1 E2fsprogs 1.40.11 (June 17, 2008)
2 =================================
4 Mke2fs, tune2fs, and resize2fs now use floating point to calculate the
5 percentage of reserved blocks. (Addresses Debian Bug: #452639)
7 Updated Spanish and Catalan translations.
9 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
10 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #483962, #483023)
12 Add detection for ZFS volumes to the libblkid library.
14 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
15 (Addresses Debian Bug: #486463)
20 Fix marginal C code in probe_lvm2() function to the blkid library more
21 portable for older compilers.
23 Fix build problems on MacOS X. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1972473)
25 Fix ext2fs_swap{16,32,64} functions so they can be used by external
26 applications on big-endian machines. (Addresses Debian Bug: #484879)
29 E2fsprogs 1.40.10 (May 21, 2008)
30 ================================
32 When deciding whether or not to revalidate a blkid cache entry, if the
33 device's mtime is newer than the last time the cached entry was
34 validated, force a revalidation.
36 Fix a potential data corruption bug in e2fsck in the journal replay.
37 The chances of this is happening is extremely remote, especially the
38 default data=ordered or data=writeback modes. However, if a block
39 which has been journalled starts with the first four bytes 0xc03b3998,
40 when e2fsck replays the journal, those four bytes will be replaced
41 with zero's. Fortunately, it is highly, highly unlikely for e2fsck
42 metadata to begin with those fatal 4 byte sequence, and unless
43 data=ordered mode is in use, data blocks are never journalled.
45 Updated German, Dutch, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations.
50 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
53 Remove default sizes of types when cross compiling, since autoconf
54 2.50 can figure this out automatically now.
57 E2fsprogs 1.40.9 (April 27, 2008)
58 =================================
60 SuSE's security team audited uuidd and came up with a few minor
61 issues. None of them are serious given that uuidd runs setuid as a
62 unprivileged user which has no special access other than libuuid
63 directory, but it's good to get them fixed.
65 One additional fix in ext2fs_swap_inode_full() needed for resize2fs to
66 work correctly with in-inode extended attributes.
68 Updated German, Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese
71 Debugfs will avoid using a pager if the standard output is not a tty.
73 Fix debugfs and tune2fs to correctly handle daylight savings time when
74 parsing a time string.
76 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
78 Fix fsck completion bars when multiple filesystems were being checked
79 in parallel. (Addresses Debian Bug: #432865, Addresses Launchpad Bug:
80 #203323, Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1926023)
82 Fix fsck so that progress information is sent back correctly when
83 multiple filesystems are being check and the output of fsck is being
84 redirected to a file descriptor. Also, include the device name (w/o
85 spaces) in the progress information sent back via a file descriptor.
86 (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #203323, Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
89 Teach fsck to treat "ext4" and "ext4dev" as ext* filesystems.
91 If logsave receives a SIGTERM or SIGINT signal, it will now pass that
92 signal to its child process.
94 Fix mke2fs's creation of are resize inode when there is a non-standard
95 s_first_data_block setting.
97 Fix bug in blkid when run by an unprivileged user; most devices were
98 not reported correctly. 9Addresses Launchpad Bug: #220275)
100 Mke2fs will not allow the logically incorrect combination of
101 resize_inode and meta_bg, which had previously caused mke2fs to create
102 a corrupt filesystem.
104 Fix fsck in German locales so that a 'j' means yes.
105 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1947683)
111 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
114 Update valgrind options in test_script to work with valgrind 3.2.3
116 Update texinfo.tex to a much newer version from the FSF.
118 Remove bashism for configure script and from the lib/ss Makefile.
119 Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 1921969
121 Fix some silently broken tests: m_no_opt, m_meta_bg, and m_raid_opt.
123 Fix build system so that if texinfo is not installed, it won't print a
124 (harmless) error message.
127 E2fsprogs 1.40.8 (March 13, 2008)
128 =================================
130 Fixed e2image -I so it works on image files which are larger than 2GB.
132 Fixed e2fsck's handling of directory inodes with a corrupt size field. If
133 the size is larger than the number of blocks found in the inode, don't
134 try to allocate extra empty blocks at the end of the directory to make
135 up the difference; there's no point to doing that. In addition, if
136 the size is not a multiple of a blocksize, always fix it.
