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diff --git a/doc/RelNotes/v1.44.3.txt b/doc/RelNotes/v1.44.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e68032c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RelNotes/v1.44.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.44.3 (July 10, 2018) +================================ + +Updates/Fixes since v1.44.2: + +UI and Features +--------------- + +The debugfs inode_dump command can now print a hex dump of the i_block +array and the extra space in the inode, as a convenience to someone +investigating a corrupted inode. + +The debugfs block_dump and inode_dump command can now print low-level +dump of extended attribute data structures in the block or inode. + +The dumpe2fs command can now print out information in the Multi-Mount +Protection (MMP) block. This is also available as e2mmpstatus command +for compatibility with the Lustre utilities. + +The debugfs command can now operate on some file systems with +corrupted superblocks so they can be fixed. This includes file +systems with a corrupted inodes count field and file systems where not +all of the allocation bitmaps have valid locations or are not +readable. + + +Fixes +----- + +The inode's project ID is now properly byte-swapped on big-endian +systems. + +E2fsprogs now ignores s_desc_size for file systems that do not have +the 64-bit feature set. This makes it more consistent with the +kernel, so it can now operate on file systems that the kernel is +willing to mount. + +E2fsck now considers device inodes with the extents flag as corrupt +and offer to clear them. + +E2fsck more properly handles cases where s_inodes_count is corrupted. + +E2fsck no longer spews large number of errors when the superblock +badly corrupted (restoring its behavior pre-1.43). + +E2fsck will now offer to set the dir_nlink feature if it is not set +and file system requires the dir_nlink feature because there are too +many subdirectories in a directory. + +E2fsck will no longer loop infinitely due to a maliciously crafted +file system which has a fully uninitialized inode table in the first +block group. + +E2fsck will no longer hang if the last block in the file system is a +fixed-metadata block. (Very rare, but could happen.) + +E2fsck no longer allows initialized blocks to exist past i_size. This +is something the Linux implementation of ext4 has never done (and should +never do). + +While replaying the journal in e2fsck, certain errors would previously +cause e2fsck to print a non-sensical error message (e.g., "Unknown code +____ 251 while recovering journal"). This has been fixed. + +In cases where more than 75% of the block group will be used for group +descriptor table, mke2fs would previously create an invalid file +system with both the meta_bg and resize_inode features enabled. It +will now disable the resize_inode feature. + +The mke2fs program now properly creates a file system which is exactly +1 << 32 blocks. Previously the s_inodes_count field would overflow, +and the file system would be created with a minimal number of inodes. + +Recent kernels will report errors on a file or block device which +occurred before the file or block device was opened via fsync() or +close(). This will cause e2fsck to incorrectly report a failure. Work +around this by calling fsync() immediately after the file or block +device is opened in the unix_io layer, and throwing away the error. + +Filefrag will no longer ignore errors returned by fsync. + +Debugfs will no longer print spurious checksum errors when failing to +open a file system for unrelated reasons. + +Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #1743553) + + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +Synchronized changes from Android's AOSP e2fsprogs tree. + +Debugfs's mknod command now works correctly on some 32-bit systems where +previously it had a portability problem caused by some object files +being compiled with LFS, and some without. This fixes some regression +test failures on 32-bit MIPS (for example). + +Various clean ups, portability, and performance improvements to +e2fsprogs's regression test framework. + +Fixed Coverity, sparse, gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. + +Update Czech, Dutch, Spanish, French, Polish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and +Vietnamese translations. + |