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The RELEASE-NOTES file was getting too big as be unweildy. It also made it hard to have simultaneous releases of older maintenance releases. So split it up into smaller files in the doc/RelNotes directory. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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E2fsprogs 1.30 (October 31, 2002)
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When resizing a filesystem, and inodes need to moved, resize2fs will
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update the inode's ctime field, and the mtime field of the containing
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directories, so that incremental backups using dump/restore will work
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correctly.
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In order to avoid spurious errors, e2fsck will check the last
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superblock write time to determine whether or not it can safely use
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the LOW_DTIME checks to determine if there are inodes on the orphan
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inode linked list that had somehow gotten disconnected. (Addresses
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Sourceforge bug #620980)
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Partition in /proc/partitions that being with the string "lvm" are
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considered real partitions even if they do not end with a number.
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Fixed a bug in the the uuid generation function, where if /dev/urandom
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is not present, but /dev/random is, and there isn't sufficient
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entropy, the get_random_byte function could spin a loop forever.
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E2fsck, mke2fs, etc. will now reliably notice when image files are
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mounted using the loopback interface. (Addresses Sourceforge bug
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#619119)
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When flushing buffers (as is done by badblocks, for example) check to
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see if the BLKFLSBUF ioctl succeeds, and if so, avoid using the
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FDFLUSH ioctl which causes the MD device driver which causes confusing
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syslog messages about obsolete ioctl messages. (Addresses Sourceforge
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bug #545832).
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Debugfs's write command now checks to see if the destination filename
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exists before creating it. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #478195.)
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When installing man pages, search for compressed man pages using all
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commonly used compression extensions (i.e., .Z, .gz, .bz2, etc.)
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Fixed a bug in fsck where multiple filesystems specified on the
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command were not being checked in parallel due to a logic bug
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introduced to support the FSCK_MAX_INST environment variable.
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We have added a new superblock field, s_mkfs_time, which indicates
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when a filesystem was created. It is set via mke2fs, and printed out
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by dumpe2fs, but is not actually touched by the kernel.
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Dumpe2fs has been made more robust by not aborting if there is an
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error reading the block/inode bitmaps; instead it will still print out
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the location of the block/inode bitmaps and inode table.
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Add support for the an alternative block group descriptor layout which
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allows for on-line resizing without needing to prepare the filesystem
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in advance. (This is the incompat feature flag meta_bg.)
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Add support for storing default mount options in the superblock, so
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that the filesystem can be mounted with specific mount options without
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needing to specify them on the mount command line or in the /etc/fstab
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file.
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Add support for a new inode flag, which is to be used for indicating
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the top of directory hierarchies for the Orlov block allocator.
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Fix e2fsck so that if it creates the lost+found directory, it does so
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with the more appropriate permissions of 0700. Also change
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mklost+found so that it also creates the directory 0700.
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Fixed format bug in e2fsck if NLS is in use.
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Add a German translation for e2fsprogs's NLS support.
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Fixed e2fsck so that it more handles BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE even at
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the beginning of the inode table. This won't matter much, since if
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there is a bad block at the beginning of the inode table, the root
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directory won't be available. But at least e2fsck won't crash in this
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case.
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Fixed endian problems in the htree code for e2fsck and debugfs.
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When byte-swapping a filesystem on a PPC architecture, byte-swap the
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bitmaps since the historical big-endian ext2 variant had byte-swapped
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bitmaps, and the ext2fs library assumes this. This fixes the
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regression test suite on PPC machines.
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Fix e2image so that it handles a bad block in the inode table
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appropriately.
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E2fsck now uses a more sophisticated algorithm to salvage corrupted
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directories that recovers more information in the corrupted directory
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block.
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E2fsck now performs additional consistency checks on indexed (HTREE)
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directories.
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Fix a bug where e2fsck might get confused about whether a completely
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empty directory block is an empty leaf block or an interior htree
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node. This could cause e2fsck to get confused into think that a valid
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indexed directory was corrupted.
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E2fsck no longer creates an empty directory entry at the end of a
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directory block when optimizing a directory. This would cause some
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earlier versions of the dxdir kernel code to corrupt the directory
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when attempting to split a node containing an empty directory entry.
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E2fsck could sometimes in rare circumstances leave the indexed flag
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set after a small directory was optimized by compressing it instead of
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indexing it. (This should never happen in real life, since
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directories that small wouldn't have been indexed, but better safe
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than sorry.)
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E2fsck now only updates the master superblock in all cases. This
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slightly shortens its run time.
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Ext2ed can deal with directory entries of length 0; previously it
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would get stuck in an infinite loop.
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Fsck now has support for reiserfs volumes when parsing LABEL= and UUID=
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specifiers. (Sourceforge patch #613447)
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Badblocks will now work correctly on read-only devices such as
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CD-ROM's. (Sourceforge patch #600451)
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Updated and clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian bug #167108)
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