| E2fsprogs 1.10 (April 24, 1997) |
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| Mke2fs once again defaults to creating revision #0 filesystems, since |
| people were complaining about breaking compatibility with 1.2 kernels. |
| Warning messages were added to the mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that |
| the sparse superblock option isn't supported by most kernels yet (1.2 |
| and 2.0 both don't support parse superblocks.) |
| |
| Added new flag to mke2fs, -R <raid options>, which allows the user to |
| tell mke2fs about the RAID configuration of the filesystem. Currently |
| the only supported raid option is "stride" which specifies the width |
| of the RAID stripe. |
| |
| Fixed bug in e2fsck where pass1b would bomb out if there were any |
| blocks marked bad in the inode table. |
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| Fixed rare bug in mke2fs where if the user had a very unlucky number |
| of blocks in a filesystem (probability less than .002) the resulting |
| filesystem would be corrupt in the last block group. |
| |
| Fixed bug where if e2fsck tried to allocate a block to fix a |
| filesystem corruption problem and the filesystem had no free blocks, |
| ext2fs_new_block() would loop forever. |
| |
| The configure script now checks explicitly to see if "-static" works, |
| since that can't be assumed to be true --- RedHat doesn't install |
| libc-static by default. |
| |
| Fixed bug in libext2's block iterator functions where under some |
| circumstances, file with holes would cause the bcount parameter to the |
| callback function to be incorrect. This bug didn't affect any of |
| e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by Paul Mackerras, the |
| author of the PPC boot loader. |
| |
| Removed use of static variables to store the inode cache in libext2fs. |
| This caused problems if more than one filesystem was accessed via |
| libext2fs (static variables in libraries are generally a bad idea). |
| Again, this didn't affect e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by |
| Paul Mackerras. |
| |
| Fixed minor bugs and version code drift to assure that e2fsprogs 1.10 |
| will compile cleanly with 1.2.13 kernels (even with a.out shared |
| libraries!) |
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| Programmer's notes: |
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| Added new functions to duplicate an ext2 filesystem handle, and its |
| associated substructure. New functions: ext2fs_dup_handle(), |
| ext2fs_copy_dblist(), ext2fs_badblocks_copy(), ext2fs_copy_bitmap(). |
| Other structures, such as the io_channel and the inode_cache, now have |
| a ref count so that they only get freed when they are no longer used |
| by any filesystem handle. (These functions were added as part of the |
| development effort for an ext2 resizer). |
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