-E2fsprogs 1.41.5 -- WORK IN PROGRESS (April 19, 2009)
-======================================================
+E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)
+=================================
+
+The resize2fs program uses much less CPU and is much faster for very
+large file systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #663237)
+
+The seti and freei commands in debugfs can now take an optional length
+argument to set and clear a contiguous range of inodes.
+
+E2fsck will now make explicit checks for the EOFBLOCKS_FL, since we
+plan to remove support for it from the kernel file system driver. It
+really wasn't very useful and was causing more problems than it
+solves. Since e2fsck will complain if inodes that should have
+EOFBLOCKS_FL do not have the flag set, we are going to remove this
+check from e2fsprogs first, and then only remove the flag from the
+kernel much later.
+
+The mke2fs program can now use direct I/O via "mke2fs -D". This will
+slow down the mke2fs, but it makes it more polite on a loaded server
+by limiting the amount of memory that gets dirtied by mke2fs when it
+is using buffered I/O.
+
+E2fsck was needlessly closing and re-opening the file system as a side
+effect of adding Multiple Mount Protection (MMP). This isn't
+necessary for non-MMP file systems, so drop it.
+
+Print errors returned by ext2fs_open2() and ext2fs_check_desc() so we
+can more easily diagnose memory allocation failures caused by
+insufficient memory. E2fsck will now abort if there are memory
+allocation failures when the file system is initially opened and
+during the block group descriptor checks. (Addresses Google Bug:
+#6208183)
+
+If there are incorrect block group checks, e2fsck will now report the
+incorrect and corrected checksum values.
+
+The e2fsck progam can now write log files containing the details of
+the problems that were found and fixed directly, via configuration
+parameters in /etc/e2fsck.conf.
+
+Added the ability to limit the number of messages reported by e2fsck
+for a given problem type. This avoids a potential bottleneck if there
+is a serial console which can cause a boot sequence to take a long
+time if e2fsck needs to report many, many file system errors.
+
+The dumpe2fs, debugfs, and tune2fs now use rbtree bitmaps, which cause
+them to use much less memory for large file systems.
+
+The dumpe2fs program will now print the expected block group checksum
+if it is incorrect. This helps to diagnose problems caused by
+incorrect block group checksums.
+
+E2fsck now checks for extents with a zero length, since the kernel
+will oops if it comes accross such a corrupted data structure. (See
+https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42859)
+
+E2fsck has a number of bugs relating to discard that have been fixed.
+(1) Fixed a bug which could cause e2fsck to discard portions of the
+inode table which were actually in use. (2) E2fsck will now avoid
+using discard if the block device doesn't zero data on discard, since
+otherwise this could cause problems if the file system gets corrupted
+in the future. (3) E2fsck will now avoid using discard when it is run
+in read-only mode. (4) Fixed a bug which caused e2fsck to not issue
+discards in the last block group.
+
+E2fsck's CPU utilization in pass 5 has been optimized, which will
+speed up e2fsck slightly.
+
+E2image will now skip copying uninitialized bitmap and inode table
+blocks.
+
+Fixed mke2fs -S so it does not corrupt the first block group's
+information.
+
+E2fsck will now check the new sysfs interface to determine if we are
+using the battery or AC mains. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3439277)
+
+Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #665427)
+
+Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #665885)
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Fixed various portability issues for non-Linux systems, particularly
+MacOS X, as well as Linux systems running with the just-released glibc
+2.15.
+
+Fix file descriptor leak in ext2fs_close() if the file system with
+uninit_bg is opened read/only with a backup superblock. (Addresses
+SourceForge Bug: #3444351)
+
+Fixed an invalid return in a non-void function in the quota code.
+(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3468423)
+
+Fixed the debian rules file so that the calls to dpkg-buildflags works
+when the shell is dash.
+
+The debian package build now uses V=1 so that there is more
+information about potential build failures in debian buildd logs.
+
+If the uninit flags get cleared by functions such as
+ext2fs_new_inode() or ext2fs_new_block2(), we now make sure the
+superblock is marked dirty and the block group descriptor checksum is
+updated if necessary.
+
+The debian rules file will now try to load debian/rules.custom of it
+exists. This flie can skip various builds for speed reasons if there
+is no need for the e2fsck-static or udeb packages. Available
+customizations in the rules file includes SKIP_STATIC=yes,
+SKIP_BF=yes, and SKIP_DIETLIBC=yes.
+
+In addition, if the file misc/mke2fs.conf.custom.in exists in the
+source tree, it will be used instead of the standard misc.conf file in
+the upstream sources. This makes it easier for Debian-derived systems
+to distribute a custom mke2fs.conf file without having to worry about
+merge issues if future versions of e2fsprogs makes changes in the
+upstream default version of mke2fs.conf.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012)
+===================================
+
+The mke2fs and e2fsck now use significantly less memory when creating
+or checking very large file systems. This was enabled by adding
+extent-based bitmaps which are stored using a red-block tree, since
+block and inode allocations tend to be contiguous.
+
+The command mke2fs -S is used as a last ditch recovery command to
+write new superblock and block group descriptors, but _not_ to destroy
+the inode table in hopes of recovering from a badly corrupted file
+system. So if the uninit_bg feature is enabled, mke2fs -S will now
+set the unused inodes count field to zero. Otherwise, e2fsck -fy
+after using mke2fs -S would leave the file system completely empty.
+
+Since mke2fs recognizes mke3fs in argv[0] to mean "mkfs.ext3", also
+honor "mke4fs" to work the same as "mke2fs.ext4", since RHEL5 has
+installed an mke2fs binary using that name.
+
+The usage and help messages for the -G, -t and -T options in mke2fs
+have been fixed.
+
+If e2fsck needs to use the backup group descriptors, the
+ext2fs_open2() function clears the UNINIT bits to ensure all of the
+inodes in the file systems get scanned. However, the code which reset
+the UNINIT flags did not also recalculate the checksum, which produced
+many spurious (and scary) e2fsck messages. This has been fixed by
+resetting cheksums when the UNINIT bits are cleared.
+
+Relax a check in e2fsck which required that the block bitmap to be
+initialized when the inode bitmap is in use. This will allow us to
+eventually eliminate code from the kernel which forcibly initialized
+the block bitmap when the inode bitmap is first used, requiring an
+extra journal credit and disk write. (Addresses Google Bug: #5944440)
+
+Make sure rdebugfs (which may be installed setuid or setgid disk) does
+not honor environment variables if euid != uid or egid != gid.
