| E2fsprogs 1.36 (February 4, 2005) |
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| All of the patches that were applied to Fedora Core 3's |
| e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2 have been integrated, although sometimes with a |
| lot of bug fixes first. Users of Fedora Core 3 are strongly |
| encouraged to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.36 as soon as possible. |
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| Add support for filesystem with the online resizing via resize inode |
| feature. Fixed numerous bugs from the Fedora patches. The Fedora |
| patches also didn't bother to do any consistency checking on the |
| resize inode, or add any tests to the regression test suite. The "-R |
| resize=4g" option to mke2fs was a no-op in the Fedora patches, despite |
| being listed in mke2fs's usage message. All of these shortcomings |
| have been corrected. |
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| E2fsck can also also fix filesystems trashed by Fedora's resize2fs |
| program. In order to do this, the user must run the commands: |
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| debugfs -w /dev/hdXXX -R "features ^resize_inode" |
| e2fsck -f /dev/hdXXX |
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| Optionally, the ext2prepare command can be used to re-enable online |
| resizing after the filesystem has been fixed. |
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| The fsck program will now accept an optional filedescriptor argument |
| to the -C option. (The Fedora version of this patch would sometimes |
| cause fsck to ignore a parameter on fsck's command line in some rare |
| cases, sigh.) |
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| Make sure e2fsprogs doesn't write garbage into the reserved portion of |
| large inodes. |
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| Make sure resize2fs releases the blocks belonging to the old inode |
| table blocks when moving the inode table. (Addresses Debian Bug: |
| #290894) |
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| Skip the r_resize_inode test if resize2fs is not compiled (due to |
| configure --disable-resizer) |
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| E2fsck now checks the summary filesystem accounting information, and |
| if any of the information is obviously wrong, it will force a full |
| filesystem check. (Addresses Debian Bug #291571) |
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| Fix e2fsck to not complain when the resize_inode feature is enabled, |
| s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero, and there is no DIND block allocated in |
| the resize inode. |
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| Fix e2fsck to note delete symlinks that contain an extended attribute |
| after the ext_attr feature flag has been cleared. (Addresses Red Hat |
| Bugzilla #146284). |
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| Add new utility program, copy_sparse.c, which is very useful |
| for dealing with large sparse files (such as e2image files). |
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| Add support for jnl_blocks[] for debugfs's set_super_value. |
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| Fix filefrag so that it works correctly with sparse files. |
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| Filefrag -v will print first and last blocks. |
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| Add interpretation of OS Creator values for FreeBSD and Lites in mke2fs |
| and dumpe2fs. |
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| Add mke2fs support so that it can support filesystems larger than 4TB |
| automatically, by retrying with a 4k blocksize if the device size is |
| too big to be expressed using a 1k blocksize. (Addresses Sourceforge |
| bug #1106631) |
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| Change blkid to test for NTFS first because Windows sometimes doesn't |
| clear enough of the partition to confuse the probing routines into |
| thinking the old filesystem type is still valid. (Addresses Debian |
| Bug #291990) |
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| Add support for swap partition label and uuid's in the blkid library. |
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| Add support to the blkid library to recognize Oracle ASM volumes. |
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| Make blkid -t display all devices that match the specified criteria, |
| not just the first one, and work more consistently when the blkid |
| cache file is not available or set to /dev/null. (Addresses Debian |
| Bug #290530 and #292425) |
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| Badblocks will now correctly display block numbers greater than |
| 999,999,999 in its progress display. |
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| The tune2fs program will not allow the user from setting a ridiculous |
| number of reserved blocks which would cause e2fsck to assume the |
| superblock was corrupt. E2fsck's standards for what is a ridiculous |
| number of reserved block has also been relaxed to 50% of the blocks in |
| the filesystem. |
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| The blkid library will return vfat in preference to msdos, and ext3 in |
| preference to ext2 (if the journalling flag is set) so that mount will |
| do the right thing. (Addresses Debian bug #287455) |
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| Mke2fs will now use the -E option for extended options; the old -R |
| (raid options) option is still accepted for backwards compatibility. |
| Fix a double-free problem in resize2fs. (Red Hat Bugzilla #132707) |
