| E2fsprogs 1.39 (May 29, 2006) |
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| Fix 32-bit cleanliness in e2fsprogs so that we can support filesystems |
| between 2**31 and 2**32 blocks. |
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| Change mke2fs to use /etc/mke2fs.conf as a configuration file to |
| configure the filesystem features, blocksize, and inode_ratio for |
| different filesystem types. |
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| Mke2fs will now create filesystems hash trees and on-line resizing |
| enabled by default, based on the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file. |
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| The e2fsprogs tools (resize2fs, e2fsck, mke2fs) will open the |
| filesystem device node in exclusive mode to prevent accidents by |
| system administrators. In the case of resize2fs and mke2fs, it will |
| only use exclusive mode if the filesystem is not mounted. |
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| Fixed a bug in mke2fs which caused it to to fail when creating the |
| resize inode for large filesystems. (Addresses Debian Bug #346580) |
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| When allocating space for the RAID filesystems with the stride |
| parameter, mke2fs will now place each portion of the group's inode |
| table right up after the superblock (if present) in order to minimize |
| fragmentation of the free space. |
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| Speed up mke2fs and e2fsck by writing inode and block bitmaps more |
| efficiently by writing the inode and block bitmaps in one pass, thus |
| reducing the number of disk seeks required. |
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| Add support for on-line resizing to resize2fs. |
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| Fix blkid library so that logic to determine whether or not a device's |
| cached information in /etc/blkid.tab needs to be verified or not |
| doesn't get confused by a system clock which is insane (for example, |
| if the battery is dead on a Macintosh running PPC Linux. (Addresses |
| Red Hat Bug: #182188) |
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| The blkid library will now store the UUID of the external journal used |
| by ext3 filesystems, so that in the future, the userspace mount binary |
| can use this to find the location of the external journal and pass |
| this information to the kernel. |
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| E2fsck will now consult a configuration file, /etc/e2fsck.conf to |
| control how various options should be handled. See the e2fsck.conf |
| man page for more details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #150295) |
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| E2fsck now prints an explanatory message when delaying a filesystem |
| check when the system is running on battery. (Addresses Debian Bug: |
| #350306) |
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| E2fsck will detect if the superblock's last mount field or last write |
| field is in the future, and offer to fix if so. (Addresses Debian Bug |
| #327580) These problems will be fixed automatically in preen mode |
| since Debian's boot sequence bogusly doesn't set the time correctly |
| until potentially very late in the bootup process, and this can cause |
| false positives which will cause users' systems to fail to boot. |
| (Addresses Debian Bugs #343662 and #343645) |
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| E2fsck now checks to see if the superblock hint for the location of |
| the external journal is incorrect, and if so, offer to update it. |
| (Addresses Debian Bug: #355644) |
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| Fix e2fsck from segfaulting on disconnected inodes that contain one or |
| more extended attributes. (Addresses Debian Bug: #316736, #318463) |
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| E2fsck will stop and print a warning if the user tries running a |
| read/write badblocks test on a read-only mounted root filesystem. |
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| Fix a memory leak in e2fsck's error paths. (Thanks to Michael |
| C. Thompson for pointing these out; they were originally found using |
| Coverity.) |
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| When resizing a file containing a filesystem, resize2fs will expand or |
| truncate a file as necessary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #271607) |
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| Resize2fs will now automatically determine the RAID stride parameter that |
| had been used to create the filesystem, and use that for newly created |
| block groups. The RAID stride parameter may also be manually specified |
| on the command line using the new -S option to resize2fs. |
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| Fix mke2fs so that it correctly creates external journals on |
| big-endian machines (such as a S/390). |
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| Fix a bug in the e2p library which could cause dumpe2fs to (rarely) |
| fail to print out the journal or hash seed UUID. (Thanks to Guillaume |
| Chambraud for pointing this out.) |
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| Dumpe2fs will now print the size of the journal (if present). |
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| Fix debugfs's set_inode_field command so it can properly set the frag, |
| fsize, uid_high, gid_high, and author fields in the inode instead of |
| silently failing, and so that setting the i_size actually sets i_size |
| correctly. |
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| Add a new debugfs command, set_current_time, which sets fs->now so |
| that regression test suites can repeatedly modify the filesystem's |
| last_write fields. |
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| Fix a bug in debugfs's icheck which would incorrectly report the owner |
| of an extended attribute block. |
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| Fix the debugfs commands htree_dump, dx_hash, and list_dir so they print a |
| print a usage message when an illegal option character is given. |
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| Fix debugfs's dump_unsued command on filesystems with a 64k blocksize |
| so it won't core dump. (Addresses SourceForge bug #1424311) |
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| Fix mklost+found so that it creates a full-sized directory on |
| filesystems with larger block sizes. |
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| Fix a file descriptor leak in blkid library. |
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| Fix a display bug in "badblocks -sv" so that the done message properly |
| clears the block number at the end of the test. (Addresses Debian Bug |
| #322231) |
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| Allow fractional percentages to the -m option in mke2fs and tune2fs |
| (Addresses Debian Bug: #80205) |
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| Use fstat/fstat64 in getsize.c if the the target is a regular file, |
| instead of attempting to do a binary search. Fix some fd leaks in |
