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-E2fsprogs 1.12 (February 20, 1998)
-==================================
-
-E2fsprogs now works with glibc (at least with the version shipped wtih
-RedHat 5.0). The ext2fs_llseek() function should now work even with
-i386 ELF shared libraries and if llseek() is not present. We also
-explicitly do a configure test to see if (a) llseek is in libc, and
-(b) if llseek is declared in the system header files. (See standard
-complaints about libc developers don't understand the concept of
-compatibility with previous versions of libc.)
-
-Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_DIRNAME_SIZE feature,
-which means that e2fsprogs will ignore the high 8 bits of the
-directory entry's name_len field, so that it can be used for other
-purposes.
-
-Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature.
-E2fsprogs will now support filesystems with 64-bit sized files.
-
-Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_PREALLOC feature.
-
-Added new program "e2label", contributed by Andries Brouwer. E2label
-provides an easy-to-use interface to modify the filesystem label.
-
-Fixed bug so that lsattr -v works instead of producing a core dump.
-
-Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs so that all groups with bad superblock
-backup blocks are printed (not just the first one).
-
-Mke2fs will check the size of the device, and if the user specifies a
-filesystem size larger than the apparent size of the device it will
-print a warning message and ask if the user wants to proceed.
-
-Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause a core dump when it needs to
-expand the /lost+found directory, and sometimes the bitmaps haven't
-been merged in. Also fixed a related bug where ext2fs_write_dir_block
-was used to write out a non-directory block. (Which would be bad on a
-non-Intel platform with byte swapping going on.)
-
-Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would print a "programming error" message
-instead of correctly identifying where a bad block was in used when
-the bad block was in a non-primary superblock or block group
-descriptor. Also fixed a related bug when sparse superblocks are in
-use and there is a bad block where a superblock or block group
-descriptor would have been in a group that doesn't include a
-superblock.
-
-Fixed a bug in e2fsck (really in libext2fs's dblist function) where if
-the block group descriptor table is corrupt, it was possible to try to
-allocate a huge array, fail, and then abort e2fsck.
-ext2fs_get_num_dirs() now sanity checks the block group descriptor,
-and subsitutes reasonable values if the descriptors are obviously bogus.
-
-If e2fsck finds a device file which has the immutable flag set and the
-i_blocks beyond the normal device number are non-zero, e2fsck will
-offer to remove it, since it's probably caused by garbage in the inode
-table.
-
-When opening a filesystem, e2fsck specially checks for the EROFS error
-code, and prints a specific error message to the user which is more
-user friendly.
-
-If the filesystem revision is too high, change the e2fsck to print
-that this is either because e2fsck is out of date, or because the
-superblock is corrupt.
-
-E2fsck now checks for directories that have duplicate '.' and '..'
-entries, and fixes this corruption.
-
-E2fsck no longer forces a sync of the filesystem (with attendant sleep
-calls) at all times. The ext2fs_flush() function now performs a sync
-only if it needed to write data blocks to disk.
-
-Fixed a minor bug in e2fsck's pass1b's file cloning function, where
-certain errors would not be properly reported.
-
-Updated and expanded a few points in the man pages which users
-complained wheren't explicit enough.
-
-Added special case byte-swapping code if compiling on the PowerPC, to
-accomodate the strange big-endian variant of the ext2 filesystem that
-was previously used on the PowerPC port.
-
-
-Programmer's notes:
--------------------
-
-Removed C++ keywords from the ext2fs libraries so that it could be
-compiled with C++.
-
-E2fsck's internal organization has now been massively reorganized so
-that pass*.c don't have any printf statements. Instead, all problems
-are reported through the fix_problem() abstraction interface. E2fsck
-has also been revamped so that it can be called as a library from a
-application.
-
-Added new fileio primitives in libext2fs for reading and writing
-files on an unmounted ext2 filesystem. This interface is now used by
-debugfs.
-
-Added a new libext2fs function for mapping logical block numbers of
-a file to a physical block number.