138 E2fsck handled a pass 2 "should never happen error" by not giving
139 enough information and then core dumping. Unfortunately, it was all
140 too easy to trigger the "should never happen" situation if a
141 directory's inode size was not correct. This has been fixed, but
142 e2fsck has also been taught how to handle this situation more
143 gracefully, by simply removing the inode hash tree information, so
144 that it can be rebuilt again after e2fsck's pass 3. (Addresses
145 Launchpad Bug: #129395)
147 Resize2fs had a bug resizing large inodes with extended attributes
148 that was fixed in 1.40.6; unfortunately, it turned out it wasn't fixed
149 completely on big-endian systems such as PowerPC. The bug should be
150 completely fixed now. Yay for regression test suites. (Addresses Red
151 Hat Bugzilla: #434893)
153 Updated German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese
154 translations. Many thanks to Philipp Thomas from Novell for stepping
155 up to become the new German translation maintainer! (Addresses Debian
156 Bugs: #302512, #370247, #401092, #412882).
158 When e2fsck is clearing a corrupt inode's HTREE directory information,
159 make it clear that it is just clearing the HTREE information, not the
162 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
167 Add new functions, ext2fs_dblist_get_last() and
168 ext2fs_dblist_drop_last(), which allows the caller to examine the last
169 directory block entry added to the list, and to drop if it necessary.
171 Fixed a portability problem in libblkid with DJGPP.
173 Fix an obvious typo in an "internal error" message in e2fsck. Thanks
174 to Philipp Thomas for pointing this out.
176 If the info files are not built, change "make install" so it doesn't
177 fail with an error code.
180 E2fsprogs 1.40.7 (February 28, 2008)
181 ====================================
183 Remove support for clearing the SPARSE_SUPER feature from tune2fs, and
184 depreciate the -s option, since it can result in filesystems which
185 e2fsck can't fix easily. There are very good reasons for wanting to
186 disable sparse_super; users who wants to turn off sparse_super can use
187 debugfs. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840286)
189 Add missing options to mke2fs's usage message. (Addresses Sourceforge
192 Fix bug in resize2fs when large (greater than 128 byte) inodes are
193 moved when a filesystem is shrunk; it was only moving the first 128
194 bytes, so extended attributes were not getting moved. (Addresses Red
195 Hat Bugzilla: #434893)
197 E2fsck now prints an explicit message when the bad block inode is
198 updated, to avoid confusion about why the filesystem was modified.
199 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #756460)
201 Allow mke2fs and tune2fs manipulate the large_file feature.
202 Previously we just let the kernel and e2fsck do this automatically,
203 but e2fsck will no longer automatically clear the large_file feature.
204 It still isn't really necessary to worry about this feature flag
205 explicitly, but some users seem to care. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
208 Suppress message about an old-style fstab if the fstab file is empty.
209 (Addresses Debian Bug: #468176)
211 Fix (really minor) bug in debugfs's find_free_block so it avoids
212 reporting a free block more than once if there are too few free blocks
213 in the filesystem. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1096315)
215 Change e2fsck to no longer clear the LARGE_FILES feature flag
216 automatically, when there are no more > 2GB files in the filesystem.
217 It's been almost a decade since there have been kernels that don't
218 support this flag, and e2fsck clears it quietly without telling the
219 user why the filesystem has been changed.
221 Fix bug which could cause libblkid to seg fault if a device mapper
222 volume disappears while it is being probed. (Addresses RedHat
225 Enhance e2fsck's reporting of unsupported filesystem feature flags.
226 (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: #1175808)
228 Fix option syntax in dumpe2fs for explicit superblock and blocksize
229 parameters. What was currently documented in the man page has been
230 broken for some time, due to getopt() implementation changes. The
231 option syntax has been changed to one which is can be more portable
232 supported and which is consistent with the format for extended options
233 in mke2fs and tune2fs. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1830994)
235 Add support to tune2fs to clear the resize_inode feature. This
236 requires an fsck afterwards. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #167816)
238 Teach blkid to detect LVM2 physical volumes. (Addresses Red Hat
241 Add support for setting RAID stride and stripe-width via mke2fs and
242 tune2fs. Teach dumpe2fs to print the RAID parameters.
244 Add support for setting new superblock fields to debugfs's
247 Add support for printing "mostly-printable" extended attributes in
250 Add support for the -M option to fsck, which causes it to ignore
253 Fix uuidd so that it creates the pid file with the correct pid number.
254 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893244)
256 Fix various gcc -Wall warnings.
258 Update Czech, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations
260 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
261 (Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1399325)
267 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
268 details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #466929)
270 Add new flag EXT2_FLAG_NONFREE_ON_ERROR ext2fs_open2() which returns a
271 partially filled-in filesystem object on an error, so that e2fsck can
272 print more intelligent error messages.
