1 E2fsprogs 1.41.14 (December 22, 2010) 2 ===================================== 3 4 Fix spurious complaint in mke2fs where it would complain if the file 5 system type "default" is not defined in mke2fs.conf. 6 7 The resize2fs program will no longer clear the resize_inode feature 8 when the number reserved group descriptor blocks reaches zero. This 9 allows for subsequent shrinks of the file system to work cleanly for 10 flex_bg file systems. 11 12 The resize2fs program now handles devices which are exactly 16T; 13 previously it would give an error saying that the file system was too 14 big. 15 16 E2fsck (and the libext2fs library) will not use the extended rec_len 17 encoding for file systems whose block size is less than 64k, for 18 consistency with the kernel. 19 20 Programming notes 21 ----------------- 22 23 E2fsprogs 1.41.13 would not compile on big-endian systems. This has 24 been fixed. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3138115) 25 26 The ext2fs_block_iterator2() function passed an incorrect ref_offset 27 to its callback function in the case of sparse files. (Addresses 28 Sourceforge Bug: #3081087) 29 30 Fix some type-punning warnings generated by newer versions of gcc. 31 32 33 E2fsprogs 1.41.13 (December 13, 2010) 34 ===================================== 35 36 E2fsck now supports the extended option "-E journal_only", which 37 causes it to only do a journal replay. This is useful for scripts 38 that want to first replay the journal and then check to see if it 39 contains errors. 40 41 E2fsck will now support UUID= and LABEL= specifiers for the -j option 42 (which specifies where to find the external journal). (Addresses 43 Debian Bug #559315) 44 45 E2fsck now has support for the problems/<problem code>/force_no 46 configuration option in e2fsck.conf, which forces a problem to not be 47 fixed. 48 49 Dumpe2fs will now avoid printing large negative offsets for the bitmap 50 blocks and instead print a message which is a bit more helpful for 51 flex_bg file systems. 52 53 Mke2fs will now check the file system type (specified with the -t 54 option) to make sure it is defined in the mke2fs.conf file; if it is 55 not, it will print an error and abort. If the usage type (specified 56 with the -T option) is not defined in mke2fs.conf, mke2fs will print a 57 warning but will continue. (Addresses Debian Bug #594609) 58 59 Clarified error message from resize2fs clarifying that on-line 60 shrinking is not supported at all. (Addresses Debian Bug #599786) 61 62 Fix an e2fsck bug that could cause a PROGRAMMING BUG error to be 63 displayed. (Addresses Debian Bug #555456) 64 65 E2fsck will open the external journal in exclusive mode, to prevent 66 the journal from getting truncated while it is in use due to a user 67 accidentally trying to run e2fsck on a snapshotted file system volume. 68 (Addresses Debian Bug #587531) 69 70 Fix a bug in e2fsck so it has the correct test for the EOFBLOCKS_FL 71 flag. 72 73 The tune2fs program can now set the uninit_bg feature without 74 requiring an fsck. 75 76 The tune2fs, dumpe2fs, and debugfs programs now support the new ext4 77 default mount options settings which were added in 2.6.35. 78 79 The e2fsck and dumpe2fs programs now support the new ext4 superblock 80 fields which track where and when the first and most recent file 81 system errors occurred. These fields are displayed by dumpe2fs and 82 cleared by e2fsck. These new superblock fields were added in 2.6.36. 83 84 Debugfs now uses a more concicse format for listing extents in its 85 stat command. This format also includes the interior extent tree 86 blocks, which previously was missing from stat's output for 87 extent-based files. 88 89 Debugfs has a new option, -D, which will request Direct I/O access of 90 the file system. 91 92 Mke2fs will skip initializing the inode table if a device supports 93 discard and the discard operation will result in zero'ed blocks. 94 95 Badblocks will now correctly backspace over UTF-8 characters when 96 displaying its progress bar. (Addresses Gentoo Bug #309909; Addresses 97 Debian Bugs #583782 and #587834) 98 99 E2freefrag will now display the total number of free extents. 100 101 Resize2fs -P no longer requires a freshly checked filesystem before 102 printing the minimum resize size. 103 104 Fixed a floating point precision error in a binary tree search routine 105 that can lead to seg fault in e2fsck and resize2fs. 106 107 Fixed a bug in e2fsck where if both the original and backup superblock 108 are invalid in some way, e2fsck will fail going back to the original 109 superblock because it didn't close the backup superblock first, and 110 the exclusive open prevented the file system from being reopened. 111 112 Fixed a big in e2freefrag which caused getopt parsing to fail on 113 architectures with unsigned chars. (Addresses Gentoo Bug: #299386) 114 115 Clarified an mke2fs error message so a missed common in an -E option 116 (i.e., mke2fs -t ext4 -E stride=128 stripe-width=512 /dev/sda1") 117 results in a more understandable explanation to the user. 118 119 Mke2fs now displays the correct valid inode ratio range when 120 complaining about an invalid inode ratio specified by the user. 121 122 Mke2fs now understands the extended option "discard" and "nodiscard", 123 and the older option -K is deprecated. The default of whether 124 discards are enabled by default can be controled by the mke2fs.conf 125 file. 126 127 Mke2fs's handling of logical and physical sector sizes has been 128 improved to reflect the fact that there will be some SSD's with 8k and 129 16k physical sectors arriving soon. Mke2fs will no longer force block 130 size to be the physical sector size, since there will be devices where 131 the physical sector size is larger than the system's page size, and 132 hence larger than the maximal supported block size. In addition, if 133 the minimal and optimal io size are not exported by the device, and 134 the physical sector size is larger than the block size, the physical 135 sector size will be used to set the Raid I/O optimization hints in the 136 superblock. 137 138 E2fsck will now display a better, more specific error message when the 139 user enters a typo'ed device name, instead of blathering on about 140 alternate superblocks. 141 142 Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues 143 144 Updated/clarified man pages (Addresses Debian Bugs: #580236, #594004, 145 #589345, #591083; Addresses Launchpad Bug: #505719) 146 147 Update the Chinese, Chzech, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian, 148 Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations. 149 150 151 Programmer's Notes 152 ------------------ 153 154 Fix a dependency definition for the static and profiled blkid 155 libraries which could cause compile failures in some configurations. 156 (Addresses Debian Bug: #604629) 157 158 Add support for Direct I/O in the Unix I/O access layer. 159 160 Fixed a memory leak in the Unix I/O layer when changing block sizes. 161 162 Fixed minor memory leaks in mke2fs. 163 164 Added a new function to the ext2fs library, ext2fs_get_memalign(). 165 166 The tst_super_size test program will check to make sure the superblock 167 fields are correctly aligned and will print them out so they can be 168 manually checked for correctness. 169 170 Fixed some makefile dependencies for test programs in lib/ext2fs. 171 172 Reserved the feature flags and superblock fields needed for the Next3 173 snapshot feature. 174 175 Reserved the feature flags for EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_DIRDATA and 176 EXT4_INCOMPAT_EA_INODE. 177 178 179 E2fsprogs 1.41.12 (May 17, 2010) 180 ================================ 181 182 Mke2fs now gives a correct error message if the external journal 183 device is not found. (Addresses Red Hat Bug #572935) 184 185 Resize2fs -P will now refuse to print a minimum size if the file 186 system is not clean. Previously it would go ahead and print a minimum 187 size anyway, which might not be correct, leading to user confusion. 188 189 E2fsck now tests for extents that begin at physical block 0 and 190 rejects them as invalid. (Addresses Google Bug: #2573806) 191 192 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause it to crash when trying to 193 remove an invalid extent and the block bitmaps hadn't yet been loaded. 194 (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2971800) 195 196 E2fsck now will completely skip time-based checks if the system clock 197 looks insane or the option broken_system_clock is set in 198 /etc/e2fsck.conf. 199 200 E2fsck would previously report an i_blocks corruption for a 4T file 201 created using posix_fallocate; this bug has been fixed. 202 203 E2fsck will now correctly mark a sparse journal as invalid and will 204 delete and recreate the journal to address the problem. 205 206 E2fsck would previously incorrectly ask the user whether she would 207 like to abort the file system check after finding a problem --- and 208 then abort regardless of the user's answer. This is annoying, and 209 has been fixed. 210 211 E2fsck can now continue even if it fails to recreate the resize 212 inode; previously it would just abort the file system check 213 altogether. 214 215 E2fsck could potentially remove directory entries for inodes found in 216 the unused region of the inode table; this would generally happen on 217 ext4 file systems that do not use journaling. This bug has been fixed 218 by not clearing these directory entries once it has been established 219 that bg_unused_inodes may not be trustworthy; once pass #2 has been 220 completed, e2fsck will restart the file system check from the 221 beginning, and then it will be safe to delete any directory entries 222 pointing to inodes that appear to be deleted. (Addresses Google Bug: 223 #2642165) 224 225 E2fsck will not try to set the block group checksums if the user 226 cancels the fsck with a control-C. It's a bad idea to set the 227 checksums if e2fsck hasn't been completed, and it often results an the 228 error message, "Inode bitmap not loaded while setting block group 229 checksum info". (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #582035) 230 231 The mke2fs program now queries the kernel for the physical as well as 232 the logical sector size, and will not allow a blocksize below the 233 logical, and will strongly encourage a blocksize at least as big as 234 the physical blocksize. This is needed for 4k sector drives that 235 emulate 512 byte sector sizes. 236 237 Mke2fs will now allow a flex_bg size of 1. This is unusual, and 238 rarely needed, but it is a legal value. 239 240 E2fsck will check for cases where the EOFBLOCKS_FL is set when it is 241 not needed, and offer to clear it; this is a sign of a kernel bug, but 242 more importantly, some released kernels may crash when this situation 243 is encountered on ext4 file systems. (Addresses Google Bug: #2604224) 244 245 E2fsck will use the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag exclusively to check whether 246 i_size is correct. (Kernels starting with 2.6.34 will set 247 EOFBLOCKS_FL.) 248 249 The com_err library will now only output ^M (a CR character) when the 250 tty is in raw mode. 251 252 Update the Czech, Chinese, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian, Polish, 253 and Vietnamese translations. 254 255 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 256 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #571247, #563487) 257 258 259 Programmer's Notes 260 ------------------ 261 262 The regression test suite now uses its own mke2fs.conf file, so that 263 downstream distributions want change the mke2fs.conf file which is 264 distributed in the RPM or dpkg file, without worrying about screwing 265 up the regression test results. 266 267 Always build namei.o so that building with configure --disable-debugfs 268 works correctly. Long-term, if we care about reduced e2fsprogs 269 builds, we need a more general solution for deciding what .o files are 270 needed for a particular build. Given that install floppies are going 271 (gone?) the way the dodo bird, we probably don't care, though. 272 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2911433) 273 274 Add configure options --enable-symlink-build and 275 --enable-symlink-install, which allow e2fsprogs be built using 276 symlinks instad of hard links, and to be installed using symlinks 277 instead of hard links, respectively. It is useful when the file 278 system where the build is taking place, or the file system where 279 e2fsprogs is installed, can't handle hard links for some reason. 280 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1436294) 281 282 Fixed compile warning in mke2fs.c. 283 284 285 E2fsprogs 1.41.11 (March 14, 2010) 286 ================================== 287 288 E2fsck will no longer give a fatal error and abort if the physical 289 device has been resized beyond 2**32 blocks. (Addresses Launchpad 290 Bug: #521648) 291 292 Debugfs has a bug fixed so that "logdump -b <blk>" now properly shows 293 the allocation status of the block <blk>. (Addresses Debian Bug: 294 #564084) 295 296 E2fsck now prints a much more emphatic and hopefully scary message 297 when a file system is detected as mounted while doing a read/write 298 check of the filesystem. Hopefully this will dissuade users from 299 thinking, "surely that message doesn't apply to *me*" :-( 300 301 E2fsck -n will now always open the file system read-only. We now 302 disallow certain combination of options which previously were manual 303 exceptions; this is bad because it causes users to think they are 304 smarter than they really are. So "-n -c", "-n -l", "-n -L", and "-n 305 -D" are no longer supported. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #537483) 306 307 In e2fsprogs 1.41.10, mke2fs would ask for confirmation to proceed if 308 it detected a badly aligned partition. Unfortunately, this broke some 309 distribution installation scripts, so it now just prints the warning 310 message and proceeds. (Addresses Red Hat Bug: #569021. Addresses 311 Launchpad Bug: #530071) 312 313 Mke2fs would take a long time to create very large journal files for 314 ext4. This was caused by a bug in ext2fs_block_iterate2(), which is 315 now fixed. 316 317 E2fsck now understands the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag which will be used in 318 2.6.34 kernels to make e2fsck not complain about blocks deliberately 319 fallocated() beyond an inode's i_size. 320 321 E2fsprogs 1.41.10 introduced a regression (in commit b71e018) where 322 e2fsck -fD can corrupt non-indexed directories when are exists one or 323 more file names which alphabetically sort before ".". This can happen 324 with ext2 filesystems or for small directories (take less than a lock) 325 which contain filenames that begin with a space or some other 326 punctuation mark. (Addresses Debian Bug: #573923, Addresses Launchpad 327 Bug: #525114) 328 329 330 Programmer's Notes 331 ------------------ 332 333 Add new test, f_rehash_dir, which checks to make sure e2fsck -D works 334 correctly. 335 336 The libcom_err function now has support for Heimdal's com_right_r 337 function(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2963865, Addresses Debian 338 Bug: #558910) 339 340 341 E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 7, 2010) 342 ==================================== 343 344 Fix resize2fs bug which causes it to access invalid memory. 345 346 Add libss support for libreadline.so.6. 347 348 Fix e2fsck's check for extent-mapped directory with an incorrect file 349 type. 350 351 Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock 352 to support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks. Also, since too 353 many distributions seem to have broken virtualization scripts now, 354 e2fsck will by default accept dates which are off by up to 24 hours by 355 default. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #559776, #557636) 356 357 Fix a bug where mke2fs may not use the best placement of the inode 358 table when there is only room for a single block group in the last 359 flex_bg. 360 361 E2fsck is now smarter when it needs to allocate blocks in the course 362 of fixing file system problems. This reduces the number of spurious 363 differences found in pass #5. 364 365 E2fsck will no longer rehash directories which fit in a single 366 directory block. 367 368 E2fsck now correctly handles holes in extent-mapped directories (i.e., 369 sparse directories which use extents). 370 371 Fix big-endian problems with ext2fs_bmap() and ext2fs_bmap2(). 372 373 Fix a bug in filefrag where on platforms which can allow file systems 374 with 8k blocks, that it doesn't core dump when it sees a file system 375 with 8k block sizes. (Thanks to Mikulas Patocka for pointing this 376 out.) 377 378 E2fsck will correctly fix directories that are have an inaccurate 379 i_size as well as other problems in a single pass, instead of 380 requiring two e2fsck runs before the file system is fully fixed. 381 382 Fix e2fsck so it will correctly find and detect duplicate directory 383 entries for non-indexed directories. ( Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 384 #2862551) 385 386 Mke2fs will use BLKDISCARD to pre-discard all blocks on an SSD or 387 thinly-provisioned storage device. This can be disabled using the -K 388 option. 389 390 Enhance libext2fs so it works around bug in Linux version 2.6.19 391 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file was missing the header on 392 the first line. 393 394 Fix bug in Linux version 2.6.19 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file 395 was missing the header on the first line. 396 397 Fix some big-endian bugs in e2fsck and libext2fs. 398 399 Fix resize2fs so it works correctly on file systems with external 400 journals instead of failing early with the error "Illegal inode 401 number". 402 403 Fix libss so that it does not seg fault when using a readline library 404 which does not supply a readline_shutdown() function. 405 406 Updated dumpe2fs's usage message so it correctly gives the right 407 arguments summary for "-o superblock=<num>" and "-o blocksize=<num>". 408 (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #448099) 409 410 Teach libext2fs to ignore the high 32 bits of the i_blocks field 411 when huge_file file system feature is set, but the inode does not 412 have the HUGE_FILE_FL flag set. 413 414 Fix e2fsck's handling of 64-bit i_blocks fields. 415 416 E2fsck will now print "Illegal indirect block", "Illegal 417 double-indirect block", etc., instead of "Illegal block #-1" or 418 "Illegal block #-2", etc. This makes it easier for users to 419 understand what has gone wrong. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2871782) 420 421 Mke2fs now will obtain get device topology information from blkid and 422 use it to populate the superblock stride and stripe sizes. It will 423 also warn if the block device is misaligned 424 425 Fix file descriptor leaks in fsck and debugfs. (Addresses Novell Bug: 426 ##524526) 427 428 Fix the libext2fs library code to round up the bitmap size to a 4-byte 429 boundary, to prevent spurious seg faults caused by the x86 430 architecture. This doesn't affect Linux systems, but was a major 431 problem on a number of *BSD systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 432 #2328708) 433 434 Fix resize2fs's minimum size required for a file system so it doesn't 435 fail when "resize2fs -M" is run. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #519131) 436 437 Dumpe2fs now prints summary information about the contents of the 438 journal. 439 440 Avoid printing scary error messages when e2fsck starts running 441 problems on low-memory systems, as it tends to panic and mislead the 442 user. (Addresses Debian Bug: #509529) 443 444 Fix blkid's modules.dep parser so it handles compressed (.ko.gz) 445 modules files. (Address Red Hat Bug: #518572) 446 447 Fix tune2fs so it can add a journal when an extent-enabled file system 448 is mounted. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #416648) 449 450 Update Czech, Indonesian, Polish and Vietnamese translations (from the 451 Translation Project). 452 453 Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2822186) 454 455 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 456 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #540111) 457 458 Programmer's Notes 459 ------------------ 460 461 The configure script supports the --with-cc, --with-ccopts, and 462 --with-ldopts options. Instead, the more standard use of CC=, 463 CCFLAGS=, and LDFLAGS= in the configure command line is used instead. 464 Also, --with-ld, which never worked, was also removed. 465 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2843248) 466 467 The in-tree header files are only used if the in-tree uuid or blkid 468 libraries are used. Otherwise, use the system-provided uuid or blkid 469 header files if using the system-provided libraries. 470 471 Fix some build failures caused by --disable-* configure options. 472 473 Work around a bug in autoconf 2.64. 474 475 476 E2fsprogs 1.41.9 (August 22, 2009) 477 ================================== 478 479 Fix a bug in e2fsck routines for reallocating an inode table which 480 could cause it to loop forever on an ext4 filesystem with the FLEX_BG 481 filesystem feature with a relatively rare (and specific) filesystem 482 corruption. This fix causes e2fsck to try to find space for a new 483 portion of the inode table in the containing flex_bg, and if that 484 fails, the new portion of the inode table will be allocated in any 485 free space available in the filesystem. 486 487 Make e2fsck less annoying by only asking for permission to relocate a 488 block group's inode table once, instead of for every overlapping 489 block. Similarly, only ask once to recompute the block group 490 checksums, instead of once for each corrupted block group's checksum. 491 492 Fix filefrag to avoid print the extent header if the FIEMAP ioctl is 493 not present, and it needs to fall back to using the FIBMAP ioctl. 494 495 Fix filefrag to correctly print the number of extents for zero-length 496 files. (Addresses Debian Bug: #540376) 497 498 Filefrag now has a -B option which forces the use of the FIBMAP ioctl 499 to more easily debug the FIBMAP code. 500 501 Fixed filefrag for non-extent based files. 502 503 Add a new program, e2freefrag, which displays information about the 504 free space fragmentation in an ext2/3/4 filesystem. 505 506 Fix inode resizing via tune2fs -I so that it works correctly in the 507 face of non-empty bad blocks inodes, and if the filesystem was 508 formatted using the "mke2fs -E stride=N" option for RAID arrays. 509 510 Fix regression in ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() caused e2fsck -fD to fail 511 and corrupt large directories if the directory needs to shrink by more 512 than one block. (Addresses Debian Bug: #537510) 513 514 Fix e2fsck's buggy_init_scritps=1 so that the if the last write and/or 515 last mount times are in the future, they are corrected even if 516 buggy_init_scripts is set. This is needed because otherwise resize2fs 517 will refuse to resize the filesystem, even after running "e2fsck -f". 518 (Addresses Launchpad bug: #373409) 519 520 E2fsck will now print much fuller information when the last mount time 521 or last written time is in the future, since most people can't seem to 522 believe their distribution has buggy init scripts, or they have a 523 failed CMOS/RTS clock battery. 524 525 Enhance dumpe2fs to dump the extent information via the 'stat' 526 command, and more detailed extent information via the new command 527 'dump_extents'. 528 529 Update French, Polish, Czech, and Sweedish translation from the 530 Translation Project. 531 532 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 533 details. 534 535 Programmer's Notes 536 ------------------ 537 538 Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall warnings. 539 540 Fixed memory leak in error path in ext2fs_block_iterate2() 541 542 Fixed non-Linux build of the intl directory by adding support for the 543 E/Q/V macros. 544 545 The bitmap read/write functions now treat uninitialized bitmaps as 546 unallocated; this fixes a number of problems in all e2fsprogs for ext4 547 filesystems when there is a need to allocate new blocks or inodes, and 548 there aren't any free blocks or inodes in the already-used block 549 groups. 550 551 Improve ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() to avoid creating new extents which 552 get inserted into the extent tree when they are not needed. 553 554 555 E2fsprogs 1.41.8 (July 11, 2009) 556 ================================ 557 558 Fix resize2fs's online resizing, fixing a regression which in 559 e2fpsrogs 1.41.7. (Addresses Debian Bug: #535452) 560 561 Fix potential filesystem corruptions caused by using resize2fs to 562 shrinking ext4 filesystems with extents enabled. (Addresses Red Hat 563 Bug: #510379) 564 565 Optimize uuid_generate() to avoid running uuidd if it is not setuid or 566 setgid and the currently running program doesn't have write access to 567 the uuidd work directory. 568 569 Add safety checks (for non-Linux systems) so that uuidd isn't run with 570 file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 closed; and if they are closed, uuidd 571 will be careful not to close the file descriptor for its unix domain 572 socket when it detaches itself from the controlling tty. Also add 573 safety checks so that if the unix domain socket between the uuid 574 library and uuidd program is closed for any reason, both the library 575 and the uuidd will return an appropriate error code instead of looping 576 in an infinite loop. 577 578 The e2croncheck script, which creates an LVM snapshot and then checks 579 the ext3/4 filesystem via the LVM snapshot, has been added to the 580 contrib directory. 581 582 Fix filefrag program for files that have more than 144 extents. 583 584 Update French, Polish, Czech, Indonsian, and Sweedish translation from 585 the Translation Project. 586 587 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 588 details. (Addresses Debian Bug #535530) 589 590 Update/clarify man pages. 591 592 Programmer's Notes 593 ------------------ 594 595 Fix compilation problem when configured with --disable-uuid. 596 597 Don't build uuidgen if configured with --disable-uuid. 598 599 Add the new library function ext2fs_test_inode_bitmap_range(), and 600 optimized ext2fs_test_block_bitmap_range(), which will be needed for 601 future optimizations for e2fsck. 602 603 Fix makefile dependencies for libcom_err so that the Makefiles work 604 well on non-GNU make program. (Addresses Sourceforge Patches: #2813809) 605 606 Enhance the build system so that the full set of commands executed by 607 the Makefiles are displayed, instead of the Linux kernel summary 608 output, if the build was configured with --enable-verbose-makecmds, or 609 if GNU make is in use and the V variable is non-null, i.e., via "make 610 V=1". 611 612 613 E2fsprogs 1.41.7 (June 29, 2009) 614 ================================ 615 616 Fix a bug in libext2fs which can cause e2fsck and resize2fs to write 617 uninitalized data into the portion of the inode beyond the first 128 618 bytes when operating on inodes mapped via extents; potentially 619 corrupting filesystems. 