+E2fsprogs 1.26-WIP (December 24, 2001)
+======================================
+
+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 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)
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+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 <linux/config.h> 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 <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> 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)
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