-
-Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_alloc_block(), which allocates
-a block, zeros it, and updates the filesystem accounting records
-appropriately.
-
-Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_set_bitmap_padding(), which
-sets the padding of the bitmap to be all one's. Used by e2fsck pass 5.
-
-The libext2fs functions now use a set of memory allocation wrapper
-functions: ext2fs_get_mem, ext2fs_free_mem, and ext2fs_resize_mem,
-instead of malloc, free, and resize. This makes it easier for us to
-be ported to strange environments where malloc, et. al. aren't
-necessarily available.
-
-Change the libext2fs fucntion to return ext2-specific error codes
-(EXT2_DIR_EXISTS and EXT2_DB_NOT_FOUND, for example) instead of using
-and depending on the existence of system error codes (such as EEXIST
-and ENOENT).
-
-Renamed io.h to ext2_io.h to avoid collision with other OS's header
-files.
-
-Add protection against ext2_io.h and ext2fs.h being included multiple
-times.
-
-The types used for memory lengths, etc. have been made more portable.
-In generla, the code has been made 16-bit safe. Added Mark
-Habersack's contributed DOS disk i/o routines.
-
-Miscellaneous portability fixes, including not depending on char's
-being signed.
-
-The io_channel structure has a new element, app_data, which is
-initialized by the ext2fs routines to contain a copy of the filesystem
-handle.
-
-ext2fs_check_directory()'s callback function may now return the error
-EXT2_ET_CALLBACK_NOTHANDLED if it wishes ext2fs_check_directory() to
-really do the checking, despite the presence of the callback function.
-
-
-E2fsprosg 1.11 (June 17, 1997)
-==============================
-
-Fixed e2fsck to detect (previously ignored) conflicts between the
-superblock or block group descriptors and block bitmaps, inode
-bitmaps, and inode tables.
-
-Fixed bug in e2fsck so that when the message printed out when a block
-or inode bitmap conflicts with other data, it has the correct group
-number.
-
-Fixed bug in e2fsck and mke2fs where the blocksize wasn't being passed
-to badblocks. This meant that not all of the filesystem was being
-tested for bad blocks!
-
-Fixed an array boundary overrun case which cropped up in
-ext2fs_badblocks_list_test when a user tried running "mke2fs -c
--b 4096".
-
-Adjusted the number of columns printed by mke2fs when displaying the
-superblock backups to avoid running over 80 columns when making a
-really big filesystem.
-
-Fixed up the man pages for e2fsck, debugfs, badblocks, chattr,
-dumpe2fs, fsck, mke2fs, and tune2fs (typos and other minor grammar
-fixes), thanks to some suggestions from Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net).
-
-Programmer's notes:
--------------------
-
-Fixed install rule in lib/ss so that ss_err.h is actually getting
-installed.
-
-Fixed bug in ext2fs_copy_bitmap; the destination bitmap wasn't getting
-bassed back to the caller.
-
-Fixed bug in ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup; it had not been
-setting the current inode number (which meant this function wasn't
-working at all).
-
-Fixed bug in ext2fs_resize_generic_bitmap; it had not be zeroing all
-blocks in the bitmap when increasing the size of the bitmap.
-
-Changed the initial number of blocks allocated by ext2fs_init_dblist()
-to be more realistic.
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_allocate_group_table, which sets up the
-group descriptor information (and allocates inode and block bitmaps,
-and inode tables for a particular group). The function was created by
-factoring out code form ext2fs_allocate_tables().
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_move_blocks which takes a bitmap of the
-blocks to be moved, and moves them to another location on the
-boardboard.
-
-Make the unix_io channel's io_channel_flush implementation calls sync()
-to to flush the kernel buffers to disk.
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_dblist_count returns the number of
-directory blocks in dblist.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.10 (April 24, 1997)
-===============================
-
-Mke2fs once again defaults to creating revision #0 filesystems, since
-people were complaining about breaking compatibility with 1.2 kernels.
-Warning messages were added to the mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that
-the sparse superblock option isn't supported by most kernels yet (1.2
-and 2.0 both don't support parse superblocks.)