620 621 Fix memory leaks in e2fsprogs, including a very large memory leak 622 which can cause e2fsck to run out of memory when checking very large 623 filesystems using extents. 624 625 The logsave program will now filter out the ^A and ^B characters when 626 writing to the console. 627 628 Harden ext2fs_validate_entry() so that lsdel will not read beyond the 629 end of the block even if the directory block is corrupted. 630 631 Fix debugfs from core dumping if the logdump command fails to open the 632 output file. 633 634 Enhance badblocks to print the currently tested block number when 635 interrupted with ^C. 636 637 Fix lsattr to exit with a non-zero status when it encounters errors. 638 (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla #489841) 639 640 Fix e2fsprogs to use the same encoding for rec_len in 64k (and larger) 641 filesystems as the kernel when encoding rec_len >= 64k. For 64k 642 filesystems (currently all that is supported by e2fsprogs, this is 643 only a minor corner case). 644 645 Resize2fs will now update the journal backup fileds in the sup0erblock 646 if the journal is moved; this avoids an unnecessary full fsck after 647 resizing the filesystem. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #505339) 648 649 Fix libext2fs to properly initialize i_extra_size when creating the 650 journal and resize inodes. 651 652 Change badblocks to allow block sizes larger than 4k. 653 654 Fix filefrag progam so it correctly checks for errors from the fiemap ioctl. 655 656 Update Chinese and Czech translation from the Translation Project. 657 658 Clean up various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug #531385 and #523063) 659 660 661 Programmer's Notes 662 ------------------ 663 664 Add --disable-libuuid option to configure which uses an in-system 665 installed version of libuuid; the private version is enabled by 666 default. 667 668 Add --valgrind-leakcheck option to the test_script program which runs 669 valgrind with the appropriate options to find memory leaks. 670 671 672 E2fsprogs 1.41.6 (May 30, 2009) 673 =============================== 674 675 Fix a critical regression in e2fsck introduced version 1.41.5 which 676 can undo updates to the block group descriptors after a journal replay. 677 678 If e2fsck receives an I/O error while replaying the journal, prompt 679 the user whether they want to ignore the error or not; if e2fsck is 680 run in preen mode, force fsck to abort the preen pass. 681 682 Fix a bug which would cause e2fsck to core dump if the filesystem 683 contains a corrupt extent header, and the user declines to clear the 684 inode. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2791794) 685 686 Fix e2fsck to restart only once in the case of multiple block groups 687 which inodes in use that are in the uninitialized part of the block 688 group's inode table. 689 690 To reduce user confusion, if the /etc/mtab file is missing 691 ext2fs_check_mount_point and ext2fs_check_if_mounted will return a 692 new, explicit error code to indicate this case. This will cause 693 e2fsck to give a clearer error message when the user is using buggy 694 rescue CD's that don't properly set up /etc/mtab. (Addresses Debian 695 Bug: #527859) 696 697 Fix e2fsck so that if the primary group descriptors are corrupted, but 698 the backup superblock is entirely invalid, to go back to using (and 699 fixing) the priary group descriptors instead of completely giving up 700 on the filesystem. (Addresses Debian Bug: #516820) 701 702 Change e2fsck to not abort a preen pass if an inode is found to have 703 i_file_acl_hi non-zero. Ext3 filesystems don't care, and newer 704 kernels (post 2.6.29) will ignore this field. So let's fix it 705 automatically during the preen pass instead of forcing the user to fix 706 this up manually. (Addresses Debian Bug: #526524) 707 708 Add resource tracking for e2fsck passes 1b through 1d. 709 710 Speed up e2fsck by eliminating unnecessary journal checks if the 711 filesystem is already mounted and doesn't need recovery (since the 712 kernel would have run the journal when the filesystem was mounted.) 713 Also speed up e2fsck by avoiding unnecessary block group descriptor 714 updates in ext2fs_close(). 715 716 Add support to chattr to migrate inodes from using direct/indirect 717 blocks to extents. 718 719 Avoid corrupting the filesystem if there is an attempt to shrink a 720 filesystem using resize2fs smaller than posible by making 721 ext2fs_set_bmap() more careful not to delete the old block until the 722 new block can be inserted. In addition, fix a bug in how the minimum 723 size of the filesystem (plus a safety margin) is calculated, and 724 modify resize2fs to refuse to shrink the filesystem below that minimum 725 size without the force flag. 726 727 Teach blkid to try to figure out DM device names using take advantage 728 of information in sysfs when running on kernels (2.6.29 and later) 729 which provide this information in /sys/block/dm-<N>/dm/name; this is 730 much faster than scanning for the devncie number in /dev/mapper. 731 732 Fix blkid to prefer /dev/mapper/<name> device names instad of the 733 private /dev/dm-X names. 734 735 Add an -a option to debugfs's close_filesys command which writes any 736 changes to the superblock or block group descriptors to all of the 737 backup superblock locations. 738 739 Add support to the filefrag program to use the FIEMAP ioctl. 740 741 Update Chinese translation from the Translation Project. 742 743 Clean up various man pages. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #502971 and 744 Launchpad Bug: #381854) 745 746 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 747 details. (Addresses Debian Bug #506064) 748 749 750 Programmer's Notes 751 ------------------ 752 753 Add test code to make sure e2fsck's problem.c doesn't have two problem 754 codes assigned to duplicate values. 755 756 Avoid using a hard-coded path for /bin/rm in block's test_probe.in. 757 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2780205) 758 759 Clean up e2fsck by removing #ifdef RESOURCE_TRACK by adding an empty 760 function declaration for init_resource_track() and 761 print_resource_track() when RESOURCE_TRACK is not defined. 762 763 The test code which is used to build the tst_csum progam has been 764 moved from from tst_csum.c into csum.c under an #ifdef DEBUG to to 765 avoid compile problems caused by not having a prototype for 766 ext2fs_group_desc_csum(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #2484331) 767 768 Update the config.guess and config.sub file to the latest from the 769 FSF, to allow e2fsprogs to build on the avr32 platform. (Addresses 770 Debian Bug: #528330) 771 772 Add a new function, ext2fs_extent_open2(), which behaves like 773 pext2fs_extent_open(), but uses the user-supplied inode structure 774 when opening an extent instead of reading the inode from disk. 775 776 777 E2fsprogs 1.41.5 (April 23, 2009) 778 ================================= 779 780 Fix a number of filesystem corruption bugs in resize2fs when growing 781 or shrinking ext4 filesystems off-line (i.e., when the ext4 filesystem 782 is not mounted). 783 784 Debugfs can now set i_file_acl_high via the set_inodes_field command, 785 and print a 64-bit file acl. This is useful for debugging filesystem 786 corruptions where the high bits of i_file_acl_high are set. E2fsck 787 will detect and fix non-zero i_file_acl_high on 32-bit filesystems 788 since some Linux kernel versions pay attention to this field even when 789 they shouldn't. 790 791 Speed up e2fsck when checking clean filesystems by avoiding 792 unnecessary block reads, and coalescing the block group descriptor 793 blocks so they are read using a single read operation. 794 795 The libuuid library will now close all file descriptors before running 796 uuidd. This avoids problems when the calling program has open sockets 797 which then never get closed because uuidd is a long-running helper 798 daeomn. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #305057) 799 800 In order to avoid unnecessary full filesystem checks by e2fsck after 801 an on-line resize, e2fsck will ignore the NEEDS_RECOVERY flag set on 802 the backup superblocks. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #471925) 803 804 Mke2fs will avoid trying to create the journal when run in 805 superblock-only mode (mke2fs -S), since the left-over journal in the 806 inode table will cause mke2fs to fail. 807 808 Fix a bug in libext2fs functions that check to see if a particular 809 device or filesystem image is mounted, which would cause these 810 functions to report that a file identical to the (relative) pathname 811 used by a pseudo-filesystem was mounted when in fact it was not. 812 813 Update Czech translation from the Translation Project. 814 815 Add Chinese (simplified) translation from the Translation Project. 816 817 Fix support for external journals (which was broken in e2fsprogs 818 1.41.4). 819 820 Fix a regression in debugfs where the "stat" command when no 821 filesystem was open would cause debugfs to crash with a segmentation 822 violation. 823 824 Starting in the 2.6.29 linux kernel, the ext4 filesystem driver can be 825 used to support filesystems without a journal. Update the blkid 826 library so it understands this. 827 828 The blkid library will remove an entry from the blkid cache 829 representing the entire disk if partitions are found, since presuambly 830 the device previously had no partition table, but has now transitioned 831 to using a partition table. 832 833 Add a check to mke2fs and tune2fs that the argument to the -m option 834 (which specifies the reserved ratio) must be greater than zero. 835 (Addresses Debian Bug: #517015) 836 837 Add support for tracking the number kilobytes written to the 838 filesystem via the superblock field s_kbytes_written. It will be 839 updated by the kernel as well as by e2fsprogs programs which write to 840 the filesystem. This is useful for tracking the wear to filesystems 841 on Solid Sstate Drives. 842 843 Fix compatibility issue in the libext2fs info file and makeinfo 844 version 4.12. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #481620) 845 846 Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #515693, #365619) 847 848 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 849 details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #506279) 850 851 Programmer's Notes 852 ------------------ 853 854 Fix Hurd compilation problem in e2fsck and tune2fs (Addresses Debian 855 Bug: #521602) 856 857 Fix various gcc compilation warnings and other programming cleanups. 858 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #486997) 859 860 Add support for building the blkid command statically. 861 862 Add support for disabling the built-in blkid library in favor of a 863 system-installed blkid implementation via the configure option 864 --disable-libblkid. 865 866 867 E2fsprogs 1.41.4 (January 27, 2009) 868 =================================== 869 870 Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause blkid to return an exit value 871 of zero for a non-existent device (Addresses Debian Bug: #502541) 872 873 Blkid will now recognize ext3 filesystems that have the test_fs flag 874 set as ext3 filesystems. 875 876 The blkid library will now recognize btrfs filesystems and swap 877 devices currently used by user-level software suspend. 878 879 Tune2fs now updates the block group checksums when changing the UUID 880 to avoid causing e2fsck to complain vociferously at the next reboot. 881 882 Tune2fs's inode size resizing algorithms have been fixed so it is not 883 vastly inefficient for moderate-to-large filesystems, due to some 884 O(n**2) and O(n*m) algorithms that didn't scale well at all. 885 886 Fix tune2fs's inode resizing algorithm so it will not corrupt 887 filesystems laid out for RAID filesystems; in addition, tune2fs will 888 refuse to change the inode size for filesystems that have the flex_bg 889 feature enabled. (This is a limitation in the current implementation 890 of tune2fs -I.) 891 892 E2fsprogs 1.41 broke debugfs's logdump command for normal ext3/4 893 filesystems with 32-bit block numbers, when the headers for 64-bit 894 block numbers was added. This regression has been fixed. 895 896 Debugfs's ncheck command has been fixed to avoid printing garbage 897 characters at the end of file names. 898 899 Fix resize2fs for ext4 filesystems. Some blocks that that need moving 900 when shrinking filesystems with uninit_bg feature would not be moved. 901 In addition, blocks and inode table blocks were not being correctly 902 freed when shrinking filesystems with the flex_bg feable, which caused 903 resize2fs -M to fail. Finally, when blocks are moved, make sure the 904 uninitialized flag in extents is preserved. 905 906 Fix bug which caused dumpe2fs to abort with an error if run on a 907 filesystem that contained an external journal. 908 909 Some distributions used "mke3fs" as an alias for "mkfs.ext3"; check 910 for this in argv[0] to provide better legacy support for these 911 distributions. This is a practice that should NOT be continued, 912 however. 913 914 Mke2fs now has a new option -U, which allows the user to specify the 915 UUID that should be used for the new filesystem. 916 917 Mke2fs will treat devices that are exactly 16TB as if they were 16TB 918 minus one block. This allows users who have read that ext3 supports 919 up to 16TB filesystems and who create a 16TB LVM to not get confused, 920 since the true limit is really 16TB minus one block. 921 922 E2fsck will no longer abort an fsck run if block group has an errant 923 INODE_UNINIT flag. 924 925 E2fsck now distinguishes between fragmented directories and fragmented 926 files in verbose mode statistics and in the fragcheck report. 927 928 Fix a bug in e2fsck which casued it double count non-contiguous 929 extent-based inodes. 930 931 E2fsck will leave some slack space when repacking directories to allow 932 room for a few directory entries to be added without causing leaf 933 nodes to be split right away. 934 935 Fix a bug which caused e2fsck to crash when it comes across a 936 corrupted interior node in an extent tree with the error message: 937 "Error1: Corrupt extent header on inode XXXXXX" 938 939 E2fsck problem descriptions involving the journal are no longer 940 referred to as "ext3" problems, since ext4 filesystems also have 941 journals. 942 943 Fix a long-standing bug in e2fsck which would cause it to crash when 944 replying journals for filesystems with block sizes greater than 8k. 945 946 Update Catalan translation from the Translation Project. 947 948 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 949 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #503057, #502323, #511207) 950 951 Programmer's Notes 952 ------------------ 953 954 Fix build of e2fsck.profiled, and add support for building profiled 955 binaries in the misc directory if configured with --enable-profile. 956 957 The ext2fs_open() function now performs more sanity checks on the 958 superblock to avoid potential divide by zero errors by other parts of 959 library. 960 961 The ext2fs_read_inode_full() function now has a safety check to avoid 962 a segmentation fault on corrupted filesystems. 963 964 The ext2fs_new_inode() function now has a sanity check so that if the 965 s_first_inode field in the superblock is insane, it will return 966 EXT2_ET_INODE_ALLOC_FAIL instead of returning an invalid inode number. 967 968 To avoid segmentation faults, ext2fs_block_alloc_stats() and 969 ext2fs_inode_alloc_stats() now validates the passed inode or block 970 number to avoid overrunning an array boundary. 971 972 Various signed/unsigned errors for variables containing block numbers 973 have been fixed. 974 975 Accomodations for gcc's stupidity in not realizing that constant 976 strings that do not contain a '%' character are safe to use in format 977 strings have been made so that distributions that want to compile 978 e2fsprogs with -Werror=format-security have an easier time doing so. 979 980 Added a new 64-bit getsize interface, ext2fs_get_device_size2(). 981 982 Added the utility make-sparse.c to the contrib directory. 983 984 The ext2fs_block_iterate2() function now reflects errors from 985 ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() to the caller, if the callback tries to 986 change a block on an extent-based file, and ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() 987 fails for some reason (for example, there isn't enough disk space to 988 split a node and expand the extent tree. 989 990 The ext2fs_block_iterate2() function will preserve the uninit flag in 991 extents when the callback function modifies a block in an extent-based 992 file. 993 994 E2fsck will now flag filesystems that have an insane s_first_ino field 995 in their superblock, and attempt to use a backup superblock to repair 996 the filesystem. 997 998 999 E2fsprogs 1.41.3 (October 12, 2008) 1000 =================================== 1001 1002 E2fsck has been fixed so it prints the correct inode number for 1003 uinit_bg related problems. 1004 1005 E2fsck will now offer to clear the test_fs flag if the ext4 filesystem 1006 is available on linux. This can be disabled via a configuration 1007 option in /etc/e2fsck.conf. 1008 1009 Fix a file descriptor leak in libblkid when checking to see if an ext4 1010 or ext4dev module exists. 1011 1012 Fix a bug in e2fsck where in preen mode, if there are disk I/O errors 1013 while trying to close a filesystem can lead to infinite loops. 1014 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #465679) 1015 1016 Fix a bug in resize2fs where passing in a bogus new size of 0 blocks 1017 will cause resize2fs to drop into an infinite loop. (Addresses Red 1018 Hat Bugzilla: #465984) 1019 1020 Add a check in the Unix I/O functions in libext2fs so that when a 1021 device is opened read/write, return an error if the device is 1022 read-only using the BLKROGET ioctl. 1023 1024 Fix debugfs's ncheck command so that it prints all of the names of 1025 hardlinks in the same directory. 1026 1027 Fix a bug in libblkid so it correctly detects whether the ext4 and 1028 ext4dev filesystems are available, so that the ext4dev->ext4 1029 fallback code works correctly. 1030 1031 Programmer's Notes 1032 ------------------ 1033 1034 Fix a parallel build problem by making sure util/subst is built before 1035 trying to build the lib/et directory. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 1036 #2143281) 1037 1038 Updated "make depend" information for crc16.o 1039 1040 1041 E2fsprogs 1.41.2 (October 2, 2008) 1042 ================================== 1043 1044 Fix e2fsck's automatic blocksize detection. This fixes a regression 1045 from e2fsprogs 1.40.7 which caused e2fsck to fail if the user 1046 specifies a block number using the -b option if the blocksize option 1047 isn't also specified using -B. Unfortunately, users very commonly 1048 invoke e2fsck using "e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hdXXX" to use the backup 1049 superblock; in fack e2fsck will often suggest this kind of command 1050 line. Oops. 1051 1052 Enhance the debugfs's "ncheck" command so it will print all of the 1053 pathnames for the specified inodes. (Previously, in some cases ncheck 1054 might not print a pathname for an inode at all if some of the other 1055 inodes had multiple hard links.) 1056 1057 Enhance debugfs's "hash" command so the hash seed can be specified via 1058 a command-line option. In addition, allow the hash algorithm to be 1059 specified by name instead of just by number. 1060 1061 Fix e2fsck so that we don't accidentally print the translation file's 1062 header when asking the user a custom question so there is no prompt 1063 defined for a particular problem record. For example, the question 1064 "Run journal anyway" will get the PO header tacked on because e2fsck 1065 erroneously passed the null string to _(). (Addresses Launchpad Bug: 1066 #246892) 1067 1068 Enhance badblocks so that it can test a normal file which is greater 1069 than 2GB. 1070 1071 Enhance the badblocks command so that it displays the time and 1072 percentage complete when in verbose mode. (Addresses Debian Bug: 1073 #429739) 1074 1075 Fix a potential memory leak in a error handling path in debugfs's 1076 ncheck function. 1077 1078 Fix a potential memory corruption problem if a memory allocation fails 1079 in resize2fs. 1080 1081 Fix the usage message for debugfs's logdump command to be consistent 1082 with its man manpage. 1083 1084 Update Polish, French, Vietnamese, Dutch, Indonesian, German, Czech, 1085 and Sweedish translation from the Translation Project. 1086 1087 Add documentation for the file I/O functions to the libext2fs.texinfo 1088 file. (Addresses Debian Bug: #484877) 1089 1090 Update and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Launchpad Bug 1091 #275272; Addresses Debian Bugs: #498100, #498101, #498102, #498103) 1092 1093 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1094 details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #497619) 1095 1096 Programmer's Notes 1097 ------------------ 1098 1099 Fix a potential file descriptor leack in libcom_err by setting the 1100 close-on-exec flag for a fd used for debugging. (Addresses Red Hat 1101 Bugzilla #464689) 1102 1103 Fix a potential race in libcom_err by using sem_post/sem_init. SuSE 1104 has been carrying a patch for a long time to prevent a largely 1105 theoretical race condition if a multi-threaded application adds and 1106 removes error tables in multiple threads. Unfortunately SuSE's 1107 approach breaks compatibility by forcing applications to link and 1108 compile with the -pthread option; using pthread mutexes has 1109 historically been problematic. We fix this by using sem_post/sem_init 1110 instead. 1111 1112 Fix e2fsprogs-libs build failure due to 'subs' target. (Addresses 1113 Sourceforge Bug: #2087502) 1114 1115 Avoid linking e2initrd_helper, debugfs, blkid, and fsck with unneeded 1116 libraries when using ELF shared libraries. 1117 1118 Fix ELF shared library when building on systems that don't already 1119 have the e2fsprogs shared libraries already installed. (Addresses 1120 Sourceforge Bug: #2088537) 1121 1122 Fix the pkg-config files so they work correctly when linking with 1123 static libraries and fix the include directory so programs don't have 1124 to use #include <ext2fs/ext2fs.h>, but can use #include <ext2fs.h> 1125 instead. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2089537) 1126 1127 Make sure ext2fs_swab64() is compiled for all platforms, and not just 1128 for x86. (Addresses Debian Bug: #497515) 1129 1130 Remove the unused ext2fs_find_{first,ext}_bit_set() functions for all 1131 non-x86 platforms. (They had been removed for x86 earlier.) 1132 1133 Fix diet libc compilation support, which had bitrotted due to lack of 1134 TLC. Fixing this improves general portability. 1135 1136 When installing the link library when using ELF shared libraries, 1137 avoid using absolute pathnames if the link library and the shared 1138 library are installed in the same directory. (Addresses Sourceforge 1139 Bug: #1782913) 1140 1141 Fix gen-tarball so it will work even if the top-level directory has 1142 been renamed to something other than "e2fsprogs". Also make 1143 gen-tarball print the size of the resulting tar.gz file. 1144 1145 1146 E2fsprogs 1.41.1 (September 1, 2008) 1147 ==================================== 1148 1149 Many people are forgetting to update their mke2fs.conf file, and this 1150 causes ext3, ext4, and ext4dev filesystems won't get created with the 1151 proper features enabled. We address this in two ways. First, mke2fs 1152 will issue a warning if there is not definition for an ext3, ext4, or 1153 ext4dev filesystem and the user is trying to create such a filesystem 1154 type. Secondly, when installing from a source build, "make install" 1155 will provide basic configuration file handling for /etc/mke2fs.conf. 1156 If it exists, and does not mention ext4dev, it will be moved aside to 1157 /etc/mke2fs.conf.e2fpsrogs-old and the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file will 1158 be installed. If the existing /etc/mke2fs.conf file does mention 1159 ext4dev, then "make install" will install official mke2fs.conf file as 1160 /etc/mke2fs.conf.e2fsprogs-new and issue a message to the user that 1161 they should look to see if any changes need to be merged. 1162 1163 The mke2fs program will now create the journal in the middle of the 1164 filesystem, since this minimizes seek times on average for fsync-heavy 1165 workloads. In addition, mke2fs will now create journals using extents 1166 for filesystems that support them. This results in a more efficient 1167 encoding for the journal since it eliminates the need for using 1168 indirect blocks. 1169 1170 The mke2fs program will avoid allocating an extra block to the 1171 journal. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1483791) 1172 1173 Mke2fs will correctly enforce the prohibition against features 1174 (specifically read-only features) in revision 0 filesystems. (Thanks 1175 to Benno Schulenberg for noticing this problem.) 1176 1177 Mke2fs previously would occasionaly create some slightly non-optimally 1178 placed inode tables; this bug has been fixed. 1179 1180 The mke2fs and tune2fs programs now print the correct usage message 1181 describing the maximum journal size. (Addresses Debian Bug: #491620) 1182 1183 Add support for setting the default hash algorithm used in b-tree 1184 directories in tune2fs (from a command-line option) or mke2fs (via 1185 mke2fs.conf). In addition, change the default hash algorithm to 1186 half_md4, since it is faster and better. 1187 1188 The blkid library will now recognize MacOS hfsx filesystems, and 1189 correctly extract the label and uuid for hfs, hfsx, and hfsplus 1190 filesystems. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Requests: #2060292) 1191 1192 The blkid library has improved detection of JFS and HPFS filesystems. 1193 (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #255255) 1194 1195 The blkid library is now much more efficiently handling devicemapper 1196 devices, mainly by no longer using the devicemapper library. This can 1197 speed up access for systems with a large number of device mapper 1198 devices. 1199 1200 Blkid had a number of cache validation bugs in libblkid that have been 1201 fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug: #493216) 1202 1203 Resize2fs will now properly close out the "updating inode references" 1204 progress bar so there is a newline printed before printing the final 1205 "resize is successful" message. 1206 1207 Resize2fs will now correctly handle filesystems with extents and/o 1208 uninitialized block groups correctly when file/directory blocks need 1209 to relocated (i.e., when shrinking a filesystem or if the resize_inode 1210 is not present). To support this, the ext2fs library now supports 1211 initializing inode and block bitmaps that are not yet initialized when 1212 allocating them using ext2fs_new_block() and ext2fs_new_inode(). In 1213 addition, e2fs_block_iterate2() can now support changing the location 1214 of interior nodes of an extent tree, and ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() has 1215 been optimized to avoid creating unnecessary new extents when updating 1216 the location of blocks in the extent tree. This will also help out 1217 e2fsck's recovery of obscurely corrupted filesystems with extents, 1218 when blocks are claimed by multiple inodes. 