274 Add a new function e2p_edit_feature2() which allows the caller to
275 specify which feature flags are OK to set or clear, and which returns
276 more specific information about feature flags which are not allowed to
279 Set the C locale in the test_script driver since it uses [A-Za-z].
280 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1890526)
282 Use fcntl locking instead of lockf in libuuid since Cygwin doesn't
285 Change configure.in to avoid using the 'dc' command unless it is
286 absolutely needed. (i.e., when using parsing a WIP-style version
287 number) (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893024)
289 Add portability checks to support compilation under DJGPP.
291 Update to the latest samba tdb code before the LGPLv3 change, which
292 fixes a realloc() leak on failure.
294 Fix memory leak in ext2fs_alloc_block().
296 Fix makefile dependency issues for various install targets.
297 (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #1903484, #1903466, #1903456)
299 Improve descriptions for the r_move_itable and r_resize_inode tests.
302 E2fsprogs 1.40.6 (February 9, 2008)
303 ===================================
305 Add support for returning labels for UDF filesystems in the blkid
308 Fix bug in the blkid library where cached filesystems was not being
309 flushed when opening USB devices returned the error ENOMEDIUM.
310 (Addresses Debian Bug: #463787)
312 Added logic to the blkid library to automatically choose whether a
313 filesystem should be mounted as ext4 or ext4dev, as appropriate.
315 Allow tune2fs to set and clear the test_fs flag on ext4 filesystems.
317 Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to core dump if e2fsprogs had been
318 configured with --enable-jbd-debug.
320 Document the BLKID_FILE environment variable in the libblkid man page
325 Update e2fsprogs translation template and Vietnamese and Czech translations
327 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
328 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #436058)
330 Don't try to create $DESTDIR/etc/init.d as part of make install as we
331 don't install the init.d script (and it's not the recommended way to
332 start uuidd anyway). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1885085)
334 Use thread local storage to fix a theoretical race condition if two
335 threads try to format an unknown error code at the same time in the
339 E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008)
340 ===================================
342 Fix a potential overflow big in e2image if the device name is too
345 Mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes and the
346 ext_attr feature flag by default. This allows for much better future
347 compatibility with ext4 and speeds up extended attributes even on ext3
350 Teach e2fsck to ignore certain "safe" filesystem features which are
351 set automatically by the kernel. Having the kernel set features
352 automagically behind the user's back is a bad idea, and we should try
353 to break the kernel of this habit, especially for the newer ext4
354 feature flags. But for now, we will try to avoid needless full checks
355 which can annoy users who are doing fresh installs.
357 Add support in tune2fs and mke2fs for making a filesystem as being "ok
358 to be used with test kernel code". This will be needed for using test
359 filesystems with the latest ext4 kernel code.
361 Change e2fsck -fD so that it sorts non-htree directories by inode
362 numbers instead of by name, since that optimizes performances much
363 more significantly. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #532439)
365 If e2image fills the disk, fix it so it exits right away instead of
366 spewing large numbers of error messages.
367 (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #606508)
369 If ftruncate64() is not available for resize2fs, let it use ftrucate()
370 instead, but have it check to see if the size would get truncated, and
371 skip calling ftruncate in that case.
373 Add support for detecting HFS+ filesystems in the blkid library.
375 Add support in the blkid library for ext4/ext4dev filesystems.
377 Fix a bug in blkid where it could die on a floating point exception
378 when presented with a corrupt reiserfs image.
380 Fix blkid's handling of ntfs UUID's so that leading zeros are printed
381 such that UUID string is a fixed length.
383 Add sample python bindings for the uuid library to the contrib
384 directory. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #778817)
386 Fix debugfs's 'lsdel' command so it uses ext2fs_block_iterate2 so it
387 will work with large files. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request:
388 #1257500 and Sourceforge Support Request: #1253511)
390 Allow the debugfs 'undel' command to undelete an inode without linking
391 it to a specific destination directory, since this might require
392 allocating blocks that could overwrite some yet-to-be-recovered
393 deleted files. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #967141)
395 Update Swedish translation from the Translation Project.
400 Fix configure handling of --sbindir (which should rarely be used, but
401 someone did complain, so let's fix it). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
404 Updated e2fsprogs.spec file to include a new uuidd package
406 Use pkg-config to determine where to find the devmapper library so we
407 can find out where it is located on different distributions.
409 Fix Makefile race so that "make -j3 distclean" works correctly
411 Fix portability problems on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems,
412 especially on MacOS X systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs: #1861633,
415 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
417 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
418 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #459403, #459475, #459614)
420 Remove the --enable-dynamic-static configure option, and build e2fsck
421 dynamically by default. If the user wants e2fsck.static, he/she will
422 need to build it via "make -C e2fsck e2fsck.static"
424 Fix various build warnings due to missing prototypes.
425 (Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1861663, #1861659)
428 E2fsprogs 1.40.4 (December 31, 2007)
429 ====================================
431 Improve time-based UUID generation. A new daemon uuidd, is started
432 automatically by libuuid if necessary. This daemon is setuid to allow
433 updates to /var/lib/libuuid, so the clock sequence number can be
434 stored and so if the clock is set backwards, it can be detected.