-
-Added new flag to mke2fs, -R <raid options>, which allows the user to
-tell mke2fs about the RAID configuration of the filesystem. Currently
-the only supported raid option is "stride" which specifies the width
-of the RAID stripe.
-
-Fixed bug in e2fsck where pass1b would bomb out if there were any
-blocks marked bad in the inode table.
-
-Fixed rare bug in mke2fs where if the user had a very unlucky number
-of blocks in a filesystem (probability less than .002) the resulting
-filesystem would be corrupt in the last block group.
-
-Fixed bug where if e2fsck tried to allocate a block to fix a
-filesystem corruption problem and the filesystem had no free blocks,
-ext2fs_new_block() would loop forever.
-
-The configure script now checks explicitly to see if "-static" works,
-since that can't be assumed to be true --- RedHat doesn't install
-libc-static by default.
-
-Fixed bug in libext2's block iterator functions where under some
-cirmcustances, file with holes would cause the bcount parameter to the
-callback function to be incorrect. This bug didn't affect any of
-e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by Paul Mackerras, the
-author of the PPC boot loader.
-
-Removed use of static variables to store the inode cache in libext2fs.
-This caused problems if more than one filesystem was accessed via
-libext2fs (static variables in libraries are generally a bad idea).
-Again, this didn't affect e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by
-Paul Mackerras.
-
-Fixed minor bugs and version code drift to assure that e2fsprogs 1.10
-will compile cleanly with 1.2.13 kernels (even with a.out shared
-libraries!)
-
-Programmer's notes:
--------------------
-
-Added new functions to duplicate an ext2 filesystem handle, and its
-associated substructure. New functions: ext2fs_dup_handle(),
-ext2fs_copy_dblist(), ext2fs_badblocks_copy(), ext2fs_copy_bitmap().
-Other structures, such as the io_channel and the inode_cache, now have
-a ref count so that they only get freed when they are no longer used
-by any filesystem handle. (These functions were added as part of the
-development effort for an ext2 resizer).
-
-E2fsprogs 1.09 (April 14, 1997)
-===============================
-
-Fixed bug in mke2fs (really in lib/ext2fs/initialize.c) which was
-accidentally introduced in the 1.08 release. The overhead calculation
-was accidentally removed, which caused ext2fs_initialize() to not
-notice when the filesystem size needed to be adjusted down because
-there wasn't enough space in the last block group.
-
-Fixed bug in version parsing library routine; it was always parsing
-the library version string, instead of using the passed-in string.
-
-Clarified chattr man page.
-
-E2fsprogs 1.08 (April 10, 1997)
-===============================
-
-E2fsck 1.07 was very slow when checking very large filesystems with a
-lot of files that had hard links (i.e., news spools). This was fixed
-by seriously revamping the icount abstraction. Added a formal test
-suite for the icount abstraction.
-
-Debugfs now has a "-l" option to the "ls" command, which lists the
-inode number, permissions, owner, group, size, and name of the files
-in the directory.
-
-Fix a bug in e2fsck where when a directory had its blocks moved to
-another location during the pass 1b processing, the directory block
-list wasn't updated, so pass 2 wouldn't check (and correct) the
-correct directory block.
-
-E2fsck will now treat inodes which contain blocks which are claimed by
-the filesystem metadata by treating them as multiply claimed blocks.
-This way, the data in those blocks can be copied to a new block during
-the pass 1b--1d processing.
-
-E2fsck will attempt to determine the correct superblock number and
-display it in the diagnostic and warning messages if possible.
-
-Add support for a new (incompatible) feature, "sparse_super". This
-feature reduces the number of blocks which contain copies of backup
-superblocks and block group descriptors. (It is only an incompatible
-feature because of a bug in ext2_free_blocks.) mke2fs and tune2fs now
-support a new -s option; e2fsck will recognize filesystems built with
-this feature turned on.