1219 1220 Add support for on-line resizing ext4 filesystem with the flex_bg 1221 filesystem feature. The method for doing so is not optimal, but to do 1222 a better job will require kernel support. 1223 1224 E2fsprogs 1.41.0 intrduced a bug in libext2fs which casued e2image and 1225 debugfs programs to not be able to read e2image files; the signed 1226 vs. unsigned bug in the code which read bitmaps from the e2image has 1227 been fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug: #495830) 1228 1229 Resize2fs is now correctly managing the directory in-use counts when 1230 shrinking filesystems and directory inodes needed to be moved from one 1231 block group to another. This bug has been around since e2fsprogs 1232 1.26, and is largely harmless, but does cause a filesystem corruption 1233 which will be flagged by e2fsck after the filesystem has been shrunk. 1234 1235 E2fsck will no longer issue spurious complaints about the inode size 1236 caused by very large extent-based files, and by blocks reallocated 1237 using fallocate() with the FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE option. (Addresses 1238 Kernel Bugzilla: #11341) 1239 1240 Mke2fs will now set the creation timestamp on the lost+found directory 1241 and the root directory. (More generally, all new inodes created using 1242 the ext2fs library will correctly set the creation timestamp.) 1243 1244 E2fsck now correctly calculates ind/dind/tind statistics in the 1245 presence of extent-based files. In addition, "e2fsck -v" will report 1246 statistics of the depth of extent trees in the filesystem. E2fsck can 1247 also give an inode fragmentation report using "e2fsck -E fragcheck" 1248 which can be useful when debugging the kernel block allocation 1249 routines. 1250 1251 Fix support for empty directory blocks in ext4 filesystems with 64k 1252 blocksize filesystems. 1253 1254 E2fsck will now print the depth of corrupt htree directories. 1255 1256 Debugfs's htree command now correctly understands extent-based 1257 directories. It will also print out the minor hash as well as the 1258 major hash. 1259 1260 Debugfs has a new command which will print the supported features of 1261 e2fsprogs, to enable scripts to know whether the installed version of 1262 e2fsprogs can support a specific feature. 1263 1264 Debugfs will now write files using extents for filesystems that 1265 support them. 1266 1267 The error message printed by "tune2fs -I" if the inode size was too 1268 small was rather confusing, so it has been improved. Also, we won't 1269 try to create an undo log until we know that command-line-specified 1270 parameters such as "tune2fs -I <inode size>" are valid. 1271 1272 Given some filesystems found "in the wild" that had non-zero block 1273 group checksums even though the uninit_bg/gdt_sum feature was not 1274 enabled, e2fsck would issue spurious error messages. Teach 1275 ext2fs_group_desc_csum_verify() to ignore the block group checksum 1276 entirely if the feature flag is not set. (Addresses Debian Bug: 1277 #490637) 1278 1279 The blkid program will now print out a user-friendly listing of all of 1280 the block devices in the system and what they contain when given the 1281 -L option. (Addresses Debian Bug: #490527) 1282 1283 The filefrag program now has a more accurate calculation for the 1284 number of ideal extents. (Addresses Debian Bug: #458306) 1285 1286 The test I/O manager is now enabled by default, but its overhead is 1287 only incurred when it would be enabled via the TEST_IO_FLAGS or 1288 TEST_IO_BLOCK environment variables. 1289 1290 Typographical errors in various program strings and usage messages 1291 have been fixed; most of these were pointed out by the e2fsprogs 1292 message catalog translators. (Thanks, translators!) 1293 1294 Update and clarified various man pages, as well as some typographical 1295 errors in the libext2fs texinfo file. 1296 1297 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1298 details. 1299 1300 Add Indonesian and update French, Polish, Dutch, German, Sweedish, 1301 Czech, and Vietnamese Translations. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #313697, 1302 #401092) 1303 1304 Programmer's Notes 1305 ------------------ 1306 1307 Fix portability problem with the badblocks group; for systems that 1308 don't have nanosleep(), try using usleep() instead. 1309 1310 The "make check" target in the e2fsck directory now sets 1311 LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running the various e2fsck internal library 1312 regression tests. 1313 1314 The crc32 regression test in the e2fsck library is now portable to 1315 greater varienty of environments, including big-endian systems and 1316 when cross-building e2fsprogs for embedded systems. (Addresses 1317 Sourceforge Bug: #2019287) 1318 1319 The ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() had some bugs when setting the first 1320 block in a file, or when replacing a single block extent. Those cases 1321 fortunately were came up relatively rarely when e2fsck was checking 1322 files, but caused some problems when resize2fs was shrinking 1323 extent-based files. 1324 1325 Fix a potential core-dumping bug in libe2p's iterate_on_dir() 1326 function. 1327 1328 Various ext2fs library functions --- ext2fs_block_iterate2(), 1329 ext2fs_initialize() and ext2fs_extent_open() --- now correctly free 1330 allocated memory to avoid memory leaks in all of their error return 1331 paths. 1332 1333 Ext2ed was failing to build because masix support had been removed in 1334 the rest of e2fsprogs, so ext2ed no longer has masix support, either. 1335 1336 The configure script now respects the LDFLAGS environment variable if 1337 it is set when configure is called. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature 1338 Request: #1937287) 1339 1340 Libuuid is now more portable to the Windows platform. (Addresses 1341 Sourceforge Feature Request: #1937287) 1342 1343 The configure script now uses AC_MSG_{RESULT,WARN,ERROR} instead of 1344 bare echo commands so that configure flags such as --quiet work 1345 correctly. (Addresses Sourceforge Patches: #2058794) 1346 1347 A few uses of sprintf have been removed from the ext2fs library to 1348 make life easier for bootloaders with a limited libc environment. 1349 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2049120) 1350 1351 The ext2fs_read_inode() checks the validity of the inode number passed 1352 to it earlier, to avoid doing some needless work when it would fail 1353 anyway. 1354 1355 The ext2fs_open() checks the validity of the blocksize parameter 1356 passed to it earlier, to avoid doing some needless work when it would 1357 fail anyway. 1358 1359 Disable a very annoying automatic "%.sh -> %" GNU make rule in the 1360 top-level Makefile. That automatic rule is used to better support 1361 SCCS, but it caused problems for a particular niche distribution which 1362 likes to use configure.sh files to store the configure options used to 1363 build a package. Unfortuntaely GNU make will use the configure.sh to 1364 replace the configure script, resulting in a self-inflicted fork bomb 1365 leading to an out-of-memory crash. 1366 1367 To support old GNU C compilers don't use C99/C++ comments, but only 1368 K&R style comments, and don't try to use __builtin_expect if __GNUC__ 1369 is less than 3. (__builtin_expect is only supported for gcc versions 1370 2.96 and up, and it's tricky to check for gcc 2.95 vs gcc 2.96; since 1371 this is an optimization, we only try to use __builtin_expect for gcc 3 1372 and up.) 1373 1374 In e2fsck's crc routines, make sure we use WORDS_BIGENDIAN instead of 1375 __LITTLE_ENDIAN, which are only defined by glibc's header files and 1376 hence isn't portable. 1377 1378 For the convenience for some distributions that need a static tune2fs, 1379 the Makefile for misc/ now has a tune2fs.static target. 1380 1381 The ext2fs_block_iterate2() function now supports BLOCK_FLAG_APPEND 1382 for extent-based files 1383 1384 The ext2fs_bmap() function now supports BMAP_ALLOC for extent-based 1385 files. 1386 1387 All source files no longer have any trailing white space. 1388 1389 The io_channel_read_blk64() and io_channel_write_blk64() functions are 1390 now functions instead of C preprocessor macros to provide better 1391 forward compatibility. 1392 1393 The e2fpsrogs translation template now expands the @x abbrevation. 1394 1395 Various namespace leackages in libblkid, libe2p, and libext2fs have 1396 been fixed. 1397 1398 Fix a parallel build problem in e2fsprogs. 1399 1400 E2fsprogs is now more portable to Solaris. 1401 * blkid no longer assumes that the TIOCGSIZE and TIOCGWINSZ ioctl's 1402 are always present. 1403 * Scripts do not assume that /bin/true is always in /bin 1404 * Don't use __FUNCTION__ since Solaris's C99 doesn't support it. 1405 * Flush stdio handles before calling setbuf(), since Solaris will 1406 discard any pending output to the stream. 1407 * Define _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 since Solaris's header files are very 1408 picky about which C compiler can beused for SUSv3 conformance. 1409 Use of C99 is not compatible with SUSv2 (_XOPEN_SOURCE=500), 1410 and C89 is not compatible with SUSv3 (_XOPEN_SOURCE=600). 1411 Since we need some SUSv3 functions, consistently use SUSv3 so 1412 that e2fsprogs will build on Solaris using c99. 1413 * Solaris C99 does not support varargs C preprocessor macros 1414 * Solaris header files pollute the C namespace if in/netinet.h 1415 is included, which conflicts with e2fsprogs' use of the kmem_cache_t 1416 typedef. 1417 * Solaris ships with a pathetically ancient shell in /bin/sh so we 1418 avoid the use of various more avanced shell constructs such as $(). 1419 1420 The "make rpm" command will now take some extra configure optiosn from 1421 the build environment without needing to patch the source tree. 1422 1423 The ext2fs_add_dir_block() function will now grow the dblist more 1424 aggressively as an optimization to avoid copying the array too often. 1425 1426 The e2fsck_write_bitmaps() will write the block and inode bitmaps 1427 together instead of in two passes. 1428 1429 1430 E2fsprogs 1.41 (July 10, 2008) 1431 ============================== 1432 1433 Add support for ext4 filesystem features, in particular extents, 1434 uninit_bg, flex_bg, huge_file, and dir_nlink features. Also add 1435 support for checking journal checksums. Debugfs will print new 1436 superblock and inode fields that were defined for ext4. For example, 1437 the nanosecond and i_version fields of an inode, and the 1438 s_min_extra_isize and s_wanted_extra_isize fields from the superblock. 1439 Note: Resize2fs doesn't currently support the combination of flex_bg 1440 and !resize_inode. (Addresses Debian Bug: #388452, #425477) 1441 1442 Tune2fs can support migrating a filesystem from using 128 byte inodes 1443 to 256 byte inodes, so it can take advantage of the full features of 1444 ext4. 1445 1446 Add support for "undo" support. E2fsck and mke2fs can optionally 1447 record an undo log which can replayed by the program e2undo. 1448 1449 E2fsck could damage a filesystem by trying to relocate inode tables 1450 due to corrupted block group descriptors, where the attempted inode 1451 table relocation would do far more harm than good. E2fsck has been 1452 fixed to detect this these sorts of corrupted block group descriptors 1453 much earlier in e2fsck processing, so it can try to use the backup 1454 superblock and block group descriptors first. This should be a much 1455 better strategy for recovering these types of corrupted filesystems. 1456 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840291) 1457 1458 E2fsck will display a more understandable message when the last check 1459 field in the superblock is in the future. (Addresses Debian Bug: 1460 #446005). 1461 1462 E2fsck now performs more extensive and careful checks of extended 1463 attributes stored in the inode. 1464 1465 Enhance mke2fs to print a more explanatory error message when 1466 ext2fs_get_device_size() returns EFBIG. (Addresses Debian Bug: 1467 #488663) 1468 1469 Fix mke2fs to use a default block size of 4k when formatting an 1470 external journal device. This is done by using a fixed filesystem 1471 type list that consists only of the single filesystem type "journal" 1472 when looking up configuration keys in /etc/mke2fs.conf. (Addresses 1473 Debian Bug: #488663) 1474 1475 Speed up how mke2fs writes the journal data blocks by writing the disk 1476 blocks in larger chunks. 1477 1478 Fix blkid handling of stale devices. Fix a bug which could cause a 1479 core dump while garbage collecting the blkid cache, and assure that 1480 blkid_find_dev_with_tag() never returns a non-existent device. Also, 1481 if a filesystem is found at a new /dev location, eliminate any 1482 duplicate stale entries which can not be verified. 1483 (Addresses Debian Bugs: #487758, #487783) 1484 1485 Add more paranoid checks for LVM volumes and swap partitions in 1486 blkid's probe function, to reduce the chances of false positives. 1487 1488 The mke2fs program now has a much more sophisticated system for 1489 controlling configuration parameters of a newly created filesystem 1490 based on a split filesystem and usage type system. The -t option to 1491 mke2fs was a deprecated alias to -c; it now specifies a filesystem 1492 type (ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.), while the -T option can now be a comma 1493 separated usage list. The filesystem type information and type 1494 information is used to extract configuration parameters from the 1495 /etc/mke2fs.conf file. 1496 1497 The mke2fs program will no longer complain and request the -f option 1498 when the user tries to create a filesystem with greater than 2**31 1499 blocks. 1500 1501 When creating a filesystem for the GNU Hurd use a fs-type of Hurd and 1502 adjust the mke2fs.conf file so filesystems for the Hurd are created 1503 with a blocksize of 4096 and inode size of 128, which is all it knows 1504 how to handle. (Addresses Debian Bug: #471977) 1505 1506 Mke2fs will always make sure that lost+found always has at least 2 1507 blocks, even for filesystems with very large blocksizes (i.e., 64kb). 1508 1509 Resize2fs will now print the minimum needed filesystem size if given 1510 the -P option, and will resize the filesystem to the smallest possible 1511 size if given the -M option. 1512 1513 Fix resize2fs to clean up the resize_inode if all of the reserved gdt 1514 blocks are consumed during an off-line resize. 1515 1516 The "ls" command in debugfs now supports the -p option, which causes 1517 it to quote the filenames so that spaces or tabs in directory entries 1518 are easily visible. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #149480; Addresses 1519 Sourceforge Feature Request: #1201667) 1520 1521 Fix a potential off-by-one buffer oveflow in the fs_device_name in an 1522 e2image file. 1523 1524 The chattr program will return a non-zero exit code in case of 1525 failures, and error messages can be suppressed with the -f option. 1526 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #180596) 1527 1528 Fix a bug in badblocks which caused it to overrun an array and likely 1529 crash if more than 8 test patterns are specified using the -t option. 1530 (Addresses Debian Bug: #487298) 1531 1532 Add support to badblocks to limit how quickly it reads from the disk 1533 drive (so it can be used for background scrubbing), and so it will 1534 abort after finding a given number of errors. 1535 1536 Remove support for the legacy big-endian filesystem format which only 1537 existed on extremely long-dead PowerPC kernels almost a decade ago. 1538 1539 Remove MASIX support from e2fsprogs. 1540 1541 Add I/O statistics reporting to e2fsck. 1542 1543 Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Dutch, 1544 Czech translations. 1545 1546 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1547 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #487443, #487675, #490003) 1548 1549 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 1550 (Addresses Debian Bugs: #393313, #487849, #440983, #440981) 1551 1552 Programmer's Notes 1553 ------------------ 1554 1555 Factor out bitmap code in preparation for adding 64-bit new-style 1556 bitmaps. 1557 1558 Fix gcc -Wall warnings 1559 1560 Fix the pkg-config files so that private librares are specified in 1561 "Libs.private:". 1562 1563 Fix the libext2fs.texinfo manual so it builds with modern versions of 1564 texinfo. 1565 1566 Silence the makefile from showing the awk command used to build the 1567 1568 Clean up the badblocks group so to make it more portable and robust. 1569 1570 Avoid using predictable filenames in /tmp in blkid's regression test 1571 suite. Also remove bashism's in the regression test script. 1572 1573 If the configure script is given --with-diet-libc, don't use thread 1574 local storage, since diet libc doesn't support TLS. (Addresses 1575 Sourceforge Bug: #2000654) 1576 1577 Fix the blkid regression test suite to tolerate older versions of 1578 mkswap that don't support the -U option. 1579 1580 A few library routines have been converted to support 64-bit block 1581 numbers; in particular, the I/O manager functions, the test_io, 1582 inode_io, and unix_io managers have all be converted to support 64-bit 1583 operation. 1584 1585 Debugfs can now be extended for use by test programs. See 1586 lib/ext2fs/extents.c for an example for how it can be used. The test 1587 program links against the debugfs object files, and provides 1588 additional commands by defining an auxiliary libss command table. 1589 1590 The lazy_bg filesystem feature, which was only used by developer's 1591 testing, has been removed since it has been largely supplanted by 1592 uninit_bg. This also simplifies the code. 1593 1594 1595 E2fsprogs 1.40.11 (June 17, 2008) 1596 ================================= 1597 1598 Mke2fs, tune2fs, and resize2fs now use floating point to calculate the 1599 percentage of reserved blocks. (Addresses Debian Bug: #452639) 1600 1601 Updated Spanish and Catalan translations. 1602 1603 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1604 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #483962, #483023) 1605 1606 Add detection for ZFS volumes to the libblkid library. 1607 1608 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 1609 (Addresses Debian Bug: #486463) 1610 1611 Programmer's notes: 1612 ------------------- 1613 1614 Fix marginal C code in probe_lvm2() function to the blkid library more 1615 portable for older compilers. 1616 1617 Fix build problems on MacOS X. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1972473) 1618 1619 Fix ext2fs_swap{16,32,64} functions so they can be used by external 1620 applications on big-endian machines. (Addresses Debian Bug: #484879) 1621 1622 1623 E2fsprogs 1.40.10 (May 21, 2008) 1624 ================================ 1625 1626 When deciding whether or not to revalidate a blkid cache entry, if the 1627 device's mtime is newer than the last time the cached entry was 1628 validated, force a revalidation. 1629 1630 Fix a potential data corruption bug in e2fsck in the journal replay. 1631 The chances of this is happening is extremely remote, especially the 1632 default data=ordered or data=writeback modes. However, if a block 1633 which has been journalled starts with the first four bytes 0xc03b3998, 1634 when e2fsck replays the journal, those four bytes will be replaced 1635 with zero's. Fortunately, it is highly, highly unlikely for e2fsck 1636 metadata to begin with those fatal 4 byte sequence, and unless 1637 data=ordered mode is in use, data blocks are never journaled. 1638 1639 Updated German, Dutch, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations. 1640 1641 Programmer's notes: 1642 ------------------- 1643 1644 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1645 details. 1646 1647 Remove default sizes of types when cross compiling, since autoconf 1648 2.50 can figure this out automatically now. 1649 1650 1651 E2fsprogs 1.40.9 (April 27, 2008) 1652 ================================= 1653 1654 SuSE's security team audited uuidd and came up with a few minor 1655 issues. None of them are serious given that uuidd runs setuid as a 1656 unprivileged user which has no special access other than libuuid 1657 directory, but it's good to get them fixed. 1658 1659 One additional fix in ext2fs_swap_inode_full() needed for resize2fs to 1660 work correctly with in-inode extended attributes. 1661 1662 Updated German, Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese 1663 translations. 1664 1665 Debugfs will avoid using a pager if the standard output is not a tty. 1666 1667 Fix debugfs and tune2fs to correctly handle daylight savings time when 1668 parsing a time string. 1669 1670 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 1671 1672 Fix fsck completion bars when multiple filesystems were being checked 1673 in parallel. (Addresses Debian Bug: #432865, Addresses Launchpad Bug: 1674 #203323, Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1926023) 1675 1676 Fix fsck so that progress information is sent back correctly when 1677 multiple filesystems are being check and the output of fsck is being 1678 redirected to a file descriptor. Also, include the device name (w/o 1679 spaces) in the progress information sent back via a file descriptor. 1680 (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #203323, Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 1681 #1926023) 1682 1683 Teach fsck to treat "ext4" and "ext4dev" as ext* filesystems. 1684 1685 If logsave receives a SIGTERM or SIGINT signal, it will now pass that 1686 signal to its child process. 1687 1688 Fix mke2fs's creation of are resize inode when there is a non-standard 1689 s_first_data_block setting. 1690 1691 Fix bug in blkid when run by an unprivileged user; most devices were 1692 not reported correctly. 9Addresses Launchpad Bug: #220275) 1693 1694 Mke2fs will not allow the logically incorect combination of 1695 resize_inode and meta_bg, which had previously caused mke2fs to create 1696 a corrupt fileystem. 1697 1698 Fix fsck in German locales so that a 'j' means yes. 1699 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1947683) 1700 1701 1702 Programmer's notes: 1703 ------------------- 1704 1705 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1706 details. 1707 1708 Update valgrind options in test_script to work with valgrind 3.2.3 1709 1710 Update texinfo.tex to a much newer version from the FSF. 1711 1712 Remove bashism for configure script and from the lib/ss Makefile. 1713 Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 1921969 1714 1715 Fix some silently broken tests: m_no_opt, m_meta_bg, and m_raid_opt. 1716 1717 Fix build system so that if texinfo is not installed, it won't print a 1718 (harmless) error message. 1719 1720 1721 E2fsprogs 1.40.8 (March 13, 2008) 1722 ================================= 1723 1724 Fixed e2image -I so it works on image files which are larger than 2GB. 1725 1726 Fixed e2fsck's handling of directory inodes with a corrupt size field. If 1727 the size is larger than the number of blocks found in the inode, don't 1728 try to allocate extra empty blocks at the end of the directory to make 1729 up the difference; there's no point to doing that. In addition, if 1730 the size is not a multiple of a blocksize, always fix it. 1731 1732 E2fsck handled a pass 2 "should never happen error" by not giving 1733 enough information and then core dumping. Unfortunately, it was all 1734 too easy to trigger the "should never happen" situation if a 1735 directory's inode size was not correct. This has been fixed, but 1736 e2fsck has also been taught how to handle this situation more 1737 gracefully, by simply removing the inode hash tree information, so 1738 that it can be rebuilt again after e2fsck's pass 3. (Addresses 1739 Launchpad Bug: #129395) 1740 1741 Resize2fs had a bug resizing large inodes with extended attributes 1742 that was fixed in 1.40.6; unfortunately, it turned out it wasn't fixed 1743 completely on big-endian systems such as PowerPC. The bug should be 1744 completely fixed now. Yay for regression test suites. (Addresses Red 1745 Hat Bugzilla: #434893) 1746 1747 Updated German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese 1748 translations. Many thanks to Philipp Thomas from Novell for stepping 1749 up to become the new German translation maintainer! (Addresses Debian 1750 Bugs: #302512, #370247, #401092, #412882). 1751 1752 When e2fsck is clearing a corrupt inode's HTREE directory information, 1753 make it clear that it is just clearing the HTREE information, not the 1754 entire inode. 1755 1756 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 1757 1758 Programmer's notes 1759 ------------------ 1760 1761 Add new functions, ext2fs_dblist_get_last() and 1762 ext2fs_dblist_drop_last(), which allows the caller to examine the last 1763 directory block entry added to the list, and to drop if it necessary. 1764 1765 Fixed a portability problem in libblkid with DJGPP. 1766 1767 Fix an obvious typo in an "internal error" message in e2fsck. Thanks 1768 to Philipp Thomas for pointing this out. 1769 1770 If the info files are not built, change "make install" so it doesn't 1771 fail with an error code. 1772 1773 1774 E2fsprogs 1.40.7 (February 28, 2008) 1775 ==================================== 1776 1777 Remove support for clearing the SPARSE_SUPER feature from tune2fs, and 1778 depreciate the -s option, since it can result in filesystems which 1779 e2fsck can't fix easily. There are very good reasons for wanting to 1780 disable sparse_super; users who wants to turn off sparse_super can use 1781 debugfs. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840286) 1782 1783 Add missing options to mke2fs's usage message. (Addresses Sourceforge 1784 Bug: #1751393) 1785 1786 Fix bug in resize2fs when large (greater than 128 byte) inodes are 1787 moved when a filesystem is shrunk; it was only moving the first 128 1788 bytes, so extended attributes were not getting moved. (Addresses Red 1789 Hat Bugzilla: #434893) 1790 1791 E2fsck now prints an explicit message when the bad block inode is 1792 updated, to avoid confusion about why the filesystem was modified. 1793 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #756460) 1794 1795 Allow mke2fs and tune2fs manipulate the large_file feature. 1796 Previously we just let the kernel and e2fsck do this automatically, 1797 but e2fsck will no longer automatically clear the large_file feature. 1798 It still isn't really necessary to worry about this feature flag 1799 explicitly, but some users seem to care. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: 1800 #258381) 1801 1802 Suppress message about an old-style fstab if the fstab file is empty. 