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| Mke2fs will now accept a size in megabytes, gigabytes, and other units |
| (via "32m" or "4g" on the command line) if the user finds this more |
| convenient than specifying a block count. |
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| Fix an obscure, hard-to find bug in "e2fsck -S" caused by an inode |
| cache coherency problem. |
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| Debugfs now supports a new command, set_inode_field, which allows a |
| user to manually set a specific inode field more conveniently, as well |
| as set entries in the indirect block map. |
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| Debugfs's set_super_value command has been enhanced so that the user |
| can set most superblock fields, including the date/time fields and |
| some of the more newly added superblock fields. |
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| E2fsprogs programs now accept an offset to be passed to the file |
| specifiers, via the syntax: "/tmp/test.img?offset=1024". |
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| E2fsprogs programs will now accept blocksizes up to 65536; kernel |
| support on the x86 doesn't exist for now, but it can be useful on |
| other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k. There are 2.6 |
| kernel patches out there which enable this, but they are of this |
| writing still experimental. |
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| The e2image command now takes the -s option which will scramble |
| directory entries for raw image files. |
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| Fix a file descriptor leak in the filefrag program. |
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| Make sure e2fsck doesn't crash when /proc/acpi/ac_adapter is not |
| present. |
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| Fix bug in debugfs where kill_file would lead to errors when deleting |
| devices and symlinks. (Sourceforge Bugs #954741 and #957244) |
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| Fix bug in the blkid library when detecting the ocfs1 filesystem |
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| Remove obsolete EVMS 1.x and a.out DLL support. |
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| E2fsck will attempt to recover from a journal containing illegal blocks. |
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| Fixed two potential ordering constraint problems in e2fsck which might |
| cause the filesystem to be corrupted if e2fsck is interrupted during a |
| (extremely narrow) race window. Thanks to Junfeng Yang from the |
| Stanford Metacompilation group for pointing this out. |
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| Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would not accurately detect whether or |
| not the system is running on adaptor if the ACPI device representing |
| the AC adapter didn't correspond to the what was used on IBM |
| Thinkpads. |
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| Change e2fsck to accept directories greater than 32MB. |
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| Fix e2fsck so that a checkinterval of zero disables a time-based check |
| of the filesystem. |
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| Debugfs will check the DEBUGFS_PAGER environment variable in preference |
| to the PAGER environment variable. (Addresses Debian Bug #239547) |
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| Tune2fs will not mark rewrite the superblock if the feature bitmasks |
| are not modified. |
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| The debugfs program will set the filetype information when creating a |
| link. |
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| Add debugfs -d option to use a separate source of data blocks when |
| reading from an e2image file. |
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| Add e2image -I option which allows the e2image metadata to be |
| installed into a filesystem. |
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| Fixed bug in the badblocks program which caused "done" to always |
| appear in English even when a translation was available. (Addresses |
| Debian Bug #252836) |
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| The blkid program has a new option -o which controls the output format |
| of the blkid program; this is makes blkid more convenient to use in |
| shell scripts. |
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| Fix a minor bug in uuid library, which was not using the full 14 bits |
| of clock sequence when generating UUID's. |
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| Fix a Y8.8888K problem in the uuid library. |
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| Logsave now creates a new session id for itself to avoid getting |
| killed by init when transitioning between init levels. |
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| Change the licensing of the UUID library to be the 3-clause BSD-style |
| license; this allows Apple to use the uuid library in Darwin. |
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| Add ocfs and ocfs2 probe support into the blkid library. |
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| Fix a memory and file descriptor leak in the blkid library. |
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| The blkid library will revalidate the device if the system time is |
| earlier than last verification time of the device, since that |
| indicates that the system time is probably not trustworthy. |
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| The blkid library will override the default location of the blkid.tab |
| file by the BLKID_FILE environment variable, if it is available. |
