From 6d53db3fba09a90875048326bd7ae29cd24d00e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:52:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE-NOTES: Interim checkin of the release notes for 1.15 --- RELEASE-NOTES | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 101 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index da091cb..dd8ad57 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,104 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.15 (July 2, 1999) +============================= + +Add configuration checks so that e2fsprogs will compile cleanly on +Linux 2.3 kernels that have renamed i_version to i_generation. + +Fix bug where if /dev/null couldn't be opened (should never happen), +e2fsck would hang in a tight loop. + +Make e2fsck handle the case where /lost+found isn't a directory. + +E2fsck now uses mallinfo if it exists to get accurate statistics about +its memory usage. + +Fix bug in e2fsck where it wouldn't check to see if a disconnected +inode had any problems before connecting it to /lost+found. + +Add check to e2fsck so it makes sure that total number of inodes in +the filesystem is a sane number. + +Fix fencepost error when clearing an the end of the block bitmap which +caused the last block in the bitmap not to get cleared. + +Cleaned up a number of messages in e2fsck: + * The message "Group's #'s copy of the group descriptor..." + was fixed so that the correct number would be displayed. + * Added missing space in the "disk write-protected" error messsage + * Cleaned up the error message printed when a non-interactive + e2fsck needs to abort a check because the filesystem + appears to be mounted. + +Added a new command-line utility, uuidgen, which will create and print +a UUID. + +Make debugfs's icheck command more robust by checking to make sure an +inode has valid blocks before interarting over the inode's blocks. + +UUID generation now uses a random-based scheme whenever possible to +prevent potential privacy problems. + +Man pages for all of the UUID functions in the lirbary were added. + +Fixed bug in fsck so it won't coredump if a filesystem not in +/etc/fstab is given to it. + +Fsck now understands the UUID=xxxx and LABEL=yyyy forms in /etc/fstab +that most of the other mount utilities understands. + +Mke2fs will make a filesystem even if it appears mounted if the force +option is given. + +Dumpe2fs has new command-line options which allow a filesystem expert +to specify the superblock and blocksize when opening a filesystem. +This is mainly useful when examining the remains of a toasted +filesystem. + +The badblocks program has been updated to display correctly on disks +with large block numbers. + +Mke2fs will sync the disk device every MKE2FS_SYNC block groups if the +MKE2FS_SYNC environment variable is set. This is to work around a VM +bug in the 2.0 kernel. I've heard a report that a RAID user was able +to trigger it even using a 2.2 kernel. + +Fixed miscellaneous documentation and man pages. + +Programmer's notes: +------------------- + +Cleaned up functions such as pass1_get_blocks, pass1_read_inode which +in e2fsck's pass1.c really should have been static. + +The return value of the uuid_compare() function was changed to make it +match with the convetions used by strcmp, memcmp, and Paul Leach's +UUID sample document. + +The "make depend" process has now been made more automated; it now +automatically word-wraps the dependencies, and only replaces source +Makefile.in if there has been a change in the dependencies. Also, a +top-level "make depend" now recurses through all the subdirectories +automatically. + +The Makefile in .../util has been changed so that subst is built using +the native C compiler during a cross-compilation, since the subst +program is only used during the build process. Also add an explicit +rule to build util/subst by cd'ing to the correct directory and +running Makefile. + +The man directories are defined in terms mandir, so that the configure +script can override the location of the manual pages. + +The config files have been updated to recognize new machine types for +both the i386 and alpha families. + +Fsck has been modified so that it will accurately create an +fsck_instance even when the noexecute flag is set. This allows for +accurate debugging of the fsck pass structure. Also, when the verbose +flag is given twice, fsck will print debugging information about when +fsck is waiting for jobs to finish. + + E2fsprogs 1.14 (January 9, 1999) ================================ -- 1.8.3.1