1803 (Addresses Debian Bug: #468176) 1804 1805 Fix (really minor) bug in debugfs's find_free_block so it avoids 1806 reporting a free block more than once if there are too few free blocks 1807 in the filesystem. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1096315) 1808 1809 Change e2fsck to no longer clear the LARGE_FILES feature flag 1810 automatically, when there are no more > 2GB files in the filesystem. 1811 It's been almost a decade since there have been kernels that don't 1812 support this flag, and e2fsck clears it quietly without telling the 1813 user why the filesystem has been changed. 1814 1815 Fix bug which could cause libblkid to seg fault if a device mapper 1816 volume disappears while it is being probed. (Addresses RedHat 1817 Bugzilla: #433857) 1818 1819 Inhance e2fsck's reporting of unsupported filesystem feature flags. 1820 (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: #1175808) 1821 1822 Fix option syntax in dumpe2fs for explicit superblock and blocksize 1823 parameters. What was currently documented in the man page has been 1824 broken for some time, due to getopt() implementation changes. The 1825 option sytax has been changed to one which is can be more portable 1826 supported and which is consistent with the format for extended options 1827 in mke2fs and tune2fs. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1830994) 1828 1829 Add support to tune2fs to clear the resize_inode feature. This 1830 requires an fsck afterwards. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #167816) 1831 1832 Teach blkid to detect LVM2 physical volumes. (Addresses Red Hat 1833 Bugzilla: #409321) 1834 1835 Add support for setting RAID stride and stripe-width via mke2fs and 1836 tune2fs. Teach dumpe2fs to print the RAID parameters. 1837 1838 Add support for setting new superblock fields to debugfs's 1839 set_super_value. 1840 1841 Add support for printing "mostly-printable" extended attributes in 1842 Debugfs. 1843 1844 Add support for the -M option to fsck, which causes it to ignore 1845 mounted filesystem. 1846 1847 Fix uuidd so that it creates the pid file with the correct pid number. 1848 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893244) 1849 1850 Fix various gcc -Wall warnings. 1851 1852 Update Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations 1853 1854 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 1855 (Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1399325) 1856 1857 1858 Programmer's notes: 1859 ------------------- 1860 1861 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1862 details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #466929) 1863 1864 Add new flag EXT2_FLAG_NONFREE_ON_ERROR ext2fs_open2() which returns a 1865 partially filled-in filesystem object on an error, so that e2fsck can 1866 print more intelligent error messages. 1867 1868 Add a new function e2p_edit_feature2() which allows the caller to 1869 specify which feature flags are OK to set or clear, and which returns 1870 more specific information about feature flags which are not allowed to 1871 be set/cleared. 1872 1873 Set the C locale in the test_script driver since it uses [A-Za-z]. 1874 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1890526) 1875 1876 Use fcntl locking instead of lockf in libuuid since Cygwin doesn't 1877 support lockf(). 1878 1879 Change configure.in to avoid using the 'dc' command unless it is 1880 absolutely needed. (i.e., when using parsing a WIP-style version 1881 number) (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893024) 1882 1883 Add portability checks to support compilation under DJGPP. 1884 1885 Update to the latest samba tdb code before the LGPLv3 change, which 1886 fixes a realloc() leak on failure. 1887 1888 Fix memory leak in ext2fs_alloc_block(). 1889 1890 Fix makefile dependency issues for various install targets. 1891 (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #1903484, #1903466, #1903456) 1892 1893 Improve descriptions for the r_move_itable and r_resize_inode tests. 1894 1895 1896 E2fsprogs 1.40.6 (February 9, 2008) 1897 =================================== 1898 1899 Add support for returning labels for UDF filesystems in the blkid 1900 library. 1901 1902 Fix bug in the blkid library where cached filesystems was not being 1903 flushed when opening USB devices returned the error ENOMEDIUM. 1904 (Addresses Debian Bug: #463787) 1905 1906 Added logic to the blkid library to automatically choose whether a 1907 filesystem should be mounted as ext4 or ext4dev, as appropriate. 1908 1909 Allow tune2fs to set and clear the test_fs flag on ext4 filesystems. 1910 1911 Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to core dump if e2fsprogs had been 1912 configured with --enable-jbd-debug. 1913 1914 Document the BLKID_FILE environment variable in the libblkid man page 1915 1916 Programmer's Notes: 1917 ------------------- 1918 1919 Update e2fsprogs translation template and Vietnamese and Czech translations 1920 1921 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 1922 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #436058) 1923 1924 Don't try to create $DESTDIR/etc/init.d as part of make install as we 1925 don't install the init.d script (and it's not the recommended way to 1926 start uuidd anyway). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1885085) 1927 1928 Use thread local storage to fix a theoretical race condition if two 1929 threads try to format an unknown error code at the same time in the 1930 com_err library. 1931 1932 1933 E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008) 1934 =================================== 1935 1936 Fix a potential overflow big in e2image if the device name is too 1937 long. 1938 1939 Mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes and the 1940 ext_attr feature flag by default. This allows for much better future 1941 compatibity with ext4 and speeds up extended attributes even on ext3 1942 filesystems. 1943 1944 Teach e2fsck to ignore certain "safe" filesystem features which are 1945 set automatically by the kernel. Having the kernel set features 1946 automagically behind the user's back is a bad idea, and we should try 1947 to break the kernel of this habit, especially for the newer ext4 1948 feature flags. But for now, we will try to avoid needless full checks 1949 which can annoy users who are doing fresh installs. 1950 1951 Add support in tune2fs and mke2fs for making a filesystem as being "ok 1952 to be used with test kernel code". This will be needed for using test 1953 filesystems with the latest ext4 kernel code. 1954 1955 Change e2fsck -fD so that it sorts non-htree directories by inode 1956 numbers instead of by name, since that optimizes performances much 1957 more significantly. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #532439) 1958 1959 If e2image fills the disk, fix it so it exits right away instead of 1960 spewing large numbers of error messages. 1961 (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #606508) 1962 1963 If ftruncate64() is not available for resize2fs, let it use ftrucate() 1964 instead, but have it check to see if the size would get truncated, and 1965 skip calling ftruncate in that case. 1966 1967 Add support for detecting HFS+ filesystems in the blkid library. 1968 1969 Add supprt in the blkid library for ext4/ext4dev filesystems. 1970 1971 Fix a bug in blkid where it could die on a floating point exception 1972 when presented with a corrupt reiserfs image. 1973 1974 Fix blkid's handling of ntfs UUID's so that leading zeros are printed 1975 such that UUID string is a fixed length. 1976 1977 Add sample python bindings for the uuid library to the contrib 1978 directory. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #778817) 1979 1980 Fix debugfs's 'lsdel' command so it uses ext2fs_block_iterate2 so it 1981 will work with large files. (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: 1982 #1257500 and Sourceforge Support Request: #1253511) 1983 1984 Allow the debugfs 'undel' command to undelete an inode without linking 1985 it to a specific destination directory, since this might require 1986 allocating blocks that could overwrite some yet-to-be-recovered 1987 deleted files. (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #967141) 1988 1989 Update Swedish translations from the Translation Project. 1990 1991 Programmer's Notes: 1992 ------------------- 1993 1994 Fix configure handling of --sbindir (which should rarely be used, but 1995 someone did complain, so let's fix it). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 1996 #498381) 1997 1998 Updated e2fsprogs.spec file to include a new uuidd package 1999 2000 Use pkg-config to determine where to find the devmapper library so we 2001 can find out where it is located on different distributions. 2002 2003 Fix Makefile race so that "make -j3 distclean" works correctly 2004 2005 Fix portability problems on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems, 2006 especially on MacOS X systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs: #1861633, 2007 #1819034, #1863819) 2008 2009 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 2010 2011 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 2012 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #459403, #459475, #459614) 2013 2014 Remove the --enable-dynamic-static configure option, and build e2fsck 2015 dynamically by default. If the user wants e2fsck.static, he/she will 2016 need to build it via "make -C e2fsck e2fsck.static" 2017 2018 Fix various build warnings due to missing prototypes. 2019 (Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1861663, #1861659) 2020 2021 2022 E2fsprogs 1.40.4 (December 31, 2007) 2023 ==================================== 2024 2025 Improve time-based UUID generation. A new daemon uuidd, is started 2026 automatically by libuuid if necessary. This daemon is setuid to allow 2027 updates to /var/lib/libuuid, so the clock sequence number can be 2028 stored and so if the clock is set backwards, it can be detected. 2029 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1529672, Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: 2030 #233471) 2031 2032 Filter out the NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag when writing out the backup 2033 superblocks. This avoids e2fsck from concluding that a full 2034 filesystem check is required before backing up the superblock due to 2035 changes in the feature flags. (Addresses Debian Bug: #454926) 2036 2037 Fix fsck to only treat the '#' character as a comment at the beginning 2038 of the line in /etc/fstab. Otherwise fstabs for the fuse filesystem 2039 will cause fsck to issue an bogus warning message. 2040 (Addresses Gentoo bug: #195405, Addresses Sourceforge bug: #1826147) 2041 2042 Format control characters and characters with the high eighth bit set 2043 when printing the contents of the blkid cache, to prevent filesystems 2044 with garbage labels from sending escape sequences to the user's screen 2045 that might, for example place it in graphics mode. (Addresses Ubuntu 2046 Bug: #78087) 2047 2048 Fix sign-extension problem on 64-bit systems in in the com_err 2049 library. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1809658) 2050 2051 Avoid division by zero error when probing an invalid FAT filesystem in 2052 the blkid library. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1831627) 2053 2054 Update Dutch, Polish, and Vietnamese translations from the Translation 2055 Project. Remove the Rwandan translation upon advice of the 2056 Translation Project. 2057 2058 Programmer's Notes: 2059 ------------------- 2060 2061 Fix the libss "make check" regression test so that it works if the 2062 current directory is not in the user's path or if the libss shared 2063 library is not installed. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1848974) 2064 2065 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 2066 (Addresses Debian Bugs: #444883, #441872) 2067 2068 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 2069 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #437720, #451172, #458017) 2070 2071 Fix build failure on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems. 2072 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1859778) 2073 2074 Fix Hurd portability issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #437720) 2075 2076 2077 E2fsprogs 1.40.3 (December 5, 2007) 2078 =================================== 2079 2080 Fix a potential security vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem 2081 can be corrupted in such a way that a program using libext2fs will 2082 allocate a buffer which is far too small. This can lead to either a 2083 crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow crash. No known 2084 exploits exist, but main concern is where an untrusted user who 2085 possesses privileged access in a guest Xen environment could corrupt a 2086 filesystem which is then accessed by the pygrub program, running as 2087 root in the dom0 host environment, thus allowing the untrusted user to 2088 gain privileged access in the host OS. Thanks to the McAfee AVERT 2089 Research group for reporting this issue. (Addresses CVE-2007-5497.) 2090 2091 Fix hueristics in blkid which could cause a disk without partitions to 2092 be incorrectly skipped when a loopback device is present. (Addresses 2093 Red Hat Bugzilla #400321.) 2094 2095 Fix e2image so that in raw mode it does not create an image file which 2096 is one byte too large. 2097 2098 Change mke2fs's usage message so it recommends the preferred -E option 2099 instead of the deprecated -R option. 2100 2101 Enhance the blkid library so it will recognize squashfs filesystems. 2102 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #305151.) 2103 2104 Enhance e2fsck so it will force the backup superblocks to be backed up 2105 if the filesystem is consistent and key constants have been changed 2106 (i.e., by an on-line resize) or by e2fsck in the course of its 2107 operations. 2108 2109 Enhance blkid's detection of FAT filesystems; so that USB disks with 2110 only a single bootable partition will not get missed. 2111 2112 E2fsck will no longer mark a filesystem as invalid if it has time 2113 errors (i.e., if superblock mount time or last write time is in the 2114 future) and the user refuses to fix the problem. 2115 2116 The Ubuntu init scripts don't properly set the system time correctly 2117 from hardware clock if the hardware clock is configured to tick local 2118 time instead of GMT time. Work around this as best as we can by 2119 providing an option, buggy_init_scripts, in /etc/e2fsck.conf which can 2120 be set on Ubuntu systems. (Addresses Debian Bug #441093, and Ubuntu 2121 Bug #131201.) 2122 2123 Fix fsck to ignore /etc/fstab entries for bind mounts. (Addresses Red 2124 Hat Bugzilla #151533.) 2125 2126 Fix e2fsck so that if the superblock is corrupt, but still looks 2127 vaguely like an ext2/3/4 superblock, that it automatically tries to 2128 fall back to the backup superblock, instead of failing with a hard 2129 error. 2130 2131 Make the e2fsprogs program more robust so that they will not crash 2132 when opening a corrupt filesystem where s_inode_size is zero. 2133 2134 Change e2fsck so it uses sscanf() instead of atoi() so it non-numeric 2135 arguments are detected as such and the parse error is reported to the 2136 user. (Addresses Debian Bug #435381.) 2137 2138 Change e2fsck so it will not complain if a file has blocks reallocated 2139 up to the next multiple of a system's page size. 2140 2141 Fix bug in ext2fs_check_desc() which will cause e2fsck to complain 2142 about (valid) filesystems where the inode table extends to the last 2143 block of the block group. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #214765.) 2144 2145 Fix a bug in ext2fs_initialize() which causes mke2fs to fail while 2146 allocating inode tables for some relatively rare odd disk sizes. 2147 (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #241767.) 2148 2149 Add Catalan translation and update Dutch and Swedish translations 2150 from the Translation Project. 2151 2152 Fix big-endian byte-swapping bug in ext2fs_swap_inode_full(). We 2153 still had an issue when trying to figure out whether we need to 2154 byte-swap fast symlinks that contained extended attributes. 2155 2156 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 2157 (Addresses SourceForge Bug #1821333.) 2158 2159 2160 Programmer's Notes: 2161 ------------------- 2162 2163 Fix mke2fs tests to avoid needing any significant ^M (CR) characters 2164 2165 Add "make check" to the RPM spec file 2166 2167 Fix "make install" and 'make unstall" in misc/Makefile.in so that it 2168 works correctly when the prefix is not the root directory. 2169 2170 Fix the resize2fs tests, r_move_itable and r_resize_inode, so they 2171 clena up after themselves by deleting the test.img temporary file 2172 after completing the test. 2173 2174 Fixed a corner case bug ext2fs_unlink() when trying to delete the 2175 first directory entry in a directory block and the last directory 2176 entry in the previous directory block is not in use. Fortunately 2177 ext2fs_unlink() is only used by debugfs and e2fsck, and in e2fsck in 2178 places where it is extremely unlikely to run into this corner case. 2179 2180 Fix missing dependency which would cuase parallel builds to fail. 2181 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1842331.) 2182 2183 Fix a build error on newer gcc caused by lib/ext2fs/ismounted.c 2184 calling open(O_CREATE) with a missing mode parameter. 2185 2186 Fix the test_ss.c in lib/ss so it can be used as an example 2187 application program for the library as well as a regression test 2188 suite. 2189 2190 Fix ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate() so that error codes and abort codes 2191 are properly passed back up through the call stack. 2192 2193 E2fsprogs 1.40.2 (July 12, 2007) 2194 ================================ 2195 2196 A recent change to e2fsck_add_dir_info() to use tdb files to check 2197 filesystems with a very large number of filesystems had a typo which 2198 caused us to resize the wrong data structure. This would cause a 2199 array overrun leading to malloc pointer corruptions and segfaults. 2200 Since we normally can very accurately predict how big the the dirinfo 2201 array needs to be, this bug only got triggered on very badly corrupted 2202 filesystems. 2203 2204 Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly salvange 2205 directories when the last entry's rec_len is bogusly too big. This 2206 resulted in a nonsense filesystem corruption to be reported, and 2207 required a second run of e2fsck to fully fix up the directory. 2208 2209 Update tune2fs man page to include more discussion of reserved blocks 2210 (Addresses Launchpad bug #47817) 2211 2212 Update Turkish, Polish, Dutch, and Vietnamese PO files from the 2213 Translation Project 2214 2215 2216 E2fsprogs 1.40.1 (July 7, 2007) 2217 =============================== 2218 2219 Fix bug which could cause libblkid to loop forever. When revalidating 2220 a partition where there is obsolete information in /etc/blkid.tab, we 2221 end up freeing a the type tag without clearing dev->bid_type, causing 2222 blkid_verify() to loop forever. (Addresses Debian Bug: #432052) 2223 2224 The Turkish translation has a bug in it where it has the translation 2225 of "E@e '%Dn' in %p (%i)" to "E@E". This causes @E to be expanded at 2226 @E, recursively, forever, until the stack fills up and e2fsck core 2227 dumps. We fix this by making e2fsck stop @-expansions after a 2228 recursive depth of 10, which is far more than we need. 2229 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1646081) 2230 2231 Compile the default mke2fs.conf into mke2fs program. People are 2232 getting surprised by mke2fs creating filesystems with different 2233 defaults than earlier versions of mke2fs if mke2fs.conf is not 2234 present. So we now create a built in version of mke2fs.conf file 2235 which is used by mke2fs if the /etc/mke2fs.conf is not present. 2236 (Addresses SourceforgeBug: #1745818) 2237 2238 Improve the config/parse_types.sh helper script. Fix a potential 2239 security problem if e2fsprogs is built as root (as Gentoo does!). In 2240 addition fix the script and how it is called from the configure script 2241 so that it does the right thing when cross-compiling. (Fixes Gentoo 2242 bug: #146903) 2243 2244 Update Vietnamese, French, and Dutch PO files from the Translation 2245 Project. Also created a new e2fsprogs.pot file for translator. 2246 2247 Fix bogus strip permission errors when building under Debian. When 2248 building the e2fsprogs dpkg's, the dh_strip command emits a large 2249 number of error messages caused by the permissions not being right. 2250 So run dh_fixperms before running dh_strip. 2251 2252 Programmer's Notes: 2253 ------------------- 2254 2255 Add new function: profile_set_default(). This function sets the value 2256 of the pseudo file "<default>". If the file "<default>" had 2257 previously been passed to profile_init(), then def_string parameter 2258 will be parsed and used as the profile information for the "<default>" 2259 file. 2260 2261 Fix mk_cmds's error reporting so that it is unambiguous that it is the 2262 mk_cmds script which is generating the error. (Obviates Gentoo patch: 2263 e2fsprogs-1.32-mk_cmds-cosmetic.patch) 2264 2265 Fix the test suite to use LC_ALL instead of LANG. LC_ALL is the "high 2266 priority" environment variable that overrides all others, where as 2267 LANG is the lowest priorty environment variable. If LC_ALL is set, it 2268 doesn't matter whether LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES, and 2269 the all the rest are set. This will assure that the locale when 2270 running the test suites is the "C" locale. (Obviates Gentoo patch: 2271 e2fsprogs-1.38-tests-locale.patch) 2272 2273 2274 E2fsprogs 1.40 (June 29, 2007) 2275 ============================== 2276 2277 Fix divide by zero error in blkid's NTFS probing logic. 2278 2279 Add new blkid -g option which causes the blkid cache to be garbage 2280 collected. 2281 2282 Fix a bug in libblkid which could cause the internal field bid_type to 2283 become corrupted. Fortunately bid_type isn't used much, and bid_label 2284 and bid_uuid is only used by debugging code, so the impact of this bug 2285 was very minor. 2286 2287 Mke2fs will now store the RAID stride value when a filesystem is 2288 created with a requested RAID stride, and then use it automatically in 2289 resize2fs. 2290 2291 Mke2fs has a sanity check added to make sure (inode_size * num_inodes) 2292 isn't too big. In some cases Lustre users have tried specifying an 2293 inode size of 4096 bytes, while keeping an inode ratio of one inode 2294 per 4096 bytes. 2295 2296 Improve sanity check in e2fsck's algorithm for finding a backup 2297 superblock, so that it won't accidentally find a superblock that was 2298 located in the journal, and then later reject it as being not a valid 2299 backup superblock. 2300 2301 Fix e2fsck get_size logic so that it will work with the Linux floppy 2302 driver. The Linux floppy driver is a bit different from the other 2303 block device drivers, in that if the device has been opened with 2304 O_EXCL, it disallows another open(), even if the second open() does 2305 not have the O_EXCL flag. (Addresses Debian Bug: #410569) 2306 2307 Fix error checking of badblock's last-block and start-block arguments. 2308 (Addresses Debian Bug: #416477) 2309 2310 Fix e2fsck so that it doesn't overwrite the backup superblocks when 2311 recovering a journal until the master superblock has been confirmed as 2312 being sane. 2313 2314 Change the blkid library to be much more paranoid about concluding 2315 that a partition contains an NTFS filesystem, and fetch the UUID and 2316 LABEL information from NTFS filesystems. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: 2317 #110138) 2318 2319 Factor out the code which sets the default journal size and move it 2320 into libext2fs. 2321 2322 Enhance e2fsck so it will recreate the ext3 journal if the original 2323 journal inode was cleared to due it being corrupt after finishing the 2324 filesystem check. 2325 2326 Fix e2fsck so that it updates the journal inode if it is corrupted and 2327 the backup journal information from the superblock was successfully 2328 used to recover the filesystem. 2329 2330 Fix e2fsck so that it checks all of the blocks in the journal inode 2331 for validity. The original code only checked the direct blocks to 2332 make sure the journal inode was sane. Unfortunately, if some or all 2333 of the indirect or doubly indirect blocks were corrupted, this would 2334 not be caught. 2335 2336 Add support in blkid to detect LUKS encrypted partitions. 2337 2338 Add extra sanity checks for extended attributes in the case where the 2339 size is zero but the offset is very large. 2340 2341 Fix byte-swapping issues for large inodes in ext2fs_read_inode_full() 2342 and ext2fs_get_next_inode_full(). 2343 2344 Clarify the copyright licenses used by the various libraries in 2345 the top-level COPYING file (Red Hat Bugzilla: 166058) 2346 2347 Make mke2fs's defaults when /etc/mke2fs.conf doesn't exist more sane. 2348 2349 Fix mke2fs and debugfs to support large (> 16 bit) uid's and gid's. 2350 2351 Remove check in e2fsck which requires EA's in inodes to be sorted; 2352 they don't need to be sorted, and e2fsck was previously wrongly 2353 clearing unsorted EA's stored in the inode structure. 2354 2355 Allow mke2fs or tune2fs to create a substantially larger journal (up 2356 to 10,240,000 blocks). 2357 2358 Fix MD superblock detection, and make sure the correct UUID is 2359 reported from the MD superblock. 2360 2361 Fix a signed vs. unsigned bug in debugfs. 2362 2363 Enhance debugfs's date parser so that it accepts integer values. 2364 2365 Fix e2fsck's pass1c accounting so it doesn't terminate too early if a 2366 file with multiply claimed blocks is hard linked. or not at all if the 2367 root directory contains shared blocks 2368 2369 Enhance debugfs so it can modify the block group descriptors using the 2370 command set_block_group_descriptor. 2371 2372 Improve e2fsck's reporting of I/O errors so it's clearer what it was 2373 trying to do when an error happens 2374 2375 Fix a bug in in how e2fsprogs byte swaps inodes containing fast 2376 symlinks that have extended attributes. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: 2377 #232663 and LTC Bugzilla: #27634) 2378 2379 Fix potential file descriptor leak in ext2fs_get_device_size() in an 2380 error case. 2381 2382 Add libreadline.so.5 support to libss. 2383 2384 Impove badblocks -n/-w exclusive usage message. 2385 2386 Fix dump_unused segfault in debugfs when a filesystem is not open 2387 2388 Fix memory leak in blkid library. (Addresses Debian Bug: #413661) 2389 2390 Allow the debugfs lcd command to work w/o a filesystem being open. 2391 (Addresses LTC Bugzilla #27513) 2392 2393 Fix e2fsck to clear i_size for special devices with a bogus i_blocks 2394 field on the first pass. 2395 2396 Fix e2fsck to set the file type of the '..' entry when connecting 2397 a directory to lost+found. (Addresses Lustre Bug: #11645) 2398 2399 Enhance e2fsck to recover directories whose modes field were corrupted 2400 to look like special files. This is probably only useful in 2401 artificial test cases, but it will be useful if we ever do the "inodes 2402 in directory" idea for ext4. 