435 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1529672, Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
438 Filter out the NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag when writing out the backup
439 superblocks. This avoids e2fsck from concluding that a full
440 filesystem check is required before backing up the superblock due to
441 changes in the feature flags. (Addresses Debian Bug: #454926)
443 Fix fsck to only treat the '#' character as a comment at the beginning
444 of the line in /etc/fstab. Otherwise fstabs for the fuse filesystem
445 will cause fsck to issue an bogus warning message.
446 (Addresses Gentoo bug: #195405, Addresses Sourceforge bug: #1826147)
448 Format control characters and characters with the high eighth bit set
449 when printing the contents of the blkid cache, to prevent filesystems
450 with garbage labels from sending escape sequences to the user's screen
451 that might, for example place it in graphics mode. (Addresses Ubuntu
454 Fix sign-extension problem on 64-bit systems in in the com_err
455 library. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1809658)
457 Avoid division by zero error when probing an invalid FAT filesystem in
458 the blkid library. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1831627)
460 Update Dutch, Polish, and Vietnamese translations from the Translation
461 Project. Remove the Rwandan translation upon advice of the
467 Fix the libss "make check" regression test so that it works if the
468 current directory is not in the user's path or if the libss shared
469 library is not installed. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1848974)
471 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
472 (Addresses Debian Bugs: #444883, #441872)
474 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
475 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #437720, #451172, #458017)
477 Fix build failure on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems.
478 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1859778)
480 Fix Hurd portability issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #437720)
483 E2fsprogs 1.40.3 (December 5, 2007)
484 ===================================
486 Fix a potential security vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem
487 can be corrupted in such a way that a program using libext2fs will
488 allocate a buffer which is far too small. This can lead to either a
489 crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow crash. No known
490 exploits exist, but main concern is where an untrusted user who
491 possesses privileged access in a guest Xen environment could corrupt a
492 filesystem which is then accessed by the pygrub program, running as
493 root in the dom0 host environment, thus allowing the untrusted user to
494 gain privileged access in the host OS. Thanks to the McAfee AVERT
495 Research group for reporting this issue. (Addresses CVE-2007-5497.)
497 Fix heuristics in blkid which could cause a disk without partitions to
498 be incorrectly skipped when a loopback device is present. (Addresses
499 Red Hat Bugzilla #400321.)
501 Fix e2image so that in raw mode it does not create an image file which
502 is one byte too large.
504 Change mke2fs's usage message so it recommends the preferred -E option
505 instead of the deprecated -R option.
507 Enhance the blkid library so it will recognize squashfs filesystems.
508 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #305151.)
510 Enhance e2fsck so it will force the backup superblocks to be backed up
511 if the filesystem is consistent and key constants have been changed
512 (i.e., by an on-line resize) or by e2fsck in the course of its
515 Enhance blkid's detection of FAT filesystems; so that USB disks with
516 only a single bootable partition will not get missed.
518 E2fsck will no longer mark a filesystem as invalid if it has time
519 errors (i.e., if superblock mount time or last write time is in the
520 future) and the user refuses to fix the problem.
522 The Ubuntu init scripts don't properly set the system time correctly
523 from hardware clock if the hardware clock is configured to tick local
524 time instead of GMT time. Work around this as best as we can by
525 providing an option, buggy_init_scripts, in /etc/e2fsck.conf which can
526 be set on Ubuntu systems. (Addresses Debian Bug #441093, and Ubuntu
529 Fix fsck to ignore /etc/fstab entries for bind mounts. (Addresses Red
530 Hat Bugzilla #151533.)
532 Fix e2fsck so that if the superblock is corrupt, but still looks
533 vaguely like an ext2/3/4 superblock, that it automatically tries to
534 fall back to the backup superblock, instead of failing with a hard
537 Make the e2fsprogs program more robust so that they will not crash
538 when opening a corrupt filesystem where s_inode_size is zero.
540 Change e2fsck so it uses sscanf() instead of atoi() so it non-numeric
541 arguments are detected as such and the parse error is reported to the
542 user. (Addresses Debian Bug #435381.)
544 Change e2fsck so it will not complain if a file has blocks reallocated
545 up to the next multiple of a system's page size.
547 Fix bug in ext2fs_check_desc() which will cause e2fsck to complain
548 about (valid) filesystems where the inode table extends to the last
549 block of the block group. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #214765.)
551 Fix a bug in ext2fs_initialize() which causes mke2fs to fail while
552 allocating inode tables for some relatively rare odd disk sizes.
