1.8 firmware differences

For those not already aware, iomega has released its 1.8 firmware available on the support download page.
Doing a quick comparison of the 1.8 firmware vs the 1.0 firmware files:

New Files:
ufsd.ko - Paragon NTFS driver (possibly fixes the Norton problem)
ntfsmount - another NTFS driver from ntfsprogs
DejaVuSans.ttf - font
DroidSansFallback.ttf - font
Grotesk Pro Regular.otf - font
snmpd and some directories with many snmp related files.

Removed Files:
arial.ttf
cwheib.ttf
cwyen.ttf
gkai00mp.ttf

Changed files:
inetd.conf - commented out telnet and www. Added in iodiscovery, and a commented out snmp with a note saying snmpd moved to rcS1.

rcS1 - now installs ufsd.ko and mounts the media partition using that. The "8th" partition (not on any SPP drives I've seen) is being mounted using ntfsmount.

rcS1.4partition - same changes as rcS1

services - added iodiscovery, port 6553 udp and tcp.

smb.conf - Comments removed, making it more difficult for people not familiar with the smb.conf file to change it. Max opened files upped from 1000 to 10000. Max connections upped to 4. Max smbd processed upped to 4. Log size increased to 1000. passdb backend changed to smbpasswd instead of tdbsam. oplocks changed to yes.
removed:
write cache size = 0
max mux = 10
min protocol = NT1
stat cache = no
strict sync = yes
sync always = yes
added:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_SNDBUF=2048 SO_RCVBUF=2048
read raw=yes
write raw=yes
max xmit=65535
dead time=15
getwd cache=yes
lpq cache=30
read prediction=yes
client NTLMv2 auth=yes

.str files: renamed Shared key (WEP) to WEP Key. Added ShiftJIS and Cyrillic strings. In those where the aspect was listed as 16:09, it was changed to 16:9. Many russian translations changed.

Binaries that changed:
DvdPlayer - Main player menu program
wpa_cli - WPA command line interface to wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant - WPA authentication provider
IO_Discovery - Daemon for responding to Discovery calls from the PC
IO_Discovery1 - Same, although slightly different binary.
nmbd - Part of Samba, Responds to NetBios over IP requests
smbd - Part of Samba, responds to file sharing requests
initrd.bin - Initial ram disk boot
install_ide_pvrbox_pc_v2 - Screenplay program that executes after copying firmware to do the install.


The following files are significant in the fact that they did NOT change.

busybox - no new linux commands

All files in the kernel/usb directory - meaning no new wifi devices supported

video_firmware.bin - meaning no new codecs or changes to existing ones.

hotplug - meaning the attaching of external USB drives will still be mounted using the kernel NTFS driver for those NTFS drives. So if those drives have been "modified" by Norton antivirus products, those would effectively stop the screenplay from booting still. Edit: Not true, see comment.