+
+Debugfs's ncheck command has been optimized and now is much more
+robust with faced with corrupted file systems. The ncheck command
+also now has a -c option which will verify the file type information
+in the directory entry to see if matches the inode's mode bits. This
+is extremely useful when trying to use debugsfs to determine which
+parts of the file system metadata can be trusted.
+
+E2image will try to use ftruncate64() to set the i_size for raw
+images, instead of writing a single null byte. This avoid allocating
+an extra block to the raw image, for those file systems and/or
+operating systems that support this. (Linux does.) In addition, fix
+a logic bug that caused the file to not be properly extended if the
+size of the last hole was exactly an multiple of a megabyte.
+
+Fixed a bug in resize2fs where for 1k and 2k file systems, where
+s_first_data_block is non-zero, this wasn't taken into account when
+calculate the minimum file system size for use with the -M option.
+
+Fixed the badblocks program to honor the -s flag when in read-only -t
+mode. (Addresses Debian Bug #646629)
+
+Update Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, and Sweedish translation from the
+Translation Project.
+
+Fixed various Debian Packaging issues so that dpkg-buildflags is used
+if present, which allows e2fsprogs to be built with security hardening
+flags. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #654457)
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Fix a bug in ext2fs_clear_generic_bmap() when used for 32-bit bitmaps.
+This was only an issue for programs compiled against e2fsprogs 1.41
+that manipulate bitmaps directly. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs:
+#3451486)
+
+The libext2fs library now uses sysconf() to fetch the page size, instead
+of the deprecated getpagesize().
+
+The ext2fs_get_pathname() function will return a partial path if an a
+directory in the path is not a directory, displaying it as an inode
+number in angle brackets instead of giving up and displaying an error.
+This is much more helpful when a user is trying to debug a corrupted
+file system.
+
+Codepoints for the RO_COMPAT_REPLICA feature has been reserved.
+
+Added a new library function, ext2fs_file_get_inode_num(), for use by
+fuse2fs.
+
+Fixed a bug in ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that when it is truncating a
+file, it actually works.
+
+The block iterator now properly honors the BLOCK_ABORT flag for
+extent-based flags. Previously, it didn't, which generally made code
+be less efficient, but it could cause bugs in ext2fs_link(), for
+example, by causing it to insert multiple directory entries.
+
+Fixed an (harmless other than causing a compiler warning) use of an
+uninitialized variable in e2fsck's MMP code.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.42 (November 29, 2011)
+==================================
+
+This release of e2fsprogs has support for file systems > 16TB. Online
+resize requires kernel support which will hopefully be in Linux
+version 3.2. Offline support is not yet available for > 16TB file
+systems, but will be coming.
+
+This release of e2fsprogs has support for clustered allocation. This
+reduces the number of block (now cluster) bitmaps by allocating and
+deallocating space in contiguous power-of-2 collections of blocks,
+which are called clustered. This is a file system level feature,
+called 'bigalloc', which must be enabled when the file system is
+initially formatted. It is not backwards compatible with older
+kernels.
+
+Added support for the Multi-Mount Protection (MMP) feature.
+
+E2fsck more efficiently uses scratch files for really big file
+systems. (This is a feature that has to be turned on explicitly; see
+[scratch_files] in the e2fsck.conf man page.)
+
+Fix a bug in e2fsck where if the free blocks and inodes counts are
+incorrect, e2fsck would fix them without printing an error message.
+This would cause a "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***" message without
+any explanation of what was fixed.
+
+E2fsck will no longer attempt to clone an extended attribute block in
+pass1b handling if the file system does not support extended
+attributes.
+
+E2fsck will be more careful accidentally asking the user to continue
+if the file system is mounted, so that an escape sequence won't cause
+a false positive. (Addresses Debian Bug: #619859)
+
+E2fsck now uses less cpu time in pass 5 when large portions of the
+bitmaps are uninitialized.
+
+E2fsck will no longer segault when a corrupted file system has a bad
+extent, and removing it leads to a block needing to be deallocated.
+(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2971800)
+
+E2fsck will catch termination signals (segfaults, bus errors, sigfpe)
+and print debugging information to make it easier to find potential
+problems.
+
+E2fsck will check to see if the bad block inode looks insane, and will
+skip trying to use if it certain fields which should be zero look
+non-zero. This is to avoid a corrupted bad block inode causing e2fsck
+to get confused and do more harm than good.
+
+If e2fsck modifies certain superblock fields which the kernel doesn't
+look at, it will now mark the superblock as dirty without marking the
+file system as changed. This avoids signalling the init scripts that
+a reboot is necessary, since the kernel isn't going to look at those
+fields, so it won't care if they have been changed.
+
+Fixed a bug in the libext2fs library (in the binary search routine of
+the icount abstraction) that could (very, very rarely) cause e2fsck to
+die in the middle of pass 1 or pass 2 processing.
+
+E2fsck will not try to do a discard operation if the -n option was
+specified on the command line.
+
+E2fsck now supports an extended "discard" option which will cause
+e2fsck to attempt discard all unused blocks after a full, successful
+file system check.
+
+E2fsck will check for the bad block inode to make sure it looks sane
+before trusting it, to avoid causing more harm than good to the file
+system.
+
+E2fsck now returns additional status bits in its exit code if it
+aborts early in the e2fsck run.
+
+E2fsck now correctly calculates the maximum file size in the case of
+the huge_file file system feature enabled without extents.
+
+The mke2fs and e2fsck programs now tries to use the punch hole command
+as a "discard" when operating on normal files.
+
+The e2image program now supports the qcow2 format, which is a more
+efficient way of capturing file system dumps.
+
+Mke2fs now supports the [devices] stanza in mke2fs.conf which allows
+per-device defaults to be specified in the configuration file.
+
+Mke2fs now supports the reserved_ratio relation in the [defaults] and
+[fs_types] section in mke2fs.conf.
+
+Mke2fs now creates extent-mapped directories for the root and
+lost+found directories.
+
+Mke2fs will skip zero'ing the journal if the extended option
+"lazy_journal_init" is specified. This can save a lot of time, but it
+does add a small amount of risk if the system crashes before the
+journal is overwritten entirely once. It is epsecially useful for
+testing.
