| E2fsprogs 1.30 (October 31, 2002) |
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| When resizing a filesystem, and inodes need to moved, resize2fs will |
| update the inode's ctime field, and the mtime field of the containing |
| directories, so that incremental backups using dump/restore will work |
| correctly. |
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| In order to avoid spurious errors, e2fsck will check the last |
| superblock write time to determine whether or not it can safely use |
| the LOW_DTIME checks to determine if there are inodes on the orphan |
| inode linked list that had somehow gotten disconnected. (Addresses |
| Sourceforge bug #620980) |
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| Partition in /proc/partitions that being with the string "lvm" are |
| considered real partitions even if they do not end with a number. |
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| Fixed a bug in the the uuid generation function, where if /dev/urandom |
| is not present, but /dev/random is, and there isn't sufficient |
| entropy, the get_random_byte function could spin a loop forever. |
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| E2fsck, mke2fs, etc. will now reliably notice when image files are |
| mounted using the loopback interface. (Addresses Sourceforge bug |
| #619119) |
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| When flushing buffers (as is done by badblocks, for example) check to |
| see if the BLKFLSBUF ioctl succeeds, and if so, avoid using the |
| FDFLUSH ioctl which causes the MD device driver which causes confusing |
| syslog messages about obsolete ioctl messages. (Addresses Sourceforge |
| bug #545832). |
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| Debugfs's write command now checks to see if the destination filename |
| exists before creating it. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #478195.) |
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| When installing man pages, search for compressed man pages using all |
| commonly used compression extensions (i.e., .Z, .gz, .bz2, etc.) |
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| Fixed a bug in fsck where multiple filesystems specified on the |
| command were not being checked in parallel due to a logic bug |
| introduced to support the FSCK_MAX_INST environment variable. |
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| We have added a new superblock field, s_mkfs_time, which indicates |
| when a filesystem was created. It is set via mke2fs, and printed out |
| by dumpe2fs, but is not actually touched by the kernel. |
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| Dumpe2fs has been made more robust by not aborting if there is an |
| error reading the block/inode bitmaps; instead it will still print out |
| the location of the block/inode bitmaps and inode table. |
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| Add support for the an alternative block group descriptor layout which |
| allows for on-line resizing without needing to prepare the filesystem |
| in advance. (This is the incompat feature flag meta_bg.) |
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| Add support for storing default mount options in the superblock, so |
| that the filesystem can be mounted with specific mount options without |
| needing to specify them on the mount command line or in the /etc/fstab |
| file. |
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| Add support for a new inode flag, which is to be used for indicating |
| the top of directory hierarchies for the Orlov block allocator. |
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| Fix e2fsck so that if it creates the lost+found directory, it does so |
| with the more appropriate permissions of 0700. Also change |
| mklost+found so that it also creates the directory 0700. |
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| Fixed format bug in e2fsck if NLS is in use. |
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| Add a German translation for e2fsprogs's NLS support. |
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| Fixed e2fsck so that it more handles BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE even at |
| the beginning of the inode table. This won't matter much, since if |
| there is a bad block at the beginning of the inode table, the root |
| directory won't be available. But at least e2fsck won't crash in this |
| case. |
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| Fixed endian problems in the htree code for e2fsck and debugfs. |
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| When byte-swapping a filesystem on a PPC architecture, byte-swap the |
| bitmaps since the historical big-endian ext2 variant had byte-swapped |
| bitmaps, and the ext2fs library assumes this. This fixes the |
| regression test suite on PPC machines. |
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| Fix e2image so that it handles a bad block in the inode table |
| appropriately. |
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| E2fsck now uses a more sophisticated algorithm to salvage corrupted |
| directories that recovers more information in the corrupted directory |
| block. |
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| E2fsck now performs additional consistency checks on indexed (HTREE) |
| directories. |
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| Fix a bug where e2fsck might get confused about whether a completely |
| empty directory block is an empty leaf block or an interior htree |
| node. This could cause e2fsck to get confused into think that a valid |
| indexed directory was corrupted. |
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| E2fsck no longer creates an empty directory entry at the end of a |
| directory block when optimizing a directory. This would cause some |
| earlier versions of the dxdir kernel code to corrupt the directory |
| when attempting to split a node containing an empty directory entry. |
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| E2fsck could sometimes in rare circumstances leave the indexed flag |
| set after a small directory was optimized by compressing it instead of |
| indexing it. (This should never happen in real life, since |
| directories that small wouldn't have been indexed, but better safe |
| than sorry.) |
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| E2fsck now only updates the master superblock in all cases. This |
| slightly shortens its run time. |
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| Ext2ed can deal with directory entries of length 0; previously it |
| would get stuck in an infinite loop. |
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| Fsck now has support for reiserfs volumes when parsing LABEL= and UUID= |
| specifiers. (Sourceforge patch #613447) |
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| Badblocks will now work correctly on read-only devices such as |
| CD-ROM's. (Sourceforge patch #600451) |
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| Updated and clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian bug #167108) |
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