553 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #241767.)
555 Add Catalan translation and update Dutch and Swedish translations
556 from the Translation Project.
558 Fix big-endian byte-swapping bug in ext2fs_swap_inode_full(). We
559 still had an issue when trying to figure out whether we need to
560 byte-swap fast symlinks that contained extended attributes.
562 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
563 (Addresses SourceForge Bug #1821333.)
569 Fix mke2fs tests to avoid needing any significant ^M (CR) characters
571 Add "make check" to the RPM spec file
573 Fix "make install" and 'make uninstall" in misc/Makefile.in so that it
574 works correctly when the prefix is not the root directory.
576 Fix the resize2fs tests, r_move_itable and r_resize_inode, so they
577 clean up after themselves by deleting the test.img temporary file
578 after completing the test.
580 Fixed a corner case bug ext2fs_unlink() when trying to delete the
581 first directory entry in a directory block and the last directory
582 entry in the previous directory block is not in use. Fortunately
583 ext2fs_unlink() is only used by debugfs and e2fsck, and in e2fsck in
584 places where it is extremely unlikely to run into this corner case.
586 Fix missing dependency which would cause parallel builds to fail.
587 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1842331.)
589 Fix a build error on newer gcc caused by lib/ext2fs/ismounted.c
590 calling open(O_CREATE) with a missing mode parameter.
592 Fix the test_ss.c in lib/ss so it can be used as an example
593 application program for the library as well as a regression test
596 Fix ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate() so that error codes and abort codes
597 are properly passed back up through the call stack.
599 E2fsprogs 1.40.2 (July 12, 2007)
600 ================================
602 A recent change to e2fsck_add_dir_info() to use tdb files to check
603 filesystems with a very large number of filesystems had a typo which
604 caused us to resize the wrong data structure. This would cause a
605 array overrun leading to malloc pointer corruptions and segfaults.
606 Since we normally can very accurately predict how big the the dirinfo
607 array needs to be, this bug only got triggered on very badly corrupted
610 Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly salvage
611 directories when the last entry's rec_len is bogusly too big. This
612 resulted in a nonsense filesystem corruption to be reported, and
613 required a second run of e2fsck to fully fix up the directory.
615 Update tune2fs man page to include more discussion of reserved blocks
616 (Addresses Launchpad bug #47817)
618 Update Turkish, Polish, Dutch, and Vietnamese PO files from the
622 E2fsprogs 1.40.1 (July 7, 2007)
623 ===============================
625 Fix bug which could cause libblkid to loop forever. When revalidating
626 a partition where there is obsolete information in /etc/blkid.tab, we
627 end up freeing a the type tag without clearing dev->bid_type, causing
628 blkid_verify() to loop forever. (Addresses Debian Bug: #432052)
630 The Turkish translation has a bug in it where it has the translation
631 of "E@e '%Dn' in %p (%i)" to "E@E". This causes @E to be expanded at
632 @E, recursively, forever, until the stack fills up and e2fsck core
633 dumps. We fix this by making e2fsck stop @-expansions after a
634 recursive depth of 10, which is far more than we need.
635 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1646081)
637 Compile the default mke2fs.conf into mke2fs program. People are
638 getting surprised by mke2fs creating filesystems with different
639 defaults than earlier versions of mke2fs if mke2fs.conf is not
640 present. So we now create a built in version of mke2fs.conf file
641 which is used by mke2fs if the /etc/mke2fs.conf is not present.
642 (Addresses SourceforgeBug: #1745818)
644 Improve the config/parse_types.sh helper script. Fix a potential
645 security problem if e2fsprogs is built as root (as Gentoo does!). In
646 addition fix the script and how it is called from the configure script
647 so that it does the right thing when cross-compiling. (Fixes Gentoo
650 Update Vietnamese, French, and Dutch PO files from the Translation
651 Project. Also created a new e2fsprogs.pot file for translator.
653 Fix bogus strip permission errors when building under Debian. When
654 building the e2fsprogs dpkg's, the dh_strip command emits a large
655 number of error messages caused by the permissions not being right.
