-E2fsprogs 1.19 (work in progress)
-=================================
+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
-publish it under the GPL has finally expired.
+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
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 that causes badblocks to run some number of passes until the
-set of bad blocks is no longer grows.
+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,
Fix test_script so that it works correctly when compiling in the
source directory.
-Update libraries to build under a.out shared libraries (again).
+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.
git://git.whamcloud.com / tools / e2fsprogs.git / blobdiff