+
+Mke2fs will now create file systems that enable user namespace
+extended attributes and with time- and mount count-based file
+system checks disabled.
+
+Mke2fs will not set a stride or strip size of one block based on block
+device attributes obtained from sysfs.
+
+Mke2fs now displays a progress report during the discard process.
+
+Mke2fs now handles extreme file system parameters correctly which
+previously caused the inodes per group to drop below 8, leading to a
+segfault. (The inodes per group must be a multiple of 8, but the code
+didn't correctly deal with an inodes per group count less than 8.)
+
+Mke2fs and tune2fs previously would give an error if the user tried
+setting the stride and stripe-width parameters to zero; but this is
+necessary to disable the stride and stripe-width settings. So allow
+setting these superblock fields to zero. (Addresses Google Bug:
+#4988557)
+
+Mke2fs now gives a warning if the auto-detected block size exceeds the
+system's page size.
+
+If the enable_periodic_fsck option is false in /etc/mke2fs.conf (which
+is the default), mke2fs will now set the s_max_mnt_count superblock
+field to -1, instead of 0. Kernels older then 3.0 will print a
+spurious message on each mount then they see a s_max_mnt_count set to
+0, which will annoy users. (Addresses Debian Bug: #632637)
+
+The default mke2fs.conf now has entries for "big" and "huge", which
+are needed for very big file systems.
+
+The resize2fs program now has support for a new online resize ioctl
+that can support file systems > 16TB, once it arrives in v3.x kernels.
+
+Fixed bug which caused resize2fs to fail when shrinking an empty file
+system down to its minimal size. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #3404051)
+
+Fixed tune2fs's mount options parsing. (Addresses Debian Bug: #641667)
+
+Allow tune2fs to remove external journals if the device can not be
+found.
+
+Debugfs's icheck will now correctly find inodes which use the
+searched-for block as an extended attribute block.
+
+Debugfs now has a new "punch" command which remove blocks from the
+middle of an inode.
+
+Debugfs now has a new "e2freefrag" command which analyzes the free
+space fragmentation of the file system, using the same code as the
+e2freefrag program.
+
+Debugfs now has a "filefrag" command which displays information about
+a file's fragmentation.
+
+Add support to build a metadata-only, read-only, stripped-down version
+of debugfs called rdebugfs.
+
+Fixed a potential stack overrun bug in debugfs.
+
+The badblocks program now correctly recovers from I/O errors when
+direct I/O is being used. The badblocks command now also supports a
+-B option which forces the use of buffered I/O, and the -v option will
+provide a more detailed breakdown of read, write, and failed
+comparison errors.
+
+Added e4defrag tool which uses the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl.
+
+Added support for journals larger than 2GB.
+
+Support using both hard links and symlinks when installing e2fsprogs.
+
+Add overflow checking to tune2fs -i's fsck interval, which must fit in
+a 32-bit field.
+
+The debugfs command now has a new 'blocks' command which prints out
+data blocks of a particular inode in a format which is useful for
+scripting.
+
+Filefrag will report 0 extents correctly in verbose mode. (Addresses
+RedHat Bugzilla: #653234)
+
+Filefrag has been fixed so its -v report prints the correct expected
+block number (previously there had been an off-by-one error). In
+addition, it will now display the number of contiguous extents when -v
+is not specified. This makes it consistent with the number of extents
+printed when the -v option was specified. In addition, the number of
+contiguous extents is far more interesting/useful than the number of
+physical extents for very large files. (Addresses Debian Bug:
+#631498, #644792)
+
+Logsave's usage message has been fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug:
+#619788)
+
+Avoid an infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block_device() if there are
+symlink loops in /dev caused by a buggy udev.
+
+Added a useful "fallocate" program to the contrib directory.
+
+Fixed an ABI compatibility problem in libext2fs which broke the dump
+program. Also added back some macros which dump needed so it could
+compile against the latest version of ext2_fs.h (Addresses Debian Bug:
+#636418)
+
+Fixed parsing of MNTOPT_ options for tune2fs and debugfs (Addresses
+Debian Bug: #641667)
+
+Added internationalization support for libcom_err error table strings.
+
+Fixed various spelling mistakes found in various output strings found
+by I18N translators.
+
+Update translations: French, Chinese, Germany, Indonesian, Swedish,
+Vietnamese, Polish, Dutch, Czech. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #520985,
+#620659)
+
+Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. (Addresses Debian Bugs:
+#614662, #632169, #641838, #627535, #629355)
+
+Updated/clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #639411,
+#642193, #634883)
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Initial support for quota as an integrated feature, where the quota
+files are hidden system files that are automatically maintained by
+e2fsck is present, although disabled by default. It must be enabled
+by using the configure option --enable-quota.
+
+Reserved the on-disk fields for the metadata checksum and snapshot
+features, which are currently in development.
+
+The ext2fs library now has the new functions ext2fs_punch(),
+ext2fs_get_memzero() and ext2fs_file_get_inode().
+
+The ext2fs library now has support for calculating the crc32c checksum
+(via the new functions ext2fs_crc32c_be and ext2fs_crc32c_le).
+
+The I/O manager now supports the discard operation.
+
+Reserved file system code points for new 1st class quota feature.
+
+Shortened the compilation lines by moving the autoconf defines to
+a config.h header file.
+
+Fixed a potential free of an unitialized pointer in
+ext2fs_update_bb_inode().
+
+Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall and coverity warnings.
+
+Fixed portability issues for Mac OS X, Hurd, and FreeBSD.
+
+Fixed a build failure when OMIT_COM_ERR is defined.
+
+Improved error checking and fixed memory leaks caused by error return
+paths.
+
+Add ext2fs_flush2() and ext2fs_close2() which takes a flag to allow
+the fsync() to be skipped.
+
+Added a test for extent-mapped journals by mke2fs and tune2fs.
+
+Added a test for creating a large (over 4GB) journal using mke2fs.
+
+Added a test to make sure the inode size remains constant.
+
+The regression test script now prints the list of which tests failed.
+
+The regression test system now uses /tmp for its scratch files, which
+is often a tmpfs mounted file system and hence much faster.
+
+The i_e2image test was fixed so it works with valgrind.
+
+Tests that rely on debugfs are now skipped if debugfs wasn't built.