656 So run dh_fixperms before running dh_strip.
661 Add new function: profile_set_default(). This function sets the value
662 of the pseudo file "<default>". If the file "<default>" had
663 previously been passed to profile_init(), then def_string parameter
664 will be parsed and used as the profile information for the "<default>"
667 Fix mk_cmds's error reporting so that it is unambiguous that it is the
668 mk_cmds script which is generating the error. (Obviates Gentoo patch:
669 e2fsprogs-1.32-mk_cmds-cosmetic.patch)
671 Fix the test suite to use LC_ALL instead of LANG. LC_ALL is the "high
672 priority" environment variable that overrides all others, where as
673 LANG is the lowest priority environment variable. If LC_ALL is set, it
674 doesn't matter whether LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES, and
675 the all the rest are set. This will assure that the locale when
676 running the test suites is the "C" locale. (Obviates Gentoo patch:
677 e2fsprogs-1.38-tests-locale.patch)
680 E2fsprogs 1.40 (June 29, 2007)
681 ==============================
683 Fix divide by zero error in blkid's NTFS probing logic.
685 Add new blkid -g option which causes the blkid cache to be garbage
688 Fix a bug in libblkid which could cause the internal field bid_type to
689 become corrupted. Fortunately bid_type isn't used much, and bid_label
690 and bid_uuid is only used by debugging code, so the impact of this bug
693 Mke2fs will now store the RAID stride value when a filesystem is
694 created with a requested RAID stride, and then use it automatically in
697 Mke2fs has a sanity check added to make sure (inode_size * num_inodes)
698 isn't too big. In some cases Lustre users have tried specifying an
699 inode size of 4096 bytes, while keeping an inode ratio of one inode
702 Improve sanity check in e2fsck's algorithm for finding a backup
703 superblock, so that it won't accidentally find a superblock that was
704 located in the journal, and then later reject it as being not a valid
707 Fix e2fsck get_size logic so that it will work with the Linux floppy
708 driver. The Linux floppy driver is a bit different from the other
709 block device drivers, in that if the device has been opened with
710 O_EXCL, it disallows another open(), even if the second open() does
711 not have the O_EXCL flag. (Addresses Debian Bug: #410569)
713 Fix error checking of badblock's last-block and start-block arguments.
714 (Addresses Debian Bug: #416477)
716 Fix e2fsck so that it doesn't overwrite the backup superblocks when
717 recovering a journal until the master superblock has been confirmed as
720 Change the blkid library to be much more paranoid about concluding
721 that a partition contains an NTFS filesystem, and fetch the UUID and
722 LABEL information from NTFS filesystems. (Addresses Launchpad Bug:
725 Factor out the code which sets the default journal size and move it
728 Enhance e2fsck so it will recreate the ext3 journal if the original
729 journal inode was cleared to due it being corrupt after finishing the
732 Fix e2fsck so that it updates the journal inode if it is corrupted and
733 the backup journal information from the superblock was successfully
734 used to recover the filesystem.
736 Fix e2fsck so that it checks all of the blocks in the journal inode
737 for validity. The original code only checked the direct blocks to
738 make sure the journal inode was sane. Unfortunately, if some or all
739 of the indirect or doubly indirect blocks were corrupted, this would
742 Add support in blkid to detect LUKS encrypted partitions.
744 Add extra sanity checks for extended attributes in the case where the
745 size is zero but the offset is very large.
747 Fix byte-swapping issues for large inodes in ext2fs_read_inode_full()
748 and ext2fs_get_next_inode_full().
750 Clarify the copyright licenses used by the various libraries in
751 the top-level COPYING file (Red Hat Bugzilla: 166058)
753 Make mke2fs's defaults when /etc/mke2fs.conf doesn't exist more sane.
755 Fix mke2fs and debugfs to support large (> 16 bit) uid's and gid's.
757 Remove check in e2fsck which requires EA's in inodes to be sorted;
758 they don't need to be sorted, and e2fsck was previously wrongly
759 clearing unsorted EA's stored in the inode structure.
761 Allow mke2fs or tune2fs to create a substantially larger journal (up
762 to 10,240,000 blocks).
764 Fix MD superblock detection, and make sure the correct UUID is
765 reported from the MD superblock.
767 Fix a signed vs. unsigned bug in debugfs.
769 Enhance debugfs's date parser so that it accepts integer values.
771 Fix e2fsck's pass1c accounting so it doesn't terminate too early if a
772 file with multiply claimed blocks is hard linked. or not at all if the
773 root directory contains shared blocks
775 Enhance debugfs so it can modify the block group descriptors using the
776 command set_block_group_descriptor.
778 Improve e2fsck's reporting of I/O errors so it's clearer what it was
779 trying to do when an error happens
781 Fix a bug in in how e2fsprogs byte swaps inodes containing fast
782 symlinks that have extended attributes. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
783 #232663 and LTC Bugzilla: #27634)
785 Fix potential file descriptor leak in ext2fs_get_device_size() in an
788 Add libreadline.so.5 support to libss.
790 Improve badblocks -n/-w exclusive usage message.
792 Fix dump_unused segfault in debugfs when a filesystem is not open
794 Fix memory leak in blkid library. (Addresses Debian Bug: #413661)
796 Allow the debugfs lcd command to work w/o a filesystem being open.
797 (Addresses LTC Bugzilla #27513)
799 Fix e2fsck to clear i_size for special devices with a bogus i_blocks
800 field on the first pass.