| error cases. |
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| Add support for device mapper library to the blkid library to ensure |
| that the "best" (i.e., leaf) device is probed by the blkid library. |
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| Fix the blkid library so that it notices when an ext2 filesystem is |
| upgraded to ext3. |
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| Improve the blkid's library VFAT/FAT detection; it now understands |
| labels stored in the root directory, and is more paranoid about |
| checking the FAT superblock values. |
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| Fixed a fd leak in the uuid library which was causing problems for the |
| LVM tools. (Addresses Debian Bug: #345832) |
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| Add support for the reiser4 and software suspend partitions to the |
| blkid library. Also add support for extract the label from iso9660 |
| filesystems. |
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| Fix a compile_et bug which miscount the number of error messages if |
| continuations are used in the .et file. |
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| Add extra sanity checks to protect users from unusual circumstances |
| where /etc/mtab may not be sane, by checking to see if the device is |
| reported busy (works on Linux 2.6) kernels. (Addresses Debian Bug |
| #319002) |
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| Updated French, Dutch, Polish, and Swedish translations. (Addresses Debian |
| Bug: #343149, #341911, #300871, #316604, #316782, #330789) |
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| Fix use-after-free bug in e2fsck when finishing up the use of the |
| e2fsck context structure. |
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| Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages and |
| documentation. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #329859, #322188, #316811, |
| #312515, #351268, #357951, #347295, #316040, #368392, #368393, #368394, |
| #368179) |
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| Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for |
| details. (Addresses Debian Bugs #317862, #320389, #290429, #310950, |
| #310428, #330737, #330736, #329074, #356293, #360046, #366017, #364516, |
| #362544, #362970) |
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| Programmer's notes: |
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| Update config.guess and config.sub to latest version (2006-02-23) from |
| FSF. |
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| Fix asm_types.h type conflicts on AMD 64 platforms. (Addresses Debian |
| Bugs: #360661, #360317) |
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| Fixed the Makefile so that they work correctly on newer versions of |
| GNU make (i.e., 3.81). |
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| Add valgrind support to the regression test suites, and eliminate |
| false positives from valgrind. |
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| Add a regression test suite for the blkid library. |
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| Fix a fencepost error in resize2fs caught by valgrind. |
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| Fix compiler warnings about missing memcpy prototypes. |
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| We no longer have the sparc assembly code in the header file any more, |
| so we shouldn't set _EXT2_HAVE_HAS_BITOPS_ for the sparc. This would |
| break compiles on the sparc architectures when using gcc. |
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| In the libext2fs library, add the new field fs->now which if non-zero |
| is used instead of the system time when setting various filesystem |
| fields (last modified time, last write time, etc.) |
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| Fix gcc 4.01 complaints by adding a missing #include <string.h> to |
| ext2fs.h which is needed since the inline functions use memcpy(). |
| (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1251062) |
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| Use BUILD_CFLAGS and BUILD_LDFLAGS instead of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in |
| the build system when building files in the util directory which are |
| needed during the build process. This avoids potential problems when |
| cross-compiling and some of the options specified in CFLAGS or LDFLAGS |
| are not recognized as valid by the host compiler. (Addresses |
| Sourceforge Bug #1261547) |
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| Clean up the blkid library by making the superblock and generic i/o |
| functions to be more generic. Clean up interface to the probe |
| function, and fix memory leak. Finally, remove an unneeded reference |
| to probe.h in the lib/blkid/resolve.c |
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| Add an ext2fs_read_bb_FILE regression test to confirm proper detection |
| of invalid block #'s. |
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| The x86 asm constraints for ext2fs_{set/clear}_bit have been fixed to |
| indicate that the the function read/writes the memory location. |
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| Fix various gcc -Wall complaints. |
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| Add a dependency to make sure that the subdirectories are created |
| before creating all of the object files, in order to address parallel |
| build problem in the library Makefiles. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: |
| #1261553) |
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| Add $(LDFLAGS) to the command line argument when generating an ELF or |
| Solaris shared library, to allow cross-compile and other builds that |
| might need to specify -L paths to needed libraries. (Addresses |
| Sourceforge Bug #1261549) |
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| Add a new feature, EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_LAZY_BG, which is initially |
| intended for testing purposes. It allows an ext2/ext3 developer to |
| create very large filesystems using sparse files where most of the |
| block groups are not initialized and so do not require much disk |
| space. Eventually it could be used as a way of speeding up mke2fs and |
| e2fsck for large filesystem, but that would be best done by adding an |
| RO_COMPAT extension to the filesystem to allow the inode table to be |
| lazily initialized on a per-block basis, instead of being entirely |
| initialized or entirely unused on a per-blockgroup basis. |
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| Fix backwards compatibility so e2fsprogs will better compile on Linux |
| 2.0.35 systems. |
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| Make test scripts more robust against locale-related environment variables |
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| Fix type warning problem with sizeof() in ext2fs_open2(). |
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| Fix type warning problem with time_t in debugfs. |
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