2403 2404 Allow debugfs to dump (and rdump) > 2GB files. (Addresses Debian Bug: 2405 #412614) 2406 2407 Fix resize2fs parsing of size parameter (in sector units). This was 2408 actually a bug in libe2p's parse_num_blocks() function. When handling 2409 the 's' suffix, it was ignoring the blocksize information passed in 2410 from the caller and always interpreting the number in terms of a 1k 2411 blocksize. (Addresses Debian Bug: #408298) 2412 2413 There was a floating point precision error which could cause e2fsck to 2414 loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count. 2415 (Addresses Debian Bug: #411838) 2416 2417 Fix memory leak in ext2fs_write_new_inode() 2418 2419 Add support for using a scratch files directory to reduce e2fsck's 2420 emory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB 2421 library. See the [scratch_files] section of the e2fsck.conf man page 2422 for more details. 2423 2424 Fixed type-punning bug which caused dumpe2fs to crash on the Arm 2425 platform (Addresses Debian Bug: #397044) 2426 2427 Add explanatory message to badblocks that -n and -w are mutually exclusive 2428 (Addresses Debian Bug: #371869) 2429 2430 Allow debugfs and dumpe2fs to support fs features under development. 2431 2432 Add support for the new flag EXT2_FLAG_SOFTSUPP_FEATURES flag to 2433 ext2fs_open() , which allows application to open filesystes with features 2434 which are currently only partially supported by e2fsprogs. 2435 2436 Allow unix_io to support offsets greater than 2G (Addresses 2437 SourceForge Bug: #1547922) 2438 2439 Fixed overflow and signed/unsigned problems caused by the number of 2440 blocks or inodes exceeding 2**31 or being close to 2**32-1. 2441 2442 Add support for unsigned directory hash calculations with hints in the 2443 superblock to fix cross-architectural portability for htree 2444 directories with filenames where the high 8th bit is set. (Addresses 2445 Debian: #389772) 2446 2447 Fix resize2fs so that it gives user-intelligible error messages if the 2448 filesystem or the kernel does not support on-line resizing. 2449 (Addresses Debian Bug: #380548) 2450 2451 Require mke2fs -F -F for really dangerous operations, since -F is 2452 needed for less dangerous operations such as creating filesystems 2453 images in regular files, or creating filesystems on whole block 2454 devices. These relatively innocuous usages should NOT be confused 2455 with running mke2fs on an apparently-mounted or in-use filesystem. 2456 2457 Allow the default inode size to be specified into the mke2fs.conf 2458 file. 2459 2460 Make the smallest default journal size is big enough so that on-line 2461 resizing should always work. 2462 2463 Fix silly spelling error in e2fsck. (Addresses SourceForge bug: 2464 #1531372) 2465 2466 Fix debugfs coredump when lsdel is run without an open filesystem 2467 (Addresses Debian Bug: #378335) 2468 2469 Fix debugfs display bug us that bytes that have the high bit set are 2470 displayed as "ec" instead of "ffffffec". 2471 2472 Add support in lsattr so it will display the EXT4_EXTENTS_FL flag. 2473 2474 Device mapper scanning wasn't working in the blkid library because the 2475 pathnames had an extra "/dev" when they were being probed. 2476 2477 Add GFS/GFS2 support to the blkid library. 2478 2479 Fix blkid support of empty FAT filesystem labels. 2480 2481 Avoid recursing forever (or for a long time) when the blkid library 2482 searches for a device and there are symlinks to directories in /dev. 2483 2484 Avoid unaligned halfword access in blkid when accessing FAT 2485 superblocks, as this will cause Sparc/Solaris systems to throw a 2486 SIGBUS error. 2487 2488 The latest devmapper libraries requires pthreads, add -lpthreads to 2489 the static link libraries for e2fsck.static if devmapper is enabled. 2490 (Addresses Debian bug: #388718) 2491 2492 Improve the (non-installed, for experts only) findsuper program by 2493 printing the uuid and label from the superblocks, as well as the 2494 starting and ending offsets of the filesystem given the information in 2495 the superblock. Omit by default printing superblocks that are likely 2496 found in located in an ext3 journal unless an explicit -j option is 2497 given. 2498 2499 Updated Spanish, French and Dutch translations and added Catalan 2500 translation. (Addresses Debian bug: #411562) 2501 2502 Use FreeBSD's DIOCGMEDIASIZE and DIOCGDINFO ioctls if available when 2503 determining a partition's size, since binary searching to determine 2504 the device doesn't work on FreeBSD. 2505 2506 Documentation about UUID's is available in enough places, and it's 2507 awkward to deal with debian-legal's insanities. So I'm caving in the 2508 "more-lunatic-than-RMS" wing of Debian by removing RFC-4122 so we 2509 don't have do the dfsg tarball. Also remove the rule that only tried 2510 to install RFC-4122 on Ubuntu, since Ubuntu seems to want to fetch 2511 e2fsprogs exclusively from Debian. (Addresses Debian Bug: #407107) 2512 2513 Fix the info-dir line so that the menu name does not contain a .info 2514 prefix. First of all, it's ugly, secondly, it causes the install-info 2515 command to fail to remove the com_err info file from the 2516 /usr/share/info/dir file when the comerr-dev package is removed and 2517 purged. (Addresses Debian Bug: #401711) 2518 2519 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 2520 (Addresses Debian Bug: #369761, #373004, #379695) 2521 2522 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 2523 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs #389554, #390664, #413208, #419605, 2524 #408352, #415560, #399155) 2525 2526 2527 Programmer's notes: 2528 ------------------- 2529 2530 E2fsck now supports the %It expansion when printing a problem report. 2531 It will print the type of the inode in the problem context. 2532 2533 Fix misc/Makefile.in so that it builds even if e2fsck hasn't been built yet 2534 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1565561) 2535 2536 Remove unused variables and other lint/gcc -Wall cleanups 2537 2538 Add check to ext2fs_get_device_size() so it will return EFBIG for for 2539 filesystems contained in regular files where the filesystem image size 2540 is returned by stat64(). 2541 2542 Set local environment variables to C so mk_cmds and compile_et always 2543 work. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #1532177) 2544 2545 Added the 64-bit byte swapping function ext2fs_swab64(). 2546 2547 Added two new helper functions to prevent 2**31/2**32-1 overflow 2548 problems: ext2fs_div_ceil() and e2p_percent(). 2549 2550 Create new ext2fs library inline functions ext2fs_group_first_block() 2551 and ext2fs_group_last_block() in order to calculate the starting and 2552 ending blocks in a block group. 2553 2554 Create the generated files read-only to remind developers not to edit them. 2555 2556 Add support for autoconf 2.60 (with backwards compatibility for older 2557 versions of autoconf). 2558 2559 Added an "make rpm" target to top-level Makefile 2560 2561 Added various FreeBSD portability fixes. 2562 2563 Exclude mercurial files from the RPM build tree to speed up copy/build. 2564 2565 Use root_sysconfdir to define the locations of mke2fs.conf and 2566 e2fsck.conf instead of using a hard-coded /etc pathname. 2567 2568 Prevent e2fsck.h and ext2_ext_attr.h from getting included multiple times. 2569 2570 Fixed "make clean" in blkid's Makefile.in file from removing tst_*.c files. 2571 2572 If diff -u is supported, use it to report test failures. 2573 2574 Updates/improvements to RPM spec file 2575 2576 Add on-disk format definitions for the following new features: 2577 EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM, 2578 EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT, 2579 EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_EXTRA_ISIZE 2580 2581 Add a new make target "checked-failed" in the tests directory which 2582 reruns any failed tests 2583 2584 Update draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt with rfc4122.txt 2585 2586 Fix miscellaneous bugs reported by Coverity: Dead code, potential nul 2587 pointer dereferences, memory leaks, etc. None were security-criticial 2588 problems. 2589 2590 Fix up usage and decrement error messages in the test_icount program 2591 2592 Add debugging code to the com_err library; if the environment variable 2593 COMERR_DEBUG is set to 1, print out debugging messages as error tables 2594 are added and removed from the com_err library. If the 2595 COMERR_DEBUG_FILE environment variable is set (and the process is not 2596 setuid) the debugging messages may be redirected to a file. 2597 2598 Change all of the e2fsprogs programs to use the newer add_error_table() 2599 and remove_error_table() interfaces instead of the much older 2600 initialize_*_error_table() function. 2601 2602 Add TDB support into the ext2fs library. This allows us to have a 2603 guaranteed library we can count on always being present so we can 2604 store data in an on-disk database. 2605 2606 Add support for using TDB to store the icount data, so we don't run out 2607 of memory when checking really large filesystems. 2608 2609 Change the regression test suite so that it skips empty test directories. 2610 2611 Define the l_i_iversion field in ext2_inode. The l_i_version field is 2612 now defined from the old l_i_reserved1 field in the ext2 inode. This 2613 field will be used to store high 32 bits of the 64-bit inode version 2614 number. 2615 2616 Add Makefile production rule for e2fsprogs.spec in case it gets 2617 deleted. 2618 2619 Add new function profile_get_uint() to allow for a clean way to fetch 2620 unsigned integers from the context. 2621 2622 Add test to make sure the ext2 superblock structure is 1024 bytes. 2623 2624 Fix typo in name of f_dup4 regression test 2625 2626 Add new function blkid_gc_cache() which performs a garbage collection 2627 pass on the /etc/blkid.tab file. 2628 2629 The ext2fs_open() function now sets EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY. In 2630 general, only e2fsck (after the filesystem is clean), tune2fs, and 2631 resize2fs should change the backup superblocks by default. Most 2632 callers of ext2fs_open() should not be touching any superblock fields 2633 which require the backups to be touched. 2634 2635 Add new function to libext2fs, ext2fs_default_journal_size(), which 2636 returns the default journal size. 2637 2638 2639 E2fsprogs 1.39 (May 29, 2006) 2640 ============================= 2641 2642 Fix 32-bit cleanliness in e2fsprogs so that we can support filesystems 2643 between 2**31 and 2**32 blocks. 2644 2645 Change mke2fs to use /etc/mke2fs.conf as a configuration file to 2646 configure the filesystem features, blocksize, and inode_ratio for 2647 different filesystem types. 2648 2649 Mke2fs will now create filesystems hash trees and on-line resizing 2650 enabled by default, based on the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file. 2651 2652 The e2fsprogs tools (resize2fs, e2fsck, mke2fs) will open the 2653 filesystem device node in exclusive mode to prevent accidents by 2654 system administrators. In the case of resize2fs and mke2fs, it will 2655 only use exclusive mode if the filesystem is not mounted. 2656 2657 Fixed a bug in mke2fs which caused it to to fail when creating the 2658 resize inode for large filesystems. (Addresses Debian Bug #346580) 2659 2660 When allocating space for the RAID filesystems with the stride 2661 parameter, mke2fs will now place each portion of the group's inode 2662 table right up after the superblock (if present) in order to minimize 2663 fragmentation of the freespace. 2664 2665 Speed up mke2fs and e2fsck by writing inode and block bitmaps more 2666 efficiently by writing the inode and block bitmaps in one pass, thus 2667 reducing the number of disk seeks required. 2668 2669 Add support for on-line resizing to resize2fs. 2670 2671 Fix blkid library so that logic to determine whether or not a device's 2672 cached information in /etc/blkid.tab needs to be verified or not 2673 doesn't get confused by a system clock which is insane (for example, 2674 if the battery is dead on a Macintosh running PPC Linux. (Addresses 2675 Red Hat Bug: #182188) 2676 2677 The blkid library will now store the UUID of the external journal used 2678 by ext3 filesystems, so that in the future, the userspace mount binary 2679 can use this to find the location of the external journal and pass 2680 this information to the kernel. 2681 2682 E2fsck will now consult a configuration file, /etc/e2fsck.conf to 2683 control how various options should be handled. See the e2fsck.conf 2684 man page for more details. (Addresses Debian Bug: #150295) 2685 2686 E2fsck now prints an explanatory message when delaying a filesystem 2687 check when the system is running on battery. (Addresses Debian Bug: 2688 #350306) 2689 2690 E2fsck will detect if the superblock's last mount field or last write 2691 field is in the future, and offer to fix if so. (Addresses Debian Bug 2692 #327580) These problems will be fixed automatically in preen mode 2693 since Debian's boot sequence bogusly doesn't set the time correctly 2694 until potentially very late in the bootup process, and this can cause 2695 false positives which will cause users' systems to fail to boot. 2696 (Addresses Debian Bugs #343662 and #343645) 2697 2698 E2fsck now checks to see if the superblock hint for the location of 2699 the external journal is incorrect, and if so, offer to update it. 2700 (Addresses Debian Bug: #355644) 2701 2702 Fix e2fsck from segfaulting on disconnected inodes that contain one or 2703 more extended attributes. (Addresses Debian Bug: #316736, #318463) 2704 2705 E2fsck will stop and print a warning if the user tries running a 2706 read/write badblocks test on a read-only mounted root filesystem. 2707 2708 Fix a memory leak in e2fsck's error paths. (Thanks to Michael 2709 C. Thompson for pointing these out; they were originally found using 2710 Coverity.) 2711 2712 When resizing a file containing a filesystem, resize2fs will expand or 2713 truncate a file as necessary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #271607) 2714 2715 Resize2fs will now automatically determine the RAID stride parameter that 2716 had been used to create the filesystem, and use that for newly created 2717 block groups. The RAID stride parameter may also be manually specified 2718 on the command line using the new -S option to resize2fs. 2719 2720 Fix mke2fs so that it correctly creates external journals on 2721 big-endian machines (such as a S/390). 2722 2723 Fix a bug in the e2p library which could cause dumpe2fs to (rarely) 2724 fail to print out the journal or hash seed UUID. (Thanks to Guillaume 2725 Chambraud for pointing this out.) 2726 2727 Dumpe2fs will now print the size of the journal (if present). 2728 2729 Fix debugfs's set_inode_field command so it can properly set the frag, 2730 fsize, uid_high, gid_high, and author fields in the inode instead of 2731 silently failing, and so that setting the i_size actually sets i_size 2732 correctly. 2733 2734 Add a new debugfs command, set_current_time, which sets fs->now so 2735 that regression test suites can repeatedly modify the filesystem's 2736 last_write fields. 2737 2738 Fix a bug in debugfs's icheck which would incorrectly report the owner 2739 of an extended attribute block. 2740 2741 Fix the debugfs commands htree_dump, dx_hash, and list_dir so they print a 2742 print a usage message when an illegal option character is given. 2743 2744 Fix debugfs's dump_unsued command on filesystems with a 64k blocksize 2745 so it won't core dump. (Addresses SourceForge bug #1424311) 2746 2747 Fix mklost+found so that it creates a full-sized directory on 2748 filesystems with larger block sizes. 2749 2750 Fix a file descriptor leak in blkid library. 2751 2752 Fix a display bug in "badblocks -sv" so that the done message properly 2753 clears the block number at the end of the test. (Addresses Debian Bug 2754 #322231) 2755 2756 Allow fractional percentages to the -m option in mke2fs and tune2fs 2757 (Addresses Debian Bug: #80205) 2758 2759 Use fstat/fstat64 in getsize.c if the the target is a regular file, 2760 instead of attempting to do a binary search. Fix some fd leaks in 2761 error cases. 2762 2763 Add support for device mapper library to the blkid library to ensure 2764 that the "best" (i.e., leaf) device is probed by the blkid library. 2765 2766 Fix the blkid library so that it notices when an ext2 filesystem is 2767 upgraded to ext3. 2768 2769 Improve the blkid's library VFAT/FAT detection; it now understands 2770 labels stored in the root directory, and is more paranoid about 2771 checking the FAT superblock values. 2772 2773 Fixed a fd leak in the uuid library which was causing problems for the 2774 LVM tools. (Addresses Debian Bug: #345832) 2775 2776 Add support for the reiser4 and software suspend partitions to the 2777 blkid library. Also add support for extract the label from iso9660 2778 filesystems. 2779 2780 Fix a compile_et bug which miscount the number of error messages if 2781 continuations are used in the .et file. 2782 2783 Add extra sanity checks to protect users from unusual cirucmstances 2784 where /etc/mtab may not be sane, by checking to see if the device is 2785 reported busy (works on Linux 2.6) kernels. (Addresses Debian Bug 2786 #319002) 2787 2788 Updated French, Dutch, Polish, and Swedish translations. (Addresses Debian 2789 Bug: #343149, #341911, #300871, #316604, #316782, #330789) 2790 2791 Fix use-after-free bug in e2fsck when finishing up the use of the 2792 e2fsck context structure. 2793 2794 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages and 2795 documentation. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #329859, #322188, #316811, 2796 #312515, #351268, #357951, #347295, #316040, #368392, #368393, #368394, 2797 #368179) 2798 2799 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 2800 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs #317862, #320389, #290429, #310950, 2801 #310428, #330737, #330736, #329074, #356293, #360046, #366017, #364516, 2802 #362544, #362970) 2803 2804 2805 Programmer's notes: 2806 ------------------- 2807 2808 Update config.guess and config.sub to latest version (2006-02-23) from 2809 FSF. 2810 2811 Fix asm_types.h type conflicts on AMD 64 platforms. (Addresses Debian 2812 Bugs: #360661, #360317) 2813 2814 Fixed the Makefile so that they work correctly on newer versions of 2815 GNU make (i.e., 3.81). 2816 2817 Add valgrind support to the regression test suites, and eliminate 2818 false positives from valgrind. 2819 2820 Add a regression test suite for the blkid library. 2821 2822 Fix a fencepost error in resize2fs caught by valgrind. 2823 2824 Fix compiler warnings about missing memcpy prototypes. 2825 2826 We no longer have the sparc assembly code in the header file any more, 2827 so we shouldn't set _EXT2_HAVE_HAS_BITOPS_ for the sparc. This would 2828 break compiles on the sparc architectures when using gcc. 2829 2830 In the libext2fs library, add the new field fs->now which if non-zero 2831 is used instead of the system time when setting various filesystem 2832 fields (last modified time, last write time, etc.) 2833 2834 Fix gcc 4.01 complaints by adding a missing #include <string.h> to 2835 ext2fs.h which is needed since the inline functions use memcpy(). 2836 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1251062) 2837 2838 Use BUILD_CFLAGS and BUILD_LDFLAGS instead of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in 2839 the build system when building files in the util directory which are 2840 needed during the build process. This avoids potential problems when 2841 cross-compiling and some of the options specified in CFLAGS or LDFLAGS 2842 are not recognized as valid by the host compiler. (Addresses 2843 Sourceforge Bug #1261547) 2844 2845 Clean up the blkid library by making the superblock and generic i/o 2846 functions to be more generic. Clean up interface to the probe 2847 function, and fix memory leak. Finallly, remove an unneeded reference 2848 to probe.h in the lib/blkid/resolve.c 2849 2850 Add an ext2fs_read_bb_FILE regression test to confirm proper detection 2851 of invalid block #'s. 2852 2853 The x86 asm constraints for ext2fs_{set/clear}_bit have been fixed to 2854 indicate that the the function read/writes the memory location. 2855 2856 Fix various gcc -Wall complaints. 2857 2858 Add a dependency to make sure that the subdirectories are created 2859 before creating all of the object files, in order to address parallel 2860 build problem in the library Makefiles. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 2861 #1261553) 2862 2863 Add $(LDFLAGS) to the command line argument when generating an ELF or 2864 Solaris shared library, to allow cross-compile and other builds that 2865 might need to specify -L paths to needed libraries. (Addresses 2866 Sourceforge Bug #1261549) 2867 2868 Add a new feature, EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_LAZY_BG, which is initially 2869 intended for testing purposes. It allows an ext2/ext3 developer to 2870 create very large filesystems using sparse files where most of the 2871 block groups are not initialized and so do not require much disk 2872 space. Eventually it could be used as a way of speeding up mke2fs and 2873 e2fsck for large filesystem, but that would be best done by adding an 2874 RO_COMPAT extension to the filesystem to allow the inode table to be 2875 lazily initialized on a per-block basis, instead of being entirely 2876 initialized or entirely unused on a per-blockgroup basis. 2877 2878 Fix backwards compatibility so e2fsprogs will better compile on Linux 2879 2.0.35 systems. 2880 2881 Make test scripts more robust against locale-related environment variables 2882 2883 Fix type warning problem with sizeof() in ext2fs_open2(). 2884 2885 Fix type warning problem with time_t in debugfs. 2886 2887 2888 E2fsprogs 1.38 (June 30, 2005) 2889 ============================== 2890 2891 Fix blkid's test programs (built with "make check") compile correctly 2892 even without "configure --enable-blkid-debug". 2893 2894 Fix ia64 core dump bug caused by e2fsprogs running afoul of C99 strict 2895 type aliasing rules on newer gcc compilers. (Addresses Red Hat 2896 Bugzilla ##161183.) 2897 2898 Fix com_err library to make it more compatible with recent changes 2899 made to the com_err library in MIT Kerberos V5 version 1.4. 2900 (Addresses Sourcefroge Bug #1150146) 2901 2902 General cleanup of messages printed by e2fsprogs programs for grammar, 2903 consistency, and to make life easier for translators. Fixed a few 2904 strings containing English that had not been marked as needing 2905 translations. Removed strings that do not need to be translated, to 2906 make life easier for translators. 2907 2908 Mke2fs and badblocks will take advantage of a feature in Linux 2.6 to 2909 test to see if a device appears to be in use instead of just relying 2910 on /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab. (Addresses Debian Bug #308594). 2911 2912 Fix portability problem in the filefrag program affecting platforms 2913 where the size of an integer is smaller than the size of a long. 2914 (Addresses Debian Bug #309655) 2915 2916 Mke2fs will now use a larger journal by default for filesystems 2917 greater than 4GB. (128 MB instead of 32MB). 2918 2919 Mke2fs will refuse to create filesystems greater than 2**31-1 blocks, 2920 unless forced. This is to avoid signed vs. unsigned kernel bugs in 2921 block numbers that still need to be fixed. 2922 2923 The blkid program has a new option which will more efficiently search 2924 for device when it is known (or expected) that only one matching 2925 device will be found in the system, such as when doing a lookup by 2926 UUID. 2927 2928 Debian's e2fsprogs-specific initrd fragment will avoid including 2929 unnecessary libraries into the initrd ramdisk by unsetting LD_PRELOAD 2930 and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and filtering out libraries found in 2931 /etc/ld.so.preload. (Addresses Debian Bug: #304003) 2932 2933 Fixed a potential portability issue in the blkid programs for 2934 architectures where the char type is unsigned. (Addresses Sourceforge 2935 Bug: #1180585) 2936 2937 Fix a bug in filefrag so that it doesn't falsely count an extra 2938 discontinuity when the first block found is an indirect block. 2939 (Addresses Debian Bug #307607). 2940 2941 Fix blkid's recognition of cramfs filesystems, and enhance it to be 2942 able to handle cramfs labels. 2943 2944 Fix debugfs's stat command to not core dump when a filesystem is not 2945 open. 2946 2947 Fix e2fsck's handling of error conditions caused by the resize inode 2948 claiming blocks that are also used by other inodes, a filesystem 2949 corruption which was commonly caused by a bug in Fedora Core 3's 2950 resize2fs program. 2951 2952 Fixed bug in filefrag which caused it to fail on non-ext2/3 2953 filesystems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #303509) 2954 2955 If the superblock last mount time indicates that the system clock may 2956 not be accurate, then e2fsck will omit checking inodes' deletion time 2957 field for indications of a potential corrupted orphaned inode list. 2958 (Previously e2fsck only ommited these LOW_DTIME checks when the 2959 superblock's last write time looked insane.) 2960 2961 Fixed a IA64 core dump bug in the e2p library which affected dumpe2fs. 2962 (Addresses Debian bug #302200) 2963 2964 Make the blkid library more paranoid about being run from setgid 2965 programs, and to use __secure_getenv() from libc if it is available. 2966 2967 Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages. 2968 (Addresses Debian Bugs: #304591, #304592, #304594, #304597, #304593 2969 and Sourceforge Bug: #1189803) 2970 2971 Updated and fixed translations. 2972 2973 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 2974 details. 2975 2976 Programmer's notes: 2977 ------------------- 2978 2979 Ext2fs_set_bit(), ext2fs_clear_bit(), and ext2fs_test_bit( have been 2980 changed to take an unsigned int for the bit number. Negative bit 2981 numbers were never allowed (and didn't make any sense), so this should 2982 be a safe change. This is needed to allow safe use of block numbers 2983 greater than or equal to 2**31. 2984 2985 The compile_et program will avoid recreating generated foo_err.c and 2986 foo_err.h files if no changes are necessary. The compile_et program 2987 will also atomically replace these files to avoid a potential parallel 2988 build race problem on SMP systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: 2989 #1157933) 2990 2991 Added a new function to the blkid library, blkid_probe_all_new(), 2992 which only probes newly added disk devices, and change 2993 blkid_find_dev_with_tag() to use this function so that when a 2994 requested tag is not found, devices that were previously not checked 2995 are searched before searching all devices in the system. 2996 2997 Added new functions to the blkid library, blkid_dev_set_search() and 2998 blkid_dev_has_tag(). 