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| Change the getsize functions to use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl on Linux 2.6. |
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| Add various portability fixes for lame new versions of glibc, Darwin |
| and GNU/KFreeBSD, as well as removing XSI:ism's. (Addresses Debian |
| Bugs #239934, #264630, #269044, #255589, #289133) |
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| Add support for Windows 9x/NT under Cygwin. |
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| Updated and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs #236383, |
| #241940, #238741, #242995, #256669, #268148, #256760, #273679) |
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| Updated and fixed translations. (Addresses Debian bugs #244105, #262836) |
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| Update the rpm spec files so that it works better with Fedora core 2 |
| and RH9. |
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| Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). In |
| particular, fixed the Debian initrd scripts. (#241183, #248050, |
| #253595, #247775) |
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| Programmer's notes: |
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| Fixed various gcc -Wall warnings. |
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| The uuid library now has new functions uuid_unparse_upper() and |
| uuid_unparse_lower() which forces the case of the hex digits to be |
| upper case, or lower case. |
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| The build process has been sped up by enhancing the subst program |
| to update the modtime on the generated files even when the generated |
| file hasn't changed. |
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| The uuid library now uses C99 stdint.h types instead of custom types. |
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| Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. |
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| Removed out of date .cvsignore files from the source distribution. |
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| The ext2fs_unlink() function will return an error if both the name and |
| inode number are unspecified, to avoid doing something surprising |
| (such as unconditionally deleting the first directory entry). |
| Directory entries are now deleted by coalescing them with the previous |
| directory entry if possible, to avoid directory fragmentation. This |
| is not an issue with the e2fsprogs suite, but may be a problem for |
| some of the users of libext2fs, such as e2tools. |
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| Add support for version numbers of the form "1.36-rc1". |
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| Fix build of mke2fs.static. |
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| Add basic ext2fs library support for large (EA in inode) inodes. |
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| The test_io mechanism can now abort after n reads or writes to a |
| particular block. The block is specified by TEST_IO_BLOCK environment |
| variable, and the read/write count by the TEST_IO_READ_ABORT and |
| TEST_IO_WRITE_ABORT environment variables. The block data is now only |
| dumped if the 0x10 bit is set in TEST_IO_FLAGS. |
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| UUID_DEFINE() in the uuid library now creates a static variable, with |
| __attribute__ ((unused)) if we are using GCC, so that UUID_DEFINE can |
| be used in header files. |
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| Add support for the install-strip and install-shlibs-strip targets, as |
| suggested by the GNU coding guidelines. "make install" no longer |
| strips the binaries which are installed. |
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| Remove support for the --enable-old-bitops configure option which was |
| only for very old sparc systems. |
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| Remove support for --enable-clear-htree; this was only needed during |
| the early development of the htree patch. |
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| Use Linux-kernel-style makefile output so it is easier to see compiler |
| warnings. |
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| Update gettext files to version 0.14.1. |
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| Update to use autoconf 2.5x. |
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| Improved support for compiling e2fsprogs under dietlibc. |
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| Make e2fsprogs portable to Solaris and FreeBSD systems. |
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| Add blkid_verify(), blkid_get_library_version(), and |
| blkid_parse_version_string() functions to the blkid library. |
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| Add pkg-config files for e2fsprogs's libraries. |
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| Fix "make uninstall" to so that it removes everything that is installed. |
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| Add a configure --enable-maintainer-mode option which enables the |
| makefile rules to rebuild the configure script from configure.in, and |
| to rebuild the .gmo files in po directory. |
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| Drop the sparc assembly bitwise operations; it's less efficient |
| than the GCC 3.4 compile code and triggers compiler warnings on |
| sparc64. Thanks to Matthias Andree for his analysis and suggestions. |
| (Addresses Debian Bug #232326) |
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