802 Fix e2fsck to set the file type of the '..' entry when connecting
803 a directory to lost+found. (Addresses Lustre Bug: #11645)
805 Enhance e2fsck to recover directories whose modes field were corrupted
806 to look like special files. This is probably only useful in
807 artificial test cases, but it will be useful if we ever do the "inodes
808 in directory" idea for ext4.
810 Allow debugfs to dump (and rdump) > 2GB files. (Addresses Debian Bug:
813 Fix resize2fs parsing of size parameter (in sector units). This was
814 actually a bug in libe2p's parse_num_blocks() function. When handling
815 the 's' suffix, it was ignoring the blocksize information passed in
816 from the caller and always interpreting the number in terms of a 1k
817 blocksize. (Addresses Debian Bug: #408298)
819 There was a floating point precision error which could cause e2fsck to
820 loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count.
821 (Addresses Debian Bug: #411838)
823 Fix memory leak in ext2fs_write_new_inode()
825 Add support for using a scratch files directory to reduce e2fsck's
826 memory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB
827 library. See the [scratch_files] section of the e2fsck.conf man page
830 Fixed type-punning bug which caused dumpe2fs to crash on the Arm
831 platform (Addresses Debian Bug: #397044)
833 Add explanatory message to badblocks that -n and -w are mutually exclusive
834 (Addresses Debian Bug: #371869)
836 Allow debugfs and dumpe2fs to support fs features under development.
838 Add support for the new flag EXT2_FLAG_SOFTSUPP_FEATURES flag to
839 ext2fs_open() , which allows application to open filesystems with features
840 which are currently only partially supported by e2fsprogs.
842 Allow unix_io to support offsets greater than 2G (Addresses
843 SourceForge Bug: #1547922)
845 Fixed overflow and signed/unsigned problems caused by the number of
846 blocks or inodes exceeding 2**31 or being close to 2**32-1.
848 Add support for unsigned directory hash calculations with hints in the
849 superblock to fix cross-architectural portability for htree
850 directories with filenames where the high 8th bit is set. (Addresses
853 Fix resize2fs so that it gives user-intelligible error messages if the
854 filesystem or the kernel does not support on-line resizing.
855 (Addresses Debian Bug: #380548)
857 Require mke2fs -F -F for really dangerous operations, since -F is
858 needed for less dangerous operations such as creating filesystems
859 images in regular files, or creating filesystems on whole block
860 devices. These relatively innocuous usages should NOT be confused
861 with running mke2fs on an apparently-mounted or in-use filesystem.
863 Allow the default inode size to be specified into the mke2fs.conf
866 Make the smallest default journal size is big enough so that on-line
867 resizing should always work.
869 Fix silly spelling error in e2fsck. (Addresses SourceForge bug:
872 Fix debugfs coredump when lsdel is run without an open filesystem
873 (Addresses Debian Bug: #378335)
875 Fix debugfs display bug us that bytes that have the high bit set are
876 displayed as "ec" instead of "ffffffec".
878 Add support in lsattr so it will display the EXT4_EXTENTS_FL flag.
880 Device mapper scanning wasn't working in the blkid library because the
881 pathnames had an extra "/dev" when they were being probed.
883 Add GFS/GFS2 support to the blkid library.
885 Fix blkid support of empty FAT filesystem labels.
887 Avoid recursing forever (or for a long time) when the blkid library
888 searches for a device and there are symlinks to directories in /dev.
890 Avoid unaligned halfword access in blkid when accessing FAT
891 superblocks, as this will cause Sparc/Solaris systems to throw a
894 The latest devmapper libraries requires pthreads, add -lpthreads to
895 the static link libraries for e2fsck.static if devmapper is enabled.
896 (Addresses Debian bug: #388718)
898 Improve the (non-installed, for experts only) findsuper program by
899 printing the uuid and label from the superblocks, as well as the
900 starting and ending offsets of the filesystem given the information in
901 the superblock. Omit by default printing superblocks that are likely
902 found in located in an ext3 journal unless an explicit -j option is
905 Updated Spanish, French and Dutch translations and added Catalan
906 translation. (Addresses Debian bug: #411562)
908 Use FreeBSD's DIOCGMEDIASIZE and DIOCGDINFO ioctls if available when
909 determining a partition's size, since binary searching to determine
910 the device doesn't work on FreeBSD.
