X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?p=thirdparty%2Fe2fsprogs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=ae6a5a33dc8800c9858db307845e21902ac89494;hp=567f27632116b1c6509b2ee77e482d6a024616e5;hb=84486e5432bc60d0c1db818cbba9f5befe62fd9b;hpb=05cecaf49b96ae0c684a4d4fc90c157bad2f2b35 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index 567f27632..000000000 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,8398 +0,0 @@ -E2fsprogs 1.43.4-WIP (January 17, 2017) -- 75a790455c43abf -======================================= - -Fix a bug which was causing mke2fs -d and fuse2fs to improperly handle -Posix ACL's. - -Fix a bug which could cause mke2fs -d to fail if there is an -zero-length file in source directory tree. - -Debugfs will now display project quota information. - -Debugfs's do_set_xattr now uses C strings to parse extended attribute -values, and will print the extended attributes using either C strings -or hex bytes when using debugfs's do_get_xattr command. It will now -allow developers to see the contents of the system.data extended -attribute. - -Fix a bug in mke2fs where I/O errors weren't getting properly reported -to the user. - -Fix multiblock writes in the unaligned Direct I/O fallback code. -(Which is rarely needed on Linux systems, but which is required on -Freebsd systems.) - -Make sure the default mke2fs.conf file includes the uninit_bg feature -flag. (Which was accidentally dropped in v1.43). - -Fix a bug in resize2fs when operating on very large file systems which -have a block size different from the VM page size. - -If the reported device size is absurdly large, mke2fs will now report -an error instead looping forever or crashing. - -Replace a test file but which had a "non-commercial use-only" -copyright permission file with a newer version from the Cyrus imapd -package which now has a 4-clause BSD license, which was making some -lawyers nervous, even though the test file in question was only used -in lib/et's regression testing and was never included in any compiled -binary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #840733) - -Programming notes ------------------ - -Fix more FreeBSD-11 compatibility bugs, including some unmasked by -FreeBSD 11-rc2. - -Fix the Mac build. - -Fix build failure on RHEL 5.x systems caused by an old version of -libmagic. - -Fix a number of bugs reported by ASAN that can cause some (mostly -harmless) memory dereferences beyond allocated memory. - - -E2fsprogs 1.43.3 (September 4, 2016) -==================================== - -Fix e2fsck's handling of timestamps on 32-bit systems. - -E2fsck will now check, and if necessary repair the extra isize fields -in the inode and superblock. - -Fix crashes on architectures such as sparc64 that are sensitive to -unaligned pointer derferences in the journal recovery code when -journal checksums are enabled. - -Programming notes ------------------ - -Support reproducible builds by not capturing the build directory into -the mk_cmds and compile_et scripts. Also fix debian build rules to -ensure build reproducibility. - -Fix debian build rules to ensure build reproducibility and to avoid -hiding the linker flags for e2fsck.static so the build hardening log -scanner can properly audit the build. - -Fix compatibility with FreeBSD's pmake and teach the configure script -to force the creation of pmake-compatible Makefiles if the -FORCE_NATIVE_MAKE environment variable is set to a non-empty value. - - -E2fsprogs 1.43.2 (September 1, 2016) -==================================== - -Fix resize2fs so it will not crash if there is an extended attribute -block but it doesn't need to migate any blocks during an off-line -resize - -Fix a crash when mke2fs or debugfs tries to copy in a directory -hierarchy containing an empty directory - -Mke2fs will now use a larger journal by default for filesystems -greater than 128 GB. (1GB instead of 128 MB.) - -Fix an alignment bug in e2fsck which caused sparc64 architectures to -crash when replaying the journal on file systems with a 64-bit block -number. - -Clarify the message printed by tune2fs message when the user needs to -run e2fsck so it's clear that the -f flag to e2fsck is needed to -force a full e2fsck scan. (Addresses Debian Bug: #828022) - -Fix a bug in e2fsck caused by a power failure during e2fsck's journal -replay could leave the file system in a state where if the file system -is mounted without doing a full e2fsck scan, the file system could get -corrupted - -Fix the logic in e2fsck which decides when to repair legacy negative -timestamp encodings. - -Add a command to debugfs to copy the inode structure from one inode to -another. - -Fix a typo in debugfs's stat command when printing out the dtime field -on file systems with an extended timestamp. - -Fix big endian bugs in the e2undo program. (Addresses Red Hat Bug -#1344636) - -Debugfs's logdump can now properly handle journals larger than 2GB. - -Avoid installing the man page for fuse2fs if it has not been built. - -Update the Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, -Swedish, Ukrainian translations and added new translations for -Hugarian and Serbian. - - -Programming notes ------------------ - -Fix portability problems in fuse2fs. Previously it wouldn't build on -systems with older glibc versions where clock_gettime() is only -available in the librt library, and if libintl is not bundled into the -C library. - -Remove complicated logic which caused a static code analyzer to flag a -false positive. (A static code analyzer also found a valid bug in -deciding when to repair a legacy negative timestamp encoding, so -eliminating false positives is important.) - -Fixed a bug where the ext2fs library cloud provoke when a -extfs2_zero_blocks() is used (via fallocation, initializing a file -system, uninitialized uninitialized inode table blocks) after a -different file system which also used ext2fs_zero_blocks(). - -Enable the unix_io manager in the ext2fs library so it can accept the -use of a file descriptor. This is helpful in cases where the file -descriptor comes from temporary file created using O_TMPFILE, or -passed in from a unix domain socket. - -Fix a Windows64 portability bug. - - -E2fsprogs 1.43.1 (June 8, 2016) -=============================== - -Fixed e2fsck so that it would correctly update the project quota usage -when deleting a corrupted and inode, and fixed mke2fs so it wouldn't -dereference memory beyond the small inode structure (which was wrong, -but worked mostly by accident unless hardening or some security malloc -was in use). - -Fixed a large number of FreeBSD portability problems. (To build on -FreeBSD, however, we still need to use GNU Make and redirect dd to use -GNU dd.) - -The configure script now supports --enable-hardening, which enables -stack protection, fortify, read-only relocation tables, immediate -dynamic symbol binding, and text segment ASLR (if the kernel has -userspace ASLR support enabled) by enabling position independent -executable code. (Distributions who want to do their own special -thing can set CFLAGS, CFLAGS_SHLIB, CLFAGS_STLIB, LDFLAGS, -LDFLAGS_SHLIB and LDFLAGS_STATIC as appropriate.) - -The configure script now supports --disable-tdb since on 64-bit -systems, it's much faster to just enable additional swap space. The -scratch_files feature in e2fsck.conf is mostly only useful on 32-bit -systems. - -Fixed the Direct I/O fallback codepath in the Unix I/O manager so that -read/modify/write worked correctly. Fortunately in practice (with the -exception of the Undo handler when running on FreeBSD) used this buggy -codepath. so file systems weren't getting corrupted. - -Mke2fs will now warn if the user provides a label which is too long. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #791630) - -Debugfs's rdump command now works correctly when dumping the root -directory of a file system. (Addresses Debian Bug: #766125) - -Fixed a bug in debugfs so it would correctly calculate a block group's -checksum field field on 64-bit ssystems. - -E2fsck now has a much more understandable error message when the -journal superblock is corrupt and the user declines to fix it. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #768162) - -Fixed support of extended timestamps on 64-bit systems. - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #766379, -#761144, #770750, #428361, #766127) - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #825868) - - -Programming notes ------------------ - -Fixed coverity, sparse, gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. - -Fixed Android build makefiles (which was missing a newly added file in -lib/support). - -In general, checks on s_creator_os have been removed in favor of -feature flag specific checks; if there is something that can't be -checked via the presence of a feature flag, we will simply check -whether the creator OS is *not* EXT2_OS_HURD which is the one -operating system where there has been extensive abuse of the -s_creator_os flag. - -The libmagic libary has been suppressed when running the regression -test suite to avoid false test failures caused by differences between -versions of libmagic (and/or the magic number database). - -The tests/test_script progam now accepts the --failed option, which -will run those tests that had previously failed. - -Fixed tests build on those systems which require LDFLAGS to be set. - -Fixed the regression test suite so it will properly filter out version -numbers with two components (such as 1.43) from log files before -comparing them with the expected golden output. - - -E2fsprogs 1.43 (May 17, 2016) -============================= - -Add support for the ext4 metadata checksum, checksum seed, inline -data, encryption, project quota, and read-only features. - -Support for the very old, experimental, and never-added-to-mainline -compression feature has been removed. - -Mke2fs will now create file systems with the metadata_csum and 64bit -features enabled by default. - -The mke2fs program will now support multiple -O options (instead of -just ignoring all but the last -O option). - -Mke2fs will now correctly determine the size of a file system and -handle the discard operation correctly when the "-E offset=NNN" is -used. (Addresses Debian Bug: #803629) - -The tune2fs program will ask the user for confirmation before starting -dangerous operations if the terminal is available, and it will replay -the journal if necessary. - -Add an ext2/3/4 FUSE server - -Debugfs can now modify extended attributes and journal transactions. - -Debugfs now can properly display and set extended timestamps. - -E2fsck will offer to fix extended timestamps that were incorrectly -encoded by older kernels. - -Fix miscellaneous MMP bugs in debugfs. - -Fix sparse_super2 bugs in mke2fs and resize2fs. - -Fix or improve offset support in mke2fs, e2undo, and libext2fs. - -The resize2fs command can now convert file systems between 64-bit and -32-bit mode. - -Fix potential out-of-bounds memory access in resize2fs when doing a -large off-line file system grow operation. - -We now use a new e2undo file format which is much more efficient and -faster than the old tdb-based scheme. Since it so much faster, -e2fsck, tune2fs, debugfs, and resize2fs now also can support using -creating an undo file. - -The mke2fs command can now set the error behavior when initializing -the file system (so the administrator doesn't have to issue a separate -tune2fs -e command). - -Teach mke2fs to parse a human-readable argument for -i option. - -Teach mke2fs to automatically handle creating file systems > 500T by -automatically enable the meta_bg feature. - -Mke2fs will now prompt for user verification before rewriting a file -system's superblock using the -S option. - -Mke2fs no longer complains if the user tries to create a file system -using the entire block device (e.g., without using a partition). The -minor number convention is not used by all block devices, and it's -quite normal in some circumstances to create a file system on /dev/sdc -instead of /dev/sdc1. - -Fix an "mke2fs -d" bug which could create inodes with invalid -extended attribute blocks - -E2fsck is now much more paranoid about not freeing or corrupting -critical metadata blocks, such as inode table blocks, even if -corrupted indirect blocks or extent trees point at these blocks. - -E2fsck now prints block ranges in pass1b instead of listing all of the -blocks exhaustively. - -E2fsck will try to expand the root directory if the lost+found can't -be linked to the root directory. Also, offer to use the root -directory if lost+found can't be created. - -E2fsck is now more paranoid handling corrupted extent trees as well as -corrupted journals. - -E2fsck can now rebuild extent trees, either (a) to optimize them, (b) -to recover from a corrupted extent tree, or (c) to convert -block-mapped inodes to use extents. - -E2fsck now has a readahead mechanism which can significantly speed its -performance, especially on RAID arrays. - -E2fsck now has a "yes to all" option which the user can give if she is -tired of answering 'y' to a very large number of questions. - -E2fsck will now ignore the badblocks inode if the contents of the -badblocks inode indicate that the portion inode table containing the -badblocks inode is bad. (We must go deeper...) - -E2fsck can now correctly fix directory with holes on bigalloc file -systems. - -E2fsck will now check for extent mapped inodes with no extent header -and clear them if found. - -E2fsck now checks to make sure the extended attribute header doesn't -result in the xattr extending beyond the bounds of the inode - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck to avoid overrunning a buffer containing jbd2 -revoke records if the journal is corrupted. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause it loop forever if a special -inode has too many invalid block mappings. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause pass1b/c/d processing to get -confused if an attempt to allocate a block can't find any free space -in the file system. - -E2fsck will no longer try to force rewrite blocks located beyond the -file system. - -The e2fsck program will no longer update the quota inodes when it is -interrupted. - -Fix a bug which in rare cases would cause e2fsck -fD to corrupt an -extent-mapped directory. - -Fixed a bug in resize2fs which could lead to resize2fs crashing or a -corrupted file system if the file system is almost completely full -when trying grow a file system and we need to allocate blocks to grow -the block group descriptors. - -Fixed a bug in resize2fs which could cause it to get fooled trying to -determinthe the RAID array's stride when flex_bg is enabled. - -Fix resize2fs bug that could leave block allocation bitmaps -uninitialized. - -The dumpe2fs output has been improved so it is cleaner and always fits -within 80 columns. Also added a more easily machine-parsable output -of dumpe2fs. - -The mke2fs program can now pre-populate a file system from a directory -hierarchy using the -d option. - -The mke2fs program now skips zeroing inode table blocks if they were -already zeroed using the discard feature. - -Check to make sure file system features which can not be supported by -HURD are not enabled if the file system is created to be -HURD-compatible. - -Added a new e2fuzz command that will fuzz an ext4 image for testing -purposes. - -The debugfs logdump command can now deal with 64-bit revoke tables -correctly. Also, "logdump -O" will print the old log contents (before -the journal was replayed). - -The debugfs bmap command can now be used to set or allocate a physical -block. - -Fixed a bug so "filefrag -B -e -v" does not return a separate entry -for each block. - -The filefrag program now accounts for holes in sparse files created by -the file punch operation as an expected/optimal mapping. - -The file I/O functions now correctly handle inodes containing -uninitialized blocks. - -Fix a bug in tune2fs so that removing uninit_bg feature on a bigalloc -file system won't result in corrupted block bitmaps. - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #798425) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fixed coverity, sparse gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. - -Added Android build files so that e2fsprogs can be built in the -Android source tree. - -Reduce the use of libc functions in libext2fs that may not be present -in the boot loader environment, at least for those functions that are -needed by boot loadsers such as yaboot. - -Developers can now overide the debugging and optimization flags by -redefining the CFLAGS makefile macro. - -The libext2fs library now has support for fallocate. - -The mke2fs command will now ask the user for confirmation if block -device or image file contains an existing file system image, and -stdout and stdin are connected to a tty. - -The libext2fs library now picks a more intelligent goal block when -doing block allocations. - -The libext2fs library will now automatically set the BLOCK_UNINT flag -if all of the blocks in a block group are free, to speed up future -e2fsck and dumpe2fs operations on the file system. - -Add two new functions ext2fs_new_range() and ext2fs_alloc_range() to -libext2fs. - -The ext2fs_zero_blocks() command will use FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE for -file-based images. - -The ext2fs_bmap() function supports new flags BMAP_UNINIT and -BMAP_ZERO. - -The ext2fs_new_block2() function will now call the alloc_block hook -before checking fs->block_map. - -Support for the MMP feature can now be disabled at compile time. - -Added support to manipulate extended attributes to libext2fs. - -Added a lot of new regression tests. - -Added endian annotations so it's possible to scan e2fsprogs for endian -problems using a static code analyzer. - -Fixed memory leaks in libext2fs. - -The e2fsck jbd2 handling code has been resynced with the 3.16 kernel. -There is now a script in the contrib directory which automates most of -the resync process. - -The build system will now run cppcheck (a static code analysis tool) -via "make C=1" - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.13 (May 17, 2015) -================================ - -Fixed a potential buffer overflow while closing a file system in -libext2fs. (CVE-2015-1572, Addresses Debian Bug: #778948) - -Fixed a bug which could cause e2fsck to corrupt Hurd file systems. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #760275) - -Fixed a deadlock which occurs when using systemd and e2fsck.conf's -logging feature. (Addresses Debian Bug: #775234) - -Fixed a bug which could cause programs using libext2's inode table -scanning functions from crashing on certain corrupted file systems. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #773795) - -Fixed dumpe2fs so it won't crash if the user doesn't specify a block -device (file system). (Addresses Debian Bug: #764293) - -Fixed e2fsck so if it notices unexpected HTREE blocks in pass 2, it -will report the correct directory inode containing the inconsistency. - -If e2fsck fails to grow the dir_info structure due realloc(3) not -having enough memory, it will now fail with explanatory message -instead of staggering on failing with a confusing internal error -messages. - -The tune2fs program will zero out the superblock journal backup -information when removing a journal from a file system. - -The mke2fs program now enables the large_file feature by default. - -Fixed a bug which could cause badblocks to crash if there are millions -and millions of bad blocks. - -Fixed some use-after-free bug in resize2fs and e2fsck. - -Fixed a memory leak in tune2fs. - -Fixed some bigendian bugs that had crept into both indirect and extent -handling inside libext2fs. - -Updated/fixed various man pages. - -Update Esperanto, German, and Spanish translations. Added Danish -translation. - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fixed coverity, sparce gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. - -Clean up some build system problems (build failures with various -configure options, fix Posix portability issues, etc.) - -The functions ext2fs_inode_alloc_stats[2]() and -ext2fs_block_alloc_stats[2]() now check the inode and block numbers -passed to them, to avoid crashes caused by buggy callers. - -The libext2fs directory iterator will now check for an invalid -directory entry length instead of possibly walking off the end of the -directory buffer. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.12 (August 25, 2014) -=================================== - -Fix various e2fsck bugs when trying to repair bigalloc file systems. - -E2fsck can now repair a file system with an overly large -s_first_meta_bg field, which had previously caused all e2fsprogs -programs to crash when trying to open such a file system. - -Fix e2fsck so that it can correctly fix a number of rare file system -corruptions that were discovered when using a file system fuzzer. - -Fix e2fsck so it does not try to write back block group descriptors if -they have not been modified. - -Mke2fs program will now place metadata blocks in the last flex_bg so -they are contiguous. This reduces free space fragmentation in a -freshly created file system, as well as allowing mke2fs commands which -request extremely large flex_bg size to succeed. - -Mke2fs now creates hugefiles more efficiently (with fewer extent tree -blocks). - -Fix a 32/64-bit overflow bug that could cause resize2fs to loop -forever. (Addresses-Launchpad-Bug: #1321958) - -The resize2fs program will now use much less memory when resizing very -large file systems. - -Fix a bug which could cause resize2fs to get confused and produce a -corrupted file system when shrinking a file system that had been -previously expanded and converted to use the meta_bg file system -format, but which no longer needs to use the meta_bg file system -format any longer. This typically happened with large (> 16TB) file -systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #756922) - -The e4defrag program will now defrag backwards-allocated files. - -Fix tune2fs updating UUID's when manipulating file systems with -external journals (both the file system and journal UUID). - -Fix tune2fs so it can remove an external journal for file systems with -a 1k block size. - -Add a new debugfs command, "inode_dump", which prints the inode in hex -and ASCII format. - -The debugfs's "set_inode_field" will now automatically allocate blocks -for indirect blocks and extent tree blocks. - -Fix debugfs's "set_inode_field" so can properly handle -"block[IND|DIND|TIND]". - -The debugfs "rdump" command will now take multiple source arguments. - -Fixed a double close(2) bug in "rdump" and "rdump -p". - -Fix debugfs's argument parsing for the freefrag command. - -Fix filefrag to properly handle using the FIBMAP ioctl (with -B). -(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #1356496) - -Clarified messages that were confusing users in debugfs, e2fsck, -mke2fs, and resize2fs (Addresses Debian Bugs: #758029, #757543, -#757544) - -Dumpe2fs will now complain if extra arguments are given to it. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #758074) - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #726760) - -Update Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish, Sweedish, Ukrainian, and -Vietnamese translations. - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -The Unix I/O layer will now use pread[64]/pwrite[64] to reduce the -number of system calls issued. - -Fixed profiled build. - -The libext2fs library will now more efficiently split an extent tree -index block when appending to an end of a file. - -Fixed free block accounting for 64-bit file systems. - -Add a new function ext2s_inode_size_set() which takes care of all of -the required feature flag modifications. - -The regression tests no longer require the presence of the md5sum -program. - -Fix build failure on MIPS platforms on Debian (Addresses Debian Bug: -#754605) - -Fix various Coverity warnings (#1225003, #1229243, #1252003) - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.11 (July 9, 2014) -================================ - -Add support so that mke2fs can create hugefiles so that they are -aligned relative to the beginning of the disk, instead of relative to -the beginning of the partition, using the mke2fs.conf configuration -parameter "hugefiles_align_disk". - -Fix a bug which causes e2fsck to abort a journal replay on a file -system with bigalloc enabled. (Addresses Debian Bug: #744953) - -Add sanity checks so that mke2fs will refuse insanely large flex_bg -counts specified by the -G option. Insanely large flex_bg sizes can -result in a file system which can't be unmounted, or with extremely -pessimal metadata layouts. - -The mke2fs program will provide a better metadata layout for -moderately large (but believable) flex_bg counts, such as 133,072. - -The mke2fs progam will also check the kernel version number to -determine whether the lazy_itable_init option is supported, so that -lazy inode table initialization can be used even if the ext4 is -compiled as a module which isn't loaded at the time that mke2fs is -run. - -Add description of ext4's mount options to the ext4 section 5 man -page. - -Improve the chattr man page and clean up the chattr usage message. - -E2fsck will now automatically fix a last mount time or last write time -which is in the future in preen mode, instead of aborting the fsck -check. - -Mke2fs will now check the file system revision number requested by the -command line, and reject it if it is too large. A file system with an -unsupported revision number will not be accepted by any of the other -file system tools, and this command line option is rarely used, so -let's try to help the user not shoot their own foot off. - -The debugfs progam can now set the error count and associated -first_error and last_error fields in the superblock using the -set_super_value command. - -Resize2fs will not try to calculate the minimum size of a file system -if it contains errors. Otherwise a very badly corrupted file system -image can cause the minimum size calculation to loop forwever. Since -resize2fs will not allow a file system marked as containing errors to -be resized. It's pointless to calculate the minimum size, so just -skip it. - -Fixed a typo in one of mke2fs's error message. - -If filefrag runs into an error, it will continue processing the rest -of the files specified on thec ommand line, but then exit with an -error code. - -Filefrag now prints some additional new flags (such as -FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED), and print unknown flags as hex values. - -Fixed support in filefrag for files with > 2**32 blocks on 32-bit -platforms. - -Fixed a file descriptor leak in debugfs when copying files. - -Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.10 which caused mke2fs to fail -to create file systems larger than 2GB on 32-bit platforms. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1099892, Debian Bug: #752107) - -Add Esparanto and Ukrainian translations, and update Czech, Dutch, -French, German, Italian, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese -translations. - -Fixed various compiler warnings. - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -The gcc "-checker" option has been long deprecated, so remove support -from e2fsprogs. It was causing a few people to be confused when they -tried enabling the configure option. - -Update to the latest version of the config.status and config.rpath -files, as well as newer versions of the autoconf files in aclocal.m4. -Also, move the e2fsprogs-specific macros to acinclude.m4, which allows -people who want to use autoreconf to do so. - -Make the use of strptime() function in debugfs to be more portable to -fix regression test failures for FreeBSD and MacOS. - -A few miscellaneous changes designed to make life easier for -translators. - -Fix the f_quota test and some Makefile dependencies if quota support -is not enabled. - -Fix cross-compilation support, which got broken in 1.42.10. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #753375) - -Delete lib/ext2_types.h on a make clean, and build it as necessary. - -Add a debug program used for libext2fs unit tests. - -Clean up the tests so that it avoids using GNU-specific behaviour in -mktemp. Make sure the temporary files are cleaned up if the tests are -interrupted. - -Add a new ext2fs_close_free() helper function which automatically -takes care of freeing the ext2_filsys structure even if ext2fs_close() -returns an error. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.10 (May 18, 2014) -================================ - -Mke2fs now creates file systems in regular files (which is very often -used when maintaining virtual machine images) without requiring the -user to use the force option. In addition, the mke2fs output has been -made much less verbose and only displays information that users will -be more likely to find useful by default. - -Mke2fs now will ask the user to confirm that they want to continue -before wiping out a pre-existing file system, partition table, or LVM -physical volume. - -Mke2fs now has the ability to create file systems where all the -metadata is located at the very beginning of the device. This can be -useful for flash devices which have SLC flash at the beginning of the -disk, for FAT compatibility, for example. As part of this, mke2fs and -tune2fs can control the location of the data blocks used by the -journal inode. In addition, the new sparse_super2 feature allows for -even fewer (anywhere from zero to two) backup superblocks. - -Mke2fs now uses much less CPU when allocating the blocks used for very -large file systems. - -Mke2fs can now support creating a file system at an offset. This can -be useful when creating a disk image for virtual machines (Addresses -Debian Bug: #497984) - -Previously, e2fsck had a number of very serious bugs when checking a -file system wich used the new the quota file system option (where the -quota inodes were stored in hidden inodes) and the quota inode was -inconsistent with the actual usage data. This problem was documented -in https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Quota. These problems have -been fixed in 1.42.10, so the quota should be safe to use with -e2fsprogs 1.42.10. - -Fixed in a bug in resize2fs which could cause shrink operation fail in -the unlikely situation when the inode table needs to be moved to a -location before the current location. - -Resize2fs now has a much more accurate (and less conservative) -estimation of how far the file system can be shrunk. This allows a -mostly empty filesystem which is a few terabytes, to be shrunk to a -few megabytes in a single resize2fs -M operation. - -E2fsck will now force a full file system check if there are any file -system inconsistencies detected in the super block. - -The filefrag program will now display hte shared extent flag, which is -used by file systems such as btrfs. - -If the number of inodes in the file systems is larger than the time -that file sytem was created (as measured by the number of seconds -since January 1, 1970) e2fsck would print a scary (but otherwise -harmless) warning of file system corruption for each inode in the -orphan list. This false positive has been fixed. - -The e4defrag program has been fixed so it will no longer refuse with -filesystem with the 64-bit or the bigalloc feature enabled. - -The logsave progam will print a much less scary message which could -lead users to believe something has gone very wrong with e2fsck exits -with a non-zero exit status (since this is normal after e2fsck has -automatically fixed a file system corruption during a preen -operation). (Addresses Debian Bug: #468821) - -When creating a file system which is larger than 16TB, the -resize_inode option must be disabled -- since the resize_inode simply -doesn't support reserving metadata block numbers which is larger than -32 bits. The mke2fs program does this automatically if the file -system size is determined automatically. It will now also do this if -the file size is specified explicitly. - -Fixed bugs associated with resize2fs and shrinking bigalloc file -systems. - -The e2fsck program will no longer try to add a UUID on a mounted file -system with checksums enabled, since this could leave the file system -checksums broken. - -Tune2fs will allow the removal of an external journal from file system -which is marked as needing the journal replayed when the force ("-f") -option is given twice. (Addresses Debian Bug: #559301) - -Tune2fs will no longer support enabling sparse_super if the meta_bg -file system feature is enabled, since it could result in data loss. -In practice, all modern file systems have sparse_super is enabled, so -it's not worth trying to change how tune2fs handles enabling the -sparse_super feature. - -Fixed support for 1k block file systems with the meta_bg feature. - -When the superblock is corrupt, e2fsck can't figure out the location -of the alternate superblock. Unfortunately, the routine that -calculates the location of the alternate superblock uses 8193 if it -can't figure this out, so the message printed by e2fsck always -suggests using "e2fsck -b 8193". This message has been fixed to -suggest both the superblock location of 8193 and and 32768. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #719185) - -The lookback mount detection code that was introduced in 1.42.9 wasn't -actually compiled in due to an autoconf oops, so it's fixed now in -1.42.10. (Addresses Debian Bug: #497984) - -A bug introduced in 1.42.9 would cause debugfs to print two error -messages if it found an error while parsing a user-supplied block -number. This has been fixed in 1.42.10. - -Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Sweedish, and -Vietnamese translations. (Addresses Debian Bug: #703048) - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #719189, -#719184) - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #718725) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fixed a lot of coverity, sparce gcc -Wall, and clang warnings/nits. - -Allow the location of pkg-config files to be specified independent of -the libdir location via a makefile variable. - -Fixed parse-types.sh not to complain when cross-compiling and the -sizes of types are different between the target architecture and the -architecture of the build system - -Allow the regression test suite to work correctly on systems which do -not have the "truncate" or "mksawp" programs. - -Allow e2fsck to build correctly on systems (such as Android) that do -not have the signal.h file. - -E2fsprogs now has code coverage testing which can be enbled using -"configure --enable-gcov". - -The libe2p.h header file can now be used included by C++ programs. - -The profile/config file used by e2fsck and mke2fs will interpret -numbers with a leading 0 character to mean that they should be -interpreted as an octal integer. - -The extent handling functions in libext2fs have been improved so they -have proper rollback when there is an error splitting an extent. Also -fix a number of bugs when punching holes in files, and fix an -off-by-one bug when inserting an extent into an empty inode. - -The libext2fs library now handles the support of BLOCK_UNINIT by -clearing the portion of block bitmap when it is loaded, instead of -when it is used. This reduces the chances of bugs, and and simplifies -the code. It also means that debugfs will properly show that blocks -in uninitialized block groups as being unused when using the testb -command. - -The e4defrag program will try to use fadvise64 or posix_fadvise64() if -it is present, which allows 64-bit offsets on 32-bit systems. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.9 (December 28, 2013) -==================================== - -Mke2fs will detect an attempt to create a file system on a loop -mounted file and complain without the -FF option. Also fixed mke2fs -so it allows the creation of a file system on a mounted device with -two -F options, as documented in the man page, instead of three -F -options. - -Fixed a large number of bugs in resize2fs, e2fsck, debugfs, and -libext2fs to correctly handle bigalloc and 64-bit file systems. There -were many corner cases that had not been noticed in previous uses of -these file systems, since they are not as common. Some of the bugs -could cause file system corruption or data loss, so users of 64-bit or -bigalloc file systems are strongly urged to upgrade to e2fsprogs -1.42.9. - -The tune2fs program will now not allow changing the uuid on a mounted -file system which has the uninit_bg feature enabled. This avoids a -nasty race where the kernel and tune2fs are both retrying rewrite the -group descriptors at the same time, with different ideas about what -the UUID should be. - -When e2fsck is rehashing an extent-mapped directory, it's possible -(although very rare) that an extent block will need to be allocated; -fix e2fsck to make sure that the block gets marked as used. - -Mke2fs will now properly set the LARGE_FILE feature when creating a -journal >= 2GB --- which can happen when using 64k block size. - -Fixed debugfs so that its freei command will correctly handle a request -to free a range of consecutive inodes. - -Fixed 2fsck so it will not erroneously complain that an external journal -is invalid if it is exactly 2**32 blocks. - -Fixed e2fsck so it won't try checking for, and adding, a missing -lost+found directory when running in read-only mode. - -Fixed e2image so that progress information won't get leaked to stdout. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1327329) - -Fixed e2image to avoid some buffer overruns which would cause it to when -creating a "standard (non-raw, non-qcow2) image file. Standard -e2image files are actually very rarely used, so we didn't notice when -the changes to enable the qcow2 format broke this e2image mode. - -Fixed mke2fs so that the extended option "-E resize=NNN" will not turn -on the resize_inode feature when the meta_bg feature is set, since -these two features can not be set at the same time. - -Fixed tune2fs so that when it disables the quota feature, it updates all -of the backup superblocks. - -Fixed dumpe2fs that would cause it to abort when run using an image file -when trying to print the journal information (which is not present in -an e2image created image file). - -Fixed a potential integer overflow in e2reefrag. -(Addresses-Debian-Bug: #718205) - -Enhance debugfs so that when copying a sparse file from a native file -system into the file system image using the "write" command, it will -create a sparse file into the destination file system. - -Enhanced debugfs so it can support a command line which is up to 8k -long. - -E2image will refuse (unless the -f option is specified to force the -issue) to create a raw or qcow image using a mounted file system, -unless the -f option is specified to force the issue. - -E2image has been optimized for using it to efficiently copy a file -system by only copying the allocated blocks, by using the options -ra. -New options (-o and -O) have been added so that a source and -destination offset can be given. The -p option will print progress -information so the user will know how far along the copy is going. -And finally, the new option -c is useful for updating a file system on -an SSD, by avoiding unnecessary writes. E2image can also shift a file -system image by doing an in place move. - -Fix a regression introduced in 1.42.8 which would cause e2fsck to -erroneously report uninitialized extents past the EOF (as determined by -i_size) to be invalid. - -Fixed resize2fs so under a corner case when an inode has a complex -extent tree, it will not corrupt an interior node in the extent tree. - -Fixed resize2fs which would sometimes corrupt a file system when -shrinking a file system to a minimum size using resize2fs -M. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #660793) - -Fixed resize2fs so that it will relocate inode table blocks if this -becomes necessary when shrinking the file system. - -Fixed resize2fs and e2fsck so they will not crash when hit a failure -while operating on a file system with the MMP feature enabled. - -Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused it create an invalid inode when -trying to write a zero-length file. - -E2fsck will no longer crash if it tries to delete an invalid -extent-mapped symlink. - -E2fsck will no longer crash if it comes across an directory which is -larger than 2GB (which is not allowed in valid file systems). - -Fixed debugfs's help texts to fully document all options and otherwise -be more helpful. - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #586218, -#669730, #698076) - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (#698879, #721365) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix sparse, gcc -Wall and clang nits. - -Update config.