-
-E2fsck now checks the library to make sure is the correct version,
-using new library functions. (This helps to diagnose incorrectly
-installed e2fsprogs distributions.)
-
-Dumpe2fs now prints more information; its now prints the the
-filesystem revision number, the filesystem sparse_super feature (if
-present), the block ranges for each block group, and the offset from
-the beginning of the block group.
-
-Mke2fs now distributes the inode and block bitmap blok so that the
-won't be concentrated in one or two disks in RAID/striping setups.
-Also, if the user chooses a 2k or 4k block group, mke2fs will try to
-choose the largest blocks per group that be chosen. (For 2k blocks,
-you can have up to 16384 blocks/group; for 4k blocks, you can have up
-to 32768 blocks/group.) Previously mke2fs would not allow
-specification of more than 8192 blocks per group, even if you were
-using a 2k or 4k block group.
-
-Programmer's notes:
--------------------
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_create_icount2() which takes a "hint"
-argument. This hint argument presets the icount array with the list
-of inodes which actually need to be in the icount array. This really
-helps to speed up e2fsck.
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_icount_validate() which checks the rep
-invariant for the icount structure. This is used mostly for testing.
-
-The error mesasage given when a bad inode number is passed to
-test_generic_bitmap to reflect EXT2FS_TEST_ERROR (instead of
-EXT2FS_UNMARK_ERROR).
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_set_dir_block which sets the block of a
-dblist entry, given the directory inode and blockcnt.
-
-Added a new function ext2fs_get_library_version() which returns the
-current library version, and ext2fs_parse_version_string() which
-returns a version number based on a e2fsprogs version string.
-
-The icount functions will return EINVAL if the passed in inode number
-is out of bounds.
-
-E2fsprogs 1.07 (March 9, 1997)
-==============================
-
-E2fsck is now uses much less memory when checking really large
-filesystems (or rather, filesystems with a large number of inodes).
-Previously a filesystem with 1 million inodes required 4 megabytes of
-memory to store inode count statistics; that storage requirement has
-now been reduced to roughly half a megabyte.
-
-E2fsck can now properly deal with bad blocks appearing inside the
-inode table. Instead of trying to relocate the inode table (which
-often failed because there wasn't enough space), the inodes in the bad
-block are marked as in use.
-
-E2fsck will automatically try to use the backup superblocks if the
-primary superblocks have a bad magic number or have missing meta-data
-blocks (or meta-data blocks which are out of range).
-
-E2fsck's pass 3 has been made more efficient; most noticeable on
-filesystems with a very large number of directories.
-
-Completely revamped e2fsck's system of printing problem reports. It
-is now table driven, to make them more easily customizeable and
-extendable. Error messages which can be printed out during preen mode
-are now one line long.
-
-Fixed e2fsck's filesystem swapping code so that it won't try to swap
-fast symbolic links or deleted files.
-
-Fixed e2fsck core dumping when fixing a filesystem which has no
-directories (not even a root directory).
-
-Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that the length of every
-directory entry is a multiple of 4 (since the kernel complains if it
-isn't).
-
-Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that a directory entry isn't a
-link to the root directory, since that isn't allowed.
-
-Added a check to e2fsk to now make sure the '.' and '..' directory
-entries are null terminated, since the 2.0 kernel requires it.
-
-Added check to write_bitmaps() to make sure the superblock doesn't get
-trashed if the inode or block bitmap is marked as being block zero.
-
-Added checking of the new feature set fields in the superblock, to
-avoid dealing with new filesystem features that this package wasn't
-set up to handle.
-
-Fixed a fencepost error in ext2fs_new_block() which would occasionally
-try to allocate a block beyond the end of a filesystem.
-
-When the UUID library picks a random IEEE 802 address (because it
-can't find one from a network card), it sets the multicast bit, to
-avoid conflicting with a legitimate IEEE 802 address.
-
-Mke2fs now sets the root directory's owner to be the real uid of the
-user running mke2fs. If the real uid is non-zero, it also sets
-the group ownership of the root directory to be the real group-id of
-the user running mke2fs.