+
+Fixed the dependencies for "make check" so all required dependencies
+are built before running the gression tests.
+
+A link to com_err.h is installed in $(includedir) during a "make install".
+
+The po/*.gmo files are automatically rebuilt if they are missing or
+out of date. This helps out Debian packaging.
+
+Allow ext2fs_get_memalign() to compile on systems that don't have
+posix_memalign().
+
+Fixed a namespace leak in libext2fs (tdb_null).
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.14 (December 22, 2010)
+=====================================
+
+Fix spurious complaint in mke2fs where it would complain if the file
+system type "default" is not defined in mke2fs.conf.
+
+The resize2fs program will no longer clear the resize_inode feature
+when the number reserved group descriptor blocks reaches zero. This
+allows for subsequent shrinks of the file system to work cleanly for
+flex_bg file systems.
+
+The resize2fs program now handles devices which are exactly 16T;
+previously it would give an error saying that the file system was too
+big.
+
+E2fsck (and the libext2fs library) will not use the extended rec_len
+encoding for file systems whose block size is less than 64k, for
+consistency with the kernel.
+
+Programming notes
+-----------------
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.13 would not compile on big-endian systems. This has
+been fixed. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3138115)
+
+The ext2fs_block_iterator2() function passed an incorrect ref_offset
+to its callback function in the case of sparse files. (Addresses
+Sourceforge Bug: #3081087)
+
+Fix some type-punning warnings generated by newer versions of gcc.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.13 (December 13, 2010)
+=====================================
+
+E2fsck now supports the extended option "-E journal_only", which
+causes it to only do a journal replay. This is useful for scripts
+that want to first replay the journal and then check to see if it
+contains errors.
+
+E2fsck will now support UUID= and LABEL= specifiers for the -j option
+(which specifies where to find the external journal). (Addresses
+Debian Bug #559315)
+
+E2fsck now has support for the problems/<problem code>/force_no
+configuration option in e2fsck.conf, which forces a problem to not be
+fixed.
+
+Dumpe2fs will now avoid printing large negative offsets for the bitmap
+blocks and instead print a message which is a bit more helpful for
+flex_bg file systems.
+
+Mke2fs will now check the file system type (specified with the -t
+option) to make sure it is defined in the mke2fs.conf file; if it is
+not, it will print an error and abort. If the usage type (specified
+with the -T option) is not defined in mke2fs.conf, mke2fs will print a
+warning but will continue. (Addresses Debian Bug #594609)
+
+Clarified error message from resize2fs clarifying that on-line
+shrinking is not supported at all. (Addresses Debian Bug #599786)
+
+Fix an e2fsck bug that could cause a PROGRAMMING BUG error to be
+displayed. (Addresses Debian Bug #555456)
+
+E2fsck will open the external journal in exclusive mode, to prevent
+the journal from getting truncated while it is in use due to a user
+accidentally trying to run e2fsck on a snapshotted file system volume.
+(Addresses Debian Bug #587531)
+
+Fix a bug in e2fsck so it has the correct test for the EOFBLOCKS_FL
+flag.
+
+The tune2fs program can now set the uninit_bg feature without
+requiring an fsck.
+
+The tune2fs, dumpe2fs, and debugfs programs now support the new ext4
+default mount options settings which were added in 2.6.35.
+
+The e2fsck and dumpe2fs programs now support the new ext4 superblock
+fields which track where and when the first and most recent file
+system errors occurred. These fields are displayed by dumpe2fs and
+cleared by e2fsck. These new superblock fields were added in 2.6.36.
+
+Debugfs now uses a more concicse format for listing extents in its
+stat command. This format also includes the interior extent tree
+blocks, which previously was missing from stat's output for
+extent-based files.
+
+Debugfs has a new option, -D, which will request Direct I/O access of
+the file system.
+
+Mke2fs will skip initializing the inode table if a device supports
+discard and the discard operation will result in zero'ed blocks.
+
+Badblocks will now correctly backspace over UTF-8 characters when
+displaying its progress bar. (Addresses Gentoo Bug #309909; Addresses
+Debian Bugs #583782 and #587834)
+
+E2freefrag will now display the total number of free extents.
+
+Resize2fs -P no longer requires a freshly checked filesystem before
+printing the minimum resize size.
+
+Fixed a floating point precision error in a binary tree search routine
+that can lead to seg fault in e2fsck and resize2fs.
+
+Fixed a bug in e2fsck where if both the original and backup superblock
+are invalid in some way, e2fsck will fail going back to the original
+superblock because it didn't close the backup superblock first, and
+the exclusive open prevented the file system from being reopened.
+
+Fixed a big in e2freefrag which caused getopt parsing to fail on
+architectures with unsigned chars. (Addresses Gentoo Bug: #299386)
+
+Clarified an mke2fs error message so a missed common in an -E option
+(i.e., mke2fs -t ext4 -E stride=128 stripe-width=512 /dev/sda1")
+results in a more understandable explanation to the user.
+
+Mke2fs now displays the correct valid inode ratio range when
+complaining about an invalid inode ratio specified by the user.
+
+Mke2fs now understands the extended option "discard" and "nodiscard",
+and the older option -K is deprecated. The default of whether
+discards are enabled by default can be controled by the mke2fs.conf
+file.
+
+Mke2fs's handling of logical and physical sector sizes has been
+improved to reflect the fact that there will be some SSD's with 8k and
+16k physical sectors arriving soon. Mke2fs will no longer force block
+size to be the physical sector size, since there will be devices where
+the physical sector size is larger than the system's page size, and
+hence larger than the maximal supported block size. In addition, if
+the minimal and optimal io size are not exported by the device, and
+the physical sector size is larger than the block size, the physical
+sector size will be used to set the Raid I/O optimization hints in the
+superblock.
+
+E2fsck will now display a better, more specific error message when the
+user enters a typo'ed device name, instead of blathering on about
+alternate superblocks.
+
+Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues
+
+Updated/clarified man pages (Addresses Debian Bugs: #580236, #594004,
+#589345, #591083; Addresses Launchpad Bug: #505719)
+
+Update the Chinese, Chzech, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian,
+Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations.
+
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Fix a dependency definition for the static and profiled blkid
+libraries which could cause compile failures in some configurations.
+(Addresses Debian Bug: #604629)
+
+Add support for Direct I/O in the Unix I/O access layer.