{guess,sub} to the latest version - -Fixed various memory and file descriptor leaks on various error paths, -as well as some missing error return checks, which were found using -Coverity. - -Run sparse against source files when building e2fsprogs with 'make -C=1'. If instead C=2, it configures basic ext2 types for bitwise -checking with sparse, which can help find the (many many) spots where -conversion errors are (possibly) happening. - -Allow the regression test to be run in chrooted environments where -/etc/mtab might be missing. - -The ext2fs_punch() function, which was introduced in 1.42, was broken -in many ways, but this was never noticed since it wasn't used for -anything significant. Some of the bugs include failing when trying to -punch a completely sparse file, failing when punching an extent-mapped -inode when the starting block was at the beginning of the inode, and -not being able to punch a single block (where start_blk == end_block). -It also didn't handle being passed an invalid, too-large ending block -number, and didn't handle properly terminate at the right place when -operating on an indirect-mapped inode. - -Fixed some minor typo's in the error catalog for libext2fs. - -Fixed ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that if it truncates an inode by -setting the file size, to zero the rest of the block to the end of the -file, so that if an ext4 FUSE driver tries to extended the file, that -we don't avoid stale data from being returned. - -Fixed ext2fs_bmap() to disallow clients from trying to map or set -logical blocks which are larger than what an extent-mapped or indirect -block-mapped inode can allow. - -If debugfs (or some userspace program using libext2fs) creates a file -which is larger than 2GB, make sure the large_file feature flag gets -set. - -Fix a bug in ext2fs_link() where if there is multiple empty slots in the -directory which are large enough, the directory entry could get -inserted more than once in the directory. - -If quota support is disabled (which is the default), make sure that -all traces of the quota support is removed from usage messages, man -pages, and tune2fs must not be able to enable the quota file system -feature. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1010709) - -The ext2fs_file_write() now updates i_size on a successful write, -instead of only updating i_size wen the file is closed via -ext2fs_file_close(). - -Added a shell script, populate-extfs.sh which uses debugfs to populate -an ext2/3/4 file system image from a given directory. It is similar -to the genext2fs program, but it supports ext3 and ext4 file system. - -Add changes to the libext2fs library to support block group -descriptors larger than 64 bytes (for future compatibility). - -Fixed an off-by-one bug in ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that it will not -leave an extra block in the file when truncating the file down to -size. - -The html version info pages are now built using makeinfo --html -instead of the unmaintained and now-obsolete texi2html program. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.8 (June 20, 2013) -================================ - -As a part of mke2fs's option parsing cleanup, the use of the -R option -will give a warning that it is depreated (it has been so documented -since 2005) and -E should be used instead. - -Mke2fs will not give warnings about the bigalloc and quota options in -quiet mode. - -If an invalid journal size is given to mke2fs, it will now complain -and exit sooner. - -Debugfs was erroneously giving spurious error messages for certain -extent_inode subcommands which take arguments (split_node, -replace_node, and insert_node). This has been fixed. - -Fix the parsing of the 's' (sectors) in parse_num_blocks2, which among -other programs is used by mke2fs. - -Change mke2fs so that it does not set the root directory to the real -uid/gid of the mke2fs process. Add the extended option root_owner to -override this behavior. - -Fix resize2fs when shrinking file systems to make sure that bitmap -blocks aren't left outside the bounds of the shrunken file system. -This could happen with flex_bg file systems that were grown using -the old online resizing algorithm. - -E2fsck will now detect and repair corrupted extent trees which contain -invalid extents at the end of the extent tree leaf block. - -E2fsck will now longer complain about zero length extended attribute -values. - -Fix a regression introduced in e2fsprogs v1.42 which caused e2image -s -to crash. - -Add safety check so tune2fs will not attempt to set the inode size to -be larger than the block size. - -Fix e2fsck so it can check a read-only root file system with an -external journal. (Addresses Debian Bug: #707030 - -Fix off-line resizing of file systems with flex_bg && !resize_inode -(Addresses Debian Bug: #696746) - -Fix e2image with large (> 32-bit) file systems (Addresses Debian Bug: -#703067) - -Enhance chattr to allow clearing the extent flag if the kernel allows -migrating extent based files to use indirect blocks. - -Update German translation. - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #712429, -#712430, #707609) - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #708307) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Use secure_getenv() in preference to __secure_getenv(). - -Optimize CPU utilization of ext2fs_bg_has_super(). - -Fix ext2fs_llseek() on 32-bit i386 systems to work correctly when -SEEK_CUR is used with large files. - -The ext2fs_read_inode_full() function will no longer use -fs->read_inode() if the caller has requested more than the base 128 -byte inode structure and the inode size is greater than 128 bytes. - -Fix build failure with --enable-jbd-debug. - -Clean up filtering of outputs for the regression tests by using a -common sed script. - -Fix gcc -Wall and clang nits. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.7 (January 21, 2013) -=================================== - -Add warnings to mke2fs, resize2fs, and tune2fs that the bigalloc and -quota features are still under development. For more information -please see: - * https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Bigalloc - * https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Quota - -Add some new options to filefrag from Lustre's patches to e2fsprogs: - * add -k option to print extents in kB-sized units (like df -k) - * add -b {blocksize} to print extents in blocksize units - * add -e option to print extent format, even when FIBMAP is used - * add -X option to print extents in hexadecimal format - -Fix resize2fs so that it can handle off-line resizes of file systems -with the flex_bg feature but without a resize_inode (or if we run out -of reserved gdt blocks). This also fixes a problem where if the user -creates a filesystem with a restricted number of reserved gdt blocks, -an off-line resize which grows the file system could potentially -result in file system corruption. - -Fix a resize2fs bug which could cause it to corrupt bigalloc file -systems when doing an off-line resize. - -Further optimize resize2fs so it doesn't use quite as much CPU when -resizing very large file systems. - -Fixed 32-bit overflow bugs which could cause resize2fs to fail and -possibly corrupt the file system while resizing 64-bit file systems. - -Fix a bug in mke2fs where parsing "-E resize=NNN" will result in a -mke2fs crash due to a divide-by-zero if the 64bit file system feature -is enabled. - -Add better error checking to mke2fs to check for invalid parameters -when creating bigalloc file system. - -When creating bigalloc filesystems, the -g option to mke2fs will now -specify the number of clusters per block group. - -Add to debugfs the functionality to corrupt a specific file system -block via the "zap_block" command. - -Add to debugfs the functionality to print out a hex dump of a block in -the file system via the "block_dump" command. - -Add to debugfs the functionality to manipulate the extent tree -directly via the "extent_open" command. - -Fixed debugfs's mknod command so that it updates the block group -statistics. - -Fix e2fsck so it can detect and fix inconsistencies in the interior -nodes of an inode's extent tree. - -Fix a potential memory corruption failure in e2fsck's error path if -the call to ext2fs_open2() fails. - -Fix e2fsck if its logging function is enabled in e2fsck.conf, and the -resulting file name for the log file is longer than 100 bytes, that it -properly handles this situation instead of crashing. - -E2fsck will now report the amount of memory that it attempted to -allocate when a memory allocation request fails, to make it easier to -track down the problem. - -Fix mke2fs's handling of the mmp_update_interval option. (Addresses -Lustre Bug: LU-1888) - -E2image can now include all data blocks in the e2image output file -when the user specifies the -a option. - -If e2fsprogs is compiled without --enable-quota, make sure that -tune2fs can not turn on the feature for new-style quota support, since -afterwards, none of the e2fsprogs tools will be willing to touch that -file system. - -Optimize e2fsck's so that it uses much less CPU for large file -systems. This can result in significant speedups, especially on -CPU-constrained systems. This was primarily done by optimizing -libext2fs's bitmap functions. (Addresses Google Bug: #7534813) - -Fix debugfs's htree command so that all its messages are sent through -the pager. - -Fixed debugfs's "dump_file" and "cat" functions work correctly -on file systems whose block size is greater than 8k. - -Fix e2freefrag so it works on 64-bit file systems, and so it uses much -less memory. (Addresses Google Bug: 7269948) - -Update the spd_readdir.c file in the contrib directory to include some -additions which were made in 2008 that didn't get folded into the -version which we checked into the e2fsprogs source tree. These -enhancements include thread safety, support for readdir64_r(), and -safe_getenv() support in case spd_readdir.so is used for setuid binaries. - -Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese -translations - -Add a command to debugfs to create symlinks. - -Document the bigalloc feature in the mke2fs man page. (Addresses -Debian Bug: #669730) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix gcc -Wall nits. - -Fix a spelling typo in the libext2fs texinfo documentation. - -Change the output from "make check" so that tools such as emacs's "M-x -compile" does not mistake the output as containing a compiler error. - -Export two new functions from libext2fs: ext2fs_extent_node_split() -and ext2fs_extent_goto2(). - -The ext2fs_extents_fix_parents() was fixed so it does not modify the -location of the extent handle if its current location is at an -interior node, rather than a leaf node of an inode's extent tree. - -Add a regression test to assure that e2fsck can correctly fix an -inconsistent interior node in an inode's extent tree. - -The ext2fs_{mark,unmark,test}_block_bitmap_range2() functions now -correctly support bigalloc file systems which use store block usage -information in units of clusters. - -Fixed the help text in the configure script for --enable-quota. - -The m68k-specific bitops code has been removed since they were -incorrectly treating bit numbers with the high bit set as signed -integers. Furthermore, modern compilers do a good enough job -optimizing the generic code there is no point in having the m68k -specific asm statements. - -Fixed how we link the test programs so they always use the static -libraries, so that we test using the libraries which we have just -built. - -Update config.guess and config.sub to the latest versions from the GNU -project. - -Fixed the com_err.texinfo file so that it can produce a valid -postscript/pdf printed output. - -Add a regression test which checks debugfs's ability to create -symlinks, named FIFO's, and device nodes. - -Add a function ext2fs_symlink(), which creates symlinks to the -libext2fs library. - -Add debugging code so we can test old kernel interfaces for online -resize to resize2fs. This backwards compatibility checking is keyed -off of the RESIZE2FS_KERNEL_VERSION, which is designed to allow us to -test the functionality of the kernel's older resize ioctls without -needing to install an old version of resize2fs, and to also test a -modern resize2fs's ability to work with older kernels without having -to install an older version of the kernel. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.6 (September 21, 2012) -===================================== - -When mke2fs creates file systems with lazy itable initialization, the -progress updates for writing the inode table happens so quickly that -on a serial console, the time to write the progress updates can be the -bottleneck. So mke2fs will now only update its progress indicators -once a second. - -Resize2fs will skip initializing the inode tables if the kernel -supports lazy_itable_init, which speeds up growing off-line growth of -uninit_bg file systems significantly. Resize2fs will now also -correctly set the itable_unused field in the block group descriptor to -speed up the first e2fsck after the file system is grown. - -Resize2fs has been fixed so that on-line resizing of meta_bg file -systems work correctly. This is needed to grow file system which are -larger than 16T. - -Resize2fs will now correctly handle resizing file systems to 16TB on -32-bit file systems when "16TB" is specified on the command line. - -Fix mke2fs so that it will be careful to set the reserved blocks ratio -larger than 50%; this can happen when creating small file systems and -when the last block group is dropped because there are not enough -blocks to support the metadata blocks in the last block group. - -Fixed spelling mistake in debugfs's help message. - -Fixed a potential seg fault in e2fsck when there is an I/O error while -reading the superblock. - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #677497) - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#3559210) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -The configure option --enable-relative-symlink was broken so that it -needed to be --enable-symlink-relative-symlinks. We will support both -for at least two years, but then the worng configure option will be -removed. - -Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.5 so the link order for -e2fsprogs' libraries will be correct for both static and shared -linking. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3554345) - -Add support for e2fsprogs to be compiled using clang/LLVM. - -Fix portability problems on non-Linux systems: avoid compile failures -on systems that don't have malloc.h - -Fix f_mmp regression test suite so that debugfs gets killed if the -test is interrupted. - - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.5 (July 29, 2012) -================================ - -Fixed a bug with mke2fs where if there is only 8 inodes per block -group, the calculation of the number of uninitialized inodes in the -first block group would go negative. This resulted in "mke2fs -N 256 --t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 256m" trying to write so many blocks that /tmp -would run out of space. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3528892) - -Fixed a bug in how e2fsck would uniquify directory entry names. -(AddressesSourceforge Bug: #3540545) - -Previously, e2fsck would only allow a mounted file system to be -checked if it was the root file system and it was mounted read-only. -Now it will allow any file system mounted read-only to be checked if -the -f option is specified. This makes it easier to test how e2fsck -handles checking file systems which are mounted without having to test -on the root file system. - -Fixed a problem if e2fsck where if the root file system is mounted -read-only, e2fsck would not clear an error indication in the journal -superblock. Combined with a kernel bug, this would cause the e2fsck -to check the file system after every single boot. - -The e4defrag program can now handle device symlinks, such as -/dev/mapper/testvg-testlv, instead of insisting on a less -human-friendly name such as /dev/dm-2. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: -#707209) - -Fixed filefrag so it will not crash with a segfault on files from a -virtual file system such as /proc. (e.g., "filefrag -/proc/partitions") - -Fixed filefrag so that it correctly reports the number of extents. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #840848) - -Fixed a file descriptor leak in logsave which could cause it to hang. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #682592) - -Fixed e2fsck so that the file system is marked as containing an error -if the user chooses not to fix the quota usage information. - -Fixed tune2fs so that it correctly removes the quota feature when the -last quota inode is removed. - -Fix tune2fs so that after removing a quota inode, the block bitmap is -updated; otherwise, e2fsck would complain after running 'tune2fs -O -^quota '. - -Fix tune2fs so that when converting a file system from using legacy -quota files to the new quota file system feature with hidden quota -files, the accounting for these files is handled correctly so that -e2fsck doesn't complain. - -Improved e2fsck's verbose reporting statistics, and allow the more -verbose reporting to be enabled via /etc/e2fsck.conf. - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #678395) - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #680114) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fixed portability problems on other operating systems (e.g., Hurd and -FreeBsd) caused by the attempted inclusion of . - -Make sure that shared libraries link with the shared libraries built -in the build tree, instead of the system provided libraries. -Previously, libraries and executables were linked with the system -libraries if present, and possibly using static archives instead of -shared libraries. This was also problematic since if libext2fs.so is -linked with a static libcom_err.a from system, the build system would -attempt to link without -lpthread. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#3542572) - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.4 (June 12, 2012) -================================ - -Fixed more 64-bit block number bugs (which could end up corrupting -file systems!) in e2fsck, debugfs, and libext2fs. - -Fixed e2fsck's handling of the journal's s_errno field. E2fsck was -not properly propagating the journal's s_errno field to the superblock -field; it was not checking this field if the journal had already been -replayed, and if the journal *was* being replayed, the "error bit" -wasn't getting flushed out to disk. - -Fixed a false positive complaint by e2fsck if all of the extents in -the last extent tree block are uninitalized and located after the end -of the file as defined by i_size. - -The dumpe2fs will now display the journal's s_errno field if it is -non-zero, and it will also display the journal's 64-bit feature flag -if present. - -Fix e2fsck so that it always opens the device file in exclusive mode -when it might need to modify the file system, and never if the -n -option is specified. (Previously, there were a few corner cases where -it might get things wrong in either direction.) - -E2fsck now correctly truncates or deallocates extent-mapped inodes on -the orphan list. The root cause was a bug in libext2fs's block -iterator which could end up skipping an extent when the last block in -an extent is removed, causing the current extent to be removed from -the extent tree. - -E2fsck now correctly sets the global free block and inode counts when -truncating or removing inodes on the orphan list in preen mode. -Previously, it would leave these values would be set incorrectly, -which is largely a cosmetic issue since the kernel no longer pays -attention to those fields, but it can cause spurious complaints in -subsequent e2fsck runs. - -Fix i_blocks accounting when the libext2fs library needs to add or -remove an extent tree block on bigalloc file systems. - -The lsattr and chattr programs now support the No_COW flag for the -benefit of btrfs. - -Debugfs now interprets date strings of the form @ddd as ddd seconds -after the beginning of the epoch. This is handy when setting an inode -number into the d_time field when debugging orphan list handling. - -Fix a precedence bug with built-in quota support which might result in -e2fsck paying attention to the quota inode field even if the built-in -quota feature flag is not set. Fortunately, in practice that -superblock field should be zero for non-built-in quota file systems, -so it's unlikely this bug would have caused problems. - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #674453, -#674694) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -The regression test suite can now run the integration tests in the -tests directory in parallel, via "make -jN check". - -Add new test, f_zero_extent_length which tests e2fsck's handling of -the case where all of the extents in the last extent tree block are -uninitialized extents after i_size. - -Add a new test, f_jnl_errno, which checks handling of an error -indication set in the journal superblock. - -Fix the test f_jnl_64bit so that it properly checks e2fsck's handling -of a 64-bit journal. - -Add two tests, f_orphan_indirect_inode and f_orphan_extent_inode which -tests e2fsck's handling of orphan inodes in preen mode, and truncation -of extent inodes on the orphan list. - -Fixed more OS X portability issues. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.3 (May 14, 2012) -=============================== - -Fix a bug in the Unix I/O manager which could cause corruption of file -systems with more than 16TB when e2fsprogs is compiled in 32-bit mode -(i.e., when unsigned long is 32-bits). Also fix a bug which caused -dumpe2fs to incorrectly display block numbers > 32-bits. - -Improve the support for integrated quota files (where quota is a first -class supported feature using hidden files in the ext4 file system). -Previously the quota file was getting rewritten even when it was not -necessary, and e2fsck would erroneously try to hide quota files which -were already hidden. - -Quiet complaints in e2fsck when the total free blocks or inodes are -incorrect in the superblock after an system crash, since we don't -update nor depend on the superblock summaries at each commit boundary. - -Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.2 which would cause applications -outside of e2fsprogs which did not pass the EXT2_FLAG_64BIT (and so -would were still using the legacy 32-bit bitmaps) to crash. This was -due to missing 32-bit compat code in side the function -ext2fs_find_first_zero_generic_bmap(). (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: -#808421) - -Fix a bug which would cause mke2fs to fail creating the journal if -/etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are missing. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#3509398) - -Updated/fixed various man pages. - -Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese -translations - -Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Change the nonsensically wrong types in the function signature of the -inline function ext2fs_find_first_zero_block_bitmap2(). This was -caused by a cut and paste error; fortunately no code in e2fsprogs used -this inline function, and there are any users of this functions -outside of e2fsprogs. - -Add support for systems which have valloc(), but which do have -posix_memalign() nor memalign() (such as MacOS 10.5). - -Refactor and clean up the allocation of aligned buffers for Direct I/O -support. Previously some allocations were requesting a greater -alignment factor that what was strictly necessary. Also optimize -reading and writing bitmaps using Direct I/O when the size of the -bitmap did not fully cover the file system blocksize. - -Reserve the codepoints for the INCOMPAT features LARGEDATA and -INLINEDATA. - -Improved the regression test suite by adding some new integration -tests (f_jnl_32bit, f_jnl_64bit) which detect breakage of the on-disk -jbd2 format, as well as f_eofblocks which tests the new handling of -uninitialized and initialized blocks beyond i_size. Also add a new -unit test which verifies 32-bit bitmaps support and the new -find_first_zero primitives. - -Add a few dependencies to fix parallel (make -j) builds. - -Removed bash'isms which were breaking the regression test suite on -systems where /bin/sh is not bash. - -The config.guess and config.sub have been updated to the 2012-02-10 -version. - -Fix a portability problem caused by assuming the present of mntent.h -means that setmntent() exists. Instead, explicitly test for this in -the configure script. - -If the sys/signal.h header file does not exist, don't try to include -it, since it's not available on all systems. - -Add support for systems that do not support getpwuid_r() - -The configure script now supports a new option, ---enable-relative-symlinks, which will install relative symlinks for -the ELF shared library files. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3520767). - -When building BSD shared libraries make sure the LDFLAGS variable is -passed to the linker. Fixing this allows, for example, e2fsprogs to -be built in 32-bit mode on Mac OS X Lion (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#3517272) - -Fix gcc -Wall nitpicks - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012) -================================= - -The resize2fs program uses much less CPU and is much faster for very -large file systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #663237) - -The seti and freei commands in debugfs can now take an optional length -argument to set and clear a contiguous range of inodes. - -E2fsck will now make explicit checks for the EOFBLOCKS_FL, since we -plan to remove support for it from the kernel file system driver. It -really wasn't very useful and was causing more problems than it -solves. Since e2fsck will complain if inodes that should have -EOFBLOCKS_FL do not have the flag set, we are going to remove this -check from e2fsprogs first, and then only remove the flag from the -kernel much later. - -The mke2fs program can now use direct I/O via "mke2fs -D". This will -slow down the mke2fs, but it makes it more polite on a loaded server -by limiting the amount of memory that gets dirtied by mke2fs when it -is using buffered I/O. - -E2fsck was needlessly closing and re-opening the file system as a side -effect of adding Multiple Mount Protection (MMP). This isn't -necessary for non-MMP file systems, so drop it. - -Print errors returned by ext2fs_open2() and ext2fs_check_desc() so we -can more easily diagnose memory allocation failures caused by -insufficient memory. E2fsck will now abort if there are memory -allocation failures when the file system is initially opened and -during the block group descriptor checks. (Addresses Google Bug: -#6208183) - -If there are incorrect block group checks, e2fsck will now report the -incorrect and corrected checksum values. - -The e2fsck progam can now write log files containing the details of -the problems that were found and fixed directly, via configuration -parameters in /etc/e2fsck.conf. - -Added the ability to limit the number of messages reported by e2fsck -for a given problem type. This avoids a potential bottleneck if there -is a serial console which can cause a boot sequence to take a long -time if e2fsck needs to report many, many file system errors. - -The dumpe2fs, debugfs, and tune2fs now use rbtree bitmaps, which cause -them to use much less memory for large file systems. - -The dumpe2fs program will now print the expected block group checksum -if it is incorrect. This helps to diagnose problems caused by -incorrect block group checksums. - -E2fsck now checks for extents with a zero length, since the kernel -will oops if it comes accross such a corrupted data structure. (See -https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42859) - -E2fsck has a number of bugs relating to discard that have been fixed. -(1) Fixed a bug which could cause e2fsck to discard portions of the -inode table which were actually in use. (2) E2fsck will now avoid -using discard if the block device doesn't zero data on discard, since -otherwise this could cause problems if the file system gets corrupted -in the future. (3) E2fsck will now avoid using discard when it is run -in read-only mode. (4) Fixed a bug which caused e2fsck to not issue -discards in the last block group. - -E2fsck's CPU utilization in pass 5 has been optimized, which will -speed up e2fsck slightly. - -E2image will now skip copying uninitialized bitmap and inode table -blocks. - -Fixed mke2fs -S so it does not corrupt the first block group's -information. - -E2fsck will now check the new sysfs interface to determine if we are -using the battery or AC mains. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3439277) - -Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #665427) - -Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #665885) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fixed various portability issues for non-Linux systems, particularly -MacOS X, as well as Linux systems running with the just-released glibc -2.15. - -Fix file descriptor leak in ext2fs_close() if the file system with -uninit_bg is opened read/only with a backup superblock. (Addresses -SourceForge Bug: #3444351) - -Fixed an invalid return in a non-void function in the quota code. -(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3468423) - -Fixed the debian rules file so that the calls to dpkg-buildflags works -when the shell is dash. - -The debian package build now uses V=1 so that there is more -information about potential build failures in debian buildd logs. - -If the uninit flags get cleared by functions such as -ext2fs_new_inode() or ext2fs_new_block2(), we now make sure the -superblock is marked dirty and the block group descriptor checksum is -updated if necessary. - -The debian rules file will now try to load debian/rules.custom of it -exists. This flie can skip various builds for speed reasons if there -is no need for the e2fsck-static or udeb packages. Available -customizations in the rules file includes SKIP_STATIC=yes, -SKIP_BF=yes, and SKIP_DIETLIBC=yes. - -In addition, if the file misc/mke2fs.conf.custom.in exists in the -source tree, it will be used instead of the standard misc.conf file in -the upstream sources. This makes it easier for Debian-derived systems -to distribute a custom mke2fs.conf file without having to worry about -merge issues if future versions of e2fsprogs makes changes in the -upstream default version of mke2fs.conf. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012) -=================================== - -The mke2fs and e2fsck now use significantly less memory when creating -or checking very large file systems. This was enabled by adding -extent-based bitmaps which are stored using a red-block tree, since -block and inode allocations tend to be contiguous. - -The command mke2fs -S is used as a last ditch recovery command to -write new superblock and block group descriptors, but _not_ to destroy -the inode table in hopes of recovering from a badly corrupted file -system. So if the uninit_bg feature is enabled, mke2fs -S will now -set the unused inodes count field to zero. Otherwise, e2fsck -fy -after using mke2fs -S would leave the file system completely empty. - -Since mke2fs recognizes mke3fs in argv[0] to mean "mkfs.ext3", also -honor "mke4fs" to work the same as "mke2fs.ext4", since RHEL5 has -installed an mke2fs binary using that name. - -The usage and help messages for the -G, -t and -T options in mke2fs -have been fixed. - -If e2fsck needs to use the backup group descriptors, the -ext2fs_open2() function clears the UNINIT bits to ensure all of the -inodes in the file systems get scanned. However, the code which reset -the UNINIT flags did not also recalculate the checksum, which produced -many spurious (and scary) e2fsck messages. This has been fixed by -resetting cheksums when the UNINIT bits are cleared. - -Relax a check in e2fsck which required that the block bitmap to be -initialized when the inode bitmap is in use. This will allow us to -eventually eliminate code from the kernel which forcibly initialized -the block bitmap when the inode bitmap is first used, requiring an -extra journal credit and disk write. (Addresses Google Bug: #5944440) - -Make sure rdebugfs (which may be installed setuid or setgid disk) does -not honor environment variables if euid != uid or egid != gid. - -Debugfs's ncheck command has been optimized and now is much more -robust with faced with corrupted file systems. The ncheck command -also now has a -c option which will verify the file type information -in the directory entry to see if matches the inode's mode bits. This -is extremely useful when trying to use debugsfs to determine which -parts of the file system metadata can be trusted. - -E2image will try to use ftruncate64() to set the i_size for raw -images, instead of writing a single null byte. This avoid allocating -an extra block to the raw image, for those file systems and/or -operating systems that support this. (Linux does.) In addition, fix -a logic bug that caused the file to not be properly extended if the -size of the last hole was exactly an multiple of a megabyte. - -Fixed a bug in resize2fs where for 1k and 2k file systems, where -s_first_data_block is non-zero, this wasn't taken into account when -calculate the minimum file system size for use with the -M option. - -Fixed the badblocks program to honor the -s flag when in read-only -t -mode. (Addresses Debian Bug #646629) - -Update Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, and Sweedish translation from the -Translation Project. - -Fixed various Debian Packaging issues so that dpkg-buildflags is used -if present, which allows e2fsprogs to be built with security hardening -flags. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #654457) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix a bug in ext2fs_clear_generic_bmap() when used for 32-bit bitmaps. -This was only an issue for programs compiled against e2fsprogs 1.41 -that manipulate bitmaps directly. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs: -#3451486) - -The libext2fs library now uses sysconf() to fetch the page size, instead -of the deprecated getpagesize(). - -The ext2fs_get_pathname() function will return a partial path if an a -directory in the path is not a directory, displaying it as an inode -number in angle brackets instead of giving up and displaying an error. -This is much more helpful when a user is trying to debug a corrupted -file system. - -Codepoints for the RO_COMPAT_REPLICA feature has been reserved. - -Added a new library function, ext2fs_file_get_inode_num(), for use by -fuse2fs. - -Fixed a bug in ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that when it is truncating a -file, it actually works. - -The block iterator now properly honors the BLOCK_ABORT flag for -extent-based flags. Previously, it didn't, which generally made code -be less efficient, but it could cause bugs in ext2fs_link(), for -example, by causing it to insert multiple directory entries. - -Fixed an (harmless other than causing a compiler warning) use of an -uninitialized variable in e2fsck's MMP code. - - -E2fsprogs 1.42 (November 29, 2011) -================================== - -This release of e2fsprogs has support for file systems > 16TB. Online -resize requires kernel support which will hopefully be in Linux -version 3.2. Offline support is not yet available for > 16TB file -systems, but will be coming. - -This release of e2fsprogs has support for clustered allocation. This -reduces the number of block (now cluster) bitmaps by allocating and -deallocating space in contiguous power-of-2 collections of blocks, -which are called clustered. This is a file system level feature, -called 'bigalloc', which must be enabled when the file system is -initially formatted. It is not backwards compatible with older -kernels. - -Added support for the Multi-Mount Protection (MMP) feature. - -E2fsck more efficiently uses scratch files for really big file -systems. (This is a feature that has to be turned on explicitly; see -[scratch_files] in the e2fsck.conf man page.) - -Fix a bug in e2fsck where if the free blocks and inodes counts are -incorrect, e2fsck would fix them without printing an error message. -This would cause a "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***" message without -any explanation of what was fixed. - -E2fsck will no longer attempt to clone an extended attribute block in -pass1b handling if the file system does not support extended -attributes. - -E2fsck will be more careful accidentally asking the user to continue -if the file system is mounted, so that an escape sequence won't cause -a false positive. (Addresses Debian Bug: #619859) - -E2fsck now uses less cpu time in pass 5 when large portions of the -bitmaps are uninitialized. - -E2fsck will no longer segault when a corrupted file system has a bad -extent, and removing it leads to a block needing to be deallocated. -(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2971800) - -E2fsck will catch termination signals (segfaults, bus errors, sigfpe) -and print debugging information to make it easier to find potential -problems. - -E2fsck will check to see if the bad block inode looks insane, and will -skip trying to use if it certain fields which should be zero look -non-zero. This is to avoid a corrupted bad block inode causing e2fsck -to get confused and do more harm than good. - -If e2fsck modifies certain superblock fields which the kernel doesn't -look at, it will now mark the superblock as dirty without marking the -file system as changed. This avoids signalling the init scripts that -a reboot is necessary, since the kernel isn't going to look at those -fields, so it won't care if they have been changed. - -Fixed a bug in the libext2fs library (in the binary search routine of -the icount abstraction) that could (very, very rarely) cause e2fsck to -die in the middle of pass 1 or pass 2 processing. - -E2fsck will not try to do a discard operation if the -n option was -specified on the command line. - -E2fsck now supports an extended "discard" option which will cause -e2fsck to attempt discard all unused blocks after a full, successful -file system check. - -E2fsck will check for the bad block inode to make sure it looks sane -before trusting it, to avoid causing more harm than good to the file -system. - -E2fsck now returns additional status bits in its exit code if it -aborts early in the e2fsck run. - -E2fsck now correctly calculates the maximum file size in the case of -the huge_file file system feature enabled without extents. - -The mke2fs and e2fsck programs now tries to use the punch hole command -as a "discard" when operating on normal files. - -The e2image program now supports the qcow2 format, which is a more -efficient way of capturing file system dumps. - -Mke2fs now supports the [devices] stanza in mke2fs.conf which allows -per-device defaults to be specified in the configuration file. - -Mke2fs now supports the reserved_ratio relation in the [defaults] and -[fs_types] section in mke2fs.conf. - -Mke2fs now creates extent-mapped directories for the root and -lost+found directories. - -Mke2fs will skip zero'ing the journal if the extended option -"lazy_journal_init" is specified. This can save a lot of time, but it -does add a small amount of risk if the system crashes before the -journal is overwritten entirely once. It is epsecially useful for -testing. - -Mke2fs will now create file systems that enable user namespace -extended attributes and with time- and mount count-based file -system checks disabled. - -Mke2fs will not set a stride or strip size of one block based on block -device attributes obtained from sysfs. - -Mke2fs now displays a progress report during the discard process. - -Mke2fs now handles extreme file system parameters correctly which -previously caused the inodes per group to drop below 8, leading to a -segfault. (The inodes per group must be a multiple of 8, but the code -didn't correctly deal with an inodes per group count less than 8.) - -Mke2fs and tune2fs previously would give an error if the user tried -setting the stride and stripe-width parameters to zero; but this is -necessary to disable the stride and stripe-width settings. So allow -setting these superblock fields to zero. (Addresses Google Bug: -#4988557) - -Mke2fs now gives a warning if the auto-detected block size exceeds the -system's page size. - -If the enable_periodic_fsck option is false in /etc/mke2fs.conf (which -is the default), mke2fs will now set the s_max_mnt_count superblock -field to -1, instead of 0. Kernels older then 3.0 will print a -spurious message on each mount then they see a s_max_mnt_count set to -0, which will annoy users. (Addresses Debian Bug: #632637) - -The default mke2fs.conf now has entries for "big" and "huge", which -are needed for very big file systems. - -The resize2fs program now has support for a new online resize ioctl -that can support file systems > 16TB, once it arrives in v3.x kernels. - -Fixed bug which caused resize2fs to fail when shrinking an empty file -system down to its minimal size. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #3404051) - -Fixed tune2fs's mount options parsing. (Addresses Debian Bug: #641667) - -Allow tune2fs to remove external journals if the device can not be -found. - -Debugfs's icheck will now correctly find inodes which use the -searched-for block as an extended attribute block. - -Debugfs now has a new "punch" command which remove blocks from the -middle of an inode. - -Debugfs now has a new "e2freefrag" command which analyzes the free -space fragmentation of the file system, using the same code as the -e2freefrag program. - -Debugfs now has a "filefrag" command which displays information about -a file's fragmentation. - -Add support to build a metadata-only, read-only, stripped-down version -of debugfs called rdebugfs. - -Fixed a potential stack overrun bug in debugfs. - -The badblocks program now correctly recovers from I/O errors when -direct I/O is being used. The badblocks command now also supports a --B option which forces the use of buffered I/O, and the -v option will -provide a more detailed breakdown of read, write, and failed -comparison errors. - -Added e4defrag tool which uses the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl. - -Added support for journals larger than 2GB. - -Support using both hard links and symlinks when installing e2fsprogs. - -Add overflow checking to tune2fs -i's fsck interval, which must fit in -a 32-bit field. - -The debugfs command now has a new 'blocks' command which prints out -data blocks of a particular inode in a format which is useful for -scripting. - -Filefrag will report 0 extents correctly in verbose mode. (Addresses -RedHat Bugzilla: #653234) - -Filefrag has been fixed so its -v report prints the correct expected -block number (previously there had been an off-by-one error). In -addition, it will now display the number of contiguous extents when -v -is not specified. This makes it consistent with the number of extents -printed when the -v option was specified. In addition, the number of -contiguous extents is far more interesting/useful than the number of -physical extents for very large files. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#631498, #644792) - -Logsave's usage message has been fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#619788) - -Avoid an infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block_device() if there are -symlink loops in /dev caused by a buggy udev. - -Added a useful "fallocate" program to the contrib directory. - -Fixed an ABI compatibility problem in libext2fs which broke the dump -program. Also added back some macros which dump needed so it could -compile against the latest version of ext2_fs.h (Addresses Debian Bug: -#636418) - -Fixed parsing of MNTOPT_ options for tune2fs and debugfs (Addresses -Debian Bug: #641667) - -Added internationalization support for libcom_err error table strings. - -Fixed various spelling mistakes found in various output strings found -by I18N translators. - -Update translations: French, Chinese, Germany, Indonesian, Swedish, -Vietnamese, Polish, Dutch, Czech. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #520985, -#620659) - -Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. (Addresses Debian Bugs: -#614662, #632169, #641838, #627535, #629355) - -Updated/clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #639411, -#642193, #634883) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Initial support for quota as an integrated feature, where the quota -files are hidden system files that are automatically maintained by -e2fsck is present, although disabled by default. It must be enabled -by using the configure option --enable-quota. - -Reserved the on-disk fields for the metadata checksum and snapshot -features, which are currently in development. - -The ext2fs library now has the new functions ext2fs_punch(), -ext2fs_get_memzero() and ext2fs_file_get_inode(). - -The ext2fs library now has support for calculating the crc32c checksum -(via the new functions ext2fs_crc32c_be and ext2fs_crc32c_le). - -The I/O manager now supports the discard operation. - -Reserved file system code points for new 1st class quota feature. - -Shortened the compilation lines by moving the autoconf defines to -a config.h header file. - -Fixed a potential free of an unitialized pointer in -ext2fs_update_bb_inode(). - -Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall and coverity warnings. - -Fixed portability issues for Mac OS X, Hurd, and FreeBSD. - -Fixed a build failure when OMIT_COM_ERR is defined. - -Improved error checking and fixed memory leaks caused by error return -paths. - -Add ext2fs_flush2() and ext2fs_close2() which takes a flag to allow -the fsync() to be skipped. - -Added a test for extent-mapped journals by mke2fs and tune2fs. - -Added a test for creating a large (over 4GB) journal using mke2fs. - -Added a test to make sure the inode size remains constant. - -The regression test script now prints the list of which tests failed. - -The regression test system now uses /tmp for its scratch files, which -is often a tmpfs mounted file system and hence much faster. - -The i_e2image test was fixed so it works with valgrind. - -Tests that rely on debugfs are now skipped if debugfs wasn't built. - -Fixed the dependencies for "make check" so all required dependencies -are built before running the gression tests. - -A link to com_err.h is installed in $(includedir) during a "make install". - -The po/*.gmo files are automatically rebuilt if they are missing or -out of date. This helps out Debian packaging. - -Allow ext2fs_get_memalign() to compile on systems that don't have -posix_memalign(). - -Fixed a namespace leak in libext2fs (tdb_null). - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.14 (December 22, 2010) -===================================== - -Fix spurious complaint in mke2fs where it would complain if the file -system type "default" is not defined in mke2fs.conf. - -The resize2fs program will no longer clear the resize_inode feature -when the number reserved group descriptor blocks reaches zero. This -allows for subsequent shrinks of the file system to work cleanly for -flex_bg file systems. - -The resize2fs program now handles devices which are exactly 16T; -previously it would give an error saying that the file system was too -big. - -E2fsck (and the libext2fs library) will not use the extended rec_len -encoding for file systems whose block size is less than 64k, for -consistency with the kernel. - -Programming notes ------------------ - -E2fsprogs 1.41.13 would not compile on big-endian systems. This has -been fixed. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3138115) - -The ext2fs_block_iterator2() function passed an incorrect ref_offset -to its callback function in the case of sparse files. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug: #3081087) - -Fix some type-punning warnings generated by newer versions of gcc. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.13 (December 13, 2010) -===================================== - -E2fsck now supports the extended option "-E journal_only", which -causes it to only do a journal replay. This is useful for scripts -that want to first replay the journal and then check to see if it -contains errors. - -E2fsck will now support UUID= and LABEL= specifiers for the -j option -(which specifies where to find the external journal). (Addresses -Debian Bug #559315) - -E2fsck now has support for the problems//force_no -configuration option in e2fsck.conf, which forces a problem to not be -fixed. - -Dumpe2fs will now avoid printing large negative offsets for the bitmap -blocks and instead print a message which is a bit more helpful for -flex_bg file systems. - -Mke2fs will now check the file system type (specified with the -t -option) to make sure it is defined in the mke2fs.conf file; if it is -not, it will print an error and abort. If the usage type (specified -with the -T option) is not defined in mke2fs.conf, mke2fs will print a -warning but will continue. (Addresses Debian Bug #594609) - -Clarified error message from resize2fs clarifying that on-line -shrinking is not supported at all. (Addresses Debian Bug #599786) - -Fix an e2fsck bug that could cause a PROGRAMMING BUG error to be -displayed. (Addresses Debian Bug #555456) - -E2fsck will open the external journal in exclusive mode, to prevent -the journal from getting truncated while it is in use due to a user -accidentally trying to run e2fsck on a snapshotted file system volume. -(Addresses Debian Bug #587531) - -Fix a bug in e2fsck so it has the correct test for the EOFBLOCKS_FL -flag. - -The tune2fs program can now set the uninit_bg feature without -requiring an fsck. - -The tune2fs, dumpe2fs, and debugfs programs now support the new ext4 -default mount options settings which were added in 2.6.35. - -The e2fsck and dumpe2fs programs now support the new ext4 superblock -fields which track where and when the first and most recent file -system errors occurred. These fields are displayed by dumpe2fs and -cleared by e2fsck. These new superblock fields were added in 2.6.36. - -Debugfs now uses a more concicse format for listing extents in its -stat command. This format also includes the interior extent tree -blocks, which previously was missing from stat's output for -extent-based files. - -Debugfs has a new option, -D, which will request Direct I/O access of -the file system. - -Mke2fs will skip initializing the inode table if a device supports -discard and the discard operation will result in zero'ed blocks. - -Badblocks will now correctly backspace over UTF-8 characters when -displaying its progress bar. (Addresses Gentoo Bug #309909; Addresses -Debian Bugs #583782 and #587834) - -E2freefrag will now display the total number of free extents. - -Resize2fs -P no longer requires a freshly checked filesystem before -printing the minimum resize size. - -Fixed a floating point precision error in a binary tree search routine -that can lead to seg fault in e2fsck and resize2fs. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck where if both the original and backup superblock -are invalid in some way, e2fsck will fail going back to the original -superblock because it didn't close the backup superblock first, and -the exclusive open prevented the file system from being reopened. - -Fixed a big in e2freefrag which caused getopt parsing to fail on -architectures with unsigned chars. (Addresses Gentoo Bug: #299386) - -Clarified an mke2fs error message so a missed common in an -E option -(i.e., mke2fs -t ext4 -E stride=128 stripe-width=512 /dev/sda1") -results in a more understandable explanation to the user. - -Mke2fs now displays the correct valid inode ratio range when -complaining about an invalid inode ratio specified by the user. - -Mke2fs now understands the extended option "discard" and "nodiscard", -and the older option -K is deprecated. The default of whether -discards are enabled by default can be controled by the mke2fs.conf -file. - -Mke2fs's handling of logical and physical sector sizes has been -improved to reflect the fact that there will be some SSD's with 8k and -16k physical sectors arriving soon. Mke2fs will no longer force block -size to be the physical sector size, since there will be devices where -the physical sector size is larger than the system's page size, and -hence larger than the maximal supported block size. In addition, if -the minimal and optimal io size are not exported by the device, and -the physical sector size is larger than the block size, the physical -sector size will be used to set the Raid I/O optimization hints in the -superblock. - -E2fsck will now display a better, more specific error message when the -user enters a typo'ed device name, instead of blathering on about -alternate superblocks. - -Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues - -Updated/clarified man pages (Addresses Debian Bugs: #580236, #594004, -#589345, #591083; Addresses Launchpad Bug: #505719) - -Update the Chinese, Chzech, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian, -Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations. - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix a dependency definition for the static and profiled blkid -libraries which could cause compile failures in some configurations. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #604629) - -Add support for Direct I/O in the Unix I/O access layer. - -Fixed a memory leak in the Unix I/O layer when changing block sizes. - -Fixed minor memory leaks in mke2fs. - -Added a new function to the ext2fs library, ext2fs_get_memalign(). - -The tst_super_size test program will check to make sure the superblock -fields are correctly aligned and will print them out so they can be -manually checked for correctness. - -Fixed some makefile dependencies for test programs in lib/ext2fs. - -Reserved the feature flags and superblock fields needed for the Next3 -snapshot feature. - -Reserved the feature flags for EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_DIRDATA and -EXT4_INCOMPAT_EA_INODE. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.12 (May 17, 2010) -================================ - -Mke2fs now gives a correct error message if the external journal -device is not found. (Addresses Red Hat Bug #572935) - -Resize2fs -P will now refuse to print a minimum size if the file -system is not clean. Previously it would go ahead and print a minimum -size anyway, which might not be correct, leading to user confusion. - -E2fsck now tests for extents that begin at physical block 0 and -rejects them as invalid. (Addresses Google Bug: #2573806) - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause it to crash when trying to -remove an invalid extent and the block bitmaps hadn't yet been loaded. -(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2971800) - -E2fsck now will completely skip time-based checks if the system clock -looks insane or the option broken_system_clock is set in -/etc/e2fsck.conf. - -E2fsck would previously report an i_blocks corruption for a 4T file -created using posix_fallocate; this bug has been fixed. - -E2fsck will now correctly mark a sparse journal as invalid and will -delete and recreate the journal to address the problem. - -E2fsck would previously incorrectly ask the user whether she would -like to abort the file system check after finding a problem --- and -then abort regardless of the user's answer. This is annoying, and -has been fixed. - -E2fsck can now continue even if it fails to recreate the resize -inode; previously it would just abort the file system check -altogether. - -E2fsck could potentially remove directory entries for inodes found in -the unused region of the inode table; this would generally happen on -ext4 file systems that do not use journaling. This bug has been fixed -by not clearing these directory entries once it has been established -that bg_unused_inodes may not be trustworthy; once pass #2 has been -completed, e2fsck will restart the file system check from the -beginning, and then it will be safe to delete any directory entries -pointing to inodes that appear to be deleted. (Addresses Google Bug: -#2642165) - -E2fsck will not try to set the block group checksums if the user -cancels the fsck with a control-C. It's a bad idea to set the -checksums if e2fsck hasn't been completed, and it often results an the -error message, "Inode bitmap not loaded while setting block group -checksum info". (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #582035) - -The mke2fs program now queries the kernel for the physical as well as -the logical sector size, and will not allow a blocksize below the -logical, and will strongly encourage a blocksize at least as big as -the physical blocksize. This is needed for 4k sector drives that -emulate 512 byte sector sizes. - -Mke2fs will now allow a flex_bg size of 1. This is unusual, and -rarely needed, but it is a legal value. - -E2fsck will check for cases where the EOFBLOCKS_FL is set when it is -not needed, and offer to clear it; this is a sign of a kernel bug, but -more importantly, some released kernels may crash when this situation -is encountered on ext4 file systems. (Addresses Google Bug: #2604224) - -E2fsck will use the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag exclusively to check whether -i_size is correct. (Kernels starting with 2.6.34 will set -EOFBLOCKS_FL.) - -The com_err library will now only output ^M (a CR character) when the -tty is in raw mode. - -Update the Czech, Chinese, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian, Polish, -and Vietnamese translations. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #571247, #563487) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -The regression test suite now uses its own mke2fs.conf file, so that -downstream distributions want change the mke2fs.conf file which is -distributed in the RPM or dpkg file, without worrying about screwing -up the regression test results. - -Always build namei.o so that building with configure --disable-debugfs -works correctly. Long-term, if we care about reduced e2fsprogs -builds, we need a more general solution for deciding what .o files are -needed for a particular build. Given that install floppies are going -(gone?) the way the dodo bird, we probably don't care, though. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2911433) - -Add configure options --enable-symlink-build and ---enable-symlink-install, which allow e2fsprogs be built using -symlinks instad of hard links, and to be installed using symlinks -instead of hard links, respectively. It is useful when the file -system where the build is taking place, or the file system where -e2fsprogs is installed, can't handle hard links for some reason. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1436294) - -Fixed compile warning in mke2fs.c. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.11 (March 14, 2010) -================================== - -E2fsck will no longer give a fatal error and abort if the physical -device has been resized beyond 2**32 blocks. (Addresses Launchpad -Bug: #521648) - -Debugfs has a bug fixed so that "logdump -b " now properly shows -the allocation status of the block . (Addresses Debian Bug: -#564084) - -E2fsck now prints a much more emphatic and hopefully scary message -when a file system is detected as mounted while doing a read/write -check of the filesystem. Hopefully this will dissuade users from -thinking, "surely that message doesn't apply to *me*" :-( - -E2fsck -n will now always open the file system read-only. We now -disallow certain combination of options which previously were manual -exceptions; this is bad because it causes users to think they are -smarter than they really are. So "-n -c", "-n -l", "-n -L", and "-n --D" are no longer supported. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #537483) - -In e2fsprogs 1.41.10, mke2fs would ask for confirmation to proceed if -it detected a badly aligned partition. Unfortunately, this broke some -distribution installation scripts, so it now just prints the warning -message and proceeds. (Addresses Red Hat Bug: #569021. Addresses -Launchpad Bug: #530071) - -Mke2fs would take a long time to create very large journal files for -ext4. This was caused by a bug in ext2fs_block_iterate2(), which is -now fixed. - -E2fsck now understands the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag which will be used in -2.6.34 kernels to make e2fsck not complain about blocks deliberately -fallocated() beyond an inode's i_size. - -E2fsprogs 1.41.10 introduced a regression (in commit b71e018) where -e2fsck -fD can corrupt non-indexed directories when are exists one or -more file names which alphabetically sort before ".". This can happen -with ext2 filesystems or for small directories (take less than a lock) -which contain filenames that begin with a space or some other -punctuation mark. (Addresses Debian Bug: #573923, Addresses Launchpad -Bug: #525114) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Add new test, f_rehash_dir, which checks to make sure e2fsck -D works -correctly. - -The libcom_err function now has support for Heimdal's com_right_r -function(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2963865, Addresses Debian -Bug: #558910) - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 7, 2010) -==================================== - -Fix resize2fs bug which causes it to access invalid memory. - -Add libss support for libreadline.so.6. - -Fix e2fsck's check for extent-mapped directory with an incorrect file -type. - -Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock -to support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks. Also, since too -many distributions seem to have broken virtualization scripts now, -e2fsck will by default accept dates which are off by up to 24 hours by -default. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #559776, #557636) - -Fix a bug where mke2fs may not use the best placement of the inode -table when there is only room for a single block group in the last -flex_bg. - -E2fsck is now smarter when it needs to allocate blocks in the course -of fixing file system problems. This reduces the number of spurious -differences found in pass #5. - -E2fsck will no longer rehash directories which fit in a single -directory block. - -E2fsck now correctly handles holes in extent-mapped directories (i.e., -sparse directories which use extents). - -Fix big-endian problems with ext2fs_bmap() and ext2fs_bmap2(). - -Fix a bug in filefrag where on platforms which can allow file systems -with 8k blocks, that it doesn't core dump when it sees a file system -with 8k block sizes. (Thanks to Mikulas Patocka for pointing this -out.) - -E2fsck will correctly fix directories that are have an inaccurate -i_size as well as other problems in a single pass, instead of -requiring two e2fsck runs before the file system is fully fixed. - -Fix e2fsck so it will correctly find and detect duplicate directory -entries for non-indexed directories. ( Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#2862551) - -Mke2fs will use BLKDISCARD to pre-discard all blocks on an SSD or -thinly-provisioned storage device. This can be disabled using the -K -option. - -Enhance libext2fs so it works around bug in Linux version 2.6.19 -and earlier where the /proc/swaps file was missing the header on -the first line. - -Fix bug in Linux version 2.6.19 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file -was missing the header on the first line. - -Fix some big-endian bugs in e2fsck and libext2fs. - -Fix resize2fs so it works correctly on file systems with external -journals instead of failing early with the error "Illegal inode -number". - -Fix libss so that it does not seg fault when using a readline library -which does not supply a readline_shutdown() function. - -Updated dumpe2fs's usage message so it correctly gives the right -arguments summary for "-o superblock=" and "-o blocksize=". -(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #448099) - -Teach libext2fs to ignore the high 32 bits of the i_blocks field -when huge_file file system feature is set, but the inode does not -have the HUGE_FILE_FL flag set. - -Fix e2fsck's handling of 64-bit i_blocks fields. - -E2fsck will now print "Illegal indirect block", "Illegal -double-indirect block", etc., instead of "Illegal block #-1" or -"Illegal block #-2", etc. This makes it easier for users to -understand what has gone wrong. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2871782) - -Mke2fs now will obtain get device topology information from blkid and -use it to populate the superblock stride and stripe sizes. It will -also warn if the block device is misaligned - -Fix file descriptor leaks in fsck and debugfs. (Addresses Novell Bug: -##524526) - -Fix the libext2fs library code to round up the bitmap size to a 4-byte -boundary, to prevent spurious seg faults caused by the x86 -architecture. This doesn't affect Linux systems, but was a major -problem on a number of *BSD systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#2328708) - -Fix resize2fs's minimum size required for a file system so it doesn't -fail when "resize2fs -M" is run. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #519131) - -Dumpe2fs now prints summary information about the contents of the -journal. - -Avoid printing scary error messages when e2fsck starts running -problems on low-memory systems, as it tends to panic and mislead the -user. (Addresses Debian Bug: #509529) - -Fix blkid's modules.dep parser so it handles compressed (.ko.gz) -modules files. (Address Red Hat Bug: #518572) - -Fix tune2fs so it can add a journal when an extent-enabled file system -is mounted. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #416648) - -Update Czech, Indonesian, Polish and Vietnamese translations (from the -Translation Project). - -Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2822186) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #540111) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -The configure script supports the --with-cc, --with-ccopts, and ---with-ldopts options. Instead, the more standard use of CC=, -CCFLAGS=, and LDFLAGS= in the configure command line is used instead. -Also, --with-ld, which never worked, was also removed. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2843248) - -The in-tree header files are only used if the in-tree uuid or blkid -libraries are used. Otherwise, use the system-provided uuid or blkid -header files if using the system-provided libraries. - -Fix some build failures caused by --disable-* configure options. - -Work around a bug in autoconf 2.64. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.9 (August 22, 2009) -================================== - -Fix a bug in e2fsck routines for reallocating an inode table which -could cause it to loop forever on an ext4 filesystem with the FLEX_BG -filesystem feature with a relatively rare (and specific) filesystem -corruption. This fix causes e2fsck to try to find space for a new -portion of the inode table in the containing flex_bg, and if that -fails, the new portion of the inode table will be allocated in any -free space available in the filesystem. - -Make e2fsck less annoying by only asking for permission to relocate a -block group's inode table once, instead of for every overlapping -block. Similarly, only ask once to recompute the block group -checksums, instead of once for each corrupted block group's checksum. - -Fix filefrag to avoid print the extent header if the FIEMAP ioctl is -not present, and it needs to fall back to using the FIBMAP ioctl. - -Fix filefrag to correctly print the number of extents for zero-length -files. (Addresses Debian Bug: #540376) - -Filefrag now has a -B option which forces the use of the FIBMAP ioctl -to more easily debug the FIBMAP code. - -Fixed filefrag for non-extent based files. - -Add a new program, e2freefrag, which displays information about the -free space fragmentation in an ext2/3/4 filesystem. - -Fix inode resizing via tune2fs -I so that it works correctly in the -face of non-empty bad blocks inodes, and if the filesystem was -formatted using the "mke2fs -E stride=N" option for RAID arrays. - -Fix regression in ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() caused e2fsck -fD to fail -and corrupt large directories if the directory needs to shrink by more -than one block. (Addresses Debian Bug: #537510) - -Fix e2fsck's buggy_init_scritps=1 so that the if the last write and/or -last mount times are in the future, they are corrected even if -buggy_init_scripts is set. This is needed because otherwise resize2fs -will refuse to resize the filesystem, even after running "e2fsck -f". -(Addresses Launchpad bug: #373409) - -E2fsck will now print much fuller information when the last mount time -or last written time is in the future, since most people can't seem to -believe their distribution has buggy init scripts, or they have a -failed CMOS/RTS clock battery. - -Enhance dumpe2fs to dump the extent information via the 'stat' -command, and more detailed extent information via the new command -'dump_extents'. - -Update French, Polish, Czech, and Sweedish translation from the -Translation Project. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall warnings. - -Fixed memory leak in error path in ext2fs_block_iterate2() - -Fixed non-Linux build of the intl directory by adding support for the -E/Q/V macros. - -The bitmap read/write functions now treat uninitialized bitmaps as -unallocated; this fixes a number of problems in all e2fsprogs for ext4 -filesystems when there is a need to allocate new blocks or inodes, and -there aren't any free blocks or inodes in the already-used block -groups. - -Improve ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() to avoid creating new extents which -get inserted into the extent tree when they are not needed. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.8 (July 11, 2009) -================================ - -Fix resize2fs's online resizing, fixing a regression which in -e2fpsrogs 1.41.7. (Addresses Debian Bug: #535452) - -Fix potential filesystem corruptions caused by using resize2fs to -shrinking ext4 filesystems with extents enabled. (Addresses Red Hat -Bug: #510379) - -Optimize uuid_generate() to avoid running uuidd if it is not setuid or -setgid and the currently running program doesn't have write access to -the uuidd work directory. - -Add safety checks (for non-Linux systems) so that uuidd isn't run with -file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 closed; and if they are closed, uuidd -will be careful not to close the file descriptor for its unix domain -socket when it detaches itself from the controlling tty. Also add -safety checks so that if the unix domain socket between the uuid -library and uuidd program is closed for any reason, both the library -and the uuidd will return an appropriate error code instead of looping -in an infinite loop. - -The e2croncheck script, which creates an LVM snapshot and then checks -the ext3/4 filesystem via the LVM snapshot, has been added to the -contrib directory. - -Fix filefrag program for files that have more than 144 extents. - -Update French, Polish, Czech, Indonsian, and Sweedish translation from -the Translation Project. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bug #535530) - -Update/clarify man pages. - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix compilation problem when configured with --disable-uuid. - -Don't build uuidgen if configured with --disable-uuid. - -Add the new library function ext2fs_test_inode_bitmap_range(), and -optimized ext2fs_test_block_bitmap_range(), which will be needed for -future optimizations for e2fsck. - -Fix makefile dependencies for libcom_err so that the Makefiles work -well on non-GNU make program. (Addresses Sourceforge Patches: #2813809) - -Enhance the build system so that the full set of commands executed by -the Makefiles are displayed, instead of the Linux kernel summary -output, if the build was configured with --enable-verbose-makecmds, or -if GNU make is in use and the V variable is non-null, i.e., via "make -V=1". - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.7 (June 29, 2009) -================================ - -Fix a bug in libext2fs which can cause e2fsck and resize2fs to write -uninitalized data into the portion of the inode beyond the first 128 -bytes when operating on inodes mapped via extents; potentially -corrupting filesystems. - -Fix memory leaks in e2fsprogs, including a very large memory leak -which can cause e2fsck to run out of memory when checking very large -filesystems using extents. - -The logsave program will now filter out the ^A and ^B characters when -writing to the console. - -Harden ext2fs_validate_entry() so that lsdel will not read beyond the -end of the block even if the directory block is corrupted. - -Fix debugfs from core dumping if the logdump command fails to open the -output file. - -Enhance badblocks to print the currently tested block number when -interrupted with ^C. - -Fix lsattr to exit with a non-zero status when it encounters errors. -(Addresses RedHat Bugzilla #489841) - -Fix e2fsprogs to use the same encoding for rec_len in 64k (and larger) -filesystems as the kernel when encoding rec_len >= 64k. For 64k -filesystems (currently all that is supported by e2fsprogs, this is -only a minor corner case). - -Resize2fs will now update the journal backup fileds in the sup0erblock -if the journal is moved; this avoids an unnecessary full fsck after -resizing the filesystem. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #505339) - -Fix libext2fs to properly initialize i_extra_size when creating the -journal and resize inodes. - -Change badblocks to allow block sizes larger than 4k. - -Fix filefrag progam so it correctly checks for errors from the fiemap ioctl. - -Update Chinese and Czech translation from the Translation Project. - -Clean up various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug #531385 and #523063) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Add --disable-libuuid option to configure which uses an in-system -installed version of libuuid; the private version is enabled by -default. - -Add --valgrind-leakcheck option to the test_script program which runs -valgrind with the appropriate options to find memory leaks. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.6 (May 30, 2009) -=============================== - -Fix a critical regression in e2fsck introduced version 1.41.5 which -can undo updates to the block group descriptors after a journal replay. - -If e2fsck receives an I/O error while replaying the journal, prompt -the user whether they want to ignore the error or not; if e2fsck is -run in preen mode, force fsck to abort the preen pass. - -Fix a bug which would cause e2fsck to core dump if the filesystem -contains a corrupt extent header, and the user declines to clear the -inode. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2791794) - -Fix e2fsck to restart only once in the case of multiple block groups -which inodes in use that are in the uninitialized part of the block -group's inode table. - -To reduce user confusion, if the /etc/mtab file is missing -ext2fs_check_mount_point and ext2fs_check_if_mounted will return a -new, explicit error code to indicate this case. This will cause -e2fsck to give a clearer error message when the user is using buggy -rescue CD's that don't properly set up /etc/mtab. (Addresses Debian -Bug: #527859) - -Fix e2fsck so that if the primary group descriptors are corrupted, but -the backup superblock is entirely invalid, to go back to using (and -fixing) the priary group descriptors instead of completely giving up -on the filesystem. (Addresses Debian Bug: #516820) - -Change e2fsck to not abort a preen pass if an inode is found to have -i_file_acl_hi non-zero. Ext3 filesystems don't care, and newer -kernels (post 2.6.29) will ignore this field. So let's fix it -automatically during the preen pass instead of forcing the user to fix -this up manually. (Addresses Debian Bug: #526524) - -Add resource tracking for e2fsck passes 1b through 1d. - -Speed up e2fsck by eliminating unnecessary journal checks if the -filesystem is already mounted and doesn't need recovery (since the -kernel would have run the journal when the filesystem was mounted.) -Also speed up e2fsck by avoiding unnecessary block group descriptor -updates in ext2fs_close(). - -Add support to chattr to migrate inodes from using direct/indirect -blocks to extents. - -Avoid corrupting the filesystem if there is an attempt to shrink a -filesystem using resize2fs smaller than posible by making -ext2fs_set_bmap() more careful not to delete the old block until the -new block can be inserted. In addition, fix a bug in how the minimum -size of the filesystem (plus a safety margin) is calculated, and -modify resize2fs to refuse to shrink the filesystem below that minimum -size without the force flag. - -Teach blkid to try to figure out DM device names using take advantage -of information in sysfs when running on kernels (2.6.29 and later) -which provide this information in /sys/block/dm-/dm/name; this is -much faster than scanning for the devncie number in /dev/mapper. - -Fix blkid to prefer /dev/mapper/ device names instad of the -private /dev/dm-X names. - -Add an -a option to debugfs's close_filesys command which writes any -changes to the superblock or block group descriptors to all of the -backup superblock locations. - -Add support to the filefrag program to use the FIEMAP ioctl. - -Update Chinese translation from the Translation Project. - -Clean up various man pages. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #502971 and -Launchpad Bug: #381854) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bug #506064) - - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Add test code to make sure e2fsck's problem.c doesn't have two problem -codes assigned to duplicate values. - -Avoid using a hard-coded path for /bin/rm in block's test_probe.in. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2780205) - -Clean up e2fsck by removing #ifdef RESOURCE_TRACK by adding an empty -function declaration for init_resource_track() and -print_resource_track() when RESOURCE_TRACK is not defined. - -The test code which is used to build the tst_csum progam has been -moved from from tst_csum.c into csum.c under an #ifdef DEBUG to to -avoid compile problems caused by not having a prototype for -ext2fs_group_desc_csum(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #2484331) - -Update the config.guess and config.sub file to the latest from the -FSF, to allow e2fsprogs to build on the avr32 platform. (Addresses -Debian Bug: #528330) - -Add a new function, ext2fs_extent_open2(), which behaves like -pext2fs_extent_open(), but uses the user-supplied inode structure -when opening an extent instead of reading the inode from disk. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.5 (April 23, 2009) -================================= - -Fix a number of filesystem corruption bugs in resize2fs when growing -or shrinking ext4 filesystems off-line (i.e., when the ext4 filesystem -is not mounted). - -Debugfs can now set i_file_acl_high via the set_inodes_field command, -and print a 64-bit file acl. This is useful for debugging filesystem -corruptions where the high bits of i_file_acl_high are set. E2fsck -will detect and fix non-zero i_file_acl_high on 32-bit filesystems -since some Linux kernel versions pay attention to this field even when -they shouldn't. - -Speed up e2fsck when checking clean filesystems by avoiding -unnecessary block reads, and coalescing the block group descriptor -blocks so they are read using a single read operation. - -The libuuid library will now close all file descriptors before running -uuidd. This avoids problems when the calling program has open sockets -which then never get closed because uuidd is a long-running helper -daeomn. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #305057) - -In order to avoid unnecessary full filesystem checks by e2fsck after -an on-line resize, e2fsck will ignore the NEEDS_RECOVERY flag set on -the backup superblocks. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #471925) - -Mke2fs will avoid trying to create the journal when run in -superblock-only mode (mke2fs -S), since the left-over journal in the -inode table will cause mke2fs to fail. - -Fix a bug in libext2fs functions that check to see if a particular -device or filesystem image is mounted, which would cause these -functions to report that a file identical to the (relative) pathname -used by a pseudo-filesystem was mounted when in fact it was not. - -Update Czech translation from the Translation Project. - -Add Chinese (simplified) translation from the Translation Project. - -Fix support for external journals (which was broken in e2fsprogs -1.41.4). - -Fix a regression in debugfs where the "stat" command when no -filesystem was open would cause debugfs to crash with a segmentation -violation. - -Starting in the 2.6.29 linux kernel, the ext4 filesystem driver can be -used to support filesystems without a journal. Update the blkid -library so it understands this. - -The blkid library will remove an entry from the blkid cache -representing the entire disk if partitions are found, since presuambly -the device previously had no partition table, but has now transitioned -to using a partition table. - -Add a check to mke2fs and tune2fs that the argument to the -m option -(which specifies the reserved ratio) must be greater than zero. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #517015) - -Add support for tracking the number kilobytes written to the -filesystem via the superblock field s_kbytes_written. It will be -updated by the kernel as well as by e2fsprogs programs which write to -the filesystem. This is useful for tracking the wear to filesystems -on Solid Sstate Drives. - -Fix compatibility issue in the libext2fs info file and makeinfo -version 4.12. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #481620) - -Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #515693, #365619) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #506279) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix Hurd compilation problem in e2fsck and tune2fs (Addresses Debian -Bug: #521602) - -Fix various gcc compilation warnings and other programming cleanups. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #486997) - -Add support for building the blkid command statically. - -Add support for disabling the built-in blkid library in favor of a -system-installed blkid implementation via the configure option ---disable-libblkid. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.4 (January 27, 2009) -=================================== - -Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause blkid to return an exit value -of zero for a non-existent device (Addresses Debian Bug: #502541) - -Blkid will now recognize ext3 filesystems that have the test_fs flag -set as ext3 filesystems. - -The blkid library will now recognize btrfs filesystems and swap -devices currently used by user-level software suspend. - -Tune2fs now updates the block group checksums when changing the UUID -to avoid causing e2fsck to complain vociferously at the next reboot. - -Tune2fs's inode size resizing algorithms have been fixed so it is not -vastly inefficient for moderate-to-large filesystems, due to some -O(n**2) and O(n*m) algorithms that didn't scale well at all. - -Fix tune2fs's inode resizing algorithm so it will not corrupt -filesystems laid out for RAID filesystems; in addition, tune2fs will -refuse to change the inode size for filesystems that have the flex_bg -feature enabled. (This is a limitation in the current implementation -of tune2fs -I.) - -E2fsprogs 1.41 broke debugfs's logdump command for normal ext3/4 -filesystems with 32-bit block numbers, when the headers for 64-bit -block numbers was added. This regression has been fixed. - -Debugfs's ncheck command has been fixed to avoid printing garbage -characters at the end of file names. - -Fix resize2fs for ext4 filesystems. Some blocks that that need moving -when shrinking filesystems with uninit_bg feature would not be moved. -In addition, blocks and inode table blocks were not being correctly -freed when shrinking filesystems with the flex_bg feable, which caused -resize2fs -M to fail. Finally, when blocks are moved, make sure the -uninitialized flag in extents is preserved. - -Fix bug which caused dumpe2fs to abort with an error if run on a -filesystem that contained an external journal. - -Some distributions used "mke3fs" as an alias for "mkfs.ext3"; check -for this in argv[0] to provide better legacy support for these -distributions. This is a practice that should NOT be continued, -however. - -Mke2fs now has a new option -U, which allows the user to specify the -UUID that should be used for the new filesystem. - -Mke2fs will treat devices that are exactly 16TB as if they were 16TB -minus one block. This allows users who have read that ext3 supports -up to 16TB filesystems and who create a 16TB LVM to not get confused, -since the true limit is really 16TB minus one block. - -E2fsck will no longer abort an fsck run if block group has an errant -INODE_UNINIT flag. - -E2fsck now distinguishes between fragmented directories and fragmented -files in verbose mode statistics and in the fragcheck report. - -Fix a bug in e2fsck which casued it double count non-contiguous -extent-based inodes. - -E2fsck will leave some slack space when repacking directories to allow -room for a few directory entries to be added without causing leaf -nodes to be split right away. - -Fix a bug which caused e2fsck to crash when it comes across a -corrupted interior node in an extent tree with the error message: -"Error1: Corrupt extent header on inode XXXXXX" - -E2fsck problem descriptions involving the journal are no longer -referred to as "ext3" problems, since ext4 filesystems also have -journals. - -Fix a long-standing bug in e2fsck which would cause it to crash when -replying journals for filesystems with block sizes greater than 8k. - -Update Catalan translation from the Translation Project. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #503057, #502323, #511207) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix build of e2fsck.profiled, and add support for building profiled -binaries in the misc directory if configured with --enable-profile. - -The ext2fs_open() function now performs more sanity checks on the -superblock to avoid potential divide by zero errors by other parts of -library. - -The ext2fs_read_inode_full() function now has a safety check to avoid -a segmentation fault on corrupted filesystems. - -The ext2fs_new_inode() function now has a sanity check so that if the -s_first_inode field in the superblock is insane, it will return -EXT2_ET_INODE_ALLOC_FAIL instead of returning an invalid inode number. - -To avoid segmentation faults, ext2fs_block_alloc_stats() and -ext2fs_inode_alloc_stats() now validates the passed inode or block -number to avoid overrunning an array boundary. - -Various signed/unsigned errors for variables containing block numbers -have been fixed. - -Accomodations for gcc's stupidity in not realizing that constant -strings that do not contain a '%' character are safe to use in format -strings have been made so that distributions that want to compile -e2fsprogs with -Werror=format-security have an easier time doing so. - -Added a new 64-bit getsize interface, ext2fs_get_device_size2(). - -Added the utility make-sparse.c to the contrib directory. - -The ext2fs_block_iterate2() function now reflects errors from -ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() to the caller, if the callback tries to -change a block on an extent-based file, and ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() -fails for some reason (for example, there isn't enough disk space to -split a node and expand the extent tree. - -The ext2fs_block_iterate2() function will preserve the uninit flag in -extents when the callback function modifies a block in an extent-based -file. - -E2fsck will now flag filesystems that have an insane s_first_ino field -in their superblock, and attempt to use a backup superblock to repair -the filesystem. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.3 (October 12, 2008) -=================================== - -E2fsck has been fixed so it prints the correct inode number for -uinit_bg related problems. - -E2fsck will now offer to clear the test_fs flag if the ext4 filesystem -is available on linux. This can be disabled via a configuration -option in /etc/e2fsck.conf. - -Fix a file descriptor leak in libblkid when checking to see if an ext4 -or ext4dev module exists. - -Fix a bug in e2fsck where in preen mode, if there are disk I/O errors -while trying to close a filesystem can lead to infinite loops. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #465679) - -Fix a bug in resize2fs where passing in a bogus new size of 0 blocks -will cause resize2fs to drop into an infinite loop. (Addresses Red -Hat Bugzilla: #465984) - -Add a check in the Unix I/O functions in libext2fs so that when a -device is opened read/write, return an error if the device is -read-only using the BLKROGET ioctl. - -Fix debugfs's ncheck command so that it prints all of the names of -hardlinks in the same directory. - -Fix a bug in libblkid so it correctly detects whether the ext4 and -ext4dev filesystems are available, so that the ext4dev->ext4 -fallback code works correctly. - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix a parallel build problem by making sure util/subst is built before -trying to build the lib/et directory. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#2143281) - -Updated "make depend" information for crc16.o - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.2 (October 2, 2008) -================================== - -Fix e2fsck's automatic blocksize detection. This fixes a regression -from e2fsprogs 1.40.7 which caused e2fsck to fail if the user -specifies a block number using the -b option if the blocksize option -isn't also specified using -B. Unfortunately, users very commonly -invoke e2fsck using "e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdXXX" to use the backup -superblock; in fack e2fsck will often suggest this kind of command -line. Oops. - -Enhance the debugfs's "ncheck" command so it will print all of the -pathnames for the specified inodes. (Previously, in some cases ncheck -might not print a pathname for an inode at all if some of the other -inodes had multiple hard links.) - -Enhance debugfs's "hash" command so the hash seed can be specified via -a command-line option. In addition, allow the hash algorithm to be -specified by name instead of just by number. - -Fix e2fsck so that we don't accidentally print the translation file's -header when asking the user a custom question so there is no prompt -defined for a particular problem record. For example, the question -"Run journal anyway" will get the PO header tacked on because e2fsck -erroneously passed the null string to _(). (Addresses Launchpad Bug: -#246892) - -Enhance badblocks so that it can test a normal file which is greater -than 2GB. - -Enhance the badblocks command so that it displays the time and -percentage complete when in verbose mode. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#429739) - -Fix a potential memory leak in a error handling path in debugfs's -ncheck function. - -Fix a potential memory corruption problem if a memory allocation fails -in resize2fs. - -Fix the usage message for debugfs's logdump command to be consistent -with its man manpage. - -Update Polish, French, Vietnamese, Dutch, Indonesian, German, Czech, -and Sweedish translation from the Translation Project. - -Add documentation for the file I/O functions to the libext2fs.texinfo -file. (Addresses Debian Bug: #484877) - -Update and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Launchpad Bug -#275272; Addresses Debian Bugs: #498100, #498101, #498102, #498103) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #497619) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix a potential file descriptor leack in libcom_err by setting the -close-on-exec flag for a fd used for debugging. (Addresses Red Hat -Bugzilla #464689) - -Fix a potential race in libcom_err by using sem_post/sem_init. SuSE -has been carrying a patch for a long time to prevent a largely -theoretical race condition if a multi-threaded application adds and -removes error tables in multiple threads. Unfortunately SuSE's -approach breaks compatibility by forcing applications to link and -compile with the -pthread option; using pthread mutexes has -historically been problematic. We fix this by using sem_post/sem_init -instead. - -Fix e2fsprogs-libs build failure due to 'subs' target. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug: #2087502) - -Avoid linking e2initrd_helper, debugfs, blkid, and fsck with unneeded -libraries when using ELF shared libraries. - -Fix ELF shared library when building on systems that don't already -have the e2fsprogs shared libraries already installed. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug: #2088537) - -Fix the pkg-config files so they work correctly when linking with -static libraries and fix the include directory so programs don't have -to use #include , but can use #include -instead. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2089537) - -Make sure ext2fs_swab64() is compiled for all platforms, and not just -for x86. (Addresses Debian Bug: #497515) - -Remove the unused ext2fs_find_{first,ext}_bit_set() functions for all -non-x86 platforms. (They had been removed for x86 earlier.) - -Fix diet libc compilation support, which had bitrotted due to lack of -TLC. Fixing this improves general portability. - -When installing the link library when using ELF shared libraries, -avoid using absolute pathnames if the link library and the shared -library are installed in the same directory. (Addresses Sourceforge -Bug: #1782913) - -Fix gen-tarball so it will work even if the top-level directory has -been renamed to something other than "e2fsprogs". Also make -gen-tarball print the size of the resulting tar.gz file. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41.1 (September 1, 2008) -==================================== - -Many people are forgetting to update their mke2fs.conf file, and this -causes ext3, ext4, and ext4dev filesystems won't get created with the -proper features enabled. We address this in two ways. First, mke2fs -will issue a warning if there is not definition for an ext3, ext4, or -ext4dev filesystem and the user is trying to create such a filesystem -type. Secondly, when installing from a source build, "make install" -will provide basic configuration file handling for /etc/mke2fs.conf. -If it exists, and does not mention ext4dev, it will be moved aside to -/etc/mke2fs.conf.e2fpsrogs-old and the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file will -be installed. If the existing /etc/mke2fs.conf file does mention -ext4dev, then "make install" will install official mke2fs.conf file as -/etc/mke2fs.conf.e2fsprogs-new and issue a message to the user that -they should look to see if any changes need to be merged. - -The mke2fs program will now create the journal in the middle of the -filesystem, since this minimizes seek times on average for fsync-heavy -workloads. In addition, mke2fs will now create journals using extents -for filesystems that support them. This results in a more efficient -encoding for the journal since it eliminates the need for using -indirect blocks. - -The mke2fs program will avoid allocating an extra block to the -journal. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1483791) - -Mke2fs will correctly enforce the prohibition against features -(specifically read-only features) in revision 0 filesystems. (Thanks -to Benno Schulenberg for noticing this problem.) - -Mke2fs previously would occasionaly create some slightly non-optimally -placed inode tables; this bug has been fixed. - -The mke2fs and tune2fs programs now print the correct usage message -describing the maximum journal size. (Addresses Debian Bug: #491620) - -Add support for setting the default hash algorithm used in b-tree -directories in tune2fs (from a command-line option) or mke2fs (via -mke2fs.conf). In addition, change the default hash algorithm to -half_md4, since it is faster and better. - -The blkid library will now recognize MacOS hfsx filesystems, and -correctly extract the label and uuid for hfs, hfsx, and hfsplus -filesystems. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Requests: #2060292) - -The blkid library has improved detection of JFS and HPFS filesystems. -(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #255255) - -The blkid library is now much more efficiently handling devicemapper -devices, mainly by no longer using the devicemapper library. This can -speed up access for systems with a large number of device mapper -devices. - -Blkid had a number of cache validation bugs in libblkid that have been -fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug: #493216) - -Resize2fs will now properly close out the "updating inode references" -progress bar so there is a newline printed before printing the final -"resize is successful" message. - -Resize2fs will now correctly handle filesystems with extents and/o -uninitialized block groups correctly when file/directory blocks need -to relocated (i.e., when shrinking a filesystem or if the resize_inode -is not present). To support this, the ext2fs library now supports -initializing inode and block bitmaps that are not yet initialized when -allocating them using ext2fs_new_block() and ext2fs_new_inode(). In -addition, e2fs_block_iterate2() can now support changing the location -of interior nodes of an extent tree, and ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() has -been optimized to avoid creating unnecessary new extents when updating -the location of blocks in the extent tree. This will also help out -e2fsck's recovery of obscurely corrupted filesystems with extents, -when blocks are claimed by multiple inodes. - -Add support for on-line resizing ext4 filesystem with the flex_bg -filesystem feature. The method for doing so is not optimal, but to do -a better job will require kernel support. - -E2fsprogs 1.41.0 intrduced a bug in libext2fs which casued e2image and -debugfs programs to not be able to read e2image files; the signed -vs. unsigned bug in the code which read bitmaps from the e2image has -been fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug: #495830) - -Resize2fs is now correctly managing the directory in-use counts when -shrinking filesystems and directory inodes needed to be moved from one -block group to another. This bug has been around since e2fsprogs -1.26, and is largely harmless, but does cause a filesystem corruption -which will be flagged by e2fsck after the filesystem has been shrunk. - -E2fsck will no longer issue spurious complaints about the inode size -caused by very large extent-based files, and by blocks reallocated -using fallocate() with the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE option. (Addresses -Kernel Bugzilla: #11341) - -Mke2fs will now set the creation timestamp on the lost+found directory -and the root directory. (More generally, all new inodes created using -the ext2fs library will correctly set the creation timestamp.) - -E2fsck now correctly calculates ind/dind/tind statistics in the -presence of extent-based files. In addition, "e2fsck -v" will report -statistics of the depth of extent trees in the filesystem. E2fsck can -also give an inode fragmentation report using "e2fsck -E fragcheck" -which can be useful when debugging the kernel block allocation -routines. - -Fix support for empty directory blocks in ext4 filesystems with 64k -blocksize filesystems. - -E2fsck will now print the depth of corrupt htree directories. - -Debugfs's htree command now correctly understands extent-based -directories. It will also print out the minor hash as well as the -major hash. - -Debugfs has a new command which will print the supported features of -e2fsprogs, to enable scripts to know whether the installed version of -e2fsprogs can support a specific feature. - -Debugfs will now write files using extents for filesystems that -support them. - -The error message printed by "tune2fs -I" if the inode size was too -small was rather confusing, so it has been improved. Also, we won't -try to create an undo log until we know that command-line-specified -parameters such as "tune2fs -I " are valid. - -Given some filesystems found "in the wild" that had non-zero block -group checksums even though the uninit_bg/gdt_sum feature was not -enabled, e2fsck would issue spurious error messages. Teach -ext2fs_group_desc_csum_verify() to ignore the block group checksum -entirely if the feature flag is not set. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#490637) - -The blkid program will now print out a user-friendly listing of all of -the block devices in the system and what they contain when given the --L option. (Addresses Debian Bug: #490527) - -The filefrag program now has a more accurate calculation for the -number of ideal extents. (Addresses Debian Bug: #458306) - -The test I/O manager is now enabled by default, but its overhead is -only incurred when it would be enabled via the TEST_IO_FLAGS or -TEST_IO_BLOCK environment variables. - -Typographical errors in various program strings and usage messages -have been fixed; most of these were pointed out by the e2fsprogs -message catalog translators. (Thanks, translators!) - -Update and clarified various man pages, as well as some typographical -errors in the libext2fs texinfo file. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. - -Add Indonesian and update French, Polish, Dutch, German, Sweedish, -Czech, and Vietnamese Translations. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #313697, -#401092) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Fix portability problem with the badblocks group; for systems that -don't have nanosleep(), try using usleep() instead. - -The "make check" target in the e2fsck directory now sets -LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the various e2fsck internal library -regression tests. - -The crc32 regression test in the e2fsck library is now portable to -greater varienty of environments, including big-endian systems and -when cross-building e2fsprogs for embedded systems. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug: #2019287) - -The ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() had some bugs when setting the first -block in a file, or when replacing a single block extent. Those cases -fortunately were came up relatively rarely when e2fsck was checking -files, but caused some problems when resize2fs was shrinking -extent-based files. - -Fix a potential core-dumping bug in libe2p's iterate_on_dir() -function. - -Various ext2fs library functions --- ext2fs_block_iterate2(), -ext2fs_initialize() and ext2fs_extent_open() --- now correctly free -allocated memory to avoid memory leaks in all of their error return -paths. - -Ext2ed was failing to build because masix support had been removed in -the rest of e2fsprogs, so ext2ed no longer has masix support, either. - -The configure script now respects the LDFLAGS environment variable if -it is set when configure is called. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature -Request: #1937287) - -Libuuid is now more portable to the Windows platform. (Addresses -Sourceforge Feature Request: #1937287) - -The configure script now uses AC_MSG_{RESULT,WARN,ERROR} instead of -bare echo commands so that configure flags such as --quiet work -correctly. (Addresses Sourceforge Patches: #2058794) - -A few uses of sprintf have been removed from the ext2fs library to -make life easier for bootloaders with a limited libc environment. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2049120) - -The ext2fs_read_inode() checks the validity of the inode number passed -to it earlier, to avoid doing some needless work when it would fail -anyway. - -The ext2fs_open() checks the validity of the blocksize parameter -passed to it earlier, to avoid doing some needless work when it would -fail anyway. - -Disable a very annoying automatic "%.sh -> %" GNU make rule in the -top-level Makefile. That automatic rule is used to better support -SCCS, but it caused problems for a particular niche distribution which -likes to use configure.sh files to store the configure options used to -build a package. Unfortuntaely GNU make will use the configure.sh to -replace the configure script, resulting in a self-inflicted fork bomb -leading to an out-of-memory crash. - -To support old GNU C compilers don't use C99/C++ comments, but only -K&R style comments, and don't try to use __builtin_expect if __GNUC__ -is less than 3. (__builtin_expect is only supported for gcc versions -2.96 and up, and it's tricky to check for gcc 2.95 vs gcc 2.96; since -this is an optimization, we only try to use __builtin_expect for gcc 3 -and up.) - -In e2fsck's crc routines, make sure we use WORDS_BIGENDIAN instead of -__LITTLE_ENDIAN, which are only defined by glibc's header files and -hence isn't portable. - -For the convenience for some distributions that need a static tune2fs, -the Makefile for misc/ now has a tune2fs.static target. - -The ext2fs_block_iterate2() function now supports BLOCK_FLAG_APPEND -for extent-based files - -The ext2fs_bmap() function now supports BMAP_ALLOC for extent-based -files. - -All source files no longer have any trailing white space. - -The io_channel_read_blk64() and io_channel_write_blk64() functions are -now functions instead of C preprocessor macros to provide better -forward compatibility. - -The e2fpsrogs translation template now expands the @x abbrevation. - -Various namespace leackages in libblkid, libe2p, and libext2fs have -been fixed. - -Fix a parallel build problem in e2fsprogs. - -E2fsprogs is now more portable to Solaris. - * blkid no longer assumes that the TIOCGSIZE and TIOCGWINSZ ioctl's - are always present. - * Scripts do not assume that /bin/true is always in /bin - * Don't use __FUNCTION__ since Solaris's C99 doesn't support it. - * Flush stdio handles before calling setbuf(), since Solaris will - discard any pending output to the stream. - * Define _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 since Solaris's header files are very - picky about which C compiler can beused for SUSv3 conformance. - Use of C99 is not compatible with SUSv2 (_XOPEN_SOURCE=500), - and C89 is not compatible with SUSv3 (_XOPEN_SOURCE=600). - Since we need some SUSv3 functions, consistently use SUSv3 so - that e2fsprogs will build on Solaris using c99. - * Solaris C99 does not support varargs C preprocessor macros - * Solaris header files pollute the C namespace if in/netinet.h - is included, which conflicts with e2fsprogs' use of the kmem_cache_t - typedef. - * Solaris ships with a pathetically ancient shell in /bin/sh so we - avoid the use of various more avanced shell constructs such as $(). - -The "make rpm" command will now take some extra configure optiosn from -the build environment without needing to patch the source tree. - -The ext2fs_add_dir_block() function will now grow the dblist more -aggressively as an optimization to avoid copying the array too often. - -The e2fsck_write_bitmaps() will write the block and inode bitmaps -together instead of in two passes. - - -E2fsprogs 1.41 (July 10, 2008) -============================== - -Add support for ext4 filesystem features, in particular extents, -uninit_bg, flex_bg, huge_file, and dir_nlink features. Also add -support for checking journal checksums. Debugfs will print new -superblock and inode fields that were defined for ext4. For example, -the nanosecond and i_version fields of an inode, and the -s_min_extra_isize and s_wanted_extra_isize fields from the superblock. -Note: Resize2fs doesn't currently support the combination of flex_bg -and !resize_inode. (Addresses Debian Bug: #388452, #425477) - -Tune2fs can support migrating a filesystem from using 128 byte inodes -to 256 byte inodes, so it can take advantage of the full features of -ext4. - -Add support for "undo" support. E2fsck and mke2fs can optionally -record an undo log which can replayed by the program e2undo. - -E2fsck could damage a filesystem by trying to relocate inode tables -due to corrupted block group descriptors, where the attempted inode -table relocation would do far more harm than good. E2fsck has been -fixed to detect this these sorts of corrupted block group descriptors -much earlier in e2fsck processing, so it can try to use the backup -superblock and block group descriptors first. This should be a much -better strategy for recovering these types of corrupted filesystems. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840291) - -E2fsck will display a more understandable message when the last check -field in the superblock is in the future. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#446005). - -E2fsck now performs more extensive and careful checks of extended -attributes stored in the inode. - -Enhance mke2fs to print a more explanatory error message when -ext2fs_get_device_size() returns EFBIG. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#488663) - -Fix mke2fs to use a default block size of 4k when formatting an -external journal device. This is done by using a fixed filesystem -type list that consists only of the single filesystem type "journal" -when looking up configuration keys in /etc/mke2fs.conf. (Addresses -Debian Bug: #488663) - -Speed up how mke2fs writes the journal data blocks by writing the disk -blocks in larger chunks. - -Fix blkid handling of stale devices. Fix a bug which could cause a -core dump while garbage collecting the blkid cache, and assure that -blkid_find_dev_with_tag() never returns a non-existent device. Also, -if a filesystem is found at a new /dev location, eliminate any -duplicate stale entries which can not be verified. -(Addresses Debian Bugs: #487758, #487783) - -Add more paranoid checks for LVM volumes and swap partitions in -blkid's probe function, to reduce the chances of false positives. - -The mke2fs program now has a much more sophisticated system for -controlling configuration parameters of a newly created filesystem -based on a split filesystem and usage type system. The -t option to -mke2fs was a deprecated alias to -c; it now specifies a filesystem -type (ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.), while the -T option can now be a comma -separated usage list. The filesystem type information and type -information is used to extract configuration parameters from the -/etc/mke2fs.conf file. - -The mke2fs program will no longer complain and request the -f option -when the user tries to create a filesystem with greater than 2**31 -blocks. - -When creating a filesystem for the GNU Hurd use a fs-type of Hurd and -adjust the mke2fs.conf file so filesystems for the Hurd are created -with a blocksize of 4096 and inode size of 128, which is all it knows -how to handle. (Addresses Debian Bug: #471977) - -Mke2fs will always make sure that lost+found always has at least 2 -blocks, even for filesystems with very large blocksizes (i.e., 64kb). - -Resize2fs will now print the minimum needed filesystem size if given -the -P option, and will resize the filesystem to the smallest possible -size if given the -M option. - -Fix resize2fs to clean up the resize_inode if all of the reserved gdt -blocks are consumed during an off-line resize. - -The "ls" command in debugfs now supports the -p option, which causes -it to quote the filenames so that spaces or tabs in directory entries -are easily visible. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #149480; Addresses -Sourceforge Feature Request: #1201667) - -Fix a potential off-by-one buffer oveflow in the fs_device_name in an -e2image file. - -The chattr program will return a non-zero exit code in case of -failures, and error messages can be suppressed with the -f option. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #180596) - -Fix a bug in badblocks which caused it to overrun an array and likely -crash if more than 8 test patterns are specified using the -t option. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #487298) - -Add support to badblocks to limit how quickly it reads from the disk -drive (so it can be used for background scrubbing), and so it will -abort after finding a given number of errors. - -Remove support for the legacy big-endian filesystem format which only -existed on extremely long-dead PowerPC kernels almost a decade ago. - -Remove MASIX support from e2fsprogs. - -Add I/O statistics reporting to e2fsck. - -Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Dutch, -Czech translations. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #487443, #487675, #490003) - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses Debian Bugs: #393313, #487849, #440983, #440981) - -Programmer's Notes ------------------- - -Factor out bitmap code in preparation for adding 64-bit new-style -bitmaps. - -Fix gcc -Wall warnings - -Fix the pkg-config files so that private librares are specified in -"Libs.private:". - -Fix the libext2fs.texinfo manual so it builds with modern versions of -texinfo. - -Silence the makefile from showing the awk command used to build the - -Clean up the badblocks group so to make it more portable and robust. - -Avoid using predictable filenames in /tmp in blkid's regression test -suite. Also remove bashism's in the regression test script. - -If the configure script is given --with-diet-libc, don't use thread -local storage, since diet libc doesn't support TLS. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug: #2000654) - -Fix the blkid regression test suite to tolerate older versions of -mkswap that don't support the -U option. - -A few library routines have been converted to support 64-bit block -numbers; in particular, the I/O manager functions, the test_io, -inode_io, and unix_io managers have all be converted to support 64-bit -operation. - -Debugfs can now be extended for use by test programs. See -lib/ext2fs/extents.c for an example for how it can be used. The test -program links against the debugfs object files, and provides -additional commands by defining an auxiliary libss command table. - -The lazy_bg filesystem feature, which was only used by developer's -testing, has been removed since it has been largely supplanted by -uninit_bg. This also simplifies the code. - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.11 (June 17, 2008) -================================= - -Mke2fs, tune2fs, and resize2fs now use floating point to calculate the -percentage of reserved blocks. (Addresses Debian Bug: #452639) - -Updated Spanish and Catalan translations. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #483962, #483023) - -Add detection for ZFS volumes to the libblkid library. - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #486463) - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fix marginal C code in probe_lvm2() function to the blkid library more -portable for older compilers. - -Fix build problems on MacOS X. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1972473) - -Fix ext2fs_swap{16,32,64} functions so they can be used by external -applications on big-endian machines. (Addresses Debian Bug: #484879) - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.10 (May 21, 2008) -================================ - -When deciding whether or not to revalidate a blkid cache entry, if the -device's mtime is newer than the last time the cached entry was -validated, force a revalidation. - -Fix a potential data corruption bug in e2fsck in the journal replay. -The chances of this is happening is extremely remote, especially the -default data=ordered or data=writeback modes. However, if a block -which has been journalled starts with the first four bytes 0xc03b3998, -when e2fsck replays the journal, those four bytes will be replaced -with zero's. Fortunately, it is highly, highly unlikely for e2fsck -metadata to begin with those fatal 4 byte sequence, and unless -data=ordered mode is in use, data blocks are never journaled. - -Updated German, Dutch, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. - -Remove default sizes of types when cross compiling, since autoconf -2.50 can figure this out automatically now. - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.9 (April 27, 2008) -================================= - -SuSE's security team audited uuidd and came up with a few minor -issues. None of them are serious given that uuidd runs setuid as a -unprivileged user which has no special access other than libuuid -directory, but it's good to get them fixed. - -One additional fix in ext2fs_swap_inode_full() needed for resize2fs to -work correctly with in-inode extended attributes. - -Updated German, Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese -translations. - -Debugfs will avoid using a pager if the standard output is not a tty. - -Fix debugfs and tune2fs to correctly handle daylight savings time when -parsing a time string. - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. - -Fix fsck completion bars when multiple filesystems were being checked -in parallel. (Addresses Debian Bug: #432865, Addresses Launchpad Bug: -#203323, Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1926023) - -Fix fsck so that progress information is sent back correctly when -multiple filesystems are being check and the output of fsck is being -redirected to a file descriptor. Also, include the device name (w/o -spaces) in the progress information sent back via a file descriptor. -(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #203323, Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#1926023) - -Teach fsck to treat "ext4" and "ext4dev" as ext* filesystems. - -If logsave receives a SIGTERM or SIGINT signal, it will now pass that -signal to its child process. - -Fix mke2fs's creation of are resize inode when there is a non-standard -s_first_data_block setting. - -Fix bug in blkid when run by an unprivileged user; most devices were -not reported correctly. 9Addresses Launchpad Bug: #220275) - -Mke2fs will not allow the logically incorect combination of -resize_inode and meta_bg, which had previously caused mke2fs to create -a corrupt fileystem. - -Fix fsck in German locales so that a 'j' means yes. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1947683) - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. - -Update valgrind options in test_script to work with valgrind 3.2.3 - -Update texinfo.tex to a much newer version from the FSF. - -Remove bashism for configure script and from the lib/ss Makefile. -Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 1921969 - -Fix some silently broken tests: m_no_opt, m_meta_bg, and m_raid_opt. - -Fix build system so that if texinfo is not installed, it won't print a -(harmless) error message. - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.8 (March 13, 2008) -================================= - -Fixed e2image -I so it works on image files which are larger than 2GB. - -Fixed e2fsck's handling of directory inodes with a corrupt size field. If -the size is larger than the number of blocks found in the inode, don't -try to allocate extra empty blocks at the end of the directory to make -up the difference; there's no point to doing that. In addition, if -the size is not a multiple of a blocksize, always fix it. - -E2fsck handled a pass 2 "should never happen error" by not giving -enough information and then core dumping. Unfortunately, it was all -too easy to trigger the "should never happen" situation if a -directory's inode size was not correct. This has been fixed, but -e2fsck has also been taught how to handle this situation more -gracefully, by simply removing the inode hash tree information, so -that it can be rebuilt again after e2fsck's pass 3. (Addresses -Launchpad Bug: #129395) - -Resize2fs had a bug resizing large inodes with extended attributes -that was fixed in 1.40.6; unfortunately, it turned out it wasn't fixed -completely on big-endian systems such as PowerPC. The bug should be -completely fixed now. Yay for regression test suites. (Addresses Red -Hat Bugzilla: #434893) - -Updated German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese -translations. Many thanks to Philipp Thomas from Novell for stepping -up to become the new German translation maintainer! (Addresses Debian -Bugs: #302512, #370247, #401092, #412882). - -When e2fsck is clearing a corrupt inode's HTREE directory information, -make it clear that it is just clearing the HTREE information, not the -entire inode. - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. - -Programmer's notes ------------------- - -Add new functions, ext2fs_dblist_get_last() and -ext2fs_dblist_drop_last(), which allows the caller to examine the last -directory block entry added to the list, and to drop if it necessary. - -Fixed a portability problem in libblkid with DJGPP. - -Fix an obvious typo in an "internal error" message in e2fsck. Thanks -to Philipp Thomas for pointing this out. - -If the info files are not built, change "make install" so it doesn't -fail with an error code. - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.7 (February 28, 2008) -==================================== - -Remove support for clearing the SPARSE_SUPER feature from tune2fs, and -depreciate the -s option, since it can result in filesystems which -e2fsck can't fix easily. There are very good reasons for wanting to -disable sparse_super; users who wants to turn off sparse_super can use -debugfs. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840286) - -Add missing options to mke2fs's usage message. (Addresses Sourceforge -Bug: #1751393) - -Fix bug in resize2fs when large (greater than 128 byte) inodes are -moved when a filesystem is shrunk; it was only moving the first 128 -bytes, so extended attributes were not getting moved. (Addresses Red -Hat Bugzilla: #434893) - -E2fsck now prints an explicit message when the bad block inode is -updated, to avoid confusion about why the filesystem was modified. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #756460) - -Allow mke2fs and tune2fs manipulate the large_file feature. -Previously we just let the kernel and e2fsck do this automatically, -but e2fsck will no longer automatically clear the large_file feature. -It still isn't really necessary to worry about this feature flag -explicitly, but some users seem to care. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: -#258381) - -Suppress message about an old-style fstab if the fstab file is empty. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #468176) - -Fix (really minor) bug in debugfs's find_free_block so it avoids -reporting a free block more than once if there are too few free blocks -in the filesystem. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1096315) - -Change e2fsck to no longer clear the LARGE_FILES feature flag -automatically, when there are no more > 2GB files in the filesystem. -It's been almost a decade since there have been kernels that don't -support this flag, and e2fsck clears it quietly without telling the -user why the filesystem has been changed. - -Fix bug which could cause libblkid to seg fault if a device mapper -volume disappears while it is being probed. (Addresses RedHat -Bugzilla: #433857) - -Inhance e2fsck's reporting of unsupported filesystem feature flags. -(Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: #1175808) - -Fix option syntax in dumpe2fs for explicit superblock and blocksize -parameters. What was currently documented in the man page has been -broken for some time, due to getopt() implementation changes. The -option sytax has been changed to one which is can be more portable -supported and which is consistent with the format for extended options -in mke2fs and tune2fs. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1830994) - -Add support to tune2fs to clear the resize_inode feature. This -requires an fsck afterwards. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #167816) - -Teach blkid to detect LVM2 physical volumes. (Addresses Red Hat -Bugzilla: #409321) - -Add support for setting RAID stride and stripe-width via mke2fs and -tune2fs. Teach dumpe2fs to print the RAID parameters. - -Add support for setting new superblock fields to debugfs's -set_super_value. - -Add support for printing "mostly-printable" extended attributes in -Debugfs. - -Add support for the -M option to fsck, which causes it to ignore -mounted filesystem. - -Fix uuidd so that it creates the pid file with the correct pid number. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893244) - -Fix various gcc -Wall warnings. - -Update Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1399325) - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #466929) - -Add new flag EXT2_FLAG_NONFREE_ON_ERROR ext2fs_open2() which returns a -partially filled-in filesystem object on an error, so that e2fsck can -print more intelligent error messages. - -Add a new function e2p_edit_feature2() which allows the caller to -specify which feature flags are OK to set or clear, and which returns -more specific information about feature flags which are not allowed to -be set/cleared. - -Set the C locale in the test_script driver since it uses [A-Za-z]. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1890526) - -Use fcntl locking instead of lockf in libuuid since Cygwin doesn't -support lockf(). - -Change configure.in to avoid using the 'dc' command unless it is -absolutely needed. (i.e., when using parsing a WIP-style version -number) (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893024) - -Add portability checks to support compilation under DJGPP. - -Update to the latest samba tdb code before the LGPLv3 change, which -fixes a realloc() leak on failure. - -Fix memory leak in ext2fs_alloc_block(). - -Fix makefile dependency issues for various install targets. -(Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #1903484, #1903466, #1903456) - -Improve descriptions for the r_move_itable and r_resize_inode tests. - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.6 (February 9, 2008) -=================================== - -Add support for returning labels for UDF filesystems in the blkid -library. - -Fix bug in the blkid library where cached filesystems was not being -flushed when opening USB devices returned the error ENOMEDIUM. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #463787) - -Added logic to the blkid library to automatically choose whether a -filesystem should be mounted as ext4 or ext4dev, as appropriate. - -Allow tune2fs to set and clear the test_fs flag on ext4 filesystems. - -Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to core dump if e2fsprogs had been -configured with --enable-jbd-debug. - -Document the BLKID_FILE environment variable in the libblkid man page - -Programmer's Notes: -------------------- - -Update e2fsprogs translation template and Vietnamese and Czech translations - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #436058) - -Don't try to create $DESTDIR/etc/init.d as part of make install as we -don't install the init.d script (and it's not the recommended way to -start uuidd anyway). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1885085) - -Use thread local storage to fix a theoretical race condition if two -threads try to format an unknown error code at the same time in the -com_err library. - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008) -=================================== - -Fix a potential overflow big in e2image if the device name is too -long. - -Mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes and the -ext_attr feature flag by default. This allows for much better future -compatibity with ext4 and speeds up extended attributes even on ext3 -filesystems. - -Teach e2fsck to ignore certain "safe" filesystem features which are -set automatically by the kernel. Having the kernel set features -automagically behind the user's back is a bad idea, and we should try -to break the kernel of this habit, especially for the newer ext4 -feature flags. But for now, we will try to avoid needless full checks -which can annoy users who are doing fresh installs. - -Add support in tune2fs and mke2fs for making a filesystem as being "ok -to be used with test kernel code". This will be needed for using test -filesystems with the latest ext4 kernel code. - -Change e2fsck -fD so that it sorts non-htree directories by inode -numbers instead of by name, since that optimizes performances much -more significantly. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #532439) - -If e2image fills the disk, fix it so it exits right away instead of -spewing large numbers of error messages. -(Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #606508) - -If ftruncate64() is not available for resize2fs, let it use ftrucate() -instead, but have it check to see if the size would get truncated, and -skip calling ftruncate in that case. - -Add support for detecting HFS+ filesystems in the blkid library. - -Add supprt in the blkid library for ext4/ext4dev filesystems. - -Fix a bug in blkid where it could die on a floating point exception -when presented with a corrupt reiserfs image. - -Fix blkid's handling of ntfs UUID's so that leading zeros are printed -such that UUID string is a fixed length. - -Add sample python bindings for the uuid library to the contrib -directory. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #778817) - -Fix debugfs's 'lsdel' command so it uses ext2fs_block_iterate2 so it -will work with large files. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: -#1257500 and Sourceforge Support Request: #1253511) - -Allow the debugfs 'undel' command to undelete an inode without linking -it to a specific destination directory, since this might require -allocating blocks that could overwrite some yet-to-be-recovered -deleted files. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #967141) - -Update Swedish translations from the Translation Project. - -Programmer's Notes: -------------------- - -Fix configure handling of --sbindir (which should rarely be used, but -someone did complain, so let's fix it). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#498381) - -Updated e2fsprogs.spec file to include a new uuidd package - -Use pkg-config to determine where to find the devmapper library so we -can find out where it is located on different distributions. - -Fix Makefile race so that "make -j3 distclean" works correctly - -Fix portability problems on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems, -especially on MacOS X systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs: #1861633, -#1819034, #1863819) - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #459403, #459475, #459614) - -Remove the --enable-dynamic-static configure option, and build e2fsck -dynamically by default. If the user wants e2fsck.static, he/she will -need to build it via "make -C e2fsck e2fsck.static" - -Fix various build warnings due to missing prototypes. -(Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1861663, #1861659) - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.4 (December 31, 2007) -==================================== - -Improve time-based UUID generation. A new daemon uuidd, is started -automatically by libuuid if necessary. This daemon is setuid to allow -updates to /var/lib/libuuid, so the clock sequence number can be -stored and so if the clock is set backwards, it can be detected. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1529672, Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: -#233471) - -Filter out the NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag when writing out the backup -superblocks. This avoids e2fsck from concluding that a full -filesystem check is required before backing up the superblock due to -changes in the feature flags. (Addresses Debian Bug: #454926) - -Fix fsck to only treat the '#' character as a comment at the beginning -of the line in /etc/fstab. Otherwise fstabs for the fuse filesystem -will cause fsck to issue an bogus warning message. -(Addresses Gentoo bug: #195405, Addresses Sourceforge bug: #1826147) - -Format control characters and characters with the high eighth bit set -when printing the contents of the blkid cache, to prevent filesystems -with garbage labels from sending escape sequences to the user's screen -that might, for example place it in graphics mode. (Addresses Ubuntu -Bug: #78087) - -Fix sign-extension problem on 64-bit systems in in the com_err -library. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1809658) - -Avoid division by zero error when probing an invalid FAT filesystem in -the blkid library. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1831627) - -Update Dutch, Polish, and Vietnamese translations from the Translation -Project. Remove the Rwandan translation upon advice of the -Translation Project. - -Programmer's Notes: -------------------- - -Fix the libss "make check" regression test so that it works if the -current directory is not in the user's path or if the libss shared -library is not installed. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1848974) - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses Debian Bugs: #444883, #441872) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #437720, #451172, #458017) - -Fix build failure on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1859778) - -Fix Hurd portability issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #437720) - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.3 (December 5, 2007) -=================================== - -Fix a potential security vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem -can be corrupted in such a way that a program using libext2fs will -allocate a buffer which is far too small. This can lead to either a -crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow crash. No known -exploits exist, but main concern is where an untrusted user who -possesses privileged access in a guest Xen environment could corrupt a -filesystem which is then accessed by the pygrub program, running as -root in the dom0 host environment, thus allowing the untrusted user to -gain privileged access in the host OS. Thanks to the McAfee AVERT -Research group for reporting this issue. (Addresses CVE-2007-5497.) - -Fix hueristics in blkid which could cause a disk without partitions to -be incorrectly skipped when a loopback device is present. (Addresses -Red Hat Bugzilla #400321.) - -Fix e2image so that in raw mode it does not create an image file which -is one byte too large. - -Change mke2fs's usage message so it recommends the preferred -E option -instead of the deprecated -R option. - -Enhance the blkid library so it will recognize squashfs filesystems. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #305151.) - -Enhance e2fsck so it will force the backup superblocks to be backed up -if the filesystem is consistent and key constants have been changed -(i.e., by an on-line resize) or by e2fsck in the course of its -operations. - -Enhance blkid's detection of FAT filesystems; so that USB disks with -only a single bootable partition will not get missed. - -E2fsck will no longer mark a filesystem as invalid if it has time -errors (i.e., if superblock mount time or last write time is in the -future) and the user refuses to fix the problem. - -The Ubuntu init scripts don't properly set the system time correctly -from hardware clock if the hardware clock is configured to tick local -time instead of GMT time. Work around this as best as we can by -providing an option, buggy_init_scripts, in /etc/e2fsck.conf which can -be set on Ubuntu systems. (Addresses Debian Bug #441093, and Ubuntu -Bug #131201.) - -Fix fsck to ignore /etc/fstab entries for bind mounts. (Addresses Red -Hat Bugzilla #151533.) - -Fix e2fsck so that if the superblock is corrupt, but still looks -vaguely like an ext2/3/4 superblock, that it automatically tries to -fall back to the backup superblock, instead of failing with a hard -error. - -Make the e2fsprogs program more robust so that they will not crash -when opening a corrupt filesystem where s_inode_size is zero. - -Change e2fsck so it uses sscanf() instead of atoi() so it non-numeric -arguments are detected as such and the parse error is reported to the -user. (Addresses Debian Bug #435381.) - -Change e2fsck so it will not complain if a file has blocks reallocated -up to the next multiple of a system's page size. - -Fix bug in ext2fs_check_desc() which will cause e2fsck to complain -about (valid) filesystems where the inode table extends to the last -block of the block group. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #214765.) - -Fix a bug in ext2fs_initialize() which causes mke2fs to fail while -allocating inode tables for some relatively rare odd disk sizes. -(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #241767.) - -Add Catalan translation and update Dutch and Swedish translations -from the Translation Project. - -Fix big-endian byte-swapping bug in ext2fs_swap_inode_full(). We -still had an issue when trying to figure out whether we need to -byte-swap fast symlinks that contained extended attributes. - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses SourceForge Bug #1821333.) - - -Programmer's Notes: -------------------- - -Fix mke2fs tests to avoid needing any significant ^M (CR) characters - -Add "make check" to the RPM spec file - -Fix "make install" and 'make unstall" in misc/Makefile.in so that it -works correctly when the prefix is not the root directory. - -Fix the resize2fs tests, r_move_itable and r_resize_inode, so they -clena up after themselves by deleting the test.img temporary file -after completing the test. - -Fixed a corner case bug ext2fs_unlink() when trying to delete the -first directory entry in a directory block and the last directory -entry in the previous directory block is not in use. Fortunately -ext2fs_unlink() is only used by debugfs and e2fsck, and in e2fsck in -places where it is extremely unlikely to run into this corner case. - -Fix missing dependency which would cuase parallel builds to fail. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1842331.) - -Fix a build error on newer gcc caused by lib/ext2fs/ismounted.c -calling open(O_CREATE) with a missing mode parameter. - -Fix the test_ss.c in lib/ss so it can be used as an example -application program for the library as well as a regression test -suite. - -Fix ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate() so that error codes and abort codes -are properly passed back up through the call stack. - -E2fsprogs 1.40.2 (July 12, 2007) -================================ - -A recent change to e2fsck_add_dir_info() to use tdb files to check -filesystems with a very large number of filesystems had a typo which -caused us to resize the wrong data structure. This would cause a -array overrun leading to malloc pointer corruptions and segfaults. -Since we normally can very accurately predict how big the the dirinfo -array needs to be, this bug only got triggered on very badly corrupted -filesystems. - -Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly salvange -directories when the last entry's rec_len is bogusly too big. This -resulted in a nonsense filesystem corruption to be reported, and -required a second run of e2fsck to fully fix up the directory. - -Update tune2fs man page to include more discussion of reserved blocks -(Addresses Launchpad bug #47817) - -Update Turkish, Polish, Dutch, and Vietnamese PO files from the -Translation Project - - -E2fsprogs 1.40.1 (July 7, 2007) -=============================== - -Fix bug which could cause libblkid to loop forever. When revalidating -a partition where there is obsolete information in /etc/blkid.tab, we -end up freeing a the type tag without clearing dev->bid_type, causing -blkid_verify() to loop forever. (Addresses Debian Bug: #432052) - -The Turkish translation has a bug in it where it has the translation -of "E@e '%Dn' in %p (%i)" to "E@E". This causes @E to be expanded at -@E, recursively, forever, until the stack fills up and e2fsck core -dumps. We fix this by making e2fsck stop @-expansions after a -recursive depth of 10, which is far more than we need. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1646081) - -Compile the default mke2fs.conf into mke2fs program. People are -getting surprised by mke2fs creating filesystems with different -defaults than earlier versions of mke2fs if mke2fs.conf is not -present. So we now create a built in version of mke2fs.conf file -which is used by mke2fs if the /etc/mke2fs.conf is not present. -(Addresses SourceforgeBug: #1745818) - -Improve the config/parse_types.sh helper script. Fix a potential -security problem if e2fsprogs is built as root (as Gentoo does!). In -addition fix the script and how it is called from the configure script -so that it does the right thing when cross-compiling. (Fixes Gentoo -bug: #146903) - -Update Vietnamese, French, and Dutch PO files from the Translation -Project. Also created a new e2fsprogs.pot file for translator. - -Fix bogus strip permission errors when building under Debian. When -building the e2fsprogs dpkg's, the dh_strip command emits a large -number of error messages caused by the permissions not being right. -So run dh_fixperms before running dh_strip. - -Programmer's Notes: -------------------- - -Add new function: profile_set_default(). This function sets the value -of the pseudo file "". If the file "" had -previously been passed to profile_init(), then def_string parameter -will be parsed and used as the profile information for the "" -file. - -Fix mk_cmds's error reporting so that it is unambiguous that it is the -mk_cmds script which is generating the error. (Obviates Gentoo patch: -e2fsprogs-1.32-mk_cmds-cosmetic.patch) - -Fix the test suite to use LC_ALL instead of LANG. LC_ALL is the "high -priority" environment variable that overrides all others, where as -LANG is the lowest priorty environment variable. If LC_ALL is set, it -doesn't matter whether LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES, and -the all the rest are set. This will assure that the locale when -running the test suites is the "C" locale. (Obviates Gentoo patch: -e2fsprogs-1.38-tests-locale.patch) - - -E2fsprogs 1.40 (June 29, 2007) -============================== - -Fix divide by zero error in blkid's NTFS probing logic. - -Add new blkid -g option which causes the blkid cache to be garbage -collected. - -Fix a bug in libblkid which could cause the internal field bid_type to -become corrupted. Fortunately bid_type isn't used much, and bid_label -and bid_uuid is only used by debugging code, so the impact of this bug -was very minor. - -Mke2fs will now store the RAID stride value when a filesystem is -created with a requested RAID stride, and then use it automatically in -resize2fs. - -Mke2fs has a sanity check added to make sure (inode_size * num_inodes) -isn't too big. In some cases Lustre users have tried specifying an -inode size of 4096 bytes, while keeping an inode ratio of one inode -per 4096 bytes. - -Improve sanity check in e2fsck's algorithm for finding a backup -superblock, so that it won't accidentally find a superblock that was -located in the journal, and then later reject it as being not a valid -backup superblock. - -Fix e2fsck get_size logic so that it will work with the Linux floppy -driver. The Linux floppy driver is a bit different from the other -block device drivers, in that if the device has been opened with -O_EXCL, it disallows another open(), even if the second open() does -not have the O_EXCL flag. (Addresses Debian Bug: #410569) - -Fix error checking of badblock's last-block and start-block arguments. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #416477) - -Fix e2fsck so that it doesn't overwrite the backup superblocks when -recovering a journal until the master superblock has been confirmed as -being sane. - -Change the blkid library to be much more paranoid about concluding -that a partition contains an NTFS filesystem, and fetch the UUID and -LABEL information from NTFS filesystems. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: -#110138) - -Factor out the code which sets the default journal size and move it -into libext2fs. - -Enhance e2fsck so it will recreate the ext3 journal if the original -journal inode was cleared to due it being corrupt after finishing the -filesystem check. - -Fix e2fsck so that it updates the journal inode if it is corrupted and -the backup journal information from the superblock was successfully -used to recover the filesystem. - -Fix e2fsck so that it checks all of the blocks in the journal inode -for validity. The original code only checked the direct blocks to -make sure the journal inode was sane. Unfortunately, if some or all -of the indirect or doubly indirect blocks were corrupted, this would -not be caught. - -Add support in blkid to detect LUKS encrypted partitions. - -Add extra sanity checks for extended attributes in the case where the -size is zero but the offset is very large. - -Fix byte-swapping issues for large inodes in ext2fs_read_inode_full() -and ext2fs_get_next_inode_full(). - -Clarify the copyright licenses used by the various libraries in -the top-level COPYING file (Red Hat Bugzilla: 166058) - -Make mke2fs's defaults when /etc/mke2fs.conf doesn't exist more sane. - -Fix mke2fs and debugfs to support large (> 16 bit) uid's and gid's. - -Remove check in e2fsck which requires EA's in inodes to be sorted; -they don't need to be sorted, and e2fsck was previously wrongly -clearing unsorted EA's stored in the inode structure. - -Allow mke2fs or tune2fs to create a substantially larger journal (up -to 10,240,000 blocks). - -Fix MD superblock detection, and make sure the correct UUID is -reported from the MD superblock. - -Fix a signed vs. unsigned bug in debugfs. - -Enhance debugfs's date parser so that it accepts integer values. - -Fix e2fsck's pass1c accounting so it doesn't terminate too early if a -file with multiply claimed blocks is hard linked. or not at all if the -root directory contains shared blocks - -Enhance debugfs so it can modify the block group descriptors using the -command set_block_group_descriptor. - -Improve e2fsck's reporting of I/O errors so it's clearer what it was -trying to do when an error happens - -Fix a bug in in how e2fsprogs byte swaps inodes containing fast -symlinks that have extended attributes. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: -#232663 and LTC Bugzilla: #27634) - -Fix potential file descriptor leak in ext2fs_get_device_size() in an -error case. - -Add libreadline.so.5 support to libss. - -Impove badblocks -n/-w exclusive usage message. - -Fix dump_unused segfault in debugfs when a filesystem is not open - -Fix memory leak in blkid library. (Addresses Debian Bug: #413661) - -Allow the debugfs lcd command to work w/o a filesystem being open. -(Addresses LTC Bugzilla #27513) - -Fix e2fsck to clear i_size for special devices with a bogus i_blocks -field on the first pass. - -Fix e2fsck to set the file type of the '..' entry when connecting -a directory to lost+found. (Addresses Lustre Bug: #11645) - -Enhance e2fsck to recover directories whose modes field were corrupted -to look like special files. This is probably only useful in -artificial test cases, but it will be useful if we ever do the "inodes -in directory" idea for ext4. - -Allow debugfs to dump (and rdump) > 2GB files. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#412614) - -Fix resize2fs parsing of size parameter (in sector units). This was -actually a bug in libe2p's parse_num_blocks() function. When handling -the 's' suffix, it was ignoring the blocksize information passed in -from the caller and always interpreting the number in terms of a 1k -blocksize. (Addresses Debian Bug: #408298) - -There was a floating point precision error which could cause e2fsck to -loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #411838) - -Fix memory leak in ext2fs_write_new_inode() - -Add support for using a scratch files directory to reduce e2fsck's -memory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB -library. See the [scratch_files] section of the e2fsck.conf man page -for more details. - -Fixed type-punning bug which caused dumpe2fs to crash on the Arm -platform (Addresses Debian Bug: #397044) - -Add explanatory message to badblocks that -n and -w are mutually exclusive -(Addresses Debian Bug: #371869) - -Allow debugfs and dumpe2fs to support fs features under development. - -Add support for the new flag EXT2_FLAG_SOFTSUPP_FEATURES flag to -ext2fs_open() , which allows application to open filesystes with features -which are currently only partially supported by e2fsprogs. - -Allow unix_io to support offsets greater than 2G (Addresses -SourceForge Bug: #1547922) - -Fixed overflow and signed/unsigned problems caused by the number of -blocks or inodes exceeding 2**31 or being close to 2**32-1. - -Add support for unsigned directory hash calculations with hints in the -superblock to fix cross-architectural portability for htree -directories with filenames where the high 8th bit is set. (Addresses -Debian: #389772) - -Fix resize2fs so that it gives user-intelligible error messages if the -filesystem or the kernel does not support on-line resizing. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #380548) - -Require mke2fs -F -F for really dangerous operations, since -F is -needed for less dangerous operations such as creating filesystems -images in regular files, or creating filesystems on whole block -devices. These relatively innocuous usages should NOT be confused -with running mke2fs on an apparently-mounted or in-use filesystem. - -Allow the default inode size to be specified into the mke2fs.conf -file. - -Make the smallest default journal size is big enough so that on-line -resizing should always work. - -Fix silly spelling error in e2fsck. (Addresses SourceForge bug: -#1531372) - -Fix debugfs coredump when lsdel is run without an open filesystem -(Addresses Debian Bug: #378335) - -Fix debugfs display bug us that bytes that have the high bit set are -displayed as "ec" instead of "ffffffec". - -Add support in lsattr so it will display the EXT4_EXTENTS_FL flag. - -Device mapper scanning wasn't working in the blkid library because the -pathnames had an extra "/dev" when they were being probed. - -Add GFS/GFS2 support to the blkid library. - -Fix blkid support of empty FAT filesystem labels. - -Avoid recursing forever (or for a long time) when the blkid library -searches for a device and there are symlinks to directories in /dev. - -Avoid unaligned halfword access in blkid when accessing FAT -superblocks, as this will cause Sparc/Solaris systems to throw a -SIGBUS error. - -The latest devmapper libraries requires pthreads, add -lpthreads to -the static link libraries for e2fsck.static if devmapper is enabled. -(Addresses Debian bug: #388718) - -Improve the (non-installed, for experts only) findsuper program by -printing the uuid and label from the superblocks, as well as the -starting and ending offsets of the filesystem given the information in -the superblock. Omit by default printing superblocks that are likely -found in located in an ext3 journal unless an explicit -j option is -given. - -Updated Spanish, French and Dutch translations and added Catalan -translation. (Addresses Debian bug: #411562) - -Use FreeBSD's DIOCGMEDIASIZE and DIOCGDINFO ioctls if available when -determining a partition's size, since binary searching to determine -the device doesn't work on FreeBSD. - -Documentation about UUID's is available in enough places, and it's -awkward to deal with debian-legal's insanities. So I'm caving in the -"more-lunatic-than-RMS" wing of Debian by removing RFC-4122 so we -don't have do the dfsg tarball. Also remove the rule that only tried -to install RFC-4122 on Ubuntu, since Ubuntu seems to want to fetch -e2fsprogs exclusively from Debian. (Addresses Debian Bug: #407107) - -Fix the info-dir line so that the menu name does not contain a .info -prefix. First of all, it's ugly, secondly, it causes the install-info -command to fail to remove the com_err info file from the -/usr/share/info/dir file when the comerr-dev package is removed and -purged. (Addresses Debian Bug: #401711) - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #369761, #373004, #379695) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs #389554, #390664, #413208, #419605, -#408352, #415560, #399155) - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -E2fsck now supports the %It expansion when printing a problem report. -It will print the type of the inode in the problem context. - -Fix misc/Makefile.in so that it builds even if e2fsck hasn't been built yet -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1565561) - -Remove unused variables and other lint/gcc -Wall cleanups - -Add check to ext2fs_get_device_size() so it will return EFBIG for for -filesystems contained in regular files where the filesystem image size -is returned by stat64(). - -Set local environment variables to C so mk_cmds and compile_et always -work. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #1532177) - -Added the 64-bit byte swapping function ext2fs_swab64(). - -Added two new helper functions to prevent 2**31/2**32-1 overflow -problems: ext2fs_div_ceil() and e2p_percent(). - -Create new ext2fs library inline functions ext2fs_group_first_block() -and ext2fs_group_last_block() in order to calculate the starting and -ending blocks in a block group. - -Create the generated files read-only to remind developers not to edit them. - -Add support for autoconf 2.60 (with backwards compatibility for older -versions of autoconf). - -Added an "make rpm" target to top-level Makefile - -Added various FreeBSD portability fixes. - -Exclude mercurial files from the RPM build tree to speed up copy/build. - -Use root_sysconfdir to define the locations of mke2fs.conf and -e2fsck.conf instead of using a hard-coded /etc pathname. - -Prevent e2fsck.h and ext2_ext_attr.h from getting included multiple times. - -Fixed "make clean" in blkid's Makefile.in file from removing tst_*.c files. - -If diff -u is supported, use it to report test failures. - -Updates/improvements to RPM spec file - -Add on-disk format definitions for the following new features: -EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM, -EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT, -EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_EXTRA_ISIZE - -Add a new make target "checked-failed" in the tests directory which -reruns any failed tests - -Update draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt with rfc4122.txt - -Fix miscellaneous bugs reported by Coverity: Dead code, potential nul -pointer dereferences, memory leaks, etc. None were security-criticial -problems. - -Fix up usage and decrement error messages in the test_icount program - -Add debugging code to the com_err library; if the environment variable -COMERR_DEBUG is set to 1, print out debugging messages as error tables -are added and removed from the com_err library. If the -COMERR_DEBUG_FILE environment variable is set (and the process is not -setuid) the debugging messages may be redirected to a file. - -Change all of the e2fsprogs programs to use the newer add_error_table() -and remove_error_table() interfaces instead of the much older -initialize_*_error_table() function. - -Add TDB support into the ext2fs library. This allows us to have a -guaranteed library we can count on always being present so we can -store data in an on-disk database. - -Add support for using TDB to store the icount data, so we don't run out -of memory when checking really large filesystems. - -Change the regression test suite so that it skips empty test directories. - -Define the l_i_iversion field in ext2_inode. The l_i_version field is -now defined from the old l_i_reserved1 field in the ext2 inode. This -field will be used to store high 32 bits of the 64-bit inode version -number. - -Add Makefile production rule for e2fsprogs.spec in case it gets -deleted. - -Add new function profile_get_uint() to allow for a clean way to fetch -unsigned integers from the context. - -Add test to make sure the ext2 superblock structure is 1024 bytes. - -Fix typo in name of f_dup4 regression test - -Add new function blkid_gc_cache() which performs a garbage collection -pass on the /etc/blkid.tab file. - -The ext2fs_open() function now sets EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY. In -general, only e2fsck (after the filesystem is clean), tune2fs, and -resize2fs should change the backup superblocks by default. Most -callers of ext2fs_open() should not be touching any superblock fields -which require the backups to be touched. - -Add new function to libext2fs, ext2fs_default_journal_size(), which -returns the default journal size. - - -E2fsprogs 1.39 (May 29, 2006) -============================= - -Fix 32-bit cleanliness in e2fsprogs so that we can support filesystems -between 2**31 and 2**32 blocks. - -Change mke2fs to use /etc/mke2fs.conf as a configuration file to -configure the filesystem features, blocksize, and inode_ratio for -different filesystem types. - -Mke2fs will now create filesystems hash trees and on-line resizing -enabled by default, based on the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file. - -The e2fsprogs tools (resize2fs, e2fsck, mke2fs) will open the -filesystem device node in exclusive mode to prevent accidents by -system administrators. In the case of resize2fs and mke2fs, it will -only use exclusive mode if the filesystem is not mounted. - -Fixed a bug in mke2fs which caused it to to fail when creating the -resize inode for large filesystems. (Addresses Debian Bug #346580) - -When allocating space for the RAID filesystems with the stride -parameter, mke2fs will now place each portion of the group's inode -table right up after the superblock (if present) in order to minimize -fragmentation of the freespace. - -Speed up mke2fs and e2fsck by writing inode and block bitmaps more -efficiently by writing the inode and block bitmaps in one pass, thus -reducing the number of disk seeks required. - -Add support for on-line resizing to resize2fs. - -Fix blkid library so that logic to determine whether or not a device's -cached information in /etc/blkid.tab needs to be verified or not -doesn't get confused by a system clock which is insane (for example, -if the battery is dead on a Macintosh running PPC Linux. (Addresses -Red Hat Bug: #182188) - -The blkid library will now store the UUID of the external journal used -by ext3 filesystems, so that in the future, the userspace mount binary -can use this to find the location of the external journal and pass -this information to the kernel. - -E2fsck will now consult a configuration file, /etc/e2fsck.conf to -control how various options should be handled. See the e2fsck.conf -man page for more details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #150295) - -E2fsck now prints an explanatory message when delaying a filesystem -check when the system is running on battery. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#350306) - -E2fsck will detect if the superblock's last mount field or last write -field is in the future, and offer to fix if so. (Addresses Debian Bug -#327580) These problems will be fixed automatically in preen mode -since Debian's boot sequence bogusly doesn't set the time correctly -until potentially very late in the bootup process, and this can cause -false positives which will cause users' systems to fail to boot. -(Addresses Debian Bugs #343662 and #343645) - -E2fsck now checks to see if the superblock hint for the location of -the external journal is incorrect, and if so, offer to update it. -(Addresses Debian Bug: #355644) - -Fix e2fsck from segfaulting on disconnected inodes that contain one or -more extended attributes. (Addresses Debian Bug: #316736, #318463) - -E2fsck will stop and print a warning if the user tries running a -read/write badblocks test on a read-only mounted root filesystem. - -Fix a memory leak in e2fsck's error paths. (Thanks to Michael -C. Thompson for pointing these out; they were originally found using -Coverity.) - -When resizing a file containing a filesystem, resize2fs will expand or -truncate a file as necessary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #271607) - -Resize2fs will now automatically determine the RAID stride parameter that -had been used to create the filesystem, and use that for newly created -block groups. The RAID stride parameter may also be manually specified -on the command line using the new -S option to resize2fs. - -Fix mke2fs so that it correctly creates external journals on -big-endian machines (such as a S/390). - -Fix a bug in the e2p library which could cause dumpe2fs to (rarely) -fail to print out the journal or hash seed UUID. (Thanks to Guillaume -Chambraud for pointing this out.) - -Dumpe2fs will now print the size of the journal (if present). - -Fix debugfs's set_inode_field command so it can properly set the frag, -fsize, uid_high, gid_high, and author fields in the inode instead of -silently failing, and so that setting the i_size actually sets i_size -correctly. - -Add a new debugfs command, set_current_time, which sets fs->now so -that regression test suites can repeatedly modify the filesystem's -last_write fields. - -Fix a bug in debugfs's icheck which would incorrectly report the owner -of an extended attribute block. - -Fix the debugfs commands htree_dump, dx_hash, and list_dir so they print a -print a usage message when an illegal option character is given. - -Fix debugfs's dump_unsued command on filesystems with a 64k blocksize -so it won't core dump. (Addresses SourceForge bug #1424311) - -Fix mklost+found so that it creates a full-sized directory on -filesystems with larger block sizes. - -Fix a file descriptor leak in blkid library. - -Fix a display bug in "badblocks -sv" so that the done message properly -clears the block number at the end of the test. (Addresses Debian Bug -#322231) - -Allow fractional percentages to the -m option in mke2fs and tune2fs -(Addresses Debian Bug: #80205) - -Use fstat/fstat64 in getsize.c if the the target is a regular file, -instead of attempting to do a binary search. Fix some fd leaks in -error cases. - -Add support for device mapper library to the blkid library to ensure -that the "best" (i.e., leaf) device is probed by the blkid library. - -Fix the blkid library so that it notices when an ext2 filesystem is -upgraded to ext3. - -Improve the blkid's library VFAT/FAT detection; it now understands -labels stored in the root directory, and is more paranoid about -checking the FAT superblock values. - -Fixed a fd leak in the uuid library which was causing problems for the -LVM tools. (Addresses Debian Bug: #345832) - -Add support for the reiser4 and software suspend partitions to the -blkid library. Also add support for extract the label from iso9660 -filesystems. - -Fix a compile_et bug which miscount the number of error messages if -continuations are used in the .et file. - -Add extra sanity checks to protect users from unusual cirucmstances -where /etc/mtab may not be sane, by checking to see if the device is -reported busy (works on Linux 2.6) kernels. (Addresses Debian Bug -#319002) - -Updated French, Dutch, Polish, and Swedish translations. (Addresses Debian -Bug: #343149, #341911, #300871, #316604, #316782, #330789) - -Fix use-after-free bug in e2fsck when finishing up the use of the -e2fsck context structure. - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages and -documentation. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #329859, #322188, #316811, -#312515, #351268, #357951, #347295, #316040, #368392, #368393, #368394, -#368179) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs #317862, #320389, #290429, #310950, -#310428, #330737, #330736, #329074, #356293, #360046, #366017, #364516, -#362544, #362970) - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Update config.guess and config.sub to latest version (2006-02-23) from -FSF. - -Fix asm_types.h type conflicts on AMD 64 platforms. (Addresses Debian -Bugs: #360661, #360317) - -Fixed the Makefile so that they work correctly on newer versions of -GNU make (i.e., 3.81). - -Add valgrind support to the regression test suites, and eliminate -false positives from valgrind. - -Add a regression test suite for the blkid library. - -Fix a fencepost error in resize2fs caught by valgrind. - -Fix compiler warnings about missing memcpy prototypes. - -We no longer have the sparc assembly code in the header file any more, -so we shouldn't set _EXT2_HAVE_HAS_BITOPS_ for the sparc. This would -break compiles on the sparc architectures when using gcc. - -In the libext2fs library, add the new field fs->now which if non-zero -is used instead of the system time when setting various filesystem -fields (last modified time, last write time, etc.) - -Fix gcc 4.01 complaints by adding a missing #include to -ext2fs.h which is needed since the inline functions use memcpy(). -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1251062) - -Use BUILD_CFLAGS and BUILD_LDFLAGS instead of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in -the build system when building files in the util directory which are -needed during the build process. This avoids potential problems when -cross-compiling and some of the options specified in CFLAGS or LDFLAGS -are not recognized as valid by the host compiler. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug #1261547) - -Clean up the blkid library by making the superblock and generic i/o -functions to be more generic. Clean up interface to the probe -function, and fix memory leak. Finallly, remove an unneeded reference -to probe.h in the lib/blkid/resolve.c - -Add an ext2fs_read_bb_FILE regression test to confirm proper detection -of invalid block #'s. - -The x86 asm constraints for ext2fs_{set/clear}_bit have been fixed to -indicate that the the function read/writes the memory location. - -Fix various gcc -Wall complaints. - -Add a dependency to make sure that the subdirectories are created -before creating all of the object files, in order to address parallel -build problem in the library Makefiles. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#1261553) - -Add $(LDFLAGS) to the command line argument when generating an ELF or -Solaris shared library, to allow cross-compile and other builds that -might need to specify -L paths to needed libraries. (Addresses -Sourceforge Bug #1261549) - -Add a new feature, EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_LAZY_BG, which is initially -intended for testing purposes. It allows an ext2/ext3 developer to -create very large filesystems using sparse files where most of the -block groups are not initialized and so do not require much disk -space. Eventually it could be used as a way of speeding up mke2fs and -e2fsck for large filesystem, but that would be best done by adding an -RO_COMPAT extension to the filesystem to allow the inode table to be -lazily initialized on a per-block basis, instead of being entirely -initialized or entirely unused on a per-blockgroup basis. - -Fix backwards compatibility so e2fsprogs will better compile on Linux -2.0.35 systems. - -Make test scripts more robust against locale-related environment variables - -Fix type warning problem with sizeof() in ext2fs_open2(). - -Fix type warning problem with time_t in debugfs. - - -E2fsprogs 1.38 (June 30, 2005) -============================== - -Fix blkid's test programs (built with "make check") compile correctly -even without "configure --enable-blkid-debug". - -Fix ia64 core dump bug caused by e2fsprogs running afoul of C99 strict -type aliasing rules on newer gcc compilers. (Addresses Red Hat -Bugzilla ##161183.) - -Fix com_err library to make it more compatible with recent changes -made to the com_err library in MIT Kerberos V5 version 1.4. -(Addresses Sourcefroge Bug #1150146) - -General cleanup of messages printed by e2fsprogs programs for grammar, -consistency, and to make life easier for translators. Fixed a few -strings containing English that had not been marked as needing -translations. Removed strings that do not need to be translated, to -make life easier for translators. - -Mke2fs and badblocks will take advantage of a feature in Linux 2.6 to -test to see if a device appears to be in use instead of just relying -on /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab. (Addresses Debian Bug #308594). - -Fix portability problem in the filefrag program affecting platforms -where the size of an integer is smaller than the size of a long. -(Addresses Debian Bug #309655) - -Mke2fs will now use a larger journal by default for filesystems -greater than 4GB. (128 MB instead of 32MB). - -Mke2fs will refuse to create filesystems greater than 2**31-1 blocks, -unless forced. This is to avoid signed vs. unsigned kernel bugs in -block numbers that still need to be fixed. - -The blkid program has a new option which will more efficiently search -for device when it is known (or expected) that only one matching -device will be found in the system, such as when doing a lookup by -UUID. - -Debian's e2fsprogs-specific initrd fragment will avoid including -unnecessary libraries into the initrd ramdisk by unsetting LD_PRELOAD -and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and filtering out libraries found in -/etc/ld.so.preload. (Addresses Debian Bug: #304003) - -Fixed a potential portability issue in the blkid programs for -architectures where the char type is unsigned. (Addresses Sourceforge -Bug: #1180585) - -Fix a bug in filefrag so that it doesn't falsely count an extra -discontinuity when the first block found is an indirect block. -(Addresses Debian Bug #307607). - -Fix blkid's recognition of cramfs filesystems, and enhance it to be -able to handle cramfs labels. - -Fix debugfs's stat command to not core dump when a filesystem is not -open. - -Fix e2fsck's handling of error conditions caused by the resize inode -claiming blocks that are also used by other inodes, a filesystem -corruption which was commonly caused by a bug in Fedora Core 3's -resize2fs program. - -Fixed bug in filefrag which caused it to fail on non-ext2/3 -filesystems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #303509) - -If the superblock last mount time indicates that the system clock may -not be accurate, then e2fsck will omit checking inodes' deletion time -field for indications of a potential corrupted orphaned inode list. -(Previously e2fsck only ommited these LOW_DTIME checks when the -superblock's last write time looked insane.) - -Fixed a IA64 core dump bug in the e2p library which affected dumpe2fs. -(Addresses Debian bug #302200) - -Make the blkid library more paranoid about being run from setgid -programs, and to use __secure_getenv() from libc if it is available. - -Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. -(Addresses Debian Bugs: #304591, #304592, #304594, #304597, #304593 -and Sourceforge Bug: #1189803) - -Updated and fixed translations. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Ext2fs_set_bit(), ext2fs_clear_bit(), and ext2fs_test_bit( have been -changed to take an unsigned int for the bit number. Negative bit -numbers were never allowed (and didn't make any sense), so this should -be a safe change. This is needed to allow safe use of block numbers -greater than or equal to 2**31. - -The compile_et program will avoid recreating generated foo_err.c and -foo_err.h files if no changes are necessary. The compile_et program -will also atomically replace these files to avoid a potential parallel -build race problem on SMP systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: -#1157933) - -Added a new function to the blkid library, blkid_probe_all_new(), -which only probes newly added disk devices, and change -blkid_find_dev_with_tag() to use this function so that when a -requested tag is not found, devices that were previously not checked -are searched before searching all devices in the system. - -Added new functions to the blkid library, blkid_dev_set_search() and -blkid_dev_has_tag(). - -E2fsck's problem strings can now use @m and @n as abbrevations for -"multiply-claimed" and "invalid", respectively. - -The e2fsprog.pot file now has an explanation of how the @-expansion -and %-expansion works, and strings in e2fsck/problem.c which contain @ -characters now have comments in e2fsprogs.pot with the @-expansion to -make life easier for translators. - -Fixed missing return values in the ext2fs library which could cause it -to return random garbage in certain error conditions. - -Allow the current time to be overriden via the E2FSCK_TIME environment -variable for use in regression tests. - -The test scrpit driver program now exits with a non-zero status if -there any of its test that it ran failed. - -Fixed problems with parabuilds on SMP systems. (Addresses Sourceforge -Bug: #1157933) - -Fixed "make check" so that it compiles correctly even when e2fsprogs' -header files have not be installed in the system include directories. -(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1180572) - -Fixed gcc -Wall nits. - - -E2fsprogs 1.37 (March 21, 2005) -=============================== - -Add support for checking the validity of Extended Attributes stored in -inodes to e2fsck. - -Add support for dumping the contents of large inodes to debugfs, -including the extended attributes stored in inodes. - -Fix mke2fs, e2fsck, debugfs, and the ext2fs_mkdir function so that -when we create a new inode we make sure that the extra information in -the inode (any extra fields in a large inode and any ea-in-inode -information) is initialized correctly. This can take place when -mke2fs creates the root and lost+found directory, when e2fsck creates -a new root inode or a new lost+found directory, and when the user uses -the debugfs write, mknod, or mkdir commands. Otherwise, the newly -create inode could inherit garbage (or old EA information) from a -previously deleted inode. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck so it would notice if a file with an extended -attribute block was exactly 2**32 blocks, such that i_blocks wrapped -to zero. - -Added support to filefrag to detect files which are using the new -experimental file extents format, and use the non-ext2 algorithm in -that case. Fixed a bug to avoid reporting a false discontinuity if -there is one or more unallocated blocks at the beginning of a file. - -Duplicated a check for noticing whether or not the number of blocks -(given a certain blocksize) is greater than 2**32 when the -BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl is not available to ext2fs_get_device_size(). This -allows mke2fs to automatically use a larger blocksize when creating a -filesystem on a very large device when run on systems that do not -support BLKGETSIZE64. - -Fix the I18N build which was broken in e2fsprogs 1.36 because the -build system had been switched to treat the .gmo files as shipped -files (for backwards compatibility with systems that have older GNU -I18N tools installed), but the gen_tarball.in script was still -removing the .gmo files from the official source distribution. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for -details. (Addresses Debian Bugs ##296769, #299341) - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Added new functions to the e2p library which convert between a string -and os_type: e2p_os2string() and e2p_string2os(), and used them to -make the generated binaries more compact. - -Fixed a compile-time error on Darwin systems. - -Cleaned up the lib/ext2fs Makefile slightly. - - -E2fsprogs 1.36 (February 4, 2005) -================================= - -All of the patches that were applied to Fedore Core 3's -e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2 have been integrated, although sometimes with a -lot of bug fixes first. Users of Fedora Core 3 are strongly -encouraged to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.36 as soon as possible. - -Add support for filesystem with the online resizing via resize inode -feature. Fixed numerous bugs from the Fedora patches. The Fedora -patches also didn't bother to do any consistency checking on the -resize inode, or add any tests to the regression test suite. The "-R -resize=4g" option to mke2fs was a no-op in the Fedora patches, despite -being listed in mke2fs's usage message. All of these shortcomings -have been corrected. - -E2fsck can also also fix filesystems trashed by Fedora's resize2fs -program. In order to do this, the user must run the commands: - - debugfs -w /dev/hdXXX -R "features ^resize_inode" - e2fsck -f /dev/hdXXX - -Optionally, the ext2prepare command can be used to re-enable online -resizing after the filesystem has been fixed. - -The fsck program will now accept an optional filedescriptor argument -to the -C option. (The Fedora version of this patch would sometimes -cause fsck to ignore a parameter on fsck's command line in some rare -cases, sigh.) - -Make sure e2fsprogs doesn't write garbage into the reserved portion of -large inodes. - -Make sure resize2fs releases the blocks belonging to the old inode -table blocks when moving the inode table. (Addresses Debian Bug: -#290894) - -Skip the r_resize_inode test if resize2fs is not compiled (due to -configure --disable-resizer) - -E2fsck now checks the summary filesystem accounting information, and -if any of the information is obviously wrong, it will force a full -filesystem check. (Addresses Debian Bug #291571) - -Fix e2fsck to not complain when the resize_inode feature is enabled, -s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero, and there is no DIND block allocated in -the resize inode. - -Fix e2fsck to note delete symlinks that contain an extended attribute -after the ext_attr feature flag has been cleared. (Addresses Red Hat -Bugzilla #146284). - -Add new utility program, copy_sparse.c, which is very useful -for dealing with large sparse files (such as e2image files). - -Add support for jnl_blocks[] for debugfs's set_super_value. - -Fix filefrag so that it works correctly with sparse files. - -Filefrag -v will print first and last blocks. - -Add interpretation of OS Creator values for FreeBSD and Lites in mke2fs -and dumpe2fs. - -Add mke2fs support so that it can support filesystems larger than 4TB -automatically, by retrying with a 4k blocksize if the device size is -too big to be expressed using a 1k blocksize. (Addresses Sourceforge -bug #1106631) - -Change blkid to test for NTFS first because Windows sometimes doesn't -clear enough of the parition to confuse the probing routines into -thinking the old filesystem type is still valid. (Addresses Debian -Bug #291990) - -Add support for swap partition label and uuid's in the blkid library. - -Add support to the blkid library to recognize Oracle ASM volumes. - -Make blkid -t display all devices that match the specified criteria, -not just the first one, and work more consistently when the blkid -cache file is not available or set to /dev/null. (Addresses Debian -Bug #290530 and #292425) - -Badblocks will now correctly display block numbers greater than -999,999,999 in its progress display. - -The tune2fs program will not allow the user from setting a ridiculous -number of reserved blocks which would cause e2fsck to assume the -superblock was corrupt. E2fsck's standards for what is a ridiculous -number of reserved block has also been relaxed to 50% of the blocks in -the filesystem. - -The blkid library will return vfat in preference to msdos, and ext3 in -preference to ext2 (if the journalling flag is set) so that mount will -do the right thing. (Addresses Debian bug #287455) - -Mke2fs will now use the -E option for extended options; the old -R -(raid options) option is still accepted for backwards compatibility. -Fix a double-free problem in resize2fs. (Red Hat Bugzilla #132707) - -Mke2fs will now accept a size in megabytes, gigabytes, and other units -(via "32m" or "4g" on the command line) if the user finds this more -convenient than specifying a block count. - -Fix an obscure, hard-to find bug in "e2fsck -S" caused by an inode -cache conherency problem. - -Debugfs now supports a new command, set_inode_field, which allows a -user to manually set a specific inode field more conveniently, as well -as set entries in the indirect block map. - -Debugfs's set_super_value command has been enhanced so that the user -can set most superblock fields, including the date/time fields and -some of the more newsly added superblock fields. - -E2fsprogs programs now accept an offset to be passed to the file -specifiers, via the syntax: "/tmp/test.img?offset=1024". - -E2fsprogs programs will now accept blocksizes up to 65536; kernel -support on the x86 doesn't exist for now, but it can be useful on -other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k. There are 2.6 -kernel patches out there which enable this, but they are of this -writing still experimental. - -The e2image command now takes the -s option which will scramble -directory entries for raw image files. - -Fix a file descriptor leak in the filefrag program. - -Make sure e2fsck doesn't crash when /proc/acpi/ac_adapter is not -present. - -Fix bug in debugfs where kill_file would lead to errors when deleting -devices and symlinks. (Sourceforge Bugs #954741 and #957244) - -Fix bug in the blkid library when detecting the ocfs1 filesystem - -Remove obsolete EVMS 1.x and a.out DLL support. - -E2fsck will attempt to recover from a journal containing illegal blocks. - -Fixed two potential ordering constraint problems in e2fsck which might -cause the filesystem to be corrupted if e2fsck is interrupted during a -(extremely narrow) race window. Thanks to Junfeng Yang from the -Stanford Metacompilation group for pointing this out. - -Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would not accurately detect whether or -not the system is running on adaptor if the ACPI device representing -the AC adapter didn't correspond to the what was used on IBM -Thinkpads. - -Change e2fsck to accept directories greater than 32MB. - -Fix e2fsck so that a checkinterval of zero disables a time-based check -of the filesystem. - -Debugfs will check the DEBUGFS_PAGER enviroment variable in preference -to the PAGER environment variable. (Addresses Debian Bug #239547) - -Tune2fs will not mark rewrite the superblock if the feature bitmasks -are not modified. - -The debugfs program will set the filetype information when creating a -link. - -Add debugfs -d option to use a separate source of data blocks when -reading from an e2image file. - -Add e2image -I option which allows the e2image metadata to be -installed into a filesystem. - -Fixed bug in the badblocks program which caused "done" to always -appear in english even when a translation was available. (Addresses -Debian Bug #252836) - -The blkid program has a new option -o which controls the output format -of the blkid program; this is makes blkid more convenient to use in -shell scripts. - -Fix a minor bug in uuid library, which was not using the full 14 bits -of clock sequence when generating UUID's. - -Fix a Y8.8888K problem in the uuid library. - -Logsave now creates a new session id for itself to avoid getting -killed by init whan transitioning between init levels. - -Change the licensing of the UUID library to be the 3-clause BSD-style -license; this allows Apple to use the uuid library in Darwin. - -Add ocfs and ocfs2 probe support into the blkid library. - -Fix a memory and file descriptor leak in the blkid library. - -The blkid library will revalidate the device if the system time is -earlier than last verification time of the device, since that -indicates that the system time is probably nottrustworthy. - -The blkid library will override the default location of the blkid.tab -file by the BLKID_FILE environment variable, if it is available. - -Change the getsize functions to use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl on Linux 2.6. - -Add various portability fixes for lame new versions of glibc, Darwin -and GNU/KFreeBSD, as well as removing XSI:ism's. (Addresses Debian -Bugs #239934, #264630, #269044, #255589, #289133) - -Add support for Windows 9x/NT under Cygwin. - -Updated and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs #236383, - #241940, #238741, #242995, #256669, #268148, #256760, #273679) - -Updated and fixed translations. (Addresses Debian bugs #244105, #262836) - -Update the rpm spec files so that it works better with Fedora core 2 -and RH9. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). In -particular, fixed the Debian initrd scripts. (#241183, #248050, -#253595, #247775) - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed various gcc -Wall warnings. - -The uuid library now has new functions uuid_unparse_upper() and -uuid_unparse_lower() which forces the case of the hex digits to be -upper case, or lower case. - -The build process has been speeded up by enhancing the subst program -to update the modtime on the generated files even when the generated -file hasn't changed. - -The uuid library now uses C99 stdint.h types instead of custom types. - -Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. - -Removed out of date .cvsignore files from the source distribution. - -The ext2fs_unlink() function will return an error if both the name and -inode number are unspecified, to avoid doing something surprising -(such as unconditionally deleting the first directory entry). -Directory entries are now deleted by coalescing them with the previous -directory entry if possible, to avoid directory fragmentation. This -is not an issue with the e2fsprogs suite, but may be a problem for -some of the users of libext2fs, such as e2tools. - -Add support for version numbers of the form "1.36-rc1". - -Fix build of mke2fs.static. - -Add basic ext2fs library support for large (EA in inode) inodes. - -The test_io mechanism can now abort after n reads or writes to a -particular block. The block is specified by TEST_IO_BLOCK environment -variable, and the read/write count by the TEST_IO_READ_ABORT and -TEST_IO_WRITE_ABORT environment variables. The block data is now only -dumped if the 0x10 bit is set in TEST_IO_FLAGS. - -UUID_DEFINE() in the uuid library now creates a static variable, with -__attribute__ ((unused)) if we are using GCC, so that UUID_DEFINE can -be used in header files. - -Add support for the install-strip and install-shlibs-strip targets, as -suggested by the GNU coding guielines. "make install" no longer -strips the binaries which are installed. - -Remove support for the --enable-old-bitops configure option which was -only for very old sparc systems. - -Remove support for --enable-clear-htree; this was only needed during -the early development of the htree patch. - -Use Linux-kernel-style makefile output so it is easier to see compiler -warnings. - -Update gettext files to version 0.14.1. - -Update to use autoconf 2.5x. - -Improved support for compiling e2fsprogs under dietlibc. - -Make e2fsprogs portable to Solaris and FreeBSD systems. - -Add blkid_verify(), blkid_get_library_version(), and -blkid_parse_version_string() functions to the blkid library. - -Add pkg-config files for e2fsprogs's libraries. - -Fix "make uninstall" to so that it removes everything that is installed. - -Add a configure --enable-maintainer-mode option which enables the -makefile rules to rebuild the configure script from configure.in, and -to reubuild the .gmo files in po directory. - -Drop the sparc assembly bitwise operations; it's less efficient -than the GCC 3.4 compile code and triggers compiler warnings on -sparc64. Thanks to Matthias Andree for his analysis and suggestions. -(Addresses Debian Bug #232326) - - -E2fsprogs 1.35 (February 28, 2004) -================================== - -E2fsck has a new -k option, which in conjunction with the -c options, -preserves the existing badblocks list. - -Cleaned up e2fsck's preen-mode messages during the passes 1b, 1c, and 1d. - -E2fsprogs will now deal correctly with symlinks that contain -extended attribute information, which can be created using SE Linux. -(Addresses Debian Bug #232328) - -Remove a double longjump into an invalid stack frame bug in e2fsck. -(This was during an abort sequence, which normally worked on Linux and -caused a core dump on other operating systems.) - -Fix NLS bug in e2fsck, by avoiding trying to expand an empty string -(the NLS library will replace "" with the .po header information). - -Fix a bug in mke2fs which caused -T largefile or -T largefile4 to core -dump due to a division by zero error. (Addresses Debian bug #207082) - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly fix a filesystem -when reconnecting a directory requires creating a lost+found -directory. (Addresses Debian bug #219640). - -Fixed a bug where e2fsck would bomb out if a journal needed to be -replayed when using an alternate superblock. - -E2fsck will give an extra grace period before actually forcing a check -if the laptop is running on battery. The next time fsck runs while -the system is on the AC mains, or after the grace period is exceeded, -the filesystem will be checked. (Addresses Debian bug #205177) - -E2fsck will inform the user when there are 5 or fewer mounts before a -filesystem check will be forced. (Addresses Debian bug #157194) - -Fix e2fsck's handling of corrupted indirect blocks in the bad block. -We now correctly handle the case where there is an overlap between a -block group descriptor or a superblock and a bad block indirect block. -In the case where the indirect block is corrupted, we now suggest -"e2fsck -c". - -Fix byte swap bugs in e2fsck that caused the journal backup location -in the superblock and symlinks created by SE Linux to be cleared -by e2fsck on big-endian machines. (Addresses Debian bug #228723) - -E2fsck -c now replaces the current list of bad blocks with the ones -found by badblocks. - -Fix bugs in e2fsck and tune2fs which could cause a core dump if a -non-existent LABEL or UUID specifier is to e2fsck or tune2fs. - -Fix a potential bug in e2fsck which could cause it to core dump when -trying to print the location of the backup superblock. - -Protect against a potential core dump in e2fsck when printing a -message about backup superblocks. - -Add support for backing up the journal inode location in the -superblock. E2fsck will automatically save the journal information in -the superblock if it is not there already, and will use it if the -journal inode appears to be corrupted. ext2fs_add_journal_inode() -will also save the backup information, so that new filesystems created -by mke2fs and filesystems that have journals added via tune2fs will -also have journal location written to the superblock as well. -Debugfs's logdump command has been enhanced so that it can use the -journal information in the superblock. - -E2fsck will now update all superblocks when moving the journal inode. - -Shrink the size of the e2fsck executable by moving some initialized -variables to the BSS segment. - -E2fsck will avoid printing the ^A and ^B characters which bracket the -progress bar when stdout and stdin are a tty device instead of a pipe -to another program. (Addresses Debian bug #204137) - -Debugfs's mkdir command will automatically expand the directory if -necessary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #217892) - -Fixed a bug in debugfs so that copying a file from /dev/null uses the -correct mode bits. (Addresses Debian Bug: #217456) - -If the environment variables DEBUFS_PAGER and PAGER are not set, -debugfs now searches for the appropriate pager to use, beginning with -/usr/bin/pager, and then falling back to 'more' and 'less'. -(Addresses Debian bug #221977) - -Debugfs will now support 2.6 device numbers where the major or minor -number may be larger than 255. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #865289) - -Fix debugging printf in resize2fs. (Addresses Debian Bug #271605) - -Chattr now stops processing options when it sees '--'. (Addresses -Debian bug #225188) - -Fix regression tests so they work correctly when e2fsprogs is compiled -with configure --disable-htree. - -Fix bug in uuid library when there is no network card and the library -is generating a time-based uuid. The random MAC address was not -correctly generated to be a multicast address. - -Add compile_et extensions from Heimdall that were missed the first time -around. - -Fix bug in badblocks when using O_DIRECT; we need to make sure that -we're reading from an offset which is page aligned. For read-only and -read-write tests, we try to recover after an error so that we can -continue reading on page-aligned boundaries. (Addresses Debian Bug -#203713) - -Badblocks now checks 64 blocks at a time instead of 16. (Addresses -Debian bug #232240) - -Updated and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug -#206845, #222606, #214920, #232406) - -Updated and fixed translations. (Addresses Debian bugs #200086, #214633) - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed a build problem so that e2fsprogs would compile with the ---enable-profile option to configure selected. (Addresses Sourceforge -bug #811408) - -Fixed C++ problems with the ext2fs.h header. (Addresses Red Hat -Bugzilla Bug #112448) - -Centralize code which calculates the location of the superblock -and block group descriptors so that it is in a single library routine. - -Added two new functions, ext2fs_file_open2() and -ext2fs_inode_io_intern2() which take a pointer to an inode structure. - -Fix compile_et to output the correct prototype for -initialize_xxx_err_table_r() in the header file. (Addresses Debian -bug #204332) - -In the lib/et makefile, make sure com_err.info is deleted on "make clean". - -Fix 64-bit warnings in e2fsprogs pass1b by using inttypes.h if -present. This is for when we try stuffing an int into void * pointer. - -Fix type-punning which can cause gcc 3.x to miscompile code by getting -confused about pointer aliasing. ext2fs_getmem(), ext2fs_free_mem(), -and ext2fs_resize_mem() all now take a 'void *' instead of a 'void -**'. The EVMS code uses an ugly union approach since we don't want to -modify the EVMS interfaces. - -Make sure all Makefiles use $(MAKE) rather than hardcoded "make", to -aid build process on systems can use invoke GNU make as "gmake". - -Added regression testing for mke2fs. - -Fixed gcc -Wall nitpicks. - -Fixed various compiler warnings. - -Add portability fixes for FreeBSD and for using fsctl under Darwin to -support ext2 ioctl's. - - -E2fsprogs 1.34 (July 25, 2003) -=============================== - -Fixed a bug introduced in E2fsprogs 1.30 which caused fsck to spin in -a tight loop while waiting for a child fsck to exit in some cases. -This burns CPU times which slows down the low-level filesystem check. - -Added code to mke2fs to assure that the default block size for a -filesystem is at least as big as the sector size of the device, if it -can be determined. - -Changed mke2fs and resize2fs to round the default size of a filesystem -to be an even multiple of the VM pagesize in order to avoid a Linux -kernel bug introduced when the storage of the buffer cache was moved -into the page cache. - -Mke2fs will warn the user when creating a filesystem with journaling -and a blocksize greater than 4096. (Addresses Debian bug #193773) - -Fixed a bug in resize2fs which caused it to fail on filesystems with a -non-empty bad block list. Resize2fs now discards any blocks on the -badblock list which are no longer part of the filesystem as the result -of a filesystem shrink. (Note: this means that shrinking and then -enlarging a filesystem is no longer a reversible operation; -information about bad blocks in the part of the filesystem which is to -be chopped off will be lost.) - -Changed resize2fs so the user can use prefixes to specify the units of -the new filesystem size (sectors, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes), -and to make the error and informational messages explicitly display -the blocksize used by the filesystem, in order to avoid confusion. -(Addresses Debian bug: #189814) - -Added a new debugfs command, dump_unused, which dumps the contents of -all unused blocks to stdout. (Useful as an emergency try-to-find -deleted data command.) - -Added a new debugfs command, imap, which prints the location of a -specified inode in the inode table. - -Fixed a bug in the badblocks program which caused it to use one bit of -randomness in its non-destructive read/write test, instead of using a -full 8 bits of randomness. - -Added a new option (-t) to badblocks, which allows the user to control -the test pattern(s) used when checking a disk. - -The blkid probe function now more correctly detects UDF filesystems. - -Fixed a bug in the blkid library which caused it to not update its -cache if a filesystem changes from having a label to not having a -label. - -Fixed a bug in the blkid library wihch could avoid an infinite loop -in blkid_find_dev_with_tag() if /proc is not mounted and there the -/etc/blkid.tab file has not yet been created. - -Fixed the badblocks program so that the destructive read/write test -honors the -c option, and to use O_DIRECT when possible to avoid -thrashing the system block buffer cache. - -Fixed various NLS issues. - - Added Czech and Swedish translations - - Removed testing NYC translation - - Fixed NLS support for message abbrevations in e2fsck - - Remove de-utf.po, since we shouldn't have two versions using different - charset encodings. - - Used ngettext() (abbreivated with the macro P_(str1, str2, n)) to - simplify the statistics reporting in e2fsck. - -Changed configure.in so that its defaults for *BSD systems no longer -build an fsck wrapper, and not to install in /usr/local by default. - -Fixed some minor spelling errors/typo's in e2fsck and the configure -script. - -Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). - -Updated and clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug #195616) - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fix gcc -Wall nitpicks. - -Updated gettext implementation used by e2fsprogs to 0.11.5, and enable -NLS support by default. (Added partial workaround for gettext/Darwin -incompatibility problems.) - -Added full MIT KRB5 and Himdall compaibility support to the com_err -library and the compile_et program. (Addresses Debian bug #191900) - -Added the blkid_known_fstype() function to the blkid library, which -returns true if it is passed a filesystem type which is recognized by -the blkid probing functions. - -Improved the documentation for the blkid library. - -Added the ext2fs_get_device_sectsize() function the the ext2fs library, which -returns the hardware sector size of a device, if it is available. - -Added a dependency in the blkid library's .so file to the uuid -library, since the former uses the latter. (Addresses Debian bug -#194094) - -Added --with-diet-libc and --disable-evms to the configure script. - -Fixed a minor memory leak in the badblocks program. - -Fixed a portability problem in tune2fs --- not all systems have strptime(). - -Fixed a portability problem in debugfs with the use of getopt() more -than once. Old-style BSD, new-style BSD, and Linux C libraries all do -things differently. - -Add support Windows support to ext2fs_get_device_size(). - -Added (normally disabled) debugging code to the Unix I/O manager which -causes it to disable all userspace caching if the NO_IO_CACHE is -defined. - -Changed the test I/O manager so it can always be linked into e2fsck, -mke2fs, and tune2fs if enabled via --enable-test-io-debug to the -configure script. The test I/O manager will only print any debugging -information if the TEST_IO_FLAGS or TEST_IO_BLOCK environment -variables are set, which specifies which I/O operations are logged and -a block number to watch, respectively. The log messages are sent to -stderr by default, unless a filename is specified via the -TEST_IO_LOGFILE environment variable. - - -E2fsprogs 1.33 (April 21, 2003) -=============================== - -Added a new utility program, logsave, which captures the output of a -command in a log file, even if the containing directory hasn't been -mounted yet (in which case the it saves the output in memory until it -can write out the logfile). This is useful for capturing the -output of fsck during the boot sequence. - -Fixed some portability problems that were causing problems under -the Cygwin32 environment. - -Mke2fs now interprets a negative number to the -b option as a minimum -block size. - -Fixed a bug in mke2fs which was incorrectly checking the argument to -the -g option if the default block size was used. (Addresses Debian -bug #188319) - -Fsck now explicitly ignores tmpfs and devpts, and it will complain if -it can not find filesystem checkers for jfs, reseirfs, and xfs. - -E2fsck now updates the global free block and inode counters from the -block group specific counters quietly. This is needed for an -experimental patch which eliminates locking the entire filesystem when -allocating blocks or inodes; if the filesystem is not unmounted -cleanly, the global counts may not be accurate. - -Imported bug fixes to the EVMS plugin from the EVMS 2.0 tree. (EVMS -2.0 is not yet supported; this only pulled in the bug fixes: fixed -possible hangs caused by bugs in calling waitpid, and not setting the -pipe to non-blocking mode; also fixed a file descriptor leak; made -sure all functions call log entry/exit functions.) - -Badblocks now flushes its output file as bad blocks are discovered. - -The uuid library is now more paranoid about assuming the correctness -of the /dev/random device; it mixes in a stream of bytes from -random/srandom, just in case. - -Update Debian files to reflect the fact that I am now the Debian -maintainer of e2fsprogs. Other various Debian-specific packaging -cleanups. - -Move the source tarball generation functions from the top-level -makefile to the util/gen-tarball script. - -Updated the Turkish .po translation file. - -Added Heimdal and MIT krb5 extensions to the com_err library to make -it more compatible with com_err libraries from those distributions. - -Changed dumpe2fs to always display the superblock fields relating to -the journalling and/or directory indexing feature even if those -features are not enabled. - -Updated and clarify copyright statement vis-a-vis alpha releases of -e2fsprogs. - -The ss library will now try to dynamically link to the readline -library and use it if it is present in the system. This means that -the debugfs program now has line editing and history features. The -SS_READLINE_PATH environment variable is used to find a readline or -readline-compatible library. - -E2fsck now finds most duplicate filenames (all when rebuilding all -directories via the -D option) and offers to delete or rename -duplicate filenames/directory entries. (Addresses Debian Bug #176814). - -Fix bug in e2image. When writing out a raw image file, include data -blocks from symlinks that do not store the symlink within the inode. - -Fix bug in resize2fs which incorrectly moved the block and inode -bitmaps for sparse superblock filesystems and incorrectly marked -blocks as in use. (Addresses Debian bug #174766) - -Added a new shared library, the blkid library, which efficiently -allows fsck, mke2fs, e2fsck, and tune2fs to be able to look up LABEL -and UUID filesystem specifiers without needing to search all of the -devices in the system. Instead, the device is looked up in a cache -file, and then verified to make sure the blkid cache is correct. - -Tune2fs and e2label will accept LABEL=xxx and UID=yyy specifiers for -the device name, using the blkid library. (Addresses Debian bugs -#166048, #179671) - -Fsck now supports backslash escapes in /etc/fstab so that \040 can be -used for spaces in device labels. - -Removed 32-bit limitations for debugfs's dump command. - -If the user specifies a large number of inodes, Mke2fs will -automatically adjust the number of blocks per group to find a valid -set of filesystem parameters. - -Add workaround to detect broken MD devices where when some of the -underlying devices are marked read-only, writes to the MD device are -silently dropped. E2fsck will detect if there is an attempt to run -the journal twice, and abort with an error if this is the case. -(Addresses IBM Bugzilla bug #1226) - -E2fsck will print an error if more than one of the -p/-a, -n or -y -options are specified. - -E2fsck will fix HTREE corruptions in preen mode, without stopping the -boot process. This is needed because the 2.4 ext2 filesystem -accidentally had the INDEX_FL backwards compatibility code removed. - -Mke2fs no longer creates filesystems with the dir_index flag set by -default; the user has to specifically request it. - -Update and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian bugs -#173612, #175233, #175113, and #170497, #185945, #188318) - -Created man page for the mk_cmds program (from the libss library). - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fix various gcc -Wall nits. - -Fixed a lot of portability problems that caused e2fsprogs not to build -successfully under Solaris and Apple/Darwin. - -Fixed a Makefile dependency to allow building e2fsprogs using parallel -make jobs. - -Changes to create a subset distribution which consists only of the -et, ss, uuid, and blkid libraries. The configure script and top-level -makefile were changed to support working with a subset distribution. - -Removed EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR mention of since it's not -actually used, and might people who are looking for -EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX, which is in use. - -Updated debian files to fix a number of Lintian warnings. - -Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. - -Removed unnecessary libraries from being linked into the fsck, lsattr, -chattr, and blkid executables. - -E2fsprogs 1.32 (Nomvember 9, 2002) -================================== - -Fixed a bug in the Unix I/O routines which caused needless writebacks -of clean blocks from the unix_io cache (they were erroneously marked -as being dirty, so they were getting written back to disk before -getting evicted from the disk cache). This was harmless, but it -significantly slowed down e2fsck. - -Made some other minor optimizations to the Unix I/O routines to save a -small amount of CPU time. - -Updated internationalization files. - - -E2fsprogs 1.31 (Nomvember 8, 2002) -================================== - -Update EVMS ext2fsim plugin with EVMS 1.2. (We still support -compiling the fsim plugin with EVMS 1.0 and 1.1.) Add better error -handling for child process that die unexpectly. Add a hack to force -mkfs to create filesystems that won't cause problems with hardware -that has 2k or 4k minimum blocksize requirements. Read from child -processes in non-blocking mode, so that the GUI continues to update. - -Fix e2fsck so that it returns the appropriate exit code when the root -filesystem has been changed, so that system's rc scripts will be told that -the system needs to be rebooted. - -Fix a bug in ext2fs_flush/ext2fs_close; when the MASTER_SB_ONLY flag -was set, some of the descriptor blocks that should have been written -out were getting skipped. - -Changed e2fsck to force out changes to the backup copies of the -superblock and block group descriptors when important changes are made -to those data structures. - -Fix a bug where e2fsck could erroneously mark a filesystem as being -clean if a check of dirty filesystem is interrupted with a ^C. (Bug -introduced in e2fsprogs 1.28.) - -If journal debuging is enabled using --enable-jbd-debug, the debugging -level is now set via the E2FSCK_JBD_DEBUG environment variable. - -If byteswapping support is disabled using configure --disable-swapfs, -skip the tests which depend on byte-swapping, so that "make check" -won't bomb out. - -Lshattr will now display the indexed directory flag. Also, some of -the more esoteric compression flags are supressed unless compression -support has been enabled. - -Update man pages. - - -E2fsprogs 1.30 (October 31, 2002) -================================= - -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. - -In order to avoid spurious errors, e2fsck wil 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) - -Partition in /proc/partitions that being with the string "lvm" are -considered real partitions even if they do not end with a number. - -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. - -E2fsck, mke2fs, etc. will now reliably notice when image files are -mounted using the loopback interface. (Addresses Sourceforge bug -#619119) - -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 obselete ioctl messages. (Addresses Sourceforge -bug #545832). - -Debugfs's write command now checks to see if the destination filename -exists before creating it. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #478195.) - -When installing man pages, search for compressed man pages using all -commonly used compression extensions (i.e., .Z, .gz, .bz2, etc.) - -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. - -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. - -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. - -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 incomat feature flag meta_bg.) - -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. - -Add support for a new inode flag, which is to be used for indicating -the top of directory hierarchies for the Orlov block allocator. - -Fix e2fsck so that if it creates the lost+found directory, it does so -with the more apporpriate permissions of 0700. Also change -mklost+found so that it also creates the directory 0700. - -Fixed format bug in e2fsck if NLS is in use. - -Add a German translation for e2fsprogs's NLS support. - -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. - -Fixed endian problems in the htree code for e2fsck and debugfs. - -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. - -Fix e2image so that it handles a bad block in the inode table -appropriately. - -E2fsck now uses a more sophisticated algorithm to salvage corrupted -directories that recovers more information in the corrupted directory -block. - -E2fsck now performs additional consistency checks on indexed (HTREE) -directories. - -Fix bug where efsck 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. - -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. - -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.) - -E2fsck now only updates the master superblock in all cases. This -slightly shortens its run time. - -Ext2ed can deal with directory entries of length 0; previously it -would get stuck in an infinite loop. - -Fsck now has support for reiserfs volumes when parsing LABEL= and UUID= -specifiers. (Sourceforge patch #613447) - -Badblocks will now work correctly on read-only devices such as -CD-ROM's. (Sourceforge patch #600451) - -Updated and clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian bug #167108) - - -E2fsprogs 1.29 (September 24, 2002) -=================================== - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could corrupt a directory when optimizing -it (via the -D option) or rebuiliding the hash tree index with a 1 in -512 probability, due to a fence post error. - -Fixed a bug in the LVM support code which caused LABEL='xxx' not to -work correctly. - -Mke2fs now enables the directory indexing flag by default. (Since -this is a compatible feature flag, it's safe to do so.) - -Tune2fs will support setting the directory indexing feature flag. It -will automatically set up the default hash algorithm and hash seed -fields in the superblock. - -If the bone-headed user enters the root filesystem twice in -/etc/fstab, the -R option which skips the root filesystem will skip -all of them. (Addresses Debian bug #159423). Note! This is not a -precedent for dealing intelligently with any other kind of doubled -entry in /etc/fstab! - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Removed perror declaration in lib/et/internal.h. All modern systems -can be expected to define perror() these days. Besides, the lib/et -code wasn't using perror at all anyway. :-) - - -E2fsprogs 1.28 (August 31, 2002) -================================ - -Add support for the Hashed-Tree Directory Indexing to e2fsck. Support -for setting the htree flag is not included yet, although it can be -manually turned on via the debugfs program. - -Clarified e2fsck error message which is printed when it cannot find -sufficient contiguous block when relcating filesystem metadata. - -Added support for building an EVMS plugin module for ext2/3. This -module is substantially the same as the EVMS module shipping with EVMS -1.1, with one or two bugfixes. E2fsprogs can also build this plugin -for use with EVMS 1.0 (which did not include the ext2 plugin module), -if the configure --enable-old-evms flag is given. - -Fsck will search through EVMS volumes when trying to resolve -filesystem specifications such as LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx. - -Added a new utility program, /sbin/findfs, which will return -filesystem specifications such as LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx, and prints -the device name. - -Update and clarified various man pages. (addresses Debian Bug #145044, -#146437, #131350, #151990, #144621, #141938) - -If there are no filesystems specified on fsck's command line, fsck now -treat that as if the -As options were given. Previously it would -simply do nothing. (Addresses Debian Bug #153102) - -Mke2fs no longer treats a failure to be able to clear the MD signature -at the end of the filesystem as a fatal error. (Addresses Debian Bug -#155007) - -The e2p library functions (which are used by lsattr and chattr) now -double check to make sure the file is a regular file or directory -before attempting to use the ext2 ioctls. Some device drivers -unfortunately respond to the ext2 ioctl's with unknown behaviour. -(Addresses Debian Bug #152029). - -The extended attribute handling has been updated to correspond with -the latest V2 bestbits ACL code. - -Fixed bug in e2fsck which caused it to not clear the dtime field when -processing truncated inodes on the orphan list. This could cause data -loss(!) if a filesystem is rebooted before a truncate has been -committed. - -E2fsck now uses red/black trees in pass1b, which removes some O(n**2) -algorithms. This makes e2fsck much faster in the case of severely -corrupted filesystems where a large number of blocks are claimed by a -large number of inodes. (Thanks to the 2.5 IDE device driver for -inspiring this work.) - -Resize2fs has been significantly sped up when shrinking and expanding -a filesystem by a very small number of blocks (for example, when EVMS -is converting a partition to be an EVMS legacy volume). - -Added a new option to e2fsck, -D, which will optimize or compress all -of the directories in the filesystem. - -E2fsck now catches SIGINT and SIGTERM to make sure it will can -properly clean up and only exit at safe points. Fsck will pass -SIGINT/SIGTERM to its child processes, and wait until they have all -exited before it exits. - -The uuid parsing code in the uuid library now properly complains when -an illegally formated uuid is presented to it. (Addresses Debian bug -#152891) - -Restrict use of the 2.4 setrlimit ABI f*ckup to kernels between 2.4.10 -and 2.4.17, since the workaround can cause problems when using a 2.4 -kernel with an old version of glibc built with the 2.2 headers. - -Fixed a bug in mke2fs where it wasn't properly clearing the initial -superblock used by other filesystems. (Addresses Debian bug #147256.) - -Added support for the synchronous directory feature written by Andrew -Morton. - -The debugfs program can delete directories using the rmdir command. - -Add support for 8k and 16k filesystems (for systems with page sizes -that are greater or equal to 8k or 16k, respectively). Note that -these filesystems can not be mounted on x86 systems, or other systems -with only 4k page sizes, due to limitations in the current Linux VM -code. - -Resize2fs requires that the filesystem state be valid and have no -errors; otherwise, e2fsck -f must be run first. (Previously it simply -required that the last fsck time be greater than the last mount time.) - -Configure now defaults the man pages directory to /usr/share/man on -Linux systems. - -E2fsck now offers to truncate inodes which contain too many blocks (so -that i_blocks would overflow. Also fixed handling of large sparse -files. - -E2fsck now more completely checks for symlink validity, including -requiring NULL termination and length checks. - -E2fsck will offer to try forcing a disk write to remap a bad block -after finding a read error when reading a filesystem metadata block. - -Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused the -b and -s options to crash -debugfs, as well as breaking the testb, setb, and clearb functions. - -Added a bmap command to debugfs which calculates the logical to -physical block mapping for a particular inode. - -Fixed a bug in code which checked to see if a device was mounted which -sometimes (rarely) failed in the case of a plain file. - -Fixed a bug in resize2fs where when it reported an error, it would -print a message erroneously indicating that the filesystem had been -resized before it aborted. - -When resizing a plain file which is smaller than the requested size, -resize2fs will attempt to extended the file so that programs like -e2fsck will not complain that the file is too small. - -Resize2fs will print the actual new size of the filesystem when it is -finished resizing. - -Fixed a bug in debugfs where "ls -l" would report incorrectl file type -information on big-endian systems. - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed collisions with C++ reserved words. - -Added portability fixes for building e2fsprogs on the HURD and AIX. - -Added the ext2ed program for creation of test cases. (ext2ed has many -limitations and bugs which make it unsuitable for production use.) - -The ext2fs_read_dir_block2 and ext2fs_write_dir_block now take a new -flag, EXT2_DIRBLOCK_V2_STRUCT, which will will reverse when the -name_len field is byte swampped on big-endian machines, since in the -V2 structure, name_len is a char field which is doesn't need to be -byte swapped --- except if an old-style kernel had byte-swapped the -name_len field as part of the V1 structure. - - -E2fsprogs 1.27 (March 8, 2002) -============================== - -The warning messages for mke2fs now go to standard error. - -Fixed to make sure "make check" runs all of the test programs with -LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, so that we test the libraries in the build tree. - -The mke2fs program checks the boot sector for the BSD disk label, and -avoids erasing it if it is there. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to core dump if the journal -inode was missing when it was supposed to be there. - -E2fsck now prints ranges in pass 5 when printing deltas for the block -and inode bitmaps. - -Debugfs's "ls -l" command now will print out the file type information -in the directory entry. - -Create man pages and hard links for fsck.ext3 and mkfs.ext3. If -mke2fs is invoked as mkfs.ext3, create the filesystem with a journal. - -Debugfs can now examine the experimental directory indexing -information. - -Fixed bug in debugfs which caused it to core dump if modify_inode is -called without an open filesystem. - -The debugfs lsdel command now runs its output through a pager first. - -When installing manual pages, remove the compressed manual pages first. - -Synchronized with Debian's packaging information for e2fsprogs-1.26-1. - -Fix the 2.4 resource limitation workaround introduced in 1.26 which -actually broke things on mips32, sparc32, and Alpha platforms. - -Updated the I18N code so that calls to setlocate(LC_CTYPE, 0) are made -(which is required by the newer libintl libraries). - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed various gcc -Wall complaints. - -Fixed a few memory leaks in the e2fsck journaling code, and in the -ismounted code checking for a swap device. - -Add new inode I/O abstraction interface which exports an inode as -an I/O object. - -Exported ext2_file_flush as a public interface. - -In ext2_file_write, we now mark the buffer void * argument as a const, since ext2_file_write doesn't modify the buffer. - -Lots of small random portability fixes to make e2fsprogs build under -AIX --- even without the 5L compatibility toolkit, and even using the -uber-crippled AIX native C compiler. - - -E2fsprogs 1.26 (February 3, 2002) -================================= - -Dumpe2fs will keep going now if the bad block inode can't be read. -(Previously it stopped with a fatal error.) - -E2fsck will now give an opportunity to run the journal even if the -recovery flag is not set. This is the default behaviour if e2fsck is -using a backup superblock, since the needs_recovery flag will never be -set in the backup superblock copies. - -E2fsck now automatically finds the backup superblock/group descriptors -even when the primary superblock is completely destroyed for 2k and 4k -filesystems. (Previously it just guessed/assumed that we were dealing -with a 1k filesystem in that case, and users had to manually specify -the backup superblock number.) - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck where it dereferences a null pointer when there -is a problem opening a filesystem in preen mode. - -E2fsck now handles external journals correctly; previously it trashed -the external journal device if the journal needed to be replayed. - -Work around ulimit incompatibility problem caused by recent 2.4 -kernels; the unix IO module will automatically try to set any resource -limits to be infinite on startup. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck where it wasn't allocating a new block or inode -bitmap if it wasn't present and the blocksize was 2k or 4k. - (Addresses Debian Bug #116975) - -E2fsck will check and fix botched ext3 V1 to V2 superblock updates by -clearing the new V2 fields if they do not make sense or if the ext3 -superblock is version 1 superblock. - -E2fsck will automatically relocate the ext3 journal from a visible -file (i.e., /.journal) to an hidden inode if the filesystem has been -opened read/write. This allows the users to add a journal while the -filesystem is mounted, but the next time the system is rebooted, the -journal file will disappear. This avoids problems with backups, -stupid operators with superuser bits, etc. - -Fix a bug in fsck where it would not support a filesystem type of -"auto" if the device was specified in terms of LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx. - -Fsck now supports fstab entries of the form "ext3,ext2". It will also -automatically identify reiserfs filesystems. - -The number of processes spawned by fsck can now be limited using the -FSCK_MAX_INST environment variable. - -Fsck now searchs the LVM proc hierarchy to find logical volumes which -should be searched for UUID and label information. - -Work around a bug in 2.4.10+ kernels by trying to unset the filesize -limit if at all possible, when opening a block device. (The filesize -limit shouldn't be applied against writes to a block device.) - -In mke2fs and e2fsck, specifying the -c option twice will now do -a read/write test on the disk. Update the man pages to encourage -using the -c option, and to discouraging running badblocks separately, -since users tend to forget to set the blocksize when running -badblocks. - -Mke2fs now automatically clears the immutable attribute on a -pre-existing .journal file left over from a previous failed attempt to -add a journal to an alreadyy-mounted filesystem. - -Fixed mke2fs's exit codes to consistently indicate when the mke2fs -operation failed. - -Mke2fs now creates the lost+found directory with permissions of 0700, -so that files that had previously lived in protected directory are -safe if they get dropped in lost+found and the system administrator -doesn't deal with immediately. (Addresses Debian #bug 118443) - -Mke2fs and e2fsck (and all programs that use the -ext2fs_check_if_mounted function) will now properly identify that a -device is mounted, even in cases where devfs has confused things with -multiple devices names with the same identity, or if a dim-witted -system administrator has done something stupid like creating device -file aliases in their home directory. Also now checks for swap devices -by using /proc/swaps. (Addresses Debian bug #106622) - -Added a new option (-T) to tune2fs which sets the time a filesystem -was last checked. - -Speed up e2image when creating sparse raw image files by optimizing -away excess lseek() system calls. - -Fix support of large (> 2GB) files when used as a filesystem in -mke2fs, tune2fs, debugfs, and findsuper. - -Debugfs's stat and icheck commands now properly deals with large (> -2GB) files. - -Debugfs's set_super_value command now prints out the list of valid -superblock fields which can be set using the command. - -Debugfs's rm and kill_file command now updates the superblock free block -and inode counts, thus keeping the filesystem consistent. - -Debugfs's lsdel command now takes an optional argument which allows -the user to only see the most recently deleted files. - -A new command (undel) was added to debugfs which automates -undeleting a deleted inode and linking it back to a directory. - -Debugfs's ls command now takes a new option, -d, which lists -deleted directory entries. - -Debugfs's testb, freeb, setb, and find_free_block commands now take an -optional count argument. - -Add support for a new ext2 file attribute, EXT2_NOTAIL_FL, which will -be used to signal that a particular inode should not be eligible for -tail-merging --- this is needed for programs like LILO. - -The findsuper (an unreleased, uninstalled utility program) has been -improved to add extra validity checks and to add a progress meter. -(It is still an unsupported program; the officially supported way to -recover from a trashed partition table is to use gpart; findsuper is -for wizards only. :-) - -Debugfs was fixed to compile with "configure --disable-swapfs". - -Cleaned up various manual pages. (Addresses Debian bug #119624, #120171) - -Added new translation file for Turkish. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fix general gcc -Wall complaints. - -E2fsprogs (mostly) works with the dietlibc. - -The programming texinfo file has been expanded to include description -of additional libext2fs functions. (Still not compeltely done, but a -lot of the more important functions have been documented.) - -Added a umask structure to struct_ext2_filsys, which currently only -modifies the behaviour of ext2fs_mkdir(), but if we add any file -creation functions to libext2fs, we should also make sure they respect -the umask setting. - -The build-rpm script was fixed to be a bit more safe. - -The tests' Makefile now has a way of automating test case creation -for e2fsck, using "make testnew". - -Created a new function, ext2fs_dir_iterate2 which passes more -information to the callback function (identical to the one used by -ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate). The directory iterator functions take a -new flag, DIRENT_FLAG_INCLUDE_REMOVED, which will return deleted -directory entries. If the directory entry is deleted, the callback -function will be called with the entry paraemter set to -DIRENT_DELETED_FILE. - -Added new functions, ext2fs_inode_alloc_stats and -ext2fs_block_alloc_stats, which takes updates block/inode allocation -statistics in the bitmaps, block group descriptors, and superblock -when inodes or blocks are allocated or deallocated. - - -E2fsprogs 1.25 (September 20, 2001) -=================================== - -This is primarily a bug-fix release; no new features were added, but -there are a number of embarassing bug fixes and cleanups applied. - -Fix a bug mke2fs which causes stack garbage to be written to disk when -zapping disk sectors. (This bug could cause mke2fs to core dump for -some kernels, I suspect with security enhancement patches.) - -Remove unneeded #include of which was breaking -building e2fsprogs on the Hurd. (Addresses Debian bug #112414.) - -Updated tune2fs man page to reflect the fact that adding or removing a -journal doesn't require running e2fsck. - -Remove use of AC_REQUIRE from autoconf which had been used to prevent -AC_CANONICAL_HOST from being called twice; unfortunately this causes -recent autoconf to bomb out since they don't allow AC_REQUIRE to be -used outside of autoconf macros. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be -necessary any more, anyway. - -E2fsck will now not fall back to an alternate superblock if the user -specifies the superblock location explicitly on the command-line. -This allows easier recovery from a situation where the primary -superblock and block groups are slightly corrupted, but the backup -superblocks are completely broken. - -Fix problem which caused compile_et and mk_cmds to blow up if -e2fsprogs was in a directory with a pathname that contained spaces. - -We are now more paranoid about checking the entry in /etc/mtab to make -sure the filesystem is really mounted, since some broken distributions -(read: Slackware) don't initialize /etc/mtab before checking non-root -filesystems. (Slackware also doesn't check the root filesystem -separately, and reboot if the root filesystem had changes applied to -it, which is dangerous and broken, but there's nothing I can do about -that.) - -Make UUID library C++ friendly by adding appropriate extern "C" -declarations and using const in the function declarations. - -Fix up the com_err texinfo file so that it can product a valid info -file (previously, it could only be used to generate paper -documentation using texinfo.tex). - - -E2fsprogs 1.24a (September 2, 2001) -=================================== - -Fix brown-paper bug in mke2fs which caused it to segfault when -printing the version string. - - -E2fsprogs 1.24 (August 30, 2001) -================================ - -Revert the BLKGETSIZE64 support, since for some distributions, this -ioctl has been used by an unofficial kernel patch to update the last -sector on the disk, and this was causing disk corruption problems as a -result. - -Mke2fs is now more careful about zapping swap space signatures and -other filesystem/raid superblock magic values so that programs like -mount who try to use hueristics to determine the filesystem type of a -partition are less likely to be confused. - -E2fsck will no longer complain if the the mode of EXT2_RESIZE_INO is a -regular file (since Andreas Dilger's on-line resizing tools will set -its mode bits). - -Fixed some minor texinfo, man pages nits for spelling errors, -texinfo warnings, etc. (Addresses Debian bug #110621.) - -E2fsprogs program no longer print the filesystem version number -(i.e. 0.5b), since it only confuses people and doesn't serve any real -purpose. - -E2fsck will once again compile under libc5, since it will supply its -own version of strnlen if necesssary. - -mke2fs and tune2fs will allow the use of UUID= or LABEL= specifiers -when specifying the external journal device. tune2fs will also search -devices looking for the externla journal debice when removing. - -E2fsprogs 1.23 (August 15, 2001) -================================ - -Add initial support for extended attributes (EA); e2fsck will -correctly handle a filesystem with EA's and check the EA blocks for -corruptions. - -E2fsck's symlink sanity checking has been cleaned up. It now checks -the i_size value of fast symlinks, and checks for immutable flags -being set of symlinks, etc. - -E2fsck now offers to clear inodes which are special files that have a -non-zero i_blocks or i_size field. (The i_size field check was in the -previous version of the code, but due to a bug it didn't offer to -clear the inode unless i_size and i_size_high were both non-zero.) - -E2image can now create "raw" image files, which only contain the -filesystem metadata placed in a spare file so that e2fsck, dumpe2fs, -debugfs, etc., can be run directly on the raw image file. - -Add support for the 64-bit block device patches. - -Fixed bugs in creating external journals with a 1k blocksize. - -Add initial support for external journals (so long as the external -journal only supports a single filesystem) in e2fsck. - -Remove requirement for needing to run fsck on a filesystem after -removing a journal (either internal or external). - -The man pages now document how to create and manage external journals. - -Speed up the check of an ext3 filesystems by avoiding a needless flush -of all of the superblock and block group descriptors. - -Speed up creating an internal journal using tune2fs in the case where -the filesystem has a lot blocks already allocated. - -Tune2fs has been fixed to make sure that only error messages go to -stderr, and normal message go to stdout. (Addresses Debian bug #108555) - -Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs; if -O none is passed to mke2fs, it will -now not set the sparse_super feature. (Addresses Debian bug #108165) - -Add support in fsck for the filesystem type "auto". - -Fsck -A will not try to interpret device names for filesystems which -have a pass number is 0. (Addresses Debian bug #106696). - -Fsck prints a warning message if now valid filesystems are passed to -it. (Addresses Debian Bug #107458.) - -E2fsck now gives an explicit warning if there filesystem still has -errors at the end of the run. (Addresses Debian bug #104502) - -E2fsck will set the EXT2_ERROR_FS flag if the journal superblock -reflects an error. E2fsck will also not run the orphan list if the -filesystem contains errors, since the orphan list might be corrupted. - -E2fsck now prints the number of large files when given the -v option. - -Fixed minor memory leaks in e2fsck. - -Some minor man pages updates. (Addresses Debian bug #30833, #108174) - - -E2fsprogs 1.22 (June 22, 2001) -============================== - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck's handling of orphan inodes which are special -files (i.e., block/character device files, named FIFO's, etc.). - -Fixed a bug accidentally introduced in e2fsprogs 1.21 which caused -tune2fs to fail at adding a journal to a mounted filesystem. - -Fixed a few big-endian bugs in e2fsprogs - * The directory block functions were accidentally reporting - some directories as corrupted when they weren't. - * If e2fsprogs is compiled --disable-swapfs, the C language - equivalents weren't being included for big-endian platforms. - (Fixes Debian bug #101686). - -Fixed a Hurd compilation problem. (Addresses Debian bug #101361) - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Use platform independent method of defining the BLKFLSBUF and FDFLUSH -ioctls, and allow them to be defined for non-i386 platforms. - -The uuid.h header file is now protected against multiple inclusions. - -E2fsprogs is now being developed using BitKeeper. Changed the test -scripts to deal with BK's stripping CR characgters from text files, -and changed the top-level Makefile.in to avoid including BitKeeper -files when generating the source tarball. - - -E2fsprogs 1.21 (June 15, 2001) -============================== - -Added new configure flags which allow a subset e2fsprogs to be built; -this is most useful for boot floopies, since the resulting shared -libraries and programs are slimmed down by removing features that -aren't necessary for a boot floppy. The new flags that were added -are: --disable-swapfs, which removes support for byte swapping old -legacy PPC/68k filesystems, --disable-debugfs, which removes support -for debugfs from the libext2fs library, --disable-imager, which -removes support for the e2image program, and --disable-resizer, which -removes support for resize2fs. - -E2fsck now prints the number of mounts or days elapsed since the last -check when e2fsck is forced to check an otherwise clean filesystem. - -Tune2fs now prints an informative message about how often a filesystem -will be checked when adding a journal to the filesystem, to remind the -user that he/she may want to adjust those parameters using tune2fs --c/-i. - -Worked around hurd brain-damage which causes e2fsck to sometimes -believe a filesystem is the root filesystem based on device numbers -(since Hurd doesn't have dev_t's, which is arguably a POSIX.1 -violation). - -Fixed a bug introduced in 1.20 which caused e2fsck to abort with an -erroneous error with the -F option was specified. - -Fixed a ext3 recovery bug in the revoke handling; synchronized with -ext3 0.7a. - -Fixed two bugs in e2fsck's handling of dup block handling, dealing -with relatively uncommon edge cases: a directory with an indirect -block which is claimed by another file, and when the last inode in the -filesystem has blocks claimed by another file. - -E2fsck now checks to see if the i_size field of a fast symlink is too -big, and offers to clear the symlink if so. - -E2fsck now checks to see if i_size_high of special files is non-zero, -and offers to clear i_size_high. - -Fix e2fsck's handling of incompatible journal flags so that the user -has chance to abort, and then has the option to clear out the journal -entirely. (Addresses Debian bug #98527.) - -Fixed a bug in fsck which could cause it to core dump if a mix of -standard and non-standard device names are used in /etc/fstab. -(Debian bug #100559) - -Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused read errors when copying a file to -not be noticed. - -The debugfs set_super_value command can now modify the s_lastcheck field. - -Fixed a bug in lsattr and chattr which was accidentally introduced in -1.20 to support > 2GB files; both lsattr and chattr wasn't reading -directories correctly because the change modified the layout of struct -dirent to be incompatible with the libe2p shared library. - -Cleaned up the mke2fs manual page and included a discussion about why -it's good to periodically check the filesystem even when journaling is -enabled. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fix general gcc -Wall complaints. - -The types needed by the ext2 header files are now provided by -lib/ext2fs/ext2_types.h, instead of include/asm/types.h. - -Integers are now preferred to longs when trying to find a 32-bit type -in ext2_types.h. Also, if linux/types.h has already been defined, -don't try to redefine the types. - -Fixed make depend script so that it automatically corrects the -pathname cleanups performed by make -M, so I don't have to fix them up -by hand. - -Fixed the d_loaddump test case to be more robust, and not depend on -bash'isms. - -Removed debugfs's dependence on pread(), which was accidentally -intrudced in e2fsprogs 1.20 - -Fixed a performance bug in the libext2fs's icount routine; the size -estimate of the icount array was incorrectly being calculated. - -Removed use of the badblocks compatibility functions in the e2fsprogs -programs. - -Added paranoia code which protects against strange cases where /etc -isn't on the root filesystem, or if /etc/mtab doesn't exist. - -The header file ext2_types.h is now installed. - -Autoconf is used to determine when we are on big-endian machines, -instead of doing run-time tests, to save a few bytes of code. - -The ext2fs_mark_generic_bitmap and ext2fs_unmark_generic_bitmap -functions are no longer inline functions, which saves space and -doesn't really cost any real performance. - -The ext2fs library no longer depends on the e2p library. (What need -there was of it --- namely, fsetflags, was coded in-line). - -Fixed the makefile so that lib/ext2fs/ext2_types.h is generated even -when the user is stupid and tries compiling the package using "make -install" as root. - -Miscellaneous code cleanups: - * Added missing files from Makefile.in's SRCS file, so that - their dependencies would be properly calculated. - * Removed redundant code - * Fixed comments in code - * Removed no-longer unneeded argsused #pragma. - - -E2fsprogs 1.20 (May 20, 2001) -============================= - -Add support for replaying the ext3 journal purely in user mode, -including handling the orphaned inode list. Used code contributed by -Andreas Dilger, with bug fixes and the orphaned inode handling done -by Theodore Ts'o. - -The mke2fs and tune2fs programs can create or modify a filesystem to -include an ext3 journal. Tune2fs also can be used to remove an ext3 -journal from a filesystem. - -E2fsck will now check for the existence of a linked list of orphan -inodes in the superblock, and clear those inodes before starting the -rest of the filesystem check (but after the journal playback). - -E2fsck now validates the file descriptor passed to the -C option, -which saves against the completion bar getting written to an -unexpected location, such as the disk being checked. (Debian -bug/wishlist #55220) - -E2fsck will now bump the filesystem revision number from zero to one -if any of the compatibility bits are set. - -Fixed a bug where a badly corrupted directory on a big endian system -could cause e2fsck to die with a bus error. The -ext2fs_read_dir_block() and ext2fs_process_dir_block() functions in -the ext2 library now does alignment sanity checks on the rec_len field -of the directory entry before using it. - -The ext2 library has been enhanced to make tune2fs safe to run on -mounted filesystems. (Users could usually get away with using tune2fs -on mounted filesystems before, but with the advent of ext3 and -journaling, it became important to make tune2fs was *really* safe for -use even when the filesystem being modified is mounted.) E2label is -now implemented by tune2fs using an argv[0] dispatch, so that e2label -is also now safe for use on mounted filesystems. - -Added a new program, e2image, which creates a backup of critical ext2 -filesystem data structures. The generated image file can be examined -using dumpe2fs and debugfs. In the future, e2fsck will be able to use -the image file to help recover very badly damaged filesystems. - -Fixed a number of LFS bugs in e2fsck; very, very large (> 2**42) files -no longer cause e2fsck to bomb out. Also treat files > 2GB as being -large file when deciding whether or not the filesystem has large files. - -Fixed lsattr and chattr so that they work correctly on large files. -(Fixes Debian bug #72690.) - -Removed limitation in get_device_size() which imposed a one terrabyte -filesystem limitation. (Most 2.2 kernels still have a signed int -problem which cause 1 TB block device limitation. Fortunately, the -kernel patches to fix this are much easier than fixing the 2TB -limitation in the kernel. :-) - -A max_mount_count of zero is now treated as if no mount count were -set. (Previously, no mount count was indicated by using -1, and a -mount count of zero caused e2fsck to always be run.) - -Mke2fs supports two new filesystem types largefile and largefile4. - -Mke2fs now adds some randomness in s_max_mount_count so that multiple -filesystems won't be all checked at the same time under normal -operations. - -Fixed bug in the progress bar printing code which could cause e2fsck -to core dump on an illegal filesystem. - -Fixed bug in fsck which could allow more than one instance of e2fsck -to be printing a progress bar. (Debian bug #65267) - -Fsck using a UUID or a LABEL specifier will work even if devfs is -compiled into the kernel and not mounted. If the pathnames in -/proc/partitions are incorrect, fsck will search /dev for the correct -device (using the new ext2fs_find_block_device library function). -Fsck now also checks the RAID devices first so that they are properly -found when they are in use. Support has also been added to support -additional IDE disks and the DAC 960 device names. (Debian bug #94159) - -Fixed a bug in fsck which caused it not deal properly with 16 -byte long filesystem labels. - -Fsck's -t option has been made a lot more flexible. The semantics for -what happens if a comma-separated list to fsck has been regularized, -and it is now possible to filter what filesystems will get checked -based what is in the filesystem's fstab entry's option field. (Debian -bug #89483.) - -The dumpe2fs program can now print out the group description -information in hex, and also prints the location of the superblock and -block group descriptor for those block groups that have them. - -Mke2fs now clears the ext2 superblock before it starts creating a -filesystem, so that the superblock magic number is only written if the -filesystem creation process successfully completes. - -The debugfs program's stat command now pretty-prints the blocks used -by an inode so that it's more compact and informative. - -The debugfs stats command now uses the same libe2p code (which is used -by dumpe2fs) to print the superblock header information. This is more -complete, and it avoids a bit of code duplication. - -Added a new debugfs command, set_super_value (ssv) which allows the -user to set arbitrary superblock fields. - -Debugfs was extended to support inode numbers in hex (by prefixing -them with 0x), and so that modify_inode can set the inode generation -number. Also, there is now a new function command called logdump -which will dump an ext3 journal. - -Fixed a bug in debugfs so that quitting out of the pager doesn't kill -debugfs. - -Debugfs's dump command now stops immediately upon reporting a disk -read error. (Fixed a bug in ext2fs_file_read library routine which -caused debugfs not to stop.) (Debian bug #79163) - -On systems with /proc/mounts (mainly Linux systems), /proc/mounts is -checked before /etc/mtab is used, since /proc/mounts is more likely to -be accurate. - -Added portability fixes for Solaris and Linux/ia64. - -Various manual pages were clarified and cleaned up. (Fixed debian -bugs #63442, #67446, and #87216) - - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -The e2fsck message printer now supports %Iu and %Ig, which will print -out the inode's user and group owners, respectively. - -E2fsprogs now includes its own version of include/linux/ext2_fs.h, so -that no longer dependent on the system having the correct version of -the kernel header files. - -Added a new function to libext2, ext2fs_find_block_device(), which -searches the system (i.e., /dev, /devfs, /devices) for a pathname to a -device given its device number. - -Added a new function to libext2, ext2fs_sync_device, which centralizes -all of the places which might try to use the BLKFLSBUF or FDFLUSH -ioctls (and usually failing to define them since the system header -files don't usually do this for us, and we're trying to avoid usage of -kernel include files now). - -Added new utility programs in tests/progs: random_exercise and -hold_inode. They aren't built by default; they're useful for -exercising ext3 filesystem code. - -Added a new ext2 filesystem flag, EXT2_FLAG_SUPER_ONLY, which causes -the filesystem close functions to only update the superblock, and to -not touch the block group descriptors. Needed by tune2fs when -modifying a mounted filesystem. - -Got rid of struct ext2fs_sb and replaced it with the standard struct -ext2_super_block from include/linux/ext2_fs.h. Note: this may break -source (but not binary) compatibility of some users of the ext2 -library. Those applications should just simply do a global search and -replace of struct ext2fs_sb with struct ext2_super_block, and include -the new header file which defines it. - -The ino_t type has been renamed ext2_ino_t to protect applications -that attempt to compile -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, since this -inexplicably changes ino_t(!?). So we use ext2_ino_t to avoid an -unexpected ABI change. - -The Makefiles have been reworked so that "make check" can be run from -the top-level Makefile. - -Fix general gcc -Wall complaints and removed dead code. - -Remove use of NOARGS, because we assume everyone does ANSI C these -days. - -Added build-rpm script from sct. - -New functions ext2fs_image_{inode,super,bitmap}_{read,write} added -to support e2image. - -New function ext2fs_flush_icache which must be called if the -application program modifies the inode table blocks without going -through ext2fs_write_inode() interface. - -New ext2fs_check_mount_point() function, which will return the mount -point of a device if mounted. - -The io_channel abstraction now has an optional interface, -io_channel_write_range, which allows specific byte ranges to be -written. - -The unix_io IO channel now supports write-through caching, so that -journal creation is more efficient. - -Added x86 assembly language routines to support byte swapping, to -reduce executable size. - -Fixed bug in the utility program subst so that it's possible to -replace a substitution variable with a zero-length string. - -Fixed numbering e2fsck pass1 problem numbers; an extra zero had -slipped into some of the problem number. - -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 journaling 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 agressive 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 swampped 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 filestype 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. - -Debufs'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. - - - -E2fsprogs 1.18 (November 10, 1999) -================================== - -Fix a core dumping bug in e2fsck if an imagic inode is present or -(more rarely) if the filesystem is badly corrupted enough that e2fsck -has to restart pass 1 processing. E2fsck now closes the filesystem -before freeing a large number of its data structures, so in the case -of future memory faults, at least the fixed filesystem will be fully -written out. - -If a filesystem doesn't support imagic inodes, and e2fsck discovers an -imagic inode, it will offer to clear the imagic flag. - -E2fsck will now offer to clear the immutable flag on special files -(device/socket/fifos) when running it in non-preen mode. - -E2fsck will now set the filetype when creating /lost+found, and when -connected orphaned inodes to /lost+found. - -Debugfs's ncheck and icheck commands now handles the case where there -are bad blocks in the inode table without bombing out. - -The badblocks list processing code has been made more efficiently for -appending a large number of (ordered) badblocks to the badblocks list. - -Some minor man page updates. - -Fsck now allows interactive e2fsck's when using fsck -As (not a common -mode, but some people like to do this in boot scripts for silly reasons). - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -The internal e2fsck problem code for PR_2_SPLIT_DOT was fixed to meet -with the problem code convention. - -The badblocks list regression test program has been updated to work -with previously made API name changes. - -The ext2fs_free() command now uses the new badblocks API to avoid -using the compatibility layer. - -Added new regression test cases; the run_e2fsck test script now -supports the ability for a test case to run a prepratory command -before running e2fsck. - -E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999) -================================= - -Fixed nasty typo in fsck which caused parallelized fsck's to go into an -infinite loop. - -Fixed a bug in fsck where it used strncmp to compare a binary UUID, -thus potentially causing problems if a binary UUID contained a NULL -character. - -E2fsck now uses stricter checks for directory entries in pass 2: -zero-length filenames are not allowed; neither are 8 byte long -directory entries. - -The debugfs "dirty" command now clears the filesystem valid bit. -(Previously this just set the dirty-as-in-needs-writing-out-to-disk -bit in the in-core superblock image. The new functionality is more -what the user expects, and is more useful.) - -Added a debugging hook to test parallel fsck; if the environment -variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL, then filesystems on the same drive -will be checked in parallel when they normally would not be. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed some #ifdef's for compilation under the Hurd OS. - -Fixed minor W2K compatibility problems. - -Fixed some miscellaneous GCC warnings. - - -E2fsprogs 1.16 (October 22, 1999) -================================= - -Fixed a race condition bug in fsck; when printing a progress bar, if -checking multiple filesystems in parallel, it was possible for fsck to -send e2fsck a SIGUSR1 signal before e2fsck had installed its signal -handler, which would cause it to terminate with a signal 10. - -E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the -INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature turned on. It can be used to convert a -filesystem into using or not using FILETYPE feature. - -E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the IMAGIC feature -turned on (this is used on Linux AFS servers). - -The mke2fs program now creates filesystems that have the filetype and -sparse_superblock features enabled by default, unless it is run on a -pre-2.2 kernel. These features are not supported by a pre-2.2 kernel, -so there is now a new flag -O which allows the user to specify with -which features she would like to create the filesystem; "mke2fs -O -none" will create a filesystsem compatible with 2.0 kernels. - -The tune2fs program now has a -O option which allows the user to set -and reset "safe" filesystem features. Currently, the only ones which -allows to be modified are the filetype and sparse_superblock features. -Note setting or clearing either feature will require running e2fsck on -the filesystem afterwards. (n.b. Clearing the sparse_superblock feature -requires that there is enough free space on the filesystem for the -extra superblocks which will be created by e2fsck.) - -Debugfs can now set and print filesystem features in the superblock -using the "features" command. Dumpe2fs will print out the complete -set of features when listing the superblock. - -Dumpe2fs has new options -f (force) and -h (header-only). - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause the PROGRAMMING ERROR/bonehead -message to come up. This could happen when decrementing or -incrementing a link count could result in an overflow. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck where the block count on the lost+found -directory would not be properly incremented when the directory was -expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be allocated. - -E2fsck now makes some additional sanity checks on the superblock to -avoid crashing or giving a memory allocation error if some of the -values in the superblock are unresonable (but the superblock otherwise -looks valid). - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck where a very badly corrupted filesystem might -require two passes to completely fix the filesystem. This happened if -an inode claimed blocks that was part of the filesystem metadata -(typically, when garbage was written into an inode table or indirect -block, since this kind of filesystem corruption normally doesn't -happen otherwise). - -On the Alpha, glibc declares st_flags although it isn't actually used; -the configure script was improved to detect this case so that -e2fsprogs can avoid using the non-functional stat field. - -The manual pages were updated to use a more consistent formatting -style consistent with standard Unix man pages. Mke2fs's man page -added documentation for a few previously undocumented options. - -Fixed minor display bugs in tune2fs and mke2fs. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Improved portability of e2fsprogs to non-Unix systems (in particular, NT). - -Added features to parse and print feature strings into the e2p library. -(e2p_feature2string, e2p_string2feature, e2p_edit_feature). - -ext2fs_mkdir() and ext2fs_new_dir_block() now creates directories -whose directory entries contain proper filetype information if the -filesystem supports it. - -ext2fs_link() now uses the low 3 bits of its flags parameter to pass -the directory entry filetype information. This is used to set the -directory entry filetype information if the filesystem supports it. - -Fixed a bug in ext2fs_expand_dir() where the block count in a -directory's inode would not be properly incremented when the directory -was expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be -allocated. - - -E2fsprogs 1.15 (July 18, 1999) -============================== - -Add configuration checks so that e2fsprogs will compile cleanly on -Linux 2.3 kernels that have renamed i_version to i_generation. - -E2fsck now prints a progress/completion bar (and not just a simple -spinner) if the -C0 option is requested or if it receives a SIGUSR1 -signal. Fsck will automatically manage the (potentially muliple) -e2fsck processes to print completion bars if it is given a -C option, -with the right thing happening if multiple filesystems are being -checked in parallel. - -Mke2fs now has better automatic hueristics to determine the filesystem -parameters to be used for a particular filesystem. Added a new option --T which allows the user to specify how the filesystem is to be used, -which helps mke2fs do a better job selecting the filesystem parameters. - -Mke2fs now creates revision 1 filesystems by default, and with the -sparse superblock feature enabled. The sparse superblock feature is -not understood by Linux 2.0 kernels, so they will only allow read-only -mounts of filesystems with this sparse superblocks. - -Fix bug where if /dev/null couldn't be opened (should never happen), -e2fsck would hang in a tight loop. - -Make e2fsck handle the case where /lost+found isn't a directory. - -E2fsck now uses mallinfo if it exists to get accurate statistics about -its memory usage. - -Fix bug in e2fsck where it wouldn't check to see if a disconnected -inode had any problems before connecting it to /lost+found. - -Add check to e2fsck so it makes sure that total number of inodes in -the filesystem is a sane number. - -Fix fencepost error when clearing an the end of the block bitmap which -caused the last block in the bitmap not to get cleared. - -Cleaned up a number of messages in e2fsck: - * The message "Group's #'s copy of the group descriptor..." - was fixed so that the correct number would be displayed. - * Added missing space in the "disk write-protected" error messsage - * Cleaned up the error message printed when a non-interactive - e2fsck needs to abort a check because the filesystem - appears to be mounted. - -Added a new command-line utility, uuidgen, which will create and print -a UUID. - -Make debugfs's icheck command more robust by checking to make sure an -inode has valid blocks before interarting over the inode's blocks. - -UUID generation now uses a random-based scheme whenever possible to -prevent potential privacy problems. - -Man pages for all of the UUID functions in the lirbary were added. - -Fixed bug in fsck so it won't coredump if a filesystem not in -/etc/fstab is given to it. - -Fsck now understands the UUID=xxxx and LABEL=yyyy forms in /etc/fstab -that most of the other mount utilities understands. - -Mke2fs will make a filesystem even if it appears mounted if the force -option is given. - -Dumpe2fs has new command-line options which allow a filesystem expert -to specify the superblock and blocksize when opening a filesystem. -This is mainly useful when examining the remains of a toasted -filesystem. - -The badblocks program has been updated to display correctly on disks -with large block numbers. - -The badblocks program no longer gives spurious errors when errors -occur on non-block boundaries, which is common if the blocksize is -larger than 1k. - -Mke2fs will sync the disk device every MKE2FS_SYNC block groups if the -MKE2FS_SYNC environment variable is set. This is to work around a VM -bug in the 2.0 kernel. I've heard a report that a RAID user was able -to trigger it even using a 2.2 kernel, but hopefully it will not be -needed for most Linux 2.2 users. - -Fixed miscellaneous documentation and man pages. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Cleaned up functions such as pass1_get_blocks, pass1_read_inode which -in e2fsck's pass1.c really should have been static. - -The return value of the uuid_compare() function was changed to make it -match with the convetions used by strcmp, memcmp, and Paul Leach's -UUID sample document. - -The "make depend" process has now been made more automated; it now -automatically word-wraps the dependencies, and only replaces source -Makefile.in if there has been a change in the dependencies. Also, a -top-level "make depend" now recurses through all the subdirectories -automatically. - -The Makefile in .../util has been changed so that subst is built using -the native C compiler during a cross-compilation, since the subst -program is only used during the build process. Also add an explicit -rule to build util/subst by cd'ing to the correct directory and -running Makefile. - -The man directories are defined in terms mandir, so that the configure -script can override the location of the manual pages. - -The config files have been updated to recognize new machine types for -both the i386 and alpha families. - -Fsck has been modified so that it will accurately create an -fsck_instance even when the noexecute flag is set. This allows for -accurate debugging of the fsck pass structure. Also, when the verbose -flag is given twice, fsck will print debugging information about when -fsck is waiting for jobs to finish. - - -E2fsprogs 1.14 (January 9, 1999) -================================ - -Fix the fstab parsing code so that it can handle blank lines and -comment characters. Also, missing pass numbers need to be treated as -zero. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck where under some circumstances (when e2fsck -needs to restart processing after fixing an egregious inconsistency) -it would try to access already freed memory. - -E2fsck now prints non-printable characters in directory entries and -pathnames using '^' and 'M-' notation. - -Fixed chattr so that it will ignore symbolic links when doing -recursive descent traversals. For both chattr and lsattr, no longer -print the version string unless the -V option is given. - -Allow the system administrator to directly specify the number of -inodes desired in the filesystem, for some special cases where this is -necessary. - -Fix portability problems so that e2fsprogs can be compiled under Linux -1.2 systems and Solaris systems. - -Update the config.guess file with a more recent version that will -identify newer Linux platforms. - -Programmer's notes ------------------- - -Ext2fs_read_inode and ext2fs_write_inode will now return an error if -an inode number of zero is passed to them. - -E2fsprogs 1.13 (December 15, 1998) -================================== - -Fixed a bug in debugfs where an error messages weren't getting printed -when the ext2 library routines to read inodes returned errors in the -stat, cmri and rm commands. - -Fixed a bug in mke2fs so that if a ridiculous inode ratio parameter is -provided, it won't create an inode table smaller than the minimum -number of inodes required for a proper ext2 filesystem. - -Fsck now parses the /etc/fstab file directly (instead of using -getmntent()), so that it can distinguish between a missing pass number -field and pass number field of zero. This caused problems for -diskless workstations where all of the filesystems in /etc/fstab have -an explicit pass number of zero, and fsck could not distinguish this -from a /etc/fstab file with missing pass numbers. - -E2fsck will create a /lost+found directory if there isn't one in the -filesystem, since it's safer to create the lost+found directory before -it's needed. - -Fixed e2fsck so that it would detect bogus immutable inodes which -happen to be sockets and FIFO files, and offer to clear them. - -If a filesystem has multiple reasons why it needs to be checked, and -one of the reasons is that it is uncleanly mounted, e2fsck will print -that as the reason why the filesystem is being checked. - -Cleaned up the output routines of mke2fs so that it doesn't overflow -an 80 column display when formating really big filesystems. - -Added a sanity check to e2fsck to make sure that file descriptors 0, -1, 2 are open before opening the hard disk. This avoids a problem -where a broken program might exec e2fsck with those file descriptors -closed, which would cause disastrous results if the kernel returns a -file descriptor for the block device which is also used by FILE * -stdout. - -Fixed up the e2fsck progress reporting functions so that the values -reliably reach 100% at the completion of all of the e2fsck passes. - -Fixed minor documentation bugs in man pages and usage messages. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed a number of lint warnings in the ext2fs library and potential -portability problems from other OS's header files that might define -CPP macros for names like "max" and "min". - -ext2fs_badblocks_list_add() has been made more efficient when it needs -to grow the bad blocks list. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to dereference a freed pointer -just before exiting. - -Fixed the substition process for generating the mk_cmds and compile_et -scripts so that they will work outside of the build tree. - -Add sanity check to e2fsck so that if an internal routine -(ext2fs_get_dir_info) returns NULL, avoid dereferencing the pointer -and causing a core dump. This should never happen, but... - -E2fsprogs 1.12 (July 9, 1998) -================================== - -E2fsprogs now works with glibc (at least with the version shipped wtih -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 subsitutes 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 wheren't explicit enough. - -Added special case byte-swapping code if compiling on the PowerPC, to -accomodate 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 fucntion 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 generla, 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. - - -E2fsprosg 1.11 (June 17, 1997) -============================== - -Fixed e2fsck to detect (previously ignored) conflicts between the -superblock or block group descriptors and block bitmaps, inode -bitmaps, and inode tables. - -Fixed bug in e2fsck so that when the message printed out when a block -or inode bitmap conflicts with other data, it has the correct group -number. - -Fixed bug in e2fsck and mke2fs where the blocksize wasn't being passed -to badblocks. This meant that not all of the filesystem was being -tested for bad blocks! - -Fixed an array boundary overrun case which cropped up in -ext2fs_badblocks_list_test when a user tried running "mke2fs -c --b 4096". - -Adjusted the number of columns printed by mke2fs when displaying the -superblock backups to avoid running over 80 columns when making a -really big filesystem. - -Fixed up the man pages for e2fsck, debugfs, badblocks, chattr, -dumpe2fs, fsck, mke2fs, and tune2fs (typos and other minor grammar -fixes), thanks to some suggestions from Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net). - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Fixed install rule in lib/ss so that ss_err.h is actually getting -installed. - -Fixed bug in ext2fs_copy_bitmap; the destination bitmap wasn't getting -bassed back to the caller. - -Fixed bug in ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup; it had not been -setting the current inode number (which meant this function wasn't -working at all). - -Fixed bug in ext2fs_resize_generic_bitmap; it had not be zeroing all -blocks in the bitmap when increasing the size of the bitmap. - -Changed the initial number of blocks allocated by ext2fs_init_dblist() -to be more realistic. - -Added a new function ext2fs_allocate_group_table, which sets up the -group descriptor information (and allocates inode and block bitmaps, -and inode tables for a particular group). The function was created by -factoring out code form ext2fs_allocate_tables(). - -Added a new function ext2fs_move_blocks which takes a bitmap of the -blocks to be moved, and moves them to another location on the -boardboard. - -Make the unix_io channel's io_channel_flush implementation calls sync() -to to flush the kernel buffers to disk. - -Added a new function ext2fs_dblist_count returns the number of -directory blocks in dblist. - - -E2fsprogs 1.10 (April 24, 1997) -=============================== - -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 , 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. - -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 -cirmcustances, 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!) - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -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). - -E2fsprogs 1.09 (April 14, 1997) -=============================== - -Fixed bug in mke2fs (really in lib/ext2fs/initialize.c) which was -accidentally introduced in the 1.08 release. The overhead calculation -was accidentally removed, which caused ext2fs_initialize() to not -notice when the filesystem size needed to be adjusted down because -there wasn't enough space in the last block group. - -Fixed bug in version parsing library routine; it was always parsing -the library version string, instead of using the passed-in string. - -Clarified chattr man page. - -E2fsprogs 1.08 (April 10, 1997) -=============================== - -E2fsck 1.07 was very slow when checking very large filesystems with a -lot of files that had hard links (i.e., news spools). This was fixed -by seriously revamping the icount abstraction. Added a formal test -suite for the icount abstraction. - -Debugfs now has a "-l" option to the "ls" command, which lists the -inode number, permissions, owner, group, size, and name of the files -in the directory. - -Fix a bug in e2fsck where when a directory had its blocks moved to -another location during the pass 1b processing, the directory block -list wasn't updated, so pass 2 wouldn't check (and correct) the -correct directory block. - -E2fsck will now treat inodes which contain blocks which are claimed by -the filesystem metadata by treating them as multiply claimed blocks. -This way, the data in those blocks can be copied to a new block during -the pass 1b--1d processing. - -E2fsck will attempt to determine the correct superblock number and -display it in the diagnostic and warning messages if possible. - -Add support for a new (incompatible) feature, "sparse_super". This -feature reduces the number of blocks which contain copies of backup -superblocks and block group descriptors. (It is only an incompatible -feature because of a bug in ext2_free_blocks.) mke2fs and tune2fs now -support a new -s option; e2fsck will recognize filesystems built with -this feature turned on. - -E2fsck now checks the library to make sure is the correct version, -using new library functions. (This helps to diagnose incorrectly -installed e2fsprogs distributions.) - -Dumpe2fs now prints more information; its now prints the the -filesystem revision number, the filesystem sparse_super feature (if -present), the block ranges for each block group, and the offset from -the beginning of the block group. - -Mke2fs now distributes the inode and block bitmap blok so that the -won't be concentrated in one or two disks in RAID/striping setups. -Also, if the user chooses a 2k or 4k block group, mke2fs will try to -choose the largest blocks per group that be chosen. (For 2k blocks, -you can have up to 16384 blocks/group; for 4k blocks, you can have up -to 32768 blocks/group.) Previously mke2fs would not allow -specification of more than 8192 blocks per group, even if you were -using a 2k or 4k block group. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Added a new function ext2fs_create_icount2() which takes a "hint" -argument. This hint argument presets the icount array with the list -of inodes which actually need to be in the icount array. This really -helps to speed up e2fsck. - -Added a new function ext2fs_icount_validate() which checks the rep -invariant for the icount structure. This is used mostly for testing. - -The error mesasage given when a bad inode number is passed to -test_generic_bitmap to reflect EXT2FS_TEST_ERROR (instead of -EXT2FS_UNMARK_ERROR). - -Added a new function ext2fs_set_dir_block which sets the block of a -dblist entry, given the directory inode and blockcnt. - -Added a new function ext2fs_get_library_version() which returns the -current library version, and ext2fs_parse_version_string() which -returns a version number based on a e2fsprogs version string. - -The icount functions will return EINVAL if the passed in inode number -is out of bounds. - -E2fsprogs 1.07 (March 9, 1997) -============================== - -E2fsck is now uses much less memory when checking really large -filesystems (or rather, filesystems with a large number of inodes). -Previously a filesystem with 1 million inodes required 4 megabytes of -memory to store inode count statistics; that storage requirement has -now been reduced to roughly half a megabyte. - -E2fsck can now properly deal with bad blocks appearing inside the -inode table. Instead of trying to relocate the inode table (which -often failed because there wasn't enough space), the inodes in the bad -block are marked as in use. - -E2fsck will automatically try to use the backup superblocks if the -primary superblocks have a bad magic number or have missing meta-data -blocks (or meta-data blocks which are out of range). - -E2fsck's pass 3 has been made more efficient; most noticeable on -filesystems with a very large number of directories. - -Completely revamped e2fsck's system of printing problem reports. It -is now table driven, to make them more easily customizeable and -extendable. Error messages which can be printed out during preen mode -are now one line long. - -Fixed e2fsck's filesystem swapping code so that it won't try to swap -fast symbolic links or deleted files. - -Fixed e2fsck core dumping when fixing a filesystem which has no -directories (not even a root directory). - -Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that the length of every -directory entry is a multiple of 4 (since the kernel complains if it -isn't). - -Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that a directory entry isn't a -link to the root directory, since that isn't allowed. - -Added a check to e2fsk to now make sure the '.' and '..' directory -entries are null terminated, since the 2.0 kernel requires it. - -Added check to write_bitmaps() to make sure the superblock doesn't get -trashed if the inode or block bitmap is marked as being block zero. - -Added checking of the new feature set fields in the superblock, to -avoid dealing with new filesystem features that this package wasn't -set up to handle. - -Fixed a fencepost error in ext2fs_new_block() which would occasionally -try to allocate a block beyond the end of a filesystem. - -When the UUID library picks a random IEEE 802 address (because it -can't find one from a network card), it sets the multicast bit, to -avoid conflicting with a legitimate IEEE 802 address. - -Mke2fs now sets the root directory's owner to be the real uid of the -user running mke2fs. If the real uid is non-zero, it also sets -the group ownership of the root directory to be the real group-id of -the user running mke2fs. - -Mke2fs now has more intelligent error checking when it is given a -non-existent device. - -When badblocks is given the -vv option, it now updates the block that -it is currently testing on every block. - -Fixed a bug in fsck where it wouldn't modify the PATH envirnoment -currently correctly if PATH wasn't already set. - -Shared libraries now built with dependencies. This allows the shared -library files to be used with dlopen(); it also makes the transition -to libc 6 easier, since ld.so can tell which libc a particular shared -library expects to use. - -Programmer's notes: -------------------- - -Added new abstraction (defined in dblist.c) for maintaining a list of -blocks which belongs to directories. This is used in e2fsck and other -programs which need to iterate over all directories. - -Added new functions which test to see if a contiguous range of blocks -(or inodes) are available. (ext2fs_*_bitmap_range). - -Added new function (ext2_inode_has_valid_blocks) which returns true if -an inode has valid blocks. (moved from e2fsck code). - -Added new function (ext2fs_allocate_tables) which allocates the -meta-data blocks as part of initializing a filesystem. (moved from -mke2fs code). - -Added a new I/O manager for testing purposes. It will either allow a -program to intercept I/O requests, or print debugging messages to -trace the activity of a program using the I/O manager. - -The badblocks_list functions now store the bad blocks in a sorted -order, and use a binary search to speed up badblocks_list_test. - -The inode scan function ext2fs_get_next_inode() may now return a soft -error returns: MISSING_INODE_TABLE and BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE in -those cases where part of an inode table is missing or there is a bad -block in the inode table. - -Added a new function (ext2fs_block_iterate2) which adds new arguments to -the callback function to return a pointer (block and offset) to the -reference of the block. - -Added new function (ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup) which allows an -application to jump to a particular block group while doing an inode -scan. - -The badblocks list functions were renamed from badblocks_* to -ext2fs_badblocks_*. Backwards compatibility functions are available -for now, but programs should be modified to use the new interface. - -Some of the library functions were reorganized into separate files to -reduce the size of some programs which statically link against the -ext2 library. - -Put in some miscellaneous fixes for the Alpha platform. - - -E2fsprogs 1.06 (October 7, 1996) -================================ - -Fixed serious bug in e2fsck: if the block descriptors are bad, don't -smash the backup copies in ext2fs_close(). (The problem was that when -e2fsck -p discovered the problem, while it was closing the filesystem -and exiting, it was also blowing away the backup superblocks on the -disk, which was less than friendly.) We now make it the case that we -only write out the backup superblock and the back block descriptors if -the filesystem is completely free from problems. - -Fixed a bug in block_interate in the lib/ext2fs library which caused -e2fsck to fail on GNU Hurd-created filesystems. - -Add support for Linux/FT's bootloader, which actually uses -EXT2_BOOT_LOADER, and sets its mode bits which caused e2fsck to want -to clear the inode. - -Add support for the "A" (no atime update) attribute. (Note: this -attribute is not yet in production kernels.) - -The test suite is not automatically run when doing a "make all" from -the top level directory. Users should manually run "make check" if -they wish to run the test suite. - -Upon a preenhalt(), make the printed message more explicit that -running e2fsck "MANAULLY" means without the -p or -a options. - -In e2fsck, if a disconnected inode is zero-length, offer to clear it -instead of offering to connect it to lost+found. - -In e2fsck, if a filesystem was just unmounted uncleanly, and needs -e2fsck to be run over it, change e2fsck to explicitly display this -fact. - -For dumpe2fs and e2fsck, cause the -V option to print out which -version of the ext2fs library is actually getting used. (This will -help detect mismatches of using a 1.06 utility with a 1.05 library, -etc.) - -Programmers' notes: -------------------- - -EXT2_SWAP_BYTES was changed to EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES, which better fits -the naming convention. - -In ext2fs_initialize(), make sure the description for the inode bitmap -is correctly initialize. - -Fixed minor type typo in ext2fs_allocate_generic_bitmap(); - -E2fsprogs 1.05 (September 7, 1996) -================================== - -Add support for new fields in the ext2 superblock --- volume name, -volume UUID, and last mounted field. Dumpe2fs displays these fields, -tune2fs and mke2fs allows you to set them. E2fsck will automatically -generate a UUID for those volumes that don't have them. - -Put in support for e2fsck to recognize HURD specific ext2 features --- -most notably, the translator block. The e2fsprogs tools will now use -the creator_os field in the superblock to correctly handle different -OS-specific variants of the ext2 filesystem. - -E2fsck now fixes inodes which have a the deletion time set, but which -have a non-zero i_link_count field by offering to clear the deletion -time. Previously e2fsck assumed that the inode was deleted (per 0.3c -ext2 kernel behavior) and offered to unlink the file. - -If e2fsck sets the clean bit, but nothing else, set the exit code -FSCK_NONDESTRUCT. After all, e2fsck did fix a filesystem error --- it -set the filesystem valid bit when it was previously cleared. :-) This -was needed to make the HURD fsck driver happy. - -If the user refuses to attach an unattached inode, e2fsck will no -longer set the inode's link count. Otherwise, the inode would end up -getting marked as unused, which might cause loss of data later. - -Make the message issued by e2fsck when the superblock is corrupt less -confusing for users. It now mentions that another reason for the -"corrupt superblock" message might be that the partition might not be -an ext2 filesystem at all (it might swap, msdos filesystem, ufs, etc.) - -Make the libext2 library more robuest so that e2fsck won't coredump on -an illegal superblock where the blocksize is zero. (f_crashdisk is -the test case). - -By default, create filesystems where the default checkinterval is 6 -months (180 days). Linux servers can be robust enough that 20 reboots -can be a long, long time. - -Added configure flag --enable-old-bitops, which forces the bitops to -use the old (native) bitmask operations. By default on the sparc -platform, the standard ext2 bit ordering is now used. - -Added a new feature to e2fsck to byte-swap filesystems; this can be -used to convert old m68k filesystems to use the standard byte-order -storage for the superblock, inodes, and directory blocks. This -function is invoked by using the '-s' option to e2fsck. - -Debugfs's "dump" command has been enhanced so that it writes out the -exact size of the file so that the nulls at the end of the file are -eliminated. The command also accept a new "-p" option which will -attempt preserve to preserve the ownernship, permissions, and -file modification/access times. - -Debugfs has two new options, -f and -R. The -R option allows the user -to execute a single debugfs command from the command line. The -f -option allows the user to specify a "command file" containing debugfs -commands which will get executed. - -Dumpe2fs now pretty prints the check interval, instead of just -printing the check interval as a number of seconds. - -Fix bugs in debugfs: the params command when no filesystem is opened -no longer causes a core dump. It is now possible to unlink a file -when a pathame containing a '/' is specified. - -Tune2fs has a new -C option which sets the number of times the -filesystem has been mounted. - -Fix the chattr '-v' option so that it actually works. Chattr was -being buggy about the -v option parsing. - -Programmers' notes: -------------------- - -The directory lib/uuid contains a set of library routines to generate -DCE compatible UUIDs. - -Extended ext2fs_namei() to handle symbolic links. Added new function -ext2fs_nami_follow() which will follow last symbolic link in the case -where the pathname points to a sym link. - -The ext2fs_block_iterate function will now return the HURD translator -block, if present. The new flag BLOCK_FLAG_DATA_ONLY will cause the -iterator to return data blocks only. The ext2fs.h file now defines -constants BLOCK_COUNT_IND, BLOCK_COUNT_DIND, BLOCK_COUNT_TIND, and -BLOCK_COUNT_TRANSLATOR, which are the magic values passed in the block -count field of the iterator callback function. - -The test script driver now takes an optional second argument, which is -the test case to be run. This allows you to run a test case without -needing to run the entire test suite. - -On Linux ELF systems, install the .so files in the correct places -(/usr/lib). The .so files must be stored in the same directory as the -.a files. - -Fixed miscellaneous HURD compilation issues with header file being -included in the right order. - -Fixed debugfs so that it resets optind to zero, not one, since setting -optind to zero is more correct. - - -E2fsprogs 1.04 (May 16, 1996) -============================= - -First "official" (1.03 was a limited release only) to support building -e2fsprogs under Linux 2.0 kernels (as well as late model 1.3 and 1.99 -kernels). - -This package includes a RPM specs file, that it can be built using the -RedHat Package Manager. - -E2fsck now prints a hint that if there are lots of incorrectly located -inode bitmaps, block bitmaps, and inode table blocks, the user might -want to try using e2fsck -b 8193 first, to see if that fares any -better. - -For ext2 filesystem written with the hurd, debugfs will now print out -the translator field when printing an inode structure. - -Lots of miscellaneous linking/installation cleanups: - - Libraries are now linked using a relative pathname, instead of - relying on -L working correct. It doesn't, in many cases, including - current versions of GNU ld. This guarantees that the build tree is - linking with the right libraries, instead of the ones installed in - /usr/lib. - - Header files, man pages, and the et/ss shell scripts are now - generated using a custom substitution script, instead of relying on - the configure script. This prevents needless recompilation of - files; in addition, the custom substitution script is much faster. - - e2fsck may now be linked dynamically, by using the - --enable-dynamic-e2fsck flag to configure. This is not recommended, - since it increases e2fsck's dependence on other files, but some - people need to save disk space, and other critical programs on their - systems were being linked dynamically anyway. - - Programs such as fsck which didn't need to be linked against - libext2fs (or mke2fs which didn't need to be linked against libe2p) - only link against libraries they actually need. Otherwise, those - programs would require the presense of libraries that otherwise - could be removed from a rescuse diskette. - - The ss include files are now installed correctly so they can - actually be used by another package. - - If the profiling libraries are built, they are now installed on a - "make install-libs". - - -E2fsprogs 1.03 (March 27, 1996) -=============================== - -Change the m68k bit numbering for bitmasks to match the bit numbering -used by all other ext2 implementations. (This change was requested by -the m68k kernel development team.) - -Support (in-development) filesystem format revision which supports -(among other things) dynamically sized inodes. - -Fixed a bug in the ext2 library so that an intelligent error is -returned if mke2fs is run with a ridiculously small number of blocks -for a partition. - -Fixed a bug in the ext2 library which required that the device be -openable in read/write mode in order to determine its size. This -caused e2fsck -n to require read/write access when it was not -previously necessary. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck which casued it to occasionally fail the test -suite depending on which version of the floating point library it was -using. - -Fixed a bug in e2fsck so that it now halts with a fatal error when -certain superblock consistency checks fail. Previously it continued -running e2fsck, with some potential confusing/damaging consequences. - -Added new flag to fsck which allows the root to be checked in parallel -with other filesytems. This is not the safest thing in the world to -do, but some system administrators really wanted it. - -Fixed -Wall flames in lib/ss. - - -E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996) -================================= - -Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels. - -Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are -on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is -guaranteed to be non-contiguous. - -In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole -disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a -whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk -as a filesytem. - -Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking -partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in -the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same -disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life. - -Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe. - -Minor compilation fixes: - * Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs. - * Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on. diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES new file mode 120000 index 000000000..ae6a5a33d --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +doc/RelNotes/v1.45.4.txt \ No newline at end of file