-
-Mke2fs now has more intelligent error checking when it is given a
-non-existent device.
-
-When badblocks is given the -vv option, it now updates the block that
-it is currently testing on every block.
-
-Fixed a bug in fsck where it wouldn't modify the PATH envirnoment
-currently correctly if PATH wasn't already set.
-
-Shared libraries now built with dependencies. This allows the shared
-library files to be used with dlopen(); it also makes the transition
-to libc 6 easier, since ld.so can tell which libc a particular shared
-library expects to use.
-
-Programmer's notes:
--------------------
-
-Added new abstraction (defined in dblist.c) for maintaining a list of
-blocks which belongs to directories. This is used in e2fsck and other
-programs which need to iterate over all directories.
-
-Added new functions which test to see if a contiguous range of blocks
-(or inodes) are available. (ext2fs_*_bitmap_range).
-
-Added new function (ext2_inode_has_valid_blocks) which returns true if
-an inode has valid blocks. (moved from e2fsck code).
-
-Added new function (ext2fs_allocate_tables) which allocates the
-meta-data blocks as part of initializing a filesystem. (moved from
-mke2fs code).
-
-Added a new I/O manager for testing purposes. It will either allow a
-program to intercept I/O requests, or print debugging messages to
-trace the activity of a program using the I/O manager.
-
-The badblocks_list functions now store the bad blocks in a sorted
-order, and use a binary search to speed up badblocks_list_test.
-
-The inode scan function ext2fs_get_next_inode() may now return a soft
-error returns: MISSING_INODE_TABLE and BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE in
-those cases where part of an inode table is missing or there is a bad
-block in the inode table.
-
-Added a new function (ext2fs_block_iterate2) which adds new arguments to
-the callback function to return a pointer (block and offset) to the
-reference of the block.
-
-Added new function (ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup) which allows an
-application to jump to a particular block group while doing an inode
-scan.
-
-The badblocks list functions were renamed from badblocks_* to
-ext2fs_badblocks_*. Backwards compatibility functions are available
-for now, but programs should be modified to use the new interface.
-
-Some of the library functions were reorganized into separate files to
-reduce the size of some programs which statically link against the
-ext2 library.
-
-Put in some miscellaneous fixes for the Alpha platform.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.06 (October 7, 1996)
-================================
-
-Fixed serious bug in e2fsck: if the block descriptors are bad, don't
-smash the backup copies in ext2fs_close(). (The problem was that when
-e2fsck -p discovered the problem, while it was closing the filesystem
-and exiting, it was also blowing away the backup superblocks on the
-disk, which was less than friendly.) We now make it the case that we
-only write out the backup superblock and the back block descriptors if
-the filesystem is completely free from problems.
-
-Fixed a bug in block_interate in the lib/ext2fs library which caused
-e2fsck to fail on GNU Hurd-created filesystems.
-
-Add support for Linux/FT's bootloader, which actually uses
-EXT2_BOOT_LOADER, and sets its mode bits which caused e2fsck to want
-to clear the inode.
-
-Add support for the "A" (no atime update) attribute. (Note: this
-attribute is not yet in production kernels.)
-
-The test suite is not automatically run when doing a "make all" from
-the top level directory. Users should manually run "make check" if
-they wish to run the test suite.
-
-Upon a preenhalt(), make the printed message more explicit that
-running e2fsck "MANAULLY" means without the -p or -a options.
-
-In e2fsck, if a disconnected inode is zero-length, offer to clear it
-instead of offering to connect it to lost+found.
-
-In e2fsck, if a filesystem was just unmounted uncleanly, and needs
-e2fsck to be run over it, change e2fsck to explicitly display this
-fact.
-
-For dumpe2fs and e2fsck, cause the -V option to print out which
-version of the ext2fs library is actually getting used. (This will
-help detect mismatches of using a 1.06 utility with a 1.05 library,
-etc.)
-
-Programmers' notes:
--------------------
-
-EXT2_SWAP_BYTES was changed to EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES, which better fits
-the naming convention.