+
+Fixed a memory leak in the Unix I/O layer when changing block sizes.
+
+Fixed minor memory leaks in mke2fs.
+
+Added a new function to the ext2fs library, ext2fs_get_memalign().
+
+The tst_super_size test program will check to make sure the superblock
+fields are correctly aligned and will print them out so they can be
+manually checked for correctness.
+
+Fixed some makefile dependencies for test programs in lib/ext2fs.
+
+Reserved the feature flags and superblock fields needed for the Next3
+snapshot feature.
+
+Reserved the feature flags for EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_DIRDATA and
+EXT4_INCOMPAT_EA_INODE.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.12 (May 17, 2010)
+================================
+
+Mke2fs now gives a correct error message if the external journal
+device is not found. (Addresses Red Hat Bug #572935)
+
+Resize2fs -P will now refuse to print a minimum size if the file
+system is not clean. Previously it would go ahead and print a minimum
+size anyway, which might not be correct, leading to user confusion.
+
+E2fsck now tests for extents that begin at physical block 0 and
+rejects them as invalid. (Addresses Google Bug: #2573806)
+
+Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause it to crash when trying to
+remove an invalid extent and the block bitmaps hadn't yet been loaded.
+(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2971800)
+
+E2fsck now will completely skip time-based checks if the system clock
+looks insane or the option broken_system_clock is set in
+/etc/e2fsck.conf.
+
+E2fsck would previously report an i_blocks corruption for a 4T file
+created using posix_fallocate; this bug has been fixed.
+
+E2fsck will now correctly mark a sparse journal as invalid and will
+delete and recreate the journal to address the problem.
+
+E2fsck would previously incorrectly ask the user whether she would
+like to abort the file system check after finding a problem --- and
+then abort regardless of the user's answer. This is annoying, and
+has been fixed.
+
+E2fsck can now continue even if it fails to recreate the resize
+inode; previously it would just abort the file system check
+altogether.
+
+E2fsck could potentially remove directory entries for inodes found in
+the unused region of the inode table; this would generally happen on
+ext4 file systems that do not use journaling. This bug has been fixed
+by not clearing these directory entries once it has been established
+that bg_unused_inodes may not be trustworthy; once pass #2 has been
+completed, e2fsck will restart the file system check from the
+beginning, and then it will be safe to delete any directory entries
+pointing to inodes that appear to be deleted. (Addresses Google Bug:
+#2642165)
+
+E2fsck will not try to set the block group checksums if the user
+cancels the fsck with a control-C. It's a bad idea to set the
+checksums if e2fsck hasn't been completed, and it often results an the
+error message, "Inode bitmap not loaded while setting block group
+checksum info". (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #582035)
+
+The mke2fs program now queries the kernel for the physical as well as
+the logical sector size, and will not allow a blocksize below the
+logical, and will strongly encourage a blocksize at least as big as
+the physical blocksize. This is needed for 4k sector drives that
+emulate 512 byte sector sizes.
+
+Mke2fs will now allow a flex_bg size of 1. This is unusual, and
+rarely needed, but it is a legal value.
+
+E2fsck will check for cases where the EOFBLOCKS_FL is set when it is
+not needed, and offer to clear it; this is a sign of a kernel bug, but
+more importantly, some released kernels may crash when this situation
+is encountered on ext4 file systems. (Addresses Google Bug: #2604224)
+
+E2fsck will use the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag exclusively to check whether
+i_size is correct. (Kernels starting with 2.6.34 will set
+EOFBLOCKS_FL.)
+
+The com_err library will now only output ^M (a CR character) when the
+tty is in raw mode.
+
+Update the Czech, Chinese, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian, Polish,
+and Vietnamese translations.
+
+Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
+details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #571247, #563487)
+
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+The regression test suite now uses its own mke2fs.conf file, so that
+downstream distributions want change the mke2fs.conf file which is
+distributed in the RPM or dpkg file, without worrying about screwing
+up the regression test results.
+
+Always build namei.o so that building with configure --disable-debugfs
+works correctly. Long-term, if we care about reduced e2fsprogs
+builds, we need a more general solution for deciding what .o files are
+needed for a particular build. Given that install floppies are going
+(gone?) the way the dodo bird, we probably don't care, though.
+(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2911433)
+
+Add configure options --enable-symlink-build and
+--enable-symlink-install, which allow e2fsprogs be built using
+symlinks instad of hard links, and to be installed using symlinks
+instead of hard links, respectively. It is useful when the file
+system where the build is taking place, or the file system where
+e2fsprogs is installed, can't handle hard links for some reason.
+(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1436294)
+
+Fixed compile warning in mke2fs.c.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.11 (March 14, 2010)
+==================================
+
+E2fsck will no longer give a fatal error and abort if the physical
+device has been resized beyond 2**32 blocks. (Addresses Launchpad
+Bug: #521648)
+
+Debugfs has a bug fixed so that "logdump -b <blk>" now properly shows
+the allocation status of the block <blk>. (Addresses Debian Bug:
+#564084)
+
+E2fsck now prints a much more emphatic and hopefully scary message
+when a file system is detected as mounted while doing a read/write
+check of the filesystem. Hopefully this will dissuade users from
+thinking, "surely that message doesn't apply to *me*" :-(
+
+E2fsck -n will now always open the file system read-only. We now
+disallow certain combination of options which previously were manual
+exceptions; this is bad because it causes users to think they are
+smarter than they really are. So "-n -c", "-n -l", "-n -L", and "-n
+-D" are no longer supported. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #537483)
+
+In e2fsprogs 1.41.10, mke2fs would ask for confirmation to proceed if
+it detected a badly aligned partition. Unfortunately, this broke some
+distribution installation scripts, so it now just prints the warning
+message and proceeds. (Addresses Red Hat Bug: #569021. Addresses
+Launchpad Bug: #530071)
+
+Mke2fs would take a long time to create very large journal files for
+ext4. This was caused by a bug in ext2fs_block_iterate2(), which is
+now fixed.
+
+E2fsck now understands the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag which will be used in
+2.6.34 kernels to make e2fsck not complain about blocks deliberately
+fallocated() beyond an inode's i_size.
