempty' + + - Low level (inode based) API added + + - File locking primitives added to kernel and low level API + + - Add 'access' method to kernel, and library APIs + + - Allow 'direct_io' and 'keep_cache' options to be set on a + case-by-case basis on open. + + - Add 'attr_timeout' and 'entry_timeout' mount options to the + high-level library. Until now these timeouts were fixed at 1 sec. + + - Some bugfixes + What is new in 2.3 - Add new directory related operations: opendir(), readdir(), -- cgit v1.2.3