-
-In ext2fs_initialize(), make sure the description for the inode bitmap
-is correctly initialize.
-
-Fixed minor type typo in ext2fs_allocate_generic_bitmap();
-
-E2fsprogs 1.05 (September 7, 1996)
-==================================
-
-Add support for new fields in the ext2 superblock --- volume name,
-volume UUID, and last mounted field. Dumpe2fs displays these fields,
-tune2fs and mke2fs allows you to set them. E2fsck will automatically
-generate a UUID for those volumes that don't have them.
-
-Put in support for e2fsck to recognize HURD specific ext2 features ---
-most notably, the translator block. The e2fsprogs tools will now use
-the creator_os field in the superblock to correctly handle different
-OS-specific variants of the ext2 filesystem.
-
-E2fsck now fixes inodes which have a the deletion time set, but which
-have a non-zero i_link_count field by offering to clear the deletion
-time. Previously e2fsck assumed that the inode was deleted (per 0.3c
-ext2 kernel behavior) and offered to unlink the file.
-
-If e2fsck sets the clean bit, but nothing else, set the exit code
-FSCK_NONDESTRUCT. After all, e2fsck did fix a filesystem error --- it
-set the filesystem valid bit when it was previously cleared. :-) This
-was needed to make the HURD fsck driver happy.
-
-If the user refuses to attach an unattached inode, e2fsck will no
-longer set the inode's link count. Otherwise, the inode would end up
-getting marked as unused, which might cause loss of data later.
-
-Make the message issued by e2fsck when the superblock is corrupt less
-confusing for users. It now mentions that another reason for the
-"corrupt superblock" message might be that the partition might not be
-an ext2 filesystem at all (it might swap, msdos filesystem, ufs, etc.)
-
-Make the libext2 library more robuest so that e2fsck won't coredump on
-an illegal superblock where the blocksize is zero. (f_crashdisk is
-the test case).
-
-By default, create filesystems where the default checkinterval is 6
-months (180 days). Linux servers can be robust enough that 20 reboots
-can be a long, long time.
-
-Added configure flag --enable-old-bitops, which forces the bitops to
-use the old (native) bitmask operations. By default on the sparc
-platform, the standard ext2 bit ordering is now used.
-
-Added a new feature to e2fsck to byte-swap filesystems; this can be
-used to convert old m68k filesystems to use the standard byte-order
-storage for the superblock, inodes, and directory blocks. This
-function is invoked by using the '-s' option to e2fsck.
-
-Debugfs's "dump" command has been enhanced so that it writes out the
-exact size of the file so that the nulls at the end of the file are
-eliminated. The command also accept a new "-p" option which will
-attempt preserve to preserve the ownernship, permissions, and
-file modification/access times.
-
-Debugfs has two new options, -f and -R. The -R option allows the user
-to execute a single debugfs command from the command line. The -f
-option allows the user to specify a "command file" containing debugfs
-commands which will get executed.
-
-Dumpe2fs now pretty prints the check interval, instead of just
-printing the check interval as a number of seconds.
-
-Fix bugs in debugfs: the params command when no filesystem is opened
-no longer causes a core dump. It is now possible to unlink a file
-when a pathame containing a '/' is specified.
-
-Tune2fs has a new -C option which sets the number of times the
-filesystem has been mounted.
-
-Fix the chattr '-v' option so that it actually works. Chattr was
-being buggy about the -v option parsing.
-
-Programmers' notes:
--------------------
-
-The directory lib/uuid contains a set of library routines to generate
-DCE compatible UUIDs.
-
-Extended ext2fs_namei() to handle symbolic links. Added new function
-ext2fs_nami_follow() which will follow last symbolic link in the case
-where the pathname points to a sym link.
-
-The ext2fs_block_iterate function will now return the HURD translator
-block, if present. The new flag BLOCK_FLAG_DATA_ONLY will cause the
-iterator to return data blocks only. The ext2fs.h file now defines
-constants BLOCK_COUNT_IND, BLOCK_COUNT_DIND, BLOCK_COUNT_TIND, and
-BLOCK_COUNT_TRANSLATOR, which are the magic values passed in the block
-count field of the iterator callback function.
