Welcome,

Many thank yous for testing the release candidate and for the fantastic 
feedback! The reported performance improvements were between 2-12 fold, the 
average speed gain being 200-500% for the optimized work loads. That's not 
a very bad start for the optimization work.

To show our honest appreciation for your continuous support, we are 
including another major performance optimization in the current stable 
release.

The free disk space calculation was extremely CPU intensive during write 
activity. This could reduce write performance severely, especially for huge 
volumes if a file manager, desktop applet or other application regularly 
polled for disk space usage. Now the calculation is constant time, around 
only 10 microseconds on a typical desktop system, and it's completely 
independent of the volume size.

The speed enhancements wouldn't have happened without David Fox's 
continuous assistance and contribution.

More details can be found about the changes at

	http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html

The stable release can be downloaded from

	http://ntfs-3g.org/

Many thanks to the folowing people for their help and contribution:
Alexey Sidorov, Ruijuan Li, Stanley Peng, Xu Gang, Jean-Pierre Andre, 
Miklos Szeredi, Dominique L Bouix, Nicolas Calderon, Marcin Pastudzki, 
David Fox, Jerome Richalet, Anton Altaparmakov, Cezary Sliwa, Csaba Henk.

Kind Regards,
		Szabolcs

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