2999 3000 E2fsck's problem strings can now use @m and @n as abbrevations for 3001 "multiply-claimed" and "invalid", respectively. 3002 3003 The e2fsprog.pot file now has an explanation of how the @-expansion 3004 and %-expansion works, and strings in e2fsck/problem.c which contain @ 3005 characters now have comments in e2fsprogs.pot with the @-expansion to 3006 make life easier for translators. 3007 3008 Fixed missing return values in the ext2fs library which could cause it 3009 to return random garbage in certain error conditions. 3010 3011 Allow the current time to be overriden via the E2FSCK_TIME environment 3012 variable for use in regression tests. 3013 3014 The test scrpit driver program now exits with a non-zero status if 3015 there any of its test that it ran failed. 3016 3017 Fixed problems with parabuilds on SMP systems. (Addresses Sourceforge 3018 Bug: #1157933) 3019 3020 Fixed "make check" so that it compiles correctly even when e2fsprogs' 3021 header files have not be installed in the system include directories. 3022 (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1180572) 3023 3024 Fixed gcc -Wall nits. 3025 3026 3027 E2fsprogs 1.37 (March 21, 2005) 3028 =============================== 3029 3030 Add support for checking the validity of Extended Attributes stored in 3031 inodes to e2fsck. 3032 3033 Add support for dumping the contents of large inodes to debugfs, 3034 including the extended attributes stored in inodes. 3035 3036 Fix mke2fs, e2fsck, debugfs, and the ext2fs_mkdir function so that 3037 when we create a new inode we make sure that the extra information in 3038 the inode (any extra fields in a large inode and any ea-in-inode 3039 information) is initialized correctly. This can take place when 3040 mke2fs creates the root and lost+found directory, when e2fsck creates 3041 a new root inode or a new lost+found directory, and when the user uses 3042 the debugfs write, mknod, or mkdir commands. Otherwise, the newly 3043 create inode could inherit garbage (or old EA information) from a 3044 previously deleted inode. 3045 3046 Fixed a bug in e2fsck so it would notice if a file with an extended 3047 attribute block was exactly 2**32 blocks, such that i_blocks wrapped 3048 to zero. 3049 3050 Added support to filefrag to detect files which are using the new 3051 experimental file extents format, and use the non-ext2 algorithm in 3052 that case. Fixed a bug to avoid reporting a false discontinuity if 3053 there is one or more unallocated blocks at the beginning of a file. 3054 3055 Duplicated a check for noticing whether or not the number of blocks 3056 (given a certain blocksize) is greater than 2**32 when the 3057 BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl is not available to ext2fs_get_device_size(). This 3058 allows mke2fs to automatically use a larger blocksize when creating a 3059 filesystem on a very large device when run on systems that do not 3060 support BLKGETSIZE64. 3061 3062 Fix the I18N build which was broken in e2fsprogs 1.36 because the 3063 build system had been switched to treat the .gmo files as shipped 3064 files (for backwards compatibility with systems that have older GNU 3065 I18N tools installed), but the gen_tarball.in script was still 3066 removing the .gmo files from the official source distribution. 3067 3068 Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for 3069 details. (Addresses Debian Bugs ##296769, #299341) 3070 3071 Programmer's notes: 3072 ------------------- 3073 3074 Added new functions to the e2p library which convert between a string 3075 and os_type: e2p_os2string() and e2p_string2os(), and used them to 3076 make the generated binaries more compact. 3077 3078 Fixed a compile-time error on Darwin systems. 3079 3080 Cleaned up the lib/ext2fs Makefile slightly. 3081 3082 3083 E2fsprogs 1.36 (February 4, 2005) 3084 ================================= 3085 3086 All of the patches that were applied to Fedore Core 3's 3087 e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2 have been integrated, although sometimes with a 3088 lot of bug fixes first. Users of Fedora Core 3 are strongly 3089 encouraged to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.36 as soon as possible. 3090 3091 Add support for filesystem with the online resizing via resize inode 3092 feature. Fixed numerous bugs from the Fedora patches. The Fedora 3093 patches also didn't bother to do any consistency checking on the 3094 resize inode, or add any tests to the regression test suite. The "-R 3095 resize=4g" option to mke2fs was a no-op in the Fedora patches, despite 3096 being listed in mke2fs's usage message. All of these shortcomings 3097 have been corrected. 3098 3099 E2fsck can also also fix filesystems trashed by Fedora's resize2fs 3100 program. In order to do this, the user must run the commands: 3101 3102 debugfs -w /dev/hdXXX -R "features ^resize_inode" 3103 e2fsck -f /dev/hdXXX 3104 3105 Optionally, the ext2prepare command can be used to re-enable online 3106 resizing after the filesystem has been fixed. 3107 3108 The fsck program will now accept an optional filedescriptor argument 3109 to the -C option. (The Fedora version of this patch would sometimes 3110 cause fsck to ignore a parameter on fsck's command line in some rare 3111 cases, sigh.) 3112 3113 Make sure e2fsprogs doesn't write garbage into the reserved portion of 3114 large inodes. 3115 3116 Make sure resize2fs releases the blocks belonging to the old inode 3117 table blocks when moving the inode table. (Addresses Debian Bug: 3118 #290894) 3119 3120 Skip the r_resize_inode test if resize2fs is not compiled (due to 3121 configure --disable-resizer) 3122 3123 E2fsck now checks the summary filesystem accounting information, and 3124 if any of the information is obviously wrong, it will force a full 3125 filesystem check. (Addresses Debian Bug #291571) 3126 3127 Fix e2fsck to not complain when the resize_inode feature is enabled, 3128 s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero, and there is no DIND block allocated in 3129 the resize inode. 3130 3131 Fix e2fsck to note delete symlinks that contain an extended attribute 3132 after the ext_attr feature flag has been cleared. (Addresses Red Hat 3133 Bugzilla #146284). 3134 3135 Add new utility program, copy_sparse.c, which is very useful 3136 for dealing with large sparse files (such as e2image files). 3137 3138 Add support for jnl_blocks[] for debugfs's set_super_value. 3139 3140 Fix filefrag so that it works correctly with sparse files. 3141 3142 Filefrag -v will print first and last blocks. 3143 3144 Add interpretation of OS Creator values for FreeBSD and Lites in mke2fs 3145 and dumpe2fs. 3146 3147 Add mke2fs support so that it can support filesystems larger than 4TB 3148 automatically, by retrying with a 4k blocksize if the device size is 3149 too big to be expressed using a 1k blocksize. (Addresses Sourceforge 3150 bug #1106631) 3151 3152 Change blkid to test for NTFS first because Windows sometimes doesn't 3153 clear enough of the parition to confuse the probing routines into 3154 thinking the old filesystem type is still valid. (Addresses Debian 3155 Bug #291990) 3156 3157 Add support for swap partition label and uuid's in the blkid library. 3158 3159 Add support to the blkid library to recognize Oracle ASM volumes. 3160 3161 Make blkid -t display all devices that match the specified criteria, 3162 not just the first one, and work more consistently when the blkid 3163 cache file is not available or set to /dev/null. (Addresses Debian 3164 Bug #290530 and #292425) 3165 3166 Badblocks will now correctly display block numbers greater than 3167 999,999,999 in its progress display. 3168 3169 The tune2fs program will not allow the user from setting a ridiculous 3170 number of reserved blocks which would cause e2fsck to assume the 3171 superblock was corrupt. E2fsck's standards for what is a ridiculous 3172 number of reserved block has also been relaxed to 50% of the blocks in 3173 the filesystem. 3174 3175 The blkid library will return vfat in preference to msdos, and ext3 in 3176 preference to ext2 (if the journalling flag is set) so that mount will 3177 do the right thing. (Addresses Debian bug #287455) 3178 3179 Mke2fs will now use the -E option for extended options; the old -R 3180 (raid options) option is still accepted for backwards compatibility. 3181 Fix a double-free problem in resize2fs. (Red Hat Bugzilla #132707) 3182 3183 Mke2fs will now accept a size in megabytes, gigabytes, and other units 3184 (via "32m" or "4g" on the command line) if the user finds this more 3185 convenient than specifying a block count. 3186 3187 Fix an obscure, hard-to find bug in "e2fsck -S" caused by an inode 3188 cache conherency problem. 3189 3190 Debugfs now supports a new command, set_inode_field, which allows a 3191 user to manually set a specific inode field more conveniently, as well 3192 as set entries in the indirect block map. 3193 3194 Debugfs's set_super_value command has been enhanced so that the user 3195 can set most superblock fields, including the date/time fields and 3196 some of the more newsly added superblock fields. 3197 3198 E2fsprogs programs now accept an offset to be passed to the file 3199 specifiers, via the syntax: "/tmp/test.img?offset=1024". 3200 3201 E2fsprogs programs will now accept blocksizes up to 65536; kernel 3202 support on the x86 doesn't exist for now, but it can be useful on 3203 other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k. There are 2.6 3204 kernel patches out there which enable this, but they are of this 3205 writing still experimental. 3206 3207 The e2image command now takes the -s option which will scramble 3208 directory entries for raw image files. 3209 3210 Fix a file descriptor leak in the filefrag program. 3211 3212 Make sure e2fsck doesn't crash when /proc/acpi/ac_adapter is not 3213 present. 3214 3215 Fix bug in debugfs where kill_file would lead to errors when deleting 3216 devices and symlinks. (Sourceforge Bugs #954741 and #957244) 3217 3218 Fix bug in the blkid library when detecting the ocfs1 filesystem 3219 3220 Remove obsolete EVMS 1.x and a.out DLL support. 3221 3222 E2fsck will attempt to recover from a journal containing illegal blocks. 3223 3224 Fixed two potential ordering constraint problems in e2fsck which might 3225 cause the filesystem to be corrupted if e2fsck is interrupted during a 3226 (extremely narrow) race window. Thanks to Junfeng Yang from the 3227 Stanford Metacompilation group for pointing this out. 3228 3229 Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would not accurately detect whether or 3230 not the system is running on adaptor if the ACPI device representing 3231 the AC adapter didn't correspond to the what was used on IBM 3232 Thinkpads. 3233 3234 Change e2fsck to accept directories greater than 32MB. 3235 3236 Fix e2fsck so that a checkinterval of zero disables a time-based check 3237 of the filesystem. 3238 3239 Debugfs will check the DEBUGFS_PAGER enviroment variable in preference 3240 to the PAGER environment variable. (Addresses Debian Bug #239547) 3241 3242 Tune2fs will not mark rewrite the superblock if the feature bitmasks 3243 are not modified. 3244 3245 The debugfs program will set the filetype information when creating a 3246 link. 3247 3248 Add debugfs -d option to use a separate source of data blocks when 3249 reading from an e2image file. 3250 3251 Add e2image -I option which allows the e2image metadata to be 3252 installed into a filesystem. 3253 3254 Fixed bug in the badblocks program which caused "done" to always 3255 appear in english even when a translation was available. (Addresses 3256 Debian Bug #252836) 3257 3258 The blkid program has a new option -o which controls the output format 3259 of the blkid program; this is makes blkid more convenient to use in 3260 shell scripts. 3261 3262 Fix a minor bug in uuid library, which was not using the full 14 bits 3263 of clock sequence when generating UUID's. 3264 3265 Fix a Y8.8888K problem in the uuid library. 3266 3267 Logsave now creates a new session id for itself to avoid getting 3268 killed by init whan transitioning between init levels. 3269 3270 Change the licensing of the UUID library to be the 3-clause BSD-style 3271 license; this allows Apple to use the uuid library in Darwin. 3272 3273 Add ocfs and ocfs2 probe support into the blkid library. 3274 3275 Fix a memory and file descriptor leak in the blkid library. 3276 3277 The blkid library will revalidate the device if the system time is 3278 earlier than last verification time of the device, since that 3279 indicates that the system time is probably nottrustworthy. 3280 3281 The blkid library will override the default location of the blkid.tab 3282 file by the BLKID_FILE environment variable, if it is available. 3283 3284 Change the getsize functions to use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl on Linux 2.6. 3285 3286 Add various portability fixes for lame new versions of glibc, Darwin 3287 and GNU/KFreeBSD, as well as removing XSI:ism's. (Addresses Debian 3288 Bugs #239934, #264630, #269044, #255589, #289133) 3289 3290 Add support for Windows 9x/NT under Cygwin. 3291 3292 Updated and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs #236383, 3293 #241940, #238741, #242995, #256669, #268148, #256760, #273679) 3294 3295 Updated and fixed translations. (Addresses Debian bugs #244105, #262836) 3296 3297 Update the rpm spec files so that it works better with Fedora core 2 3298 and RH9. 3299 3300 Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). In 3301 particular, fixed the Debian initrd scripts. (#241183, #248050, 3302 #253595, #247775) 3303 3304 3305 Programmer's notes: 3306 ------------------- 3307 3308 Fixed various gcc -Wall warnings. 3309 3310 The uuid library now has new functions uuid_unparse_upper() and 3311 uuid_unparse_lower() which forces the case of the hex digits to be 3312 upper case, or lower case. 3313 3314 The build process has been speeded up by enhancing the subst program 3315 to update the modtime on the generated files even when the generated 3316 file hasn't changed. 3317 3318 The uuid library now uses C99 stdint.h types instead of custom types. 3319 3320 Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. 3321 3322 Removed out of date .cvsignore files from the source distribution. 3323 3324 The ext2fs_unlink() function will return an error if both the name and 3325 inode number are unspecified, to avoid doing something surprising 3326 (such as unconditionally deleting the first directory entry). 3327 Directory entries are now deleted by coalescing them with the previous 3328 directory entry if possible, to avoid directory fragmentation. This 3329 is not an issue with the e2fsprogs suite, but may be a problem for 3330 some of the users of libext2fs, such as e2tools. 3331 3332 Add support for version numbers of the form "1.36-rc1". 3333 3334 Fix build of mke2fs.static. 3335 3336 Add basic ext2fs library support for large (EA in inode) inodes. 3337 3338 The test_io mechanism can now abort after n reads or writes to a 3339 particular block. The block is specified by TEST_IO_BLOCK environment 3340 variable, and the read/write count by the TEST_IO_READ_ABORT and 3341 TEST_IO_WRITE_ABORT environment variables. The block data is now only 3342 dumped if the 0x10 bit is set in TEST_IO_FLAGS. 3343 3344 UUID_DEFINE() in the uuid library now creates a static variable, with 3345 __attribute__ ((unused)) if we are using GCC, so that UUID_DEFINE can 3346 be used in header files. 3347 3348 Add support for the install-strip and install-shlibs-strip targets, as 3349 suggested by the GNU coding guielines. "make install" no longer 3350 strips the binaries which are installed. 3351 3352 Remove support for the --enable-old-bitops configure option which was 3353 only for very old sparc systems. 3354 3355 Remove support for --enable-clear-htree; this was only needed during 3356 the early development of the htree patch. 3357 3358 Use Linux-kernel-style makefile output so it is easier to see compiler 3359 warnings. 3360 3361 Update gettext files to version 0.14.1. 3362 3363 Update to use autoconf 2.5x. 3364 3365 Improved support for compiling e2fsprogs under dietlibc. 3366 3367 Make e2fsprogs portable to Solaris and FreeBSD systems. 3368 3369 Add blkid_verify(), blkid_get_library_version(), and 3370 blkid_parse_version_string() functions to the blkid library. 3371 3372 Add pkg-config files for e2fsprogs's libraries. 3373 3374 Fix "make uninstall" to so that it removes everything that is installed. 3375 3376 Add a configure --enable-maintainer-mode option which enables the 3377 makefile rules to rebuild the configure script from configure.in, and 3378 to reubuild the .gmo files in po directory. 3379 3380 Drop the sparc assembly bitwise operations; it's less efficient 3381 than the GCC 3.4 compile code and triggers compiler warnings on 3382 sparc64. Thanks to Matthias Andree for his analysis and suggestions. 3383 (Addresses Debian Bug #232326) 3384 3385 3386 E2fsprogs 1.35 (February 28, 2004) 3387 ================================== 3388 3389 E2fsck has a new -k option, which in conjunction with the -c options, 3390 preserves the existing badblocks list. 3391 3392 Cleaned up e2fsck's preen-mode messages during the passes 1b, 1c, and 1d. 3393 3394 E2fsprogs will now deal correctly with symlinks that contain 3395 extended attribute information, which can be created using SE Linux. 3396 (Addresses Debian Bug #232328) 3397 3398 Remove a double longjump into an invalid stack frame bug in e2fsck. 3399 (This was during an abort sequence, which normally worked on Linux and 3400 caused a core dump on other operating systems.) 3401 3402 Fix NLS bug in e2fsck, by avoiding trying to expand an empty string 3403 (the NLS library will replace "" with the .po header information). 3404 3405 Fix a bug in mke2fs which caused -T largefile or -T largefile4 to core 3406 dump due to a division by zero error. (Addresses Debian bug #207082) 3407 3408 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly fix a filesystem 3409 when reconnecting a directory requires creating a lost+found 3410 directory. (Addresses Debian bug #219640). 3411 3412 Fixed a bug where e2fsck would bomb out if a journal needed to be 3413 replayed when using an alternate superblock. 3414 3415 E2fsck will give an extra grace period before actually forcing a check 3416 if the laptop is running on battery. The next time fsck runs while 3417 the system is on the AC mains, or after the grace period is exceeded, 3418 the filesystem will be checked. (Addresses Debian bug #205177) 3419 3420 E2fsck will inform the user when there are 5 or fewer mounts before a 3421 filesystem check will be forced. (Addresses Debian bug #157194) 3422 3423 Fix e2fsck's handling of corrupted indirect blocks in the bad block. 3424 We now correctly handle the case where there is an overlap between a 3425 block group descriptor or a superblock and a bad block indirect block. 3426 In the case where the indirect block is corrupted, we now suggest 3427 "e2fsck -c". 3428 3429 Fix byte swap bugs in e2fsck that caused the journal backup location 3430 in the superblock and symlinks created by SE Linux to be cleared 3431 by e2fsck on big-endian machines. (Addresses Debian bug #228723) 3432 3433 E2fsck -c now replaces the current list of bad blocks with the ones 3434 found by badblocks. 3435 3436 Fix bugs in e2fsck and tune2fs which could cause a core dump if a 3437 non-existent LABEL or UUID specifier is to e2fsck or tune2fs. 3438 3439 Fix a potential bug in e2fsck which could cause it to core dump when 3440 trying to print the location of the backup superblock. 3441 3442 Protect against a potential core dump in e2fsck when printing a 3443 message about backup superblocks. 3444 3445 Add support for backing up the journal inode location in the 3446 superblock. E2fsck will automatically save the journal information in 3447 the superblock if it is not there already, and will use it if the 3448 journal inode appears to be corrupted. ext2fs_add_journal_inode() 3449 will also save the backup information, so that new filesystems created 3450 by mke2fs and filesystems that have journals added via tune2fs will 3451 also have journal location written to the superblock as well. 3452 Debugfs's logdump command has been enhanced so that it can use the 3453 journal information in the superblock. 3454 3455 E2fsck will now update all superblocks when moving the journal inode. 3456 3457 Shrink the size of the e2fsck executable by moving some initialized 3458 variables to the BSS segment. 3459 3460 E2fsck will avoid printing the ^A and ^B characters which bracket the 3461 progress bar when stdout and stdin are a tty device instead of a pipe 3462 to another program. (Addresses Debian bug #204137) 3463 3464 Debugfs's mkdir command will automatically expand the directory if 3465 necessary. (Addresses Debian Bug: #217892) 3466 3467 Fixed a bug in debugfs so that copying a file from /dev/null uses the 3468 correct mode bits. (Addresses Debian Bug: #217456) 3469 3470 If the environment variables DEBUFS_PAGER and PAGER are not set, 3471 debugfs now searches for the appropriate pager to use, beginning with 3472 /usr/bin/pager, and then falling back to 'more' and 'less'. 3473 (Addresses Debian bug #221977) 3474 3475 Debugfs will now support 2.6 device numbers where the major or minor 3476 number may be larger than 255. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #865289) 3477 3478 Fix debugging printf in resize2fs. (Addresses Debian Bug #271605) 3479 3480 Chattr now stops processing options when it sees '--'. (Addresses 3481 Debian bug #225188) 3482 3483 Fix regression tests so they work correctly when e2fsprogs is compiled 3484 with configure --disable-htree. 3485 3486 Fix bug in uuid library when there is no network card and the library 3487 is generating a time-based uuid. The random MAC address was not 3488 correctly generated to be a multicast address. 3489 3490 Add compile_et extensions from Heimdall that were missed the first time 3491 around. 3492 3493 Fix bug in badblocks when using O_DIRECT; we need to make sure that 3494 we're reading from an offset which is page aligned. For read-only and 3495 read-write tests, we try to recover after an error so that we can 3496 continue reading on page-aligned boundaries. (Addresses Debian Bug 3497 #203713) 3498 3499 Badblocks now checks 64 blocks at a time instead of 16. (Addresses 3500 Debian bug #232240) 3501 3502 Updated and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug 3503 #206845, #222606, #214920, #232406) 3504 3505 Updated and fixed translations. (Addresses Debian bugs #200086, #214633) 3506 3507 Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). 3508 3509 Programmer's notes: 3510 ------------------- 3511 3512 Fixed a build problem so that e2fsprogs would compile with the 3513 --enable-profile option to configure selected. (Addresses Sourceforge 3514 bug #811408) 3515 3516 Fixed C++ problems with the ext2fs.h header. (Addresses Red Hat 3517 Bugzilla Bug #112448) 3518 3519 Centralize code which calculates the location of the superblock 3520 and block group descriptors so that it is in a single library routine. 3521 3522 Added two new functions, ext2fs_file_open2() and 3523 ext2fs_inode_io_intern2() which take a pointer to an inode structure. 3524 3525 Fix compile_et to output the correct prototype for 3526 initialize_xxx_err_table_r() in the header file. (Addresses Debian 3527 bug #204332) 3528 3529 In the lib/et makefile, make sure com_err.info is deleted on "make clean". 3530 3531 Fix 64-bit warnings in e2fsprogs pass1b by using inttypes.h if 3532 present. This is for when we try stuffing an int into void * pointer. 3533 3534 Fix type-punning which can cause gcc 3.x to miscompile code by getting 3535 confused about pointer aliasing. ext2fs_getmem(), ext2fs_free_mem(), 3536 and ext2fs_resize_mem() all now take a 'void *' instead of a 'void 3537 **'. The EVMS code uses an ugly union approach since we don't want to 3538 modify the EVMS interfaces. 3539 3540 Make sure all Makefiles use $(MAKE) rather than hardcoded "make", to 3541 aid build process on systems can use invoke GNU make as "gmake". 3542 3543 Added regression testing for mke2fs. 3544 3545 Fixed gcc -Wall nitpicks. 3546 3547 Fixed various compiler warnings. 3548 3549 Add portability fixes for FreeBSD and for using fsctl under Darwin to 3550 support ext2 ioctl's. 3551 3552 3553 E2fsprogs 1.34 (July 25, 2003) 3554 =============================== 3555 3556 Fixed a bug introduced in E2fsprogs 1.30 which caused fsck to spin in 3557 a tight loop while waiting for a child fsck to exit in some cases. 3558 This burns CPU times which slows down the low-level filesystem check. 3559 3560 Added code to mke2fs to assure that the default block size for a 3561 filesystem is at least as big as the sector size of the device, if it 3562 can be determined. 3563 3564 Changed mke2fs and resize2fs to round the default size of a filesystem 3565 to be an even multiple of the VM pagesize in order to avoid a Linux 3566 kernel bug introduced when the storage of the buffer cache was moved 3567 into the page cache. 3568 3569 Mke2fs will warn the user when creating a filesystem with journaling 3570 and a blocksize greater than 4096. (Addresses Debian bug #193773) 3571 3572 Fixed a bug in resize2fs which caused it to fail on filesystems with a 3573 non-empty bad block list. Resize2fs now discards any blocks on the 3574 badblock list which are no longer part of the filesystem as the result 3575 of a filesystem shrink. (Note: this means that shrinking and then 3576 enlarging a filesystem is no longer a reversible operation; 3577 information about bad blocks in the part of the filesystem which is to 3578 be chopped off will be lost.) 3579 3580 Changed resize2fs so the user can use prefixes to specify the units of 3581 the new filesystem size (sectors, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes), 3582 and to make the error and informational messages explicitly display 3583 the blocksize used by the filesystem, in order to avoid confusion. 3584 (Addresses Debian bug: #189814) 3585 3586 Added a new debugfs command, dump_unused, which dumps the contents of 3587 all unused blocks to stdout. (Useful as an emergency try-to-find 3588 deleted data command.) 3589 3590 Added a new debugfs command, imap, which prints the location of a 3591 specified inode in the inode table. 3592 3593 Fixed a bug in the badblocks program which caused it to use one bit of 3594 randomness in its non-destructive read/write test, instead of using a 3595 full 8 bits of randomness. 3596 3597 Added a new option (-t) to badblocks, which allows the user to control 3598 the test pattern(s) used when checking a disk. 3599 3600 The blkid probe function now more correctly detects UDF filesystems. 3601 3602 Fixed a bug in the blkid library which caused it to not update its 3603 cache if a filesystem changes from having a label to not having a 3604 label. 3605 3606 Fixed a bug in the blkid library wihch could avoid an infinite loop 3607 in blkid_find_dev_with_tag() if /proc is not mounted and there the 3608 /etc/blkid.tab file has not yet been created. 3609 3610 Fixed the badblocks program so that the destructive read/write test 3611 honors the -c option, and to use O_DIRECT when possible to avoid 3612 thrashing the system block buffer cache. 