-
-The test script driver now takes an optional second argument, which is
-the test case to be run. This allows you to run a test case without
-needing to run the entire test suite.
-
-On Linux ELF systems, install the .so files in the correct places
-(/usr/lib). The .so files must be stored in the same directory as the
-.a files.
-
-Fixed miscellaneous HURD compilation issues with header file being
-included in the right order.
-
-Fixed debugfs so that it resets optind to zero, not one, since setting
-optind to zero is more correct.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.04 (May 16, 1996)
-=============================
-
-First "official" (1.03 was a limited release only) to support building
-e2fsprogs under Linux 2.0 kernels (as well as late model 1.3 and 1.99
-kernels).
-
-This package includes a RPM specs file, that it can be built using the
-RedHat Package Manager.
-
-E2fsck now prints a hint that if there are lots of incorrectly located
-inode bitmaps, block bitmaps, and inode table blocks, the user might
-want to try using e2fsck -b 8193 first, to see if that fares any
-better.
-
-For ext2 filesystem written with the hurd, debugfs will now print out
-the translator field when printing an inode structure.
-
-Lots of miscellaneous linking/installation cleanups:
-
- Libraries are now linked using a relative pathname, instead of
- relying on -L working correct. It doesn't, in many cases, including
- current versions of GNU ld. This guarantees that the build tree is
- linking with the right libraries, instead of the ones installed in
- /usr/lib.
-
- Header files, man pages, and the et/ss shell scripts are now
- generated using a custom substitution script, instead of relying on
- the configure script. This prevents needless recompilation of
- files; in addition, the custom substitution script is much faster.
-
- e2fsck may now be linked dynamically, by using the
- --enable-dynamic-e2fsck flag to configure. This is not recommended,
- since it increases e2fsck's dependence on other files, but some
- people need to save disk space, and other critical programs on their
- systems were being linked dynamically anyway.
-
- Programs such as fsck which didn't need to be linked against
- libext2fs (or mke2fs which didn't need to be linked against libe2p)
- only link against libraries they actually need. Otherwise, those
- programs would require the presense of libraries that otherwise
- could be removed from a rescuse diskette.
-
- The ss include files are now installed correctly so they can
- actually be used by another package.
-
- If the profiling libraries are built, they are now installed on a
- "make install-libs".
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.03 (March 27, 1996)
-===============================
-
-Change the m68k bit numbering for bitmasks to match the bit numbering
-used by all other ext2 implementations. (This change was requested by
-the m68k kernel development team.)
-
-Support (in-development) filesystem format revision which supports
-(among other things) dynamically sized inodes.
-
-Fixed a bug in the ext2 library so that an intelligent error is
-returned if mke2fs is run with a ridiculously small number of blocks
-for a partition.
-
-Fixed a bug in the ext2 library which required that the device be
-openable in read/write mode in order to determine its size. This
-caused e2fsck -n to require read/write access when it was not
-previously necessary.
-
-Fixed a bug in e2fsck which casued it to occasionally fail the test
-suite depending on which version of the floating point library it was
-using.
-
-Fixed a bug in e2fsck so that it now halts with a fatal error when
-certain superblock consistency checks fail. Previously it continued
-running e2fsck, with some potential confusing/damaging consequences.
-
-Added new flag to fsck which allows the root to be checked in parallel
-with other filesytems. This is not the safest thing in the world to
-do, but some system administrators really wanted it.
-
-Fixed -Wall flames in lib/ss.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)
-=================================
-
-Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels.
-
-Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are
-on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is
-guaranteed to be non-contiguous.
-
-In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole
-disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a
-whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk
-as a filesytem.
-
-Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking
-partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in
-the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same
-disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life.
-
-Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe.
-
-Minor compilation fixes:
- * Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs.
- * Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on.
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