+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)
====================================
+e2fsprogs (1.42.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * New upstream version
+ * The mke2fs program no longer requires a force (-F) option when
+ when creating a file system in a regular file, since this is a very
+ common use case when managing virtual machine images
+ * The mke2fs program will now ask for confirmation before wiping out a
+ pre-existing file system, partition label, or physical volume
+ * Fix e2fsck so that it properly handles an inconsistent quota inode.
+ Previously the quota inode could be completely corrupted, and
+ missing quota records could be not noticed
+ * Fix mke2fs so if packed metadata blocks are enabled that the block
+ group checksum are set correctly
+ * Debugfs has new commands to allow the quota inode to be queried directly
+ * Tune2fs will allow removal of dirty journal with two "-f" options
+ (Closes: #559301)
+ * Fixed some off-line resize2fs bugs when relocating metadata blocks
+ when growing or shrinking bigalloc file systems
+ * Fixed resize2fs's calculation of the minimum required file system
+ size. This allows resize2fs -M to shrink the file system more
+ aggressively
+ * Fixed resize2fs to properly handle shrinking a very large and empty
+ file system to a very very small size
+ * Fixed e4defrag to work with 64-bit and bigalloc file systems
+ * Fixed e2fsck to not issue a large number of very scary (but
+ harmless) corruption messages when checking very large file systems
+ when the file system has more inodes than the number of seconds
+ since January 1, 1970.
+ * E2fsck will now check the whole file system if file system problems
+ are detected durings its initial "pass 0" sanity check
+ * Filefrag now prints the "shared extent" flag which is used by some
+ file systems such as btrfs
+ * The mke2fs program would previously correctly omit the resize_inode
+ feature when creating a file system > 16TB when the fs size was
+ determined automatically. It will now also do the right thing when
+ the user explicitly specifies the file system size.
+ * The message printed by logsave is now much less scary (Closes: #468821)
+ * Fix spelling typo in the package descriptions
+ * Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Sweedish, and
+ Vietnamese translations (Closes: #703048)
+ * Update/fix various man pages
+ * Fix debian/rules compatibility problem with GNU make 4.0
+
+ -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Sun, 18 May 2014 22:54:38 -0400
+
e2fsprogs (1.42.9-3) unstable; urgency=medium
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ext2 filesystem.
Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
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