From 464df1d5e5ab1322e2dd0a7796939fff1aeefa9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 17:49:25 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 1.47.0. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- doc/RelNotes/v1.12.txt | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 153 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/RelNotes/v1.12.txt (limited to 'doc/RelNotes/v1.12.txt') diff --git a/doc/RelNotes/v1.12.txt b/doc/RelNotes/v1.12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a11cd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RelNotes/v1.12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.12 (July 9, 1998) +================================== + +E2fsprogs now works with glibc (at least with the version shipped with +RedHat 5.0). The ext2fs_llseek() function should now work even with +i386 ELF shared libraries and if llseek() is not present. We also +explicitly do a configure test to see if (a) llseek is in libc, and +(b) if llseek is declared in the system header files. (See standard +complaints about libc developers don't understand the concept of +compatibility with previous versions of libc.) + +The ext2fs library now writes out the block group number in each of +the superblock copies. This makes it easier to automatically +determine the starting block group of the filesystem when the block +group information is trashed. + +Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature, +which means that e2fsprogs will ignore the high 8 bits of the +directory entry's name_len field, so that it can be used for other +purposes. + +Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature. +E2fsprogs will now support filesystems with 64-bit sized files. + +Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_PREALLOC feature. + +Added new program "e2label", contributed by Andries Brouwer. E2label +provides an easy-to-use interface to modify the filesystem label. + +Fixed bug so that lsattr -v works instead of producing a core dump. + +Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs so that all groups with bad superblock +backup blocks are printed (not just the first one). + +Mke2fs will check the size of the device, and if the user specifies a +filesystem size larger than the apparent size of the device it will +print a warning message and ask if the user wants to proceed. + +E2fsck has a new option -C, which sends completion information to the +specified file descriptor. For the most part, this is intended for +programs to use, although -C 0 will print a spinning character to the +stdout device, which may be useful for users who want to see something +happening while e2fsck goes about its business. + +Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause a core dump when it needs to +expand the /lost+found directory, and sometimes the bitmaps haven't +been merged in. Also fixed a related bug where ext2fs_write_dir_block +was used to write out a non-directory block. (Which would be bad on a +non-Intel platform with byte swapping going on.) + +Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would print a "programming error" message +instead of correctly identifying where a bad block was in used when +the bad block was in a non-primary superblock or block group +descriptor. Also fixed a related bug when sparse superblocks are in +use and there is a bad block where a superblock or block group +descriptor would have been in a group that doesn't include a +superblock. + +Fixed a bug in e2fsck (really in libext2fs's dblist function) where if +the block group descriptor table is corrupt, it was possible to try to +allocate a huge array, fail, and then abort e2fsck. +ext2fs_get_num_dirs() now sanity checks the block group descriptor, +and substitutes reasonable values if the descriptors are obviously bogus. + +If e2fsck finds a device file which has the immutable flag set and the +i_blocks beyond the normal device number are non-zero, e2fsck will +offer to remove it, since it's probably caused by garbage in the inode +table. + +When opening a filesystem, e2fsck specially checks for the EROFS error +code, and prints a specific error message to the user which is more +user friendly. + +If the filesystem revision is too high, change the e2fsck to print +that this is either because e2fsck is out of date, or because the +superblock is corrupt. + +E2fsck now checks for directories that have duplicate '.' and '..' +entries, and fixes this corruption. + +E2fsck no longer forces a sync of the filesystem (with attendant sleep +calls) at all times. The ext2fs_flush() function now performs a sync +only if it needed to write data blocks to disk. + +Fixed a minor bug in e2fsck's pass1b's file cloning function, where +certain errors would not be properly reported. + +Updated and expanded a few points in the man pages which users +complained weren't explicit enough. + +Added special case byte-swapping code if compiling on the PowerPC, to +accommodate the strange big-endian variant of the ext2 filesystem that +was previously used on the PowerPC port. + + +Programmer's notes: +------------------- + +Removed C++ keywords from the ext2fs libraries so that it could be +compiled with C++. + +E2fsck's internal organization has now been massively reorganized so +that pass*.c don't have any printf statements. Instead, all problems +are reported through the fix_problem() abstraction interface. E2fsck +has also been revamped so that it can be called as a library from a +application. + +Added new fileio primitives in libext2fs for reading and writing +files on an unmounted ext2 filesystem. This interface is now used by +debugfs. + +Added a new libext2fs function for mapping logical block numbers of +a file to a physical block number. + +Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_alloc_block(), which allocates +a block, zeros it, and updates the filesystem accounting records +appropriately. + +Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_set_bitmap_padding(), which +sets the padding of the bitmap to be all one's. Used by e2fsck pass 5. + +The libext2fs functions now use a set of memory allocation wrapper +functions: ext2fs_get_mem, ext2fs_free_mem, and ext2fs_resize_mem, +instead of malloc, free, and resize. This makes it easier for us to +be ported to strange environments where malloc, et. al. aren't +necessarily available. + +Change the libext2fs function to return ext2-specific error codes +(EXT2_DIR_EXISTS and EXT2_DB_NOT_FOUND, for example) instead of using +and depending on the existence of system error codes (such as EEXIST +and ENOENT). + +Renamed io.h to ext2_io.h to avoid collision with other OS's header +files. + +Add protection against ext2_io.h and ext2fs.h being included multiple +times. + +The types used for memory lengths, etc. have been made more portable. +In general, the code has been made 16-bit safe. Added Mark +Habersack's contributed DOS disk i/o routines. + +Miscellaneous portability fixes, including not depending on char's +being signed. + +The io_channel structure has a new element, app_data, which is +initialized by the ext2fs routines to contain a copy of the filesystem +handle. + +ext2fs_check_directory()'s callback function may now return the error +EXT2_ET_CALLBACK_NOTHANDLED if it wishes ext2fs_check_directory() to +really do the checking, despite the presence of the callback function. + -- cgit v1.2.3