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/v1.19.txt | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 180 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/RelNotes/v1.19.txt (limited to 'doc/RelNotes/v1.19.txt') diff --git a/doc/RelNotes/v1.19.txt b/doc/RelNotes/v1.19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b8bbc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RelNotes/v1.19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.19 (July 13, 2000) +============================== + +Release the resize2fs program since the timeout before it could +be released under the GPL has finally expired. + +Add experimental support needed for the ext2 compression patches. +This requires compiling e2fsprogs with the --enable-compression flag +to the configure script. + +Added ext3 journalling support. E2fsck will run the journal (if +necessary) by temporarily mounting the filesystem. /sbin/fsck.ext3 is +installed as a symlink to e2fsck. Fsck has been taught about ext3, +and treats it the same as ext2 in terms of the progress bar logic. +Dumpe2fs will display the superblock journalling information if the +filesystem has a journal. The ext2 library will now permit opening an +ext3 filesystem with the recovery flag set. This is necessary for +on-line dump's to work correctly, but there may be issues with this +working well since ext3 is much less aggressive about syncing blocks to +the filesystem, since they're safe on the journal. + +Tune2fs and e2fsck have been changed to allow the mount_count check to +be disabled by setting max_mount_count to -1. (This was already +supported by the kernel.) + +Create a symbolic link for fsck.ext3, since the e2fsprogs utilities +are used for ext3 as well. + +Added internationalization support for e2fsprogs; must be enabled +by passing --enable-nls to configure. + +Always use the provided ext2fs header files to insulate ourselves from +kernel version changes. Which include files are used by e2fsprogs +have also been cleaned up to improve portability. + +Limit the number of times that e2fsck updates the progress bar so that +people who are booting using a 9600 baud console don't get swamped by +too many updates. + +Improved the loop detection algorithm in e2sck's pass #3 so that it is +much, much faster for large filesystems with a large number of +directories. + +The memory footprint for e2fsck is now slightly smaller than before. + +E2fsck now checks if special devices have a non-zero size, and offers +to clear the size field if it finds such an inode. + +E2fsck now checks if special devices have the append-only flag set, +and offers to clear the inode. + +E2fsck now properly handles some "should never fail" cases during a +bitmap copy in pass5. + +E2fsck now properly prints control characters in filenames as ^A .. ^Z. + +E2fsck now calculates the correct location of the backup superblock in +the case of filesystem blocksizes > 1k. + +Fixed a bug in e2fsck's calculation of the number of inodes_per_block +which normally didn't cause problems under most filesystem parameters, +but could cause a valid superblock to be rejected in extreme cases. +Other checks for validating superblock values were made more +stringent. + +Added non-destructive write testing to the badblocks program, courtesy +of David Beattie. The badblocks also now has an option to input the +current set of bad blocks, so that known bad blocks are skipped to +speed up the badblocks test. There is also a persistent rescan +feature which causes badblocks to run until it has completed some +number of passes without discovering any new bad blocks. + +Badblocks now checks to see if the device is mounted and refuses to do +the tests involving writing to the device if it is mounted. Also, +badblocks now allows the number of blocks to be checked to be +defaulted to the size of the partition. + +Fixed a bug in fsck which didn't allow non-root users to be able to +check filesystems if there were any LABEL= or UUID= entries in +/etc/fstab. + +The Hurd doesn't support the filetype filesystem feature. The mke2fs +program now makes sure that for the Hurd, the filetype feature is +turned off. E2fsck will check to see if the filetype feature is +turned on for Hurd filesystems, and offer to turn off the feature. + +Mke2fs now has a safety check to make sure the number of blocks do not +exceed 32 bits even on a 64 bit platform. + +Really fixed a bug in fsck to allow "fsck -As" to run interactive +fsck's. (For those people who like to do interactive fsck's in the +/etc/rc scripts!?!) + +Debugfs has a few new features: the rdump command, which will do a +recursive dump of a directory and all of its contents, and the lcd +command which does a local chdir (much like the ftp command of the +same name). In addition, the debugfs program and the open_filesystem +command now takes three new options: -b and -s, which allows the +blocksize and superblock location to be specified, and the -c option +which is used in catastrophic situations where the block group +descriptors are corrupt. If the -c option is specified, debugfs will +skip trying to read in the block and inode bitmaps. + +Debugfs's lsdel command was fixed to handle bad blocks in the inode +table. + +A Y2K bug in debugfs's "ls -l" handling was fixed by switching to use +4 digit years. + +General improvements in error messages + + - Mke2fs prints a sane error message if the partition size is zero + (usually because the partition table wasn't reread by the + kernel due to the partition being busy), instead of "invalid + argument passed to ext2 library while initializing superblock". + + - Fsck now prints more self-explanatory message if an invalid UUID= + or LABEL= specification is passed to it. + +UUID library changed to use the LGPL. + +Fixed a bug in the UUID library where very rapid calls to the +time-based UUID generator could cause duplicate UUID's to be returned. +This was not a problem for e2fsprogs, but it could be a problem for +other users of the library. + +Make the UUID library more robust in the face of missing or an +improper /dev/urandom or /dev/random files. + +Added some random portability fixes for Solaris. + +Some minor man page updates. + +Fixed a memory leak in the ss library. + + +Programmer's notes: +------------------- + +We now try to use lseek64 and open64 from the LFS if possible. + +The 3rd parameter in e2p's print_flags is now a flags word, instead of +a boolean option. + +The mark and unmark bitmap functions now return the previous state of +the bit that was being changed, which is useful for some speed +optimizations. + +The following functions have been added to enhance the badblocks list +handling in libext2fs: ext2fs_write_bb_FILE, ext2fs_read_bb_FILE2, and +ext2fs_badblocks_equal. + +The ext2 header files now have the latest journalling fields to the +superblock. + +The ext2fs_mkdir function in libext2fs now properly backs out of error +conditions robustly. + +Cleaned up makefiles: + - to cleanly compile with the -j flag. + - so distclean removes all generated files. + - so in case of an error while installing header files, the make aborts. + +Fix test_script so that it works correctly when compiling in the +source directory. + +The random UUID generation routine has been made slightly better in +the case where /dev/random doesn't exist. (Use of randomly-based UUID +is still not recommended if /dev/random doesn't exist, however; it's +better to use the time/ethernet MAC address UUID in this case.) + +Clean up the build process so it's more friendly in case of missing +directories. + +The ext2fs header file can now be #include'd into C++ programs. + +The e2p.h header file is now installed. + +Added workaround to a gawk 3.0.5 bug in lib/ss/mk_cmds. + -- cgit v1.2.3