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.10 introduced a regression (in commit b71e018) where
+e2fsck -fD can corrupt non-indexed directories when are exists one or
+more file names which alphabetically sort before ".". This can happen
+with ext2 filesystems or for small directories (take less than a lock)
+which contain filenames that begin with a space or some other
+punctuation mark. (Addresses Debian Bug: #573923, Addresses Launchpad
+Bug: #525114)
+
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Add new test, f_rehash_dir, which checks to make sure e2fsck -D works
+correctly.
+
+The libcom_err function now has support for Heimdal's com_right_r
+function(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2963865, Addresses Debian
+Bug: #558910)
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 7, 2010)
+====================================
+
+Fix resize2fs bug which causes it to access invalid memory.
+
+Add libss support for libreadline.so.6.
+
+Fix e2fsck's check for extent-mapped directory with an incorrect file
+type.
+
+Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock
+to support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks. Also, since too
+many distributions seem to have broken virtualization scripts now,
+e2fsck will by default accept dates which are off by up to 24 hours by
+default. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #559776, #557636)
+
+Fix a bug where mke2fs may not use the best placement of the inode
+table when there is only room for a single block group in the last
+flex_bg.
+
+E2fsck is now smarter when it needs to allocate blocks in the course
+of fixing file system problems. This reduces the number of spurious
+differences found in pass #5.
+
+E2fsck will no longer rehash directories which fit in a single
+directory block.
+
+E2fsck now correctly handles holes in extent-mapped directories (i.e.,
+sparse directories which use extents).
+
+Fix big-endian problems with ext2fs_bmap() and ext2fs_bmap2().
+
+Fix a bug in filefrag where on platforms which can allow file systems
+with 8k blocks, that it doesn't core dump when it sees a file system
+with 8k block sizes. (Thanks to Mikulas Patocka for pointing this
+out.)
+
+E2fsck will correctly fix directories that are have an inaccurate
+i_size as well as other problems in a single pass, instead of
+requiring two e2fsck runs before the file system is fully fixed.
+
+Fix e2fsck so it will correctly find and detect duplicate directory
+entries for non-indexed directories. ( Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
+#2862551)
+
+Mke2fs will use BLKDISCARD to pre-discard all blocks on an SSD or
+thinly-provisioned storage device. This can be disabled using the -K
+option.
+
+Enhance libext2fs so it works around bug in Linux version 2.6.19
+and earlier where the /proc/swaps file was missing the header on
+the first line.
+
+Fix bug in Linux version 2.6.19 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file
+was missing the header on the first line.
+
+Fix some big-endian bugs in e2fsck and libext2fs.
+
+Fix resize2fs so it works correctly on file systems with external
+journals instead of failing early with the error "Illegal inode
+number".
+
+Fix libss so that it does not seg fault when using a readline library
+which does not supply a readline_shutdown() function.
+
+Updated dumpe2fs's usage message so it correctly gives the right
+arguments summary for "-o superblock=<num>" and "-o blocksize=<num>".
+(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #448099)
+
+Teach libext2fs to ignore the high 32 bits of the i_blocks field
+when huge_file file system feature is set, but the inode does not
+have the HUGE_FILE_FL flag set.
+
+Fix e2fsck's handling of 64-bit i_blocks fields.
+
+E2fsck will now print "Illegal indirect block", "Illegal
+double-indirect block", etc., instead of "Illegal block #-1" or
+"Illegal block #-2", etc. This makes it easier for users to
+understand what has gone wrong. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2871782)
+
+Mke2fs now will obtain get device topology information from blkid and
+use it to populate the superblock stride and stripe sizes. It will
+also warn if the block device is misaligned
+
+Fix file descriptor leaks in fsck and debugfs. (Addresses Novell Bug:
+##524526)
+
+Fix the libext2fs library code to round up the bitmap size to a 4-byte
+boundary, to prevent spurious seg faults caused by the x86
+architecture. This doesn't affect Linux systems, but was a major
+problem on a number of *BSD systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
+#2328708)
+
+Fix resize2fs's minimum size required for a file system so it doesn't
+fail when "resize2fs -M" is run. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #519131)
+
+Dumpe2fs now prints summary information about the contents of the
+journal.
+
+Avoid printing scary error messages when e2fsck starts running
+problems on low-memory systems, as it tends to panic and mislead the
+user. (Addresses Debian Bug: #509529)
+
+Fix blkid's modules.dep parser so it handles compressed (.ko.gz)
+modules files. (Address Red Hat Bug: #518572)
+
+Fix tune2fs so it can add a journal when an extent-enabled file system
+is mounted. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #416648)
+
+Update Czech, Indonesian, Polish and Vietnamese translations (from the
+Translation Project).
+
+Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2822186)
+
+Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
+details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #540111)
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+The configure script supports the --with-cc, --with-ccopts, and
+--with-ldopts options. Instead, the more standard use of CC=,
+CCFLAGS=, and LDFLAGS= in the configure command line is used instead.
+Also, --with-ld, which never worked, was also removed.
+(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2843248)
+
+The in-tree header files are only used if the in-tree uuid or blkid
+libraries are used. Otherwise, use the system-provided uuid or blkid
+header files if using the system-provided libraries.
+
+Fix some build failures caused by --disable-* configure options.
+
+Work around a bug in autoconf 2.64.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.9 (August 22, 2009)
+==================================
+
+Fix a bug in e2fsck routines for reallocating an inode table which
+could cause it to loop forever on an ext4 filesystem with the FLEX_BG
+filesystem feature with a relatively rare (and specific) filesystem
+corruption. This fix causes e2fsck to try to find space for a new
+portion of the inode table in the containing flex_bg, and if that
+fails, the new portion of the inode table will be allocated in any
+free space available in the filesystem.
+
+Make e2fsck less annoying by only asking for permission to relocate a
+block group's inode table once, instead of for every overlapping
+block. Similarly, only ask once to recompute the block group
+checksums, instead of once for each corrupted block group's checksum.
+
+Fix filefrag to avoid print the extent header if the FIEMAP ioctl is
+not present, and it needs to fall back to using the FIBMAP ioctl.
+
+Fix filefrag to correctly print the number of extents for zero-length
+files. (Addresses Debian Bug: #540376)
+
+Filefrag now has a -B option which forces the use of the FIBMAP ioctl
+to more easily debug the FIBMAP code.
+
+Fixed filefrag for non-extent based files.
+
+Add a new program, e2freefrag, which displays information about the
+free space fragmentation in an ext2/3/4 filesystem.