912 Documentation about UUID's is available in enough places, and it's
913 awkward to deal with debian-legal's insanities. So I'm caving in the
914 "more-lunatic-than-RMS" wing of Debian by removing RFC-4122 so we
915 don't have do the dfsg tarball. Also remove the rule that only tried
916 to install RFC-4122 on Ubuntu, since Ubuntu seems to want to fetch
917 e2fsprogs exclusively from Debian. (Addresses Debian Bug: #407107)
919 Fix the info-dir line so that the menu name does not contain a .info
920 prefix. First of all, it's ugly, secondly, it causes the install-info
921 command to fail to remove the com_err info file from the
922 /usr/share/info/dir file when the comerr-dev package is removed and
923 purged. (Addresses Debian Bug: #401711)
925 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
926 (Addresses Debian Bug: #369761, #373004, #379695)
928 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
929 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs #389554, #390664, #413208, #419605,
930 #408352, #415560, #399155)
936 E2fsck now supports the %It expansion when printing a problem report.
937 It will print the type of the inode in the problem context.
939 Fix misc/Makefile.in so that it builds even if e2fsck hasn't been built yet
940 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1565561)
942 Remove unused variables and other lint/gcc -Wall cleanups
944 Add check to ext2fs_get_device_size() so it will return EFBIG for for
945 filesystems contained in regular files where the filesystem image size
946 is returned by stat64().
948 Set local environment variables to C so mk_cmds and compile_et always
949 work. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #1532177)
951 Added the 64-bit byte swapping function ext2fs_swab64().
953 Added two new helper functions to prevent 2**31/2**32-1 overflow
954 problems: ext2fs_div_ceil() and e2p_percent().
956 Create new ext2fs library inline functions ext2fs_group_first_block()
957 and ext2fs_group_last_block() in order to calculate the starting and
958 ending blocks in a block group.
960 Create the generated files read-only to remind developers not to edit them.
962 Add support for autoconf 2.60 (with backwards compatibility for older
963 versions of autoconf).
965 Added an "make rpm" target to top-level Makefile
967 Added various FreeBSD portability fixes.
969 Exclude mercurial files from the RPM build tree to speed up copy/build.
971 Use root_sysconfdir to define the locations of mke2fs.conf and
972 e2fsck.conf instead of using a hard-coded /etc pathname.
974 Prevent e2fsck.h and ext2_ext_attr.h from getting included multiple times.
976 Fixed "make clean" in blkid's Makefile.in file from removing tst_*.c files.
978 If diff -u is supported, use it to report test failures.
980 Updates/improvements to RPM spec file
982 Add on-disk format definitions for the following new features:
983 EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM,
984 EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT,
985 EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_EXTRA_ISIZE
987 Add a new make target "checked-failed" in the tests directory which
988 reruns any failed tests
990 Update draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt with rfc4122.txt
992 Fix miscellaneous bugs reported by Coverity: Dead code, potential nul
993 pointer dereferences, memory leaks, etc. None were security-critical
996 Fix up usage and decrement error messages in the test_icount program
998 Add debugging code to the com_err library; if the environment variable
999 COMERR_DEBUG is set to 1, print out debugging messages as error tables
1000 are added and removed from the com_err library. If the
1001 COMERR_DEBUG_FILE environment variable is set (and the process is not
1002 setuid) the debugging messages may be redirected to a file.
1004 Change all of the e2fsprogs programs to use the newer add_error_table()
1005 and remove_error_table() interfaces instead of the much older
1006 initialize_*_error_table() function.
1008 Add TDB support into the ext2fs library. This allows us to have a
1009 guaranteed library we can count on always being present so we can
1010 store data in an on-disk database.
1012 Add support for using TDB to store the icount data, so we don't run out
1013 of memory when checking really large filesystems.
1015 Change the regression test suite so that it skips empty test directories.
1017 Define the l_i_iversion field in ext2_inode. The l_i_version field is
1018 now defined from the old l_i_reserved1 field in the ext2 inode. This
1019 field will be used to store high 32 bits of the 64-bit inode version
1022 Add Makefile production rule for e2fsprogs.spec in case it gets
1025 Add new function profile_get_uint() to allow for a clean way to fetch
1026 unsigned integers from the context.
1028 Add test to make sure the ext2 superblock structure is 1024 bytes.
1030 Fix typo in name of f_dup4 regression test
1032 Add new function blkid_gc_cache() which performs a garbage collection
1033 pass on the /etc/blkid.tab file.
1035 The ext2fs_open() function now sets EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY. In
1036 general, only e2fsck (after the filesystem is clean), tune2fs, and
1037 resize2fs should change the backup superblocks by default. Most
1038 callers of ext2fs_open() should not be touching any superblock fields
1039 which require the backups to be touched.
1041 Add new function to libext2fs, ext2fs_default_journal_size(), which
1042 returns the default journal size.