3613 3614 Fixed various NLS issues. 3615 - Added Czech and Swedish translations 3616 - Removed testing NYC translation 3617 - Fixed NLS support for message abbrevations in e2fsck 3618 - Remove de-utf.po, since we shouldn't have two versions using different 3619 charset encodings. 3620 - Used ngettext() (abbreivated with the macro P_(str1, str2, n)) to 3621 simplify the statistics reporting in e2fsck. 3622 3623 Changed configure.in so that its defaults for *BSD systems no longer 3624 build an fsck wrapper, and not to install in /usr/local by default. 3625 3626 Fixed some minor spelling errors/typo's in e2fsck and the configure 3627 script. 3628 3629 Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog). 3630 3631 Updated and clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug #195616) 3632 3633 Programmer's notes: 3634 ------------------- 3635 3636 Fix gcc -Wall nitpicks. 3637 3638 Updated gettext implementation used by e2fsprogs to 0.11.5, and enable 3639 NLS support by default. (Added partial workaround for gettext/Darwin 3640 incompatibility problems.) 3641 3642 Added full MIT KRB5 and Himdall compaibility support to the com_err 3643 library and the compile_et program. (Addresses Debian bug #191900) 3644 3645 Added the blkid_known_fstype() function to the blkid library, which 3646 returns true if it is passed a filesystem type which is recognized by 3647 the blkid probing functions. 3648 3649 Improved the documentation for the blkid library. 3650 3651 Added the ext2fs_get_device_sectsize() function the the ext2fs library, which 3652 returns the hardware sector size of a device, if it is available. 3653 3654 Added a dependency in the blkid library's .so file to the uuid 3655 library, since the former uses the latter. (Addresses Debian bug 3656 #194094) 3657 3658 Added --with-diet-libc and --disable-evms to the configure script. 3659 3660 Fixed a minor memory leak in the badblocks program. 3661 3662 Fixed a portability problem in tune2fs --- not all systems have strptime(). 3663 3664 Fixed a portability problem in debugfs with the use of getopt() more 3665 than once. Old-style BSD, new-style BSD, and Linux C libraries all do 3666 things differently. 3667 3668 Add support Windows support to ext2fs_get_device_size(). 3669 3670 Added (normally disabled) debugging code to the Unix I/O manager which 3671 causes it to disable all userspace caching if the NO_IO_CACHE is 3672 defined. 3673 3674 Changed the test I/O manager so it can always be linked into e2fsck, 3675 mke2fs, and tune2fs if enabled via --enable-test-io-debug to the 3676 configure script. The test I/O manager will only print any debugging 3677 information if the TEST_IO_FLAGS or TEST_IO_BLOCK environment 3678 variables are set, which specifies which I/O operations are logged and 3679 a block number to watch, respectively. The log messages are sent to 3680 stderr by default, unless a filename is specified via the 3681 TEST_IO_LOGFILE environment variable. 3682 3683 3684 E2fsprogs 1.33 (April 21, 2003) 3685 =============================== 3686 3687 Added a new utility program, logsave, which captures the output of a 3688 command in a log file, even if the containing directory hasn't been 3689 mounted yet (in which case the it saves the output in memory until it 3690 can write out the logfile). This is useful for capturing the 3691 output of fsck during the boot sequence. 3692 3693 Fixed some portability problems that were causing problems under 3694 the Cygwin32 environment. 3695 3696 Mke2fs now interprets a negative number to the -b option as a minimum 3697 block size. 3698 3699 Fixed a bug in mke2fs which was incorrectly checking the argument to 3700 the -g option if the default block size was used. (Addresses Debian 3701 bug #188319) 3702 3703 Fsck now explicitly ignores tmpfs and devpts, and it will complain if 3704 it can not find filesystem checkers for jfs, reseirfs, and xfs. 3705 3706 E2fsck now updates the global free block and inode counters from the 3707 block group specific counters quietly. This is needed for an 3708 experimental patch which eliminates locking the entire filesystem when 3709 allocating blocks or inodes; if the filesystem is not unmounted 3710 cleanly, the global counts may not be accurate. 3711 3712 Imported bug fixes to the EVMS plugin from the EVMS 2.0 tree. (EVMS 3713 2.0 is not yet supported; this only pulled in the bug fixes: fixed 3714 possible hangs caused by bugs in calling waitpid, and not setting the 3715 pipe to non-blocking mode; also fixed a file descriptor leak; made 3716 sure all functions call log entry/exit functions.) 3717 3718 Badblocks now flushes its output file as bad blocks are discovered. 3719 3720 The uuid library is now more paranoid about assuming the correctness 3721 of the /dev/random device; it mixes in a stream of bytes from 3722 random/srandom, just in case. 3723 3724 Update Debian files to reflect the fact that I am now the Debian 3725 maintainer of e2fsprogs. Other various Debian-specific packaging 3726 cleanups. 3727 3728 Move the source tarball generation functions from the top-level 3729 makefile to the util/gen-tarball script. 3730 3731 Updated the Turkish .po translation file. 3732 3733 Added Heimdal and MIT krb5 extensions to the com_err library to make 3734 it more compatible with com_err libraries from those distributions. 3735 3736 Changed dumpe2fs to always display the superblock fields relating to 3737 the journalling and/or directory indexing feature even if those 3738 features are not enabled. 3739 3740 Updated and clarify copyright statement vis-a-vis alpha releases of 3741 e2fsprogs. 3742 3743 The ss library will now try to dynamically link to the readline 3744 library and use it if it is present in the system. This means that 3745 the debugfs program now has line editing and history features. The 3746 SS_READLINE_PATH environment variable is used to find a readline or 3747 readline-compatible library. 3748 3749 E2fsck now finds most duplicate filenames (all when rebuilding all 3750 directories via the -D option) and offers to delete or rename 3751 duplicate filenames/directory entries. (Addresses Debian Bug #176814). 3752 3753 Fix bug in e2image. When writing out a raw image file, include data 3754 blocks from symlinks that do not store the symlink within the inode. 3755 3756 Fix bug in resize2fs which incorrectly moved the block and inode 3757 bitmaps for sparse superblock filesystems and incorrectly marked 3758 blocks as in use. (Addresses Debian bug #174766) 3759 3760 Added a new shared library, the blkid library, which efficiently 3761 allows fsck, mke2fs, e2fsck, and tune2fs to be able to look up LABEL 3762 and UUID filesystem specifiers without needing to search all of the 3763 devices in the system. Instead, the device is looked up in a cache 3764 file, and then verified to make sure the blkid cache is correct. 3765 3766 Tune2fs and e2label will accept LABEL=xxx and UID=yyy specifiers for 3767 the device name, using the blkid library. (Addresses Debian bugs 3768 #166048, #179671) 3769 3770 Fsck now supports backslash escapes in /etc/fstab so that \040 can be 3771 used for spaces in device labels. 3772 3773 Removed 32-bit limitations for debugfs's dump command. 3774 3775 If the user specifies a large number of inodes, Mke2fs will 3776 automatically adjust the number of blocks per group to find a valid 3777 set of filesystem parameters. 3778 3779 Add workaround to detect broken MD devices where when some of the 3780 underlying devices are marked read-only, writes to the MD device are 3781 silently dropped. E2fsck will detect if there is an attempt to run 3782 the journal twice, and abort with an error if this is the case. 3783 (Addresses IBM Bugzilla bug #1226) 3784 3785 E2fsck will print an error if more than one of the -p/-a, -n or -y 3786 options are specified. 3787 3788 E2fsck will fix HTREE corruptions in preen mode, without stopping the 3789 boot process. This is needed because the 2.4 ext2 filesystem 3790 accidentally had the INDEX_FL backwards compatibility code removed. 3791 3792 Mke2fs no longer creates filesystems with the dir_index flag set by 3793 default; the user has to specifically request it. 3794 3795 Update and clarified various man pages. (Addresses Debian bugs 3796 #173612, #175233, #175113, and #170497, #185945, #188318) 3797 3798 Created man page for the mk_cmds program (from the libss library). 3799 3800 Programmer's notes: 3801 ------------------- 3802 3803 Fix various gcc -Wall nits. 3804 3805 Fixed a lot of portability problems that caused e2fsprogs not to build 3806 successfully under Solaris and Apple/Darwin. 3807 3808 Fixed a Makefile dependency to allow building e2fsprogs using parallel 3809 make jobs. 3810 3811 Changes to create a subset distribution which consists only of the 3812 et, ss, uuid, and blkid libraries. The configure script and top-level 3813 makefile were changed to support working with a subset distribution. 3814 3815 Removed EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR mention of since it's not 3816 actually used, and might people who are looking for 3817 EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX, which is in use. 3818 3819 Updated debian files to fix a number of Lintian warnings. 3820 3821 Updated config.guess and config.sub with newer versions from the FSF. 3822 3823 Removed unnecessary libraries from being linked into the fsck, lsattr, 3824 chattr, and blkid executables. 3825 3826 E2fsprogs 1.32 (Nomvember 9, 2002) 3827 ================================== 3828 3829 Fixed a bug in the Unix I/O routines which caused needless writebacks 3830 of clean blocks from the unix_io cache (they were erroneously marked 3831 as being dirty, so they were getting written back to disk before 3832 getting evicted from the disk cache). This was harmless, but it 3833 significantly slowed down e2fsck. 3834 3835 Made some other minor optimizations to the Unix I/O routines to save a 3836 small amount of CPU time. 3837 3838 Updated internationalization files. 3839 3840 3841 E2fsprogs 1.31 (Nomvember 8, 2002) 3842 ================================== 3843 3844 Update EVMS ext2fsim plugin with EVMS 1.2. (We still support 3845 compiling the fsim plugin with EVMS 1.0 and 1.1.) Add better error 3846 handling for child process that die unexpectly. Add a hack to force 3847 mkfs to create filesystems that won't cause problems with hardware 3848 that has 2k or 4k minimum blocksize requirements. Read from child 3849 processes in non-blocking mode, so that the GUI continues to update. 3850 3851 Fix e2fsck so that it returns the appropriate exit code when the root 3852 filesystem has been changed, so that system's rc scripts will be told that 3853 the system needs to be rebooted. 3854 3855 Fix a bug in ext2fs_flush/ext2fs_close; when the MASTER_SB_ONLY flag 3856 was set, some of the descriptor blocks that should have been written 3857 out were getting skipped. 3858 3859 Changed e2fsck to force out changes to the backup copies of the 3860 superblock and block group descriptors when important changes are made 3861 to those data structures. 3862 3863 Fix a bug where e2fsck could erroneously mark a filesystem as being 3864 clean if a check of dirty filesystem is interrupted with a ^C. (Bug 3865 introduced in e2fsprogs 1.28.) 3866 3867 If journal debuging is enabled using --enable-jbd-debug, the debugging 3868 level is now set via the E2FSCK_JBD_DEBUG environment variable. 3869 3870 If byteswapping support is disabled using configure --disable-swapfs, 3871 skip the tests which depend on byte-swapping, so that "make check" 3872 won't bomb out. 3873 3874 Lshattr will now display the indexed directory flag. Also, some of 3875 the more esoteric compression flags are supressed unless compression 3876 support has been enabled. 3877 3878 Update man pages. 3879 3880 3881 E2fsprogs 1.30 (October 31, 2002) 3882 ================================= 3883 3884 When resizing a filesystem, and inodes need to moved, resize2fs will 3885 update the inode's ctime field, and the mtime field of the containing 3886 directories, so that incremental backups using dump/restore will work 3887 correctly. 3888 3889 In order to avoid spurious errors, e2fsck wil check the last 3890 superblock write time to determine whether or not it can safely use 3891 the LOW_DTIME checks to determine if there are inodes on the orphan 3892 inode linked list that had somehow gotten disconnected. (Addresses 3893 Sourceforge bug #620980) 3894 3895 Partition in /proc/partitions that being with the string "lvm" are 3896 considered real partitions even if they do not end with a number. 3897 3898 Fixed a bug in the the uuid generation function, where if /dev/urandom 3899 is not present, but /dev/random is, and there isn't sufficient 3900 entropy, the get_random_byte function could spin a loop forever. 3901 3902 E2fsck, mke2fs, etc. will now reliably notice when image files are 3903 mounted using the loopback interface. (Addresses Sourceforge bug 3904 #619119) 3905 3906 When flushing buffers (as is done by badblocks, for example) check to 3907 see if the BLKFLSBUF ioctl succeeds, and if so, avoid using the 3908 FDFLUSH ioctl which causes the MD device driver which causes confusing 3909 syslog messages about obselete ioctl messages. (Addresses Sourceforge 3910 bug #545832). 3911 3912 Debugfs's write command now checks to see if the destination filename 3913 exists before creating it. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #478195.) 3914 3915 When installing man pages, search for compressed man pages using all 3916 commonly used compression extensions (i.e., .Z, .gz, .bz2, etc.) 3917 3918 Fixed a bug in fsck where multiple filesystems specified on the 3919 command were not being checked in parallel due to a logic bug 3920 introduced to support the FSCK_MAX_INST environment variable. 3921 3922 We have added a new superblock field, s_mkfs_time, which indicates 3923 when a filesystem was created. It is set via mke2fs, and printed out 3924 by dumpe2fs, but is not actually touched by the kernel. 3925 3926 Dumpe2fs has been made more robust by not aborting if there is an 3927 error reading the block/inode bitmaps; instead it will still print out 3928 the location of the block/inode bitmaps and inode table. 3929 3930 Add support for the an alternative block group descriptor layout which 3931 allows for on-line resizing without needing to prepare the filesystem 3932 in advance. (This is the incomat feature flag meta_bg.) 3933 3934 Add support for storing default mount options in the superblock, so 3935 that the filesystem can be mounted with specific mount options without 3936 needing to specify them on the mount command line or in the /etc/fstab 3937 file. 3938 3939 Add support for a new inode flag, which is to be used for indicating 3940 the top of directory hierarchies for the Orlov block allocator. 3941 3942 Fix e2fsck so that if it creates the lost+found directory, it does so 3943 with the more apporpriate permissions of 0700. Also change 3944 mklost+found so that it also creates the directory 0700. 3945 3946 Fixed format bug in e2fsck if NLS is in use. 3947 3948 Add a German translation for e2fsprogs's NLS support. 3949 3950 Fixed e2fsck so that it more handles BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE even at 3951 the beginning of the inode table. This won't matter much, since if 3952 there is a bad block at the beginning of the inode table, the root 3953 directory won't be available. But at least e2fsck won't crash in this 3954 case. 3955 3956 Fixed endian problems in the htree code for e2fsck and debugfs. 3957 3958 When byte-swapping a filesystem on a PPC architecture, byte-swap the 3959 bitmaps since the historical big-endian ext2 variant had byte-swapped 3960 bitmaps, and the ext2fs library assumes this. This fixes the 3961 regression test suite on PPC machines. 3962 3963 Fix e2image so that it handles a bad block in the inode table 3964 appropriately. 3965 3966 E2fsck now uses a more sophisticated algorithm to salvage corrupted 3967 directories that recovers more information in the corrupted directory 3968 block. 3969 3970 E2fsck now performs additional consistency checks on indexed (HTREE) 3971 directories. 3972 3973 Fix bug where efsck might get confused about whether a completely 3974 empty directory block is an empty leaf block or an interior htree 3975 node. This could cause e2fsck to get confused into think that a valid 3976 indexed directory was corrupted. 3977 3978 E2fsck no longer creates an empty directory entry at the end of a 3979 directory block when optimizing a directory. This would cause some 3980 earlier versions of the dxdir kernel code to corrupt the directory 3981 when attempting to split a node containing an empty directory entry. 3982 3983 E2fsck could sometimes in rare circumstances leave the indexed flag 3984 set after a small directory was optimized by compressing it instead of 3985 indexing it. (This should never happen in real life, since 3986 directories that small wouldn't have been indexed, but better safe 3987 than sorry.) 3988 3989 E2fsck now only updates the master superblock in all cases. This 3990 slightly shortens its run time. 3991 3992 Ext2ed can deal with directory entries of length 0; previously it 3993 would get stuck in an infinite loop. 3994 3995 Fsck now has support for reiserfs volumes when parsing LABEL= and UUID= 3996 specifiers. (Sourceforge patch #613447) 3997 3998 Badblocks will now work correctly on read-only devices such as 3999 CD-ROM's. (Sourceforge patch #600451) 4000 4001 Updated and clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian bug #167108) 4002 4003 4004 E2fsprogs 1.29 (September 24, 2002) 4005 =================================== 4006 4007 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could corrupt a directory when optimizing 4008 it (via the -D option) or rebuiliding the hash tree index with a 1 in 4009 512 probability, due to a fence post error. 4010 4011 Fixed a bug in the LVM support code which caused LABEL='xxx' not to 4012 work correctly. 4013 4014 Mke2fs now enables the directory indexing flag by default. (Since 4015 this is a compatible feature flag, it's safe to do so.) 4016 4017 Tune2fs will support setting the directory indexing feature flag. It 4018 will automatically set up the default hash algorithm and hash seed 4019 fields in the superblock. 4020 4021 If the bone-headed user enters the root filesystem twice in 4022 /etc/fstab, the -R option which skips the root filesystem will skip 4023 all of them. (Addresses Debian bug #159423). Note! This is not a 4024 precedent for dealing intelligently with any other kind of doubled 4025 entry in /etc/fstab! 4026 4027 4028 Programmer's notes: 4029 ------------------- 4030 4031 Removed perror declaration in lib/et/internal.h. All modern systems 4032 can be expected to define perror() these days. Besides, the lib/et 4033 code wasn't using perror at all anyway. :-) 4034 4035 4036 E2fsprogs 1.28 (August 31, 2002) 4037 ================================ 4038 4039 Add support for the Hashed-Tree Directory Indexing to e2fsck. Support 4040 for setting the htree flag is not included yet, although it can be 4041 manually turned on via the debugfs program. 4042 4043 Clarified e2fsck error message which is printed when it cannot find 4044 sufficient contiguous block when relcating filesystem metadata. 4045 4046 Added support for building an EVMS plugin module for ext2/3. This 4047 module is substantially the same as the EVMS module shipping with EVMS 4048 1.1, with one or two bugfixes. E2fsprogs can also build this plugin 4049 for use with EVMS 1.0 (which did not include the ext2 plugin module), 4050 if the configure --enable-old-evms flag is given. 4051 4052 Fsck will search through EVMS volumes when trying to resolve 4053 filesystem specifications such as LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx. 4054 4055 Added a new utility program, /sbin/findfs, which will return 4056 filesystem specifications such as LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx, and prints 4057 the device name. 4058 4059 Update and clarified various man pages. (addresses Debian Bug #145044, 4060 #146437, #131350, #151990, #144621, #141938) 4061 4062 If there are no filesystems specified on fsck's command line, fsck now 4063 treat that as if the -As options were given. Previously it would 4064 simply do nothing. (Addresses Debian Bug #153102) 4065 4066 Mke2fs no longer treats a failure to be able to clear the MD signature 4067 at the end of the filesystem as a fatal error. (Addresses Debian Bug 4068 #155007) 4069 4070 The e2p library functions (which are used by lsattr and chattr) now 4071 double check to make sure the file is a regular file or directory 4072 before attempting to use the ext2 ioctls. Some device drivers 4073 unfortunately respond to the ext2 ioctl's with unknown behaviour. 4074 (Addresses Debian Bug #152029). 4075 4076 The extended attribute handling has been updated to correspond with 4077 the latest V2 bestbits ACL code. 4078 4079 Fixed bug in e2fsck which caused it to not clear the dtime field when 4080 processing truncated inodes on the orphan list. This could cause data 4081 loss(!) if a filesystem is rebooted before a truncate has been 4082 committed. 4083 4084 E2fsck now uses red/black trees in pass1b, which removes some O(n**2) 4085 algorithms. This makes e2fsck much faster in the case of severely 4086 corrupted filesystems where a large number of blocks are claimed by a 4087 large number of inodes. (Thanks to the 2.5 IDE device driver for 4088 inspiring this work.) 4089 4090 Resize2fs has been significantly sped up when shrinking and expanding 4091 a filesystem by a very small number of blocks (for example, when EVMS 4092 is converting a partition to be an EVMS legacy volume). 4093 4094 Added a new option to e2fsck, -D, which will optimize or compress all 4095 of the directories in the filesystem. 4096 4097 E2fsck now catches SIGINT and SIGTERM to make sure it will can 4098 properly clean up and only exit at safe points. Fsck will pass 4099 SIGINT/SIGTERM to its child processes, and wait until they have all 4100 exited before it exits. 4101 4102 The uuid parsing code in the uuid library now properly complains when 4103 an illegally formated uuid is presented to it. (Addresses Debian bug 4104 #152891) 4105 4106 Restrict use of the 2.4 setrlimit ABI f*ckup to kernels between 2.4.10 4107 and 2.4.17, since the workaround can cause problems when using a 2.4 4108 kernel with an old version of glibc built with the 2.2 headers. 4109 4110 Fixed a bug in mke2fs where it wasn't properly clearing the initial 4111 superblock used by other filesystems. (Addresses Debian bug #147256.) 4112 4113 Added support for the synchronous directory feature written by Andrew 4114 Morton. 4115 4116 The debugfs program can delete directories using the rmdir command. 4117 4118 Add support for 8k and 16k filesystems (for systems with page sizes 4119 that are greater or equal to 8k or 16k, respectively). Note that 4120 these filesystems can not be mounted on x86 systems, or other systems 4121 with only 4k page sizes, due to limitations in the current Linux VM 4122 code. 4123 4124 Resize2fs requires that the filesystem state be valid and have no 4125 errors; otherwise, e2fsck -f must be run first. (Previously it simply 4126 required that the last fsck time be greater than the last mount time.) 4127 4128 Configure now defaults the man pages directory to /usr/share/man on 4129 Linux systems. 4130 4131 E2fsck now offers to truncate inodes which contain too many blocks (so 4132 that i_blocks would overflow. Also fixed handling of large sparse 4133 files. 4134 4135 E2fsck now more completely checks for symlink validity, including 4136 requiring NULL termination and length checks. 4137 4138 E2fsck will offer to try forcing a disk write to remap a bad block 4139 after finding a read error when reading a filesystem metadata block. 4140 4141 Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused the -b and -s options to crash 4142 debugfs, as well as breaking the testb, setb, and clearb functions. 4143 4144 Added a bmap command to debugfs which calculates the logical to 4145 physical block mapping for a particular inode. 4146 4147 Fixed a bug in code which checked to see if a device was mounted which 4148 sometimes (rarely) failed in the case of a plain file. 4149 4150 Fixed a bug in resize2fs where when it reported an error, it would 4151 print a message erroneously indicating that the filesystem had been 4152 resized before it aborted. 4153 4154 When resizing a plain file which is smaller than the requested size, 4155 resize2fs will attempt to extended the file so that programs like 4156 e2fsck will not complain that the file is too small. 4157 4158 Resize2fs will print the actual new size of the filesystem when it is 4159 finished resizing. 4160 4161 Fixed a bug in debugfs where "ls -l" would report incorrectl file type 4162 information on big-endian systems. 4163 4164 4165 Programmer's notes: 4166 ------------------- 4167 4168 Fixed collisions with C++ reserved words. 4169 4170 Added portability fixes for building e2fsprogs on the HURD and AIX. 4171 4172 Added the ext2ed program for creation of test cases. (ext2ed has many 4173 limitations and bugs which make it unsuitable for production use.) 4174 4175 The ext2fs_read_dir_block2 and ext2fs_write_dir_block now take a new 4176 flag, EXT2_DIRBLOCK_V2_STRUCT, which will will reverse when the 4177 name_len field is byte swampped on big-endian machines, since in the 4178 V2 structure, name_len is a char field which is doesn't need to be 4179 byte swapped --- except if an old-style kernel had byte-swapped the 4180 name_len field as part of the V1 structure. 4181 4182 4183 E2fsprogs 1.27 (March 8, 2002) 4184 ============================== 4185 4186 The warning messages for mke2fs now go to standard error. 4187 4188 Fixed to make sure "make check" runs all of the test programs with 4189 LD_LIBRARY_PATH set, so that we test the libraries in the build tree. 4190 4191 The mke2fs program checks the boot sector for the BSD disk label, and 4192 avoids erasing it if it is there. 4193 4194 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to core dump if the journal 4195 inode was missing when it was supposed to be there. 4196 4197 E2fsck now prints ranges in pass 5 when printing deltas for the block 4198 and inode bitmaps. 4199 4200 Debugfs's "ls -l" command now will print out the file type information 4201 in the directory entry. 4202 4203 Create man pages and hard links for fsck.ext3 and mkfs.ext3. If 4204 mke2fs is invoked as mkfs.ext3, create the filesystem with a journal. 4205 4206 Debugfs can now examine the experimental directory indexing 4207 information. 4208 4209 Fixed bug in debugfs which caused it to core dump if modify_inode is 4210 called without an open filesystem. 4211 4212 The debugfs lsdel command now runs its output through a pager first. 4213 4214 When installing manual pages, remove the compressed manual pages first. 4215 4216 Synchronized with Debian's packaging information for e2fsprogs-1.26-1. 4217 4218 Fix the 2.4 resource limitation workaround introduced in 1.26 which 4219 actually broke things on mips32, sparc32, and Alpha platforms. 