+
+Fix inode resizing via tune2fs -I so that it works correctly in the
+face of non-empty bad blocks inodes, and if the filesystem was
+formatted using the "mke2fs -E stride=N" option for RAID arrays.
+
+Fix regression in ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() caused e2fsck -fD to fail
+and corrupt large directories if the directory needs to shrink by more
+than one block. (Addresses Debian Bug: #537510)
+
+Fix e2fsck's buggy_init_scritps=1 so that the if the last write and/or
+last mount times are in the future, they are corrected even if
+buggy_init_scripts is set. This is needed because otherwise resize2fs
+will refuse to resize the filesystem, even after running "e2fsck -f".
+(Addresses Launchpad bug: #373409)
+
+E2fsck will now print much fuller information when the last mount time
+or last written time is in the future, since most people can't seem to
+believe their distribution has buggy init scripts, or they have a
+failed CMOS/RTS clock battery.
+
+Enhance dumpe2fs to dump the extent information via the 'stat'
+command, and more detailed extent information via the new command
+'dump_extents'.
+
+Update French, Polish, Czech, and Sweedish translation from the
+Translation Project.
+
+Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
+details.
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall warnings.
+
+Fixed memory leak in error path in ext2fs_block_iterate2()
+
+Fixed non-Linux build of the intl directory by adding support for the
+E/Q/V macros.
+
+The bitmap read/write functions now treat uninitialized bitmaps as
+unallocated; this fixes a number of problems in all e2fsprogs for ext4
+filesystems when there is a need to allocate new blocks or inodes, and
+there aren't any free blocks or inodes in the already-used block
+groups.
+
+Improve ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() to avoid creating new extents which
+get inserted into the extent tree when they are not needed.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.8 (July 11, 2009)
+================================
+
+Fix resize2fs's online resizing, fixing a regression which in
+e2fpsrogs 1.41.7. (Addresses Debian Bug: #535452)
+
+Fix potential filesystem corruptions caused by using resize2fs to
+shrinking ext4 filesystems with extents enabled. (Addresses Red Hat
+Bug: #510379)
+
+Optimize uuid_generate() to avoid running uuidd if it is not setuid or
+setgid and the currently running program doesn't have write access to
+the uuidd work directory.
+
+Add safety checks (for non-Linux systems) so that uuidd isn't run with
+file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 closed; and if they are closed, uuidd
+will be careful not to close the file descriptor for its unix domain
+socket when it detaches itself from the controlling tty. Also add
+safety checks so that if the unix domain socket between the uuid
+library and uuidd program is closed for any reason, both the library
+and the uuidd will return an appropriate error code instead of looping
+in an infinite loop.
+
+The e2croncheck script, which creates an LVM snapshot and then checks
+the ext3/4 filesystem via the LVM snapshot, has been added to the
+contrib directory.
+
+Fix filefrag program for files that have more than 144 extents.
+
+Update French, Polish, Czech, Indonsian, and Sweedish translation from
+the Translation Project.
+
+Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
+details. (Addresses Debian Bug #535530)
+
+Update/clarify man pages.
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Fix compilation problem when configured with --disable-uuid.
+
+Don't build uuidgen if configured with --disable-uuid.
+
+Add the new library function ext2fs_test_inode_bitmap_range(), and
+optimized ext2fs_test_block_bitmap_range(), which will be needed for
+future optimizations for e2fsck.
+
+Fix makefile dependencies for libcom_err so that the Makefiles work
+well on non-GNU make program. (Addresses Sourceforge Patches: #2813809)
+
+Enhance the build system so that the full set of commands executed by
+the Makefiles are displayed, instead of the Linux kernel summary
+output, if the build was configured with --enable-verbose-makecmds, or
+if GNU make is in use and the V variable is non-null, i.e., via "make
+V=1".
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.7 (June 29, 2009)
+================================
+
+Fix a bug in libext2fs which can cause e2fsck and resize2fs to write
+uninitalized data into the portion of the inode beyond the first 128
+bytes when operating on inodes mapped via extents; potentially
+corrupting filesystems.
+
+Fix memory leaks in e2fsprogs, including a very large memory leak
+which can cause e2fsck to run out of memory when checking very large
+filesystems using extents.
+
+The logsave program will now filter out the ^A and ^B characters when
+writing to the console.
+
+Harden ext2fs_validate_entry() so that lsdel will not read beyond the
+end of the block even if the directory block is corrupted.
+
+Fix debugfs from core dumping if the logdump command fails to open the
+output file.
+
+Enhance badblocks to print the currently tested block number when
+interrupted with ^C.
+
+Fix lsattr to exit with a non-zero status when it encounters errors.
+(Addresses RedHat Bugzilla #489841)
+
+Fix e2fsprogs to use the same encoding for rec_len in 64k (and larger)
+filesystems as the kernel when encoding rec_len >= 64k. For 64k
+filesystems (currently all that is supported by e2fsprogs, this is
+only a minor corner case).
+
+Resize2fs will now update the journal backup fileds in the sup0erblock
+if the journal is moved; this avoids an unnecessary full fsck after
+resizing the filesystem. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #505339)
+
+Fix libext2fs to properly initialize i_extra_size when creating the
+journal and resize inodes.
+
+Change badblocks to allow block sizes larger than 4k.
+
+Fix filefrag progam so it correctly checks for errors from the fiemap ioctl.
+
+Update Chinese and Czech translation from the Translation Project.
+
+Clean up various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug #531385 and #523063)
+
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Add --disable-libuuid option to configure which uses an in-system
+installed version of libuuid; the private version is enabled by
+default.
+
+Add --valgrind-leakcheck option to the test_script program which runs
+valgrind with the appropriate options to find memory leaks.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.6 (May 30, 2009)
+===============================
+
+Fix a critical regression in e2fsck introduced version 1.41.5 which
+can undo updates to the block group descriptors after a journal replay.
+
+If e2fsck receives an I/O error while replaying the journal, prompt
+the user whether they want to ignore the error or not; if e2fsck is
+run in preen mode, force fsck to abort the preen pass.
+
+Fix a bug which would cause e2fsck to core dump if the filesystem
+contains a corrupt extent header, and the user declines to clear the
+inode. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2791794)
+
+Fix e2fsck to restart only once in the case of multiple block groups
+which inodes in use that are in the uninitialized part of the block
+group's inode table.
+
+To reduce user confusion, if the /etc/mtab file is missing
+ext2fs_check_mount_point and ext2fs_check_if_mounted will return a
+new, explicit error code to indicate this case. This will cause
+e2fsck to give a clearer error message when the user is using buggy
+rescue CD's that don't properly set up /etc/mtab. (Addresses Debian
+Bug: #527859)
+
+Fix e2fsck so that if the primary group descriptors are corrupted, but
+the backup superblock is entirely invalid, to go back to using (and
+fixing) the priary group descriptors instead of completely giving up
+on the filesystem. (Addresses Debian Bug: #516820)
+
+Change e2fsck to not abort a preen pass if an inode is found to have
+i_file_acl_hi non-zero. Ext3 filesystems don't care, and newer
+kernels (post 2.6.29) will ignore this field. So let's fix it
+automatically during the preen pass instead of forcing the user to fix
+this up manually. (Addresses Debian Bug: #526524)
+
+Add resource tracking for e2fsck passes 1b through 1d.
+
+Speed up e2fsck by eliminating unnecessary journal checks if the
+filesystem is already mounted and doesn't need recovery (since the
+kernel would have run the journal when the filesystem was mounted.)
+Also speed up e2fsck by avoiding unnecessary block group descriptor
+updates in ext2fs_close().
+
+Add support to chattr to migrate inodes from using direct/indirect
+blocks to extents.
+
+Avoid corrupting the filesystem if there is an attempt to shrink a
+filesystem using resize2fs smaller than posible by making
+ext2fs_set_bmap() more careful not to delete the old block until the
+new block can be inserted. In addition, fix a bug in how the minimum
+size of the filesystem (plus a safety margin) is calculated, and
+modify resize2fs to refuse to shrink the filesystem below that minimum
+size without the force flag.
+
+Teach blkid to try to figure out DM device names using take advantage
+of information in sysfs when running on kernels (2.6.29 and later)
+which provide this information in /sys/block/dm-<N>/dm/name; this is
+much faster than scanning for the devncie number in /dev/mapper.
+
+Fix blkid to prefer /dev/mapper/<name> device names instad of the
+private /dev/dm-X names.
+
+Add an -a option to debugfs's close_filesys command which writes any
+changes to the superblock or block group descriptors to all of the
+backup superblock locations.
+
+Add support to the filefrag program to use the FIEMAP ioctl.
+
+Update Chinese translation from the Translation Project.
+
+Clean up various man pages. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #502971 and
+Launchpad Bug: #381854)
+
+Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
+details. (Addresses Debian Bug #506064)
+
+
+Programmer's Notes
+------------------
+
+Add test code to make sure e2fsck's problem.c doesn't have two problem
+codes assigned to duplicate values.
+
+Avoid using a hard-coded path for /bin/rm in block's test_probe.in.
+(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2780205)
+
+Clean up e2fsck by removing #ifdef RESOURCE_TRACK by adding an empty
+function declaration for init_resource_track() and
+print_resource_track() when RESOURCE_TRACK is not defined.
+
+The test code which is used to build the tst_csum progam has been
+moved from from tst_csum.c into csum.c under an #ifdef DEBUG to to
+avoid compile problems caused by not having a prototype for
+ext2fs_group_desc_csum(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #2484331)
+
+Update the config.guess and config.sub file to the latest from the
+FSF, to allow e2fsprogs to build on the avr32 platform. (Addresses
+Debian Bug: #528330)
+
+Add a new function, ext2fs_extent_open2(), which behaves like
+pext2fs_extent_open(), but uses the user-supplied inode structure
+when opening an extent instead of reading the inode from disk.
+
+
+E2fsprogs 1.41.5 (April 23, 2009)
+=================================
Fix a number of filesystem corruption bugs in resize2fs when growing
or shrinking ext4 filesystems off-line (i.e., when the ext4 filesystem
Debugfs can now set i_file_acl_high via the set_inodes_field command,
and print a 64-bit file acl. This is useful for debugging filesystem
-corruptions where the high 32 bits of i_file_acl_high are set.
+corruptions where the high bits of i_file_acl_high are set. E2fsck
+will detect and fix non-zero i_file_acl_high on 32-bit filesystems
+since some Linux kernel versions pay attention to this field even when
+they shouldn't.
+
+Speed up e2fsck when checking clean filesystems by avoiding
+unnecessary block reads, and coalescing the block group descriptor
+blocks so they are read using a single read operation.
The libuuid library will now close all file descriptors before running
uuidd. This avoids problems when the calling program has open sockets
superblock-only mode (mke2fs -S), since the left-over journal in the
inode table will cause mke2fs to fail.
+Fix a bug in libext2fs functions that check to see if a particular
+device or filesystem image is mounted, which would cause these
+functions to report that a file identical to the (relative) pathname
+used by a pseudo-filesystem was mounted when in fact it was not.
+
Update Czech translation from the Translation Project.
+Add Chinese (simplified) translation from the Translation Project.
+
Fix support for external journals (which was broken in e2fsprogs
1.41.4).
used to support filesystems without a journal. Update the blkid
library so it understands this.
+The blkid library will remove an entry from the blkid cache
+representing the entire disk if partitions are found, since presuambly
+the device previously had no partition table, but has now transitioned
+to using a partition table.
+
Add a check to mke2fs and tune2fs that the argument to the -m option
(which specifies the reserved ratio) must be greater than zero.
(Addresses Debian Bug: #517015)
Fix compatibility issue in the libext2fs info file and makeinfo
version 4.12. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #481620)
-Clarify tune2fs man page (Addresses Debian Bug: #515693)
+Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #515693, #365619)
Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #506279)
Bug: #521602)
Fix various gcc compilation warnings and other programming cleanups.
-(Addresses Red HatBugzilla: #486997)
+(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #486997)
Add support for building the blkid command statically.
+Add support for disabling the built-in blkid library in favor of a
+system-installed blkid implementation via the configure option
+--disable-libblkid.
+
E2fsprogs 1.41.4 (January 27, 2009)
===================================
Fix memory leak in ext2fs_write_new_inode()
Add support for using a scratch files directory to reduce e2fsck's
-emory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB
+memory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB
library. See the [scratch_files] section of the e2fsck.conf man page
for more details.
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