4220 4221 Updated the I18N code so that calls to setlocate(LC_CTYPE, 0) are made 4222 (which is required by the newer libintl libraries). 4223 4224 Programmer's notes: 4225 ------------------- 4226 4227 Fixed various gcc -Wall complaints. 4228 4229 Fixed a few memory leaks in the e2fsck journaling code, and in the 4230 ismounted code checking for a swap device. 4231 4232 Add new inode I/O abstraction interface which exports an inode as 4233 an I/O object. 4234 4235 Exported ext2_file_flush as a public interface. 4236 4237 In ext2_file_write, we now mark the buffer void * argument as a const, since ext2_file_write doesn't modify the buffer. 4238 4239 Lots of small random portability fixes to make e2fsprogs build under 4240 AIX --- even without the 5L compatibility toolkit, and even using the 4241 uber-crippled AIX native C compiler. 4242 4243 4244 E2fsprogs 1.26 (February 3, 2002) 4245 ================================= 4246 4247 Dumpe2fs will keep going now if the bad block inode can't be read. 4248 (Previously it stopped with a fatal error.) 4249 4250 E2fsck will now give an opportunity to run the journal even if the 4251 recovery flag is not set. This is the default behaviour if e2fsck is 4252 using a backup superblock, since the needs_recovery flag will never be 4253 set in the backup superblock copies. 4254 4255 E2fsck now automatically finds the backup superblock/group descriptors 4256 even when the primary superblock is completely destroyed for 2k and 4k 4257 filesystems. (Previously it just guessed/assumed that we were dealing 4258 with a 1k filesystem in that case, and users had to manually specify 4259 the backup superblock number.) 4260 4261 Fixed a bug in e2fsck where it dereferences a null pointer when there 4262 is a problem opening a filesystem in preen mode. 4263 4264 E2fsck now handles external journals correctly; previously it trashed 4265 the external journal device if the journal needed to be replayed. 4266 4267 Work around ulimit incompatibility problem caused by recent 2.4 4268 kernels; the unix IO module will automatically try to set any resource 4269 limits to be infinite on startup. 4270 4271 Fixed a bug in e2fsck where it wasn't allocating a new block or inode 4272 bitmap if it wasn't present and the blocksize was 2k or 4k. 4273 (Addresses Debian Bug #116975) 4274 4275 E2fsck will check and fix botched ext3 V1 to V2 superblock updates by 4276 clearing the new V2 fields if they do not make sense or if the ext3 4277 superblock is version 1 superblock. 4278 4279 E2fsck will automatically relocate the ext3 journal from a visible 4280 file (i.e., /.journal) to an hidden inode if the filesystem has been 4281 opened read/write. This allows the users to add a journal while the 4282 filesystem is mounted, but the next time the system is rebooted, the 4283 journal file will disappear. This avoids problems with backups, 4284 stupid operators with superuser bits, etc. 4285 4286 Fix a bug in fsck where it would not support a filesystem type of 4287 "auto" if the device was specified in terms of LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx. 4288 4289 Fsck now supports fstab entries of the form "ext3,ext2". It will also 4290 automatically identify reiserfs filesystems. 4291 4292 The number of processes spawned by fsck can now be limited using the 4293 FSCK_MAX_INST environment variable. 4294 4295 Fsck now searchs the LVM proc hierarchy to find logical volumes which 4296 should be searched for UUID and label information. 4297 4298 Work around a bug in 2.4.10+ kernels by trying to unset the filesize 4299 limit if at all possible, when opening a block device. (The filesize 4300 limit shouldn't be applied against writes to a block device.) 4301 4302 In mke2fs and e2fsck, specifying the -c option twice will now do 4303 a read/write test on the disk. Update the man pages to encourage 4304 using the -c option, and to discouraging running badblocks separately, 4305 since users tend to forget to set the blocksize when running 4306 badblocks. 4307 4308 Mke2fs now automatically clears the immutable attribute on a 4309 pre-existing .journal file left over from a previous failed attempt to 4310 add a journal to an alreadyy-mounted filesystem. 4311 4312 Fixed mke2fs's exit codes to consistently indicate when the mke2fs 4313 operation failed. 4314 4315 Mke2fs now creates the lost+found directory with permissions of 0700, 4316 so that files that had previously lived in protected directory are 4317 safe if they get dropped in lost+found and the system administrator 4318 doesn't deal with immediately. (Addresses Debian #bug 118443) 4319 4320 Mke2fs and e2fsck (and all programs that use the 4321 ext2fs_check_if_mounted function) will now properly identify that a 4322 device is mounted, even in cases where devfs has confused things with 4323 multiple devices names with the same identity, or if a dim-witted 4324 system administrator has done something stupid like creating device 4325 file aliases in their home directory. Also now checks for swap devices 4326 by using /proc/swaps. (Addresses Debian bug #106622) 4327 4328 Added a new option (-T) to tune2fs which sets the time a filesystem 4329 was last checked. 4330 4331 Speed up e2image when creating sparse raw image files by optimizing 4332 away excess lseek() system calls. 4333 4334 Fix support of large (> 2GB) files when used as a filesystem in 4335 mke2fs, tune2fs, debugfs, and findsuper. 4336 4337 Debugfs's stat and icheck commands now properly deals with large (> 4338 2GB) files. 4339 4340 Debugfs's set_super_value command now prints out the list of valid 4341 superblock fields which can be set using the command. 4342 4343 Debugfs's rm and kill_file command now updates the superblock free block 4344 and inode counts, thus keeping the filesystem consistent. 4345 4346 Debugfs's lsdel command now takes an optional argument which allows 4347 the user to only see the most recently deleted files. 4348 4349 A new command (undel) was added to debugfs which automates 4350 undeleting a deleted inode and linking it back to a directory. 4351 4352 Debugfs's ls command now takes a new option, -d, which lists 4353 deleted directory entries. 4354 4355 Debugfs's testb, freeb, setb, and find_free_block commands now take an 4356 optional count argument. 4357 4358 Add support for a new ext2 file attribute, EXT2_NOTAIL_FL, which will 4359 be used to signal that a particular inode should not be eligible for 4360 tail-merging --- this is needed for programs like LILO. 4361 4362 The findsuper (an unreleased, uninstalled utility program) has been 4363 improved to add extra validity checks and to add a progress meter. 4364 (It is still an unsupported program; the officially supported way to 4365 recover from a trashed partition table is to use gpart; findsuper is 4366 for wizards only. :-) 4367 4368 Debugfs was fixed to compile with "configure --disable-swapfs". 4369 4370 Cleaned up various manual pages. (Addresses Debian bug #119624, #120171) 4371 4372 Added new translation file for Turkish. 4373 4374 Programmer's notes: 4375 ------------------- 4376 4377 Fix general gcc -Wall complaints. 4378 4379 E2fsprogs (mostly) works with the dietlibc. 4380 4381 The programming texinfo file has been expanded to include description 4382 of additional libext2fs functions. (Still not compeltely done, but a 4383 lot of the more important functions have been documented.) 4384 4385 Added a umask structure to struct_ext2_filsys, which currently only 4386 modifies the behaviour of ext2fs_mkdir(), but if we add any file 4387 creation functions to libext2fs, we should also make sure they respect 4388 the umask setting. 4389 4390 The build-rpm script was fixed to be a bit more safe. 4391 4392 The tests' Makefile now has a way of automating test case creation 4393 for e2fsck, using "make testnew". 4394 4395 Created a new function, ext2fs_dir_iterate2 which passes more 4396 information to the callback function (identical to the one used by 4397 ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate). The directory iterator functions take a 4398 new flag, DIRENT_FLAG_INCLUDE_REMOVED, which will return deleted 4399 directory entries. If the directory entry is deleted, the callback 4400 function will be called with the entry paraemter set to 4401 DIRENT_DELETED_FILE. 4402 4403 Added new functions, ext2fs_inode_alloc_stats and 4404 ext2fs_block_alloc_stats, which takes updates block/inode allocation 4405 statistics in the bitmaps, block group descriptors, and superblock 4406 when inodes or blocks are allocated or deallocated. 4407 4408 4409 E2fsprogs 1.25 (September 20, 2001) 4410 =================================== 4411 4412 This is primarily a bug-fix release; no new features were added, but 4413 there are a number of embarassing bug fixes and cleanups applied. 4414 4415 Fix a bug mke2fs which causes stack garbage to be written to disk when 4416 zapping disk sectors. (This bug could cause mke2fs to core dump for 4417 some kernels, I suspect with security enhancement patches.) 4418 4419 Remove unneeded #include of <linux/config.h> which was breaking 4420 building e2fsprogs on the Hurd. (Addresses Debian bug #112414.) 4421 4422 Updated tune2fs man page to reflect the fact that adding or removing a 4423 journal doesn't require running e2fsck. 4424 4425 Remove use of AC_REQUIRE from autoconf which had been used to prevent 4426 AC_CANONICAL_HOST from being called twice; unfortunately this causes 4427 recent autoconf to bomb out since they don't allow AC_REQUIRE to be 4428 used outside of autoconf macros. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be 4429 necessary any more, anyway. 4430 4431 E2fsck will now not fall back to an alternate superblock if the user 4432 specifies the superblock location explicitly on the command-line. 4433 This allows easier recovery from a situation where the primary 4434 superblock and block groups are slightly corrupted, but the backup 4435 superblocks are completely broken. 4436 4437 Fix problem which caused compile_et and mk_cmds to blow up if 4438 e2fsprogs was in a directory with a pathname that contained spaces. 4439 4440 We are now more paranoid about checking the entry in /etc/mtab to make 4441 sure the filesystem is really mounted, since some broken distributions 4442 (read: Slackware) don't initialize /etc/mtab before checking non-root 4443 filesystems. (Slackware also doesn't check the root filesystem 4444 separately, and reboot if the root filesystem had changes applied to 4445 it, which is dangerous and broken, but there's nothing I can do about 4446 that.) 4447 4448 Make UUID library C++ friendly by adding appropriate extern "C" 4449 declarations and using const in the function declarations. 4450 4451 Fix up the com_err texinfo file so that it can product a valid info 4452 file (previously, it could only be used to generate paper 4453 documentation using texinfo.tex). 4454 4455 4456 E2fsprogs 1.24a (September 2, 2001) 4457 =================================== 4458 4459 Fix brown-paper bug in mke2fs which caused it to segfault when 4460 printing the version string. 4461 4462 4463 E2fsprogs 1.24 (August 30, 2001) 4464 ================================ 4465 4466 Revert the BLKGETSIZE64 support, since for some distributions, this 4467 ioctl has been used by an unofficial kernel patch to update the last 4468 sector on the disk, and this was causing disk corruption problems as a 4469 result. 4470 4471 Mke2fs is now more careful about zapping swap space signatures and 4472 other filesystem/raid superblock magic values so that programs like 4473 mount who try to use hueristics to determine the filesystem type of a 4474 partition are less likely to be confused. 4475 4476 E2fsck will no longer complain if the the mode of EXT2_RESIZE_INO is a 4477 regular file (since Andreas Dilger's on-line resizing tools will set 4478 its mode bits). 4479 4480 Fixed some minor texinfo, man pages nits for spelling errors, 4481 texinfo warnings, etc. (Addresses Debian bug #110621.) 4482 4483 E2fsprogs program no longer print the filesystem version number 4484 (i.e. 0.5b), since it only confuses people and doesn't serve any real 4485 purpose. 4486 4487 E2fsck will once again compile under libc5, since it will supply its 4488 own version of strnlen if necesssary. 4489 4490 mke2fs and tune2fs will allow the use of UUID= or LABEL= specifiers 4491 when specifying the external journal device. tune2fs will also search 4492 devices looking for the externla journal debice when removing. 4493 4494 E2fsprogs 1.23 (August 15, 2001) 4495 ================================ 4496 4497 Add initial support for extended attributes (EA); e2fsck will 4498 correctly handle a filesystem with EA's and check the EA blocks for 4499 corruptions. 4500 4501 E2fsck's symlink sanity checking has been cleaned up. It now checks 4502 the i_size value of fast symlinks, and checks for immutable flags 4503 being set of symlinks, etc. 4504 4505 E2fsck now offers to clear inodes which are special files that have a 4506 non-zero i_blocks or i_size field. (The i_size field check was in the 4507 previous version of the code, but due to a bug it didn't offer to 4508 clear the inode unless i_size and i_size_high were both non-zero.) 4509 4510 E2image can now create "raw" image files, which only contain the 4511 filesystem metadata placed in a spare file so that e2fsck, dumpe2fs, 4512 debugfs, etc., can be run directly on the raw image file. 4513 4514 Add support for the 64-bit block device patches. 4515 4516 Fixed bugs in creating external journals with a 1k blocksize. 4517 4518 Add initial support for external journals (so long as the external 4519 journal only supports a single filesystem) in e2fsck. 4520 4521 Remove requirement for needing to run fsck on a filesystem after 4522 removing a journal (either internal or external). 4523 4524 The man pages now document how to create and manage external journals. 4525 4526 Speed up the check of an ext3 filesystems by avoiding a needless flush 4527 of all of the superblock and block group descriptors. 4528 4529 Speed up creating an internal journal using tune2fs in the case where 4530 the filesystem has a lot blocks already allocated. 4531 4532 Tune2fs has been fixed to make sure that only error messages go to 4533 stderr, and normal message go to stdout. (Addresses Debian bug #108555) 4534 4535 Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs; if -O none is passed to mke2fs, it will 4536 now not set the sparse_super feature. (Addresses Debian bug #108165) 4537 4538 Add support in fsck for the filesystem type "auto". 4539 4540 Fsck -A will not try to interpret device names for filesystems which 4541 have a pass number is 0. (Addresses Debian bug #106696). 4542 4543 Fsck prints a warning message if now valid filesystems are passed to 4544 it. (Addresses Debian Bug #107458.) 4545 4546 E2fsck now gives an explicit warning if there filesystem still has 4547 errors at the end of the run. (Addresses Debian bug #104502) 4548 4549 E2fsck will set the EXT2_ERROR_FS flag if the journal superblock 4550 reflects an error. E2fsck will also not run the orphan list if the 4551 filesystem contains errors, since the orphan list might be corrupted. 4552 4553 E2fsck now prints the number of large files when given the -v option. 4554 4555 Fixed minor memory leaks in e2fsck. 4556 4557 Some minor man pages updates. (Addresses Debian bug #30833, #108174) 4558 4559 4560 E2fsprogs 1.22 (June 22, 2001) 4561 ============================== 4562 4563 Fixed a bug in e2fsck's handling of orphan inodes which are special 4564 files (i.e., block/character device files, named FIFO's, etc.). 4565 4566 Fixed a bug accidentally introduced in e2fsprogs 1.21 which caused 4567 tune2fs to fail at adding a journal to a mounted filesystem. 4568 4569 Fixed a few big-endian bugs in e2fsprogs 4570 * The directory block functions were accidentally reporting 4571 some directories as corrupted when they weren't. 4572 * If e2fsprogs is compiled --disable-swapfs, the C language 4573 equivalents weren't being included for big-endian platforms. 4574 (Fixes Debian bug #101686). 4575 4576 Fixed a Hurd compilation problem. (Addresses Debian bug #101361) 4577 4578 Programmer's notes: 4579 ------------------- 4580 4581 Use platform independent method of defining the BLKFLSBUF and FDFLUSH 4582 ioctls, and allow them to be defined for non-i386 platforms. 4583 4584 The uuid.h header file is now protected against multiple inclusions. 4585 4586 E2fsprogs is now being developed using BitKeeper. Changed the test 4587 scripts to deal with BK's stripping CR characgters from text files, 4588 and changed the top-level Makefile.in to avoid including BitKeeper 4589 files when generating the source tarball. 4590 4591 4592 E2fsprogs 1.21 (June 15, 2001) 4593 ============================== 4594 4595 Added new configure flags which allow a subset e2fsprogs to be built; 4596 this is most useful for boot floopies, since the resulting shared 4597 libraries and programs are slimmed down by removing features that 4598 aren't necessary for a boot floppy. The new flags that were added 4599 are: --disable-swapfs, which removes support for byte swapping old 4600 legacy PPC/68k filesystems, --disable-debugfs, which removes support 4601 for debugfs from the libext2fs library, --disable-imager, which 4602 removes support for the e2image program, and --disable-resizer, which 4603 removes support for resize2fs. 4604 4605 E2fsck now prints the number of mounts or days elapsed since the last 4606 check when e2fsck is forced to check an otherwise clean filesystem. 4607 4608 Tune2fs now prints an informative message about how often a filesystem 4609 will be checked when adding a journal to the filesystem, to remind the 4610 user that he/she may want to adjust those parameters using tune2fs 4611 -c/-i. 4612 4613 Worked around hurd brain-damage which causes e2fsck to sometimes 4614 believe a filesystem is the root filesystem based on device numbers 4615 (since Hurd doesn't have dev_t's, which is arguably a POSIX.1 4616 violation). 4617 4618 Fixed a bug introduced in 1.20 which caused e2fsck to abort with an 4619 erroneous error with the -F option was specified. 4620 4621 Fixed a ext3 recovery bug in the revoke handling; synchronized with 4622 ext3 0.7a. 4623 4624 Fixed two bugs in e2fsck's handling of dup block handling, dealing 4625 with relatively uncommon edge cases: a directory with an indirect 4626 block which is claimed by another file, and when the last inode in the 4627 filesystem has blocks claimed by another file. 4628 4629 E2fsck now checks to see if the i_size field of a fast symlink is too 4630 big, and offers to clear the symlink if so. 4631 4632 E2fsck now checks to see if i_size_high of special files is non-zero, 4633 and offers to clear i_size_high. 4634 4635 Fix e2fsck's handling of incompatible journal flags so that the user 4636 has chance to abort, and then has the option to clear out the journal 4637 entirely. (Addresses Debian bug #98527.) 4638 4639 Fixed a bug in fsck which could cause it to core dump if a mix of 4640 standard and non-standard device names are used in /etc/fstab. 4641 (Debian bug #100559) 4642 4643 Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused read errors when copying a file to 4644 not be noticed. 4645 4646 The debugfs set_super_value command can now modify the s_lastcheck field. 4647 4648 Fixed a bug in lsattr and chattr which was accidentally introduced in 4649 1.20 to support > 2GB files; both lsattr and chattr wasn't reading 4650 directories correctly because the change modified the layout of struct 4651 dirent to be incompatible with the libe2p shared library. 4652 4653 Cleaned up the mke2fs manual page and included a discussion about why 4654 it's good to periodically check the filesystem even when journaling is 4655 enabled. 4656 4657 Programmer's notes: 4658 ------------------- 4659 4660 Fix general gcc -Wall complaints. 4661 4662 The types needed by the ext2 header files are now provided by 4663 lib/ext2fs/ext2_types.h, instead of include/asm/types.h. 4664 4665 Integers are now preferred to longs when trying to find a 32-bit type 4666 in ext2_types.h. Also, if linux/types.h has already been defined, 4667 don't try to redefine the types. 4668 4669 Fixed make depend script so that it automatically corrects the 4670 pathname cleanups performed by make -M, so I don't have to fix them up 4671 by hand. 4672 4673 Fixed the d_loaddump test case to be more robust, and not depend on 4674 bash'isms. 4675 4676 Removed debugfs's dependence on pread(), which was accidentally 4677 intrudced in e2fsprogs 1.20 4678 4679 Fixed a performance bug in the libext2fs's icount routine; the size 4680 estimate of the icount array was incorrectly being calculated. 4681 4682 Removed use of the badblocks compatibility functions in the e2fsprogs 4683 programs. 4684 4685 Added paranoia code which protects against strange cases where /etc 4686 isn't on the root filesystem, or if /etc/mtab doesn't exist. 4687 4688 The header file ext2_types.h is now installed. 4689 4690 Autoconf is used to determine when we are on big-endian machines, 4691 instead of doing run-time tests, to save a few bytes of code. 4692 4693 The ext2fs_mark_generic_bitmap and ext2fs_unmark_generic_bitmap 4694 functions are no longer inline functions, which saves space and 4695 doesn't really cost any real performance. 4696 4697 The ext2fs library no longer depends on the e2p library. (What need 4698 there was of it --- namely, fsetflags, was coded in-line). 4699 4700 Fixed the makefile so that lib/ext2fs/ext2_types.h is generated even 4701 when the user is stupid and tries compiling the package using "make 4702 install" as root. 4703 4704 Miscellaneous code cleanups: 4705 * Added missing files from Makefile.in's SRCS file, so that 4706 their dependencies would be properly calculated. 4707 * Removed redundant code 4708 * Fixed comments in code 4709 * Removed no-longer unneeded argsused #pragma. 4710 4711 4712 E2fsprogs 1.20 (May 20, 2001) 4713 ============================= 4714 4715 Add support for replaying the ext3 journal purely in user mode, 4716 including handling the orphaned inode list. Used code contributed by 4717 Andreas Dilger, with bug fixes and the orphaned inode handling done 4718 by Theodore Ts'o. 4719 4720 The mke2fs and tune2fs programs can create or modify a filesystem to 4721 include an ext3 journal. Tune2fs also can be used to remove an ext3 4722 journal from a filesystem. 4723 4724 E2fsck will now check for the existence of a linked list of orphan 4725 inodes in the superblock, and clear those inodes before starting the 4726 rest of the filesystem check (but after the journal playback). 4727 4728 E2fsck now validates the file descriptor passed to the -C option, 4729 which saves against the completion bar getting written to an 4730 unexpected location, such as the disk being checked. (Debian 4731 bug/wishlist #55220) 4732 4733 E2fsck will now bump the filesystem revision number from zero to one 4734 if any of the compatibility bits are set. 4735 4736 Fixed a bug where a badly corrupted directory on a big endian system 4737 could cause e2fsck to die with a bus error. The 4738 ext2fs_read_dir_block() and ext2fs_process_dir_block() functions in 4739 the ext2 library now does alignment sanity checks on the rec_len field 4740 of the directory entry before using it. 4741 4742 The ext2 library has been enhanced to make tune2fs safe to run on 4743 mounted filesystems. (Users could usually get away with using tune2fs 4744 on mounted filesystems before, but with the advent of ext3 and 4745 journaling, it became important to make tune2fs was *really* safe for 4746 use even when the filesystem being modified is mounted.) E2label is 4747 now implemented by tune2fs using an argv[0] dispatch, so that e2label 4748 is also now safe for use on mounted filesystems. 4749 4750 Added a new program, e2image, which creates a backup of critical ext2 4751 filesystem data structures. The generated image file can be examined 4752 using dumpe2fs and debugfs. In the future, e2fsck will be able to use 4753 the image file to help recover very badly damaged filesystems. 4754 4755 Fixed a number of LFS bugs in e2fsck; very, very large (> 2**42) files 4756 no longer cause e2fsck to bomb out. Also treat files > 2GB as being 4757 large file when deciding whether or not the filesystem has large files. 4758 4759 Fixed lsattr and chattr so that they work correctly on large files. 4760 (Fixes Debian bug #72690.) 4761 4762 Removed limitation in get_device_size() which imposed a one terrabyte 4763 filesystem limitation. (Most 2.2 kernels still have a signed int 4764 problem which cause 1 TB block device limitation. Fortunately, the 4765 kernel patches to fix this are much easier than fixing the 2TB 4766 limitation in the kernel. :-) 4767 4768 A max_mount_count of zero is now treated as if no mount count were 4769 set. (Previously, no mount count was indicated by using -1, and a 4770 mount count of zero caused e2fsck to always be run.) 4771 4772 Mke2fs supports two new filesystem types largefile and largefile4. 4773 4774 Mke2fs now adds some randomness in s_max_mount_count so that multiple 4775 filesystems won't be all checked at the same time under normal 4776 operations. 4777 4778 Fixed bug in the progress bar printing code which could cause e2fsck 4779 to core dump on an illegal filesystem. 4780 4781 Fixed bug in fsck which could allow more than one instance of e2fsck 4782 to be printing a progress bar. (Debian bug #65267) 4783 4784 Fsck using a UUID or a LABEL specifier will work even if devfs is 4785 compiled into the kernel and not mounted. If the pathnames in 4786 /proc/partitions are incorrect, fsck will search /dev for the correct 4787 device (using the new ext2fs_find_block_device library function). 4788 Fsck now also checks the RAID devices first so that they are properly 4789 found when they are in use. Support has also been added to support 4790 additional IDE disks and the DAC 960 device names. (Debian bug #94159) 4791 4792 Fixed a bug in fsck which caused it not deal properly with 16 4793 byte long filesystem labels. 4794 4795 Fsck's -t option has been made a lot more flexible. The semantics for 4796 what happens if a comma-separated list to fsck has been regularized, 4797 and it is now possible to filter what filesystems will get checked 4798 based what is in the filesystem's fstab entry's option field. (Debian 4799 bug #89483.) 4800 4801 The dumpe2fs program can now print out the group description 4802 information in hex, and also prints the location of the superblock and 4803 block group descriptor for those block groups that have them. 4804 4805 Mke2fs now clears the ext2 superblock before it starts creating a 4806 filesystem, so that the superblock magic number is only written if the 4807 filesystem creation process successfully completes. 4808 4809 The debugfs program's stat command now pretty-prints the blocks used 4810 by an inode so that it's more compact and informative. 4811 4812 The debugfs stats command now uses the same libe2p code (which is used 4813 by dumpe2fs) to print the superblock header information. This is more 4814 complete, and it avoids a bit of code duplication. 4815 4816 Added a new debugfs command, set_super_value (ssv) which allows the 4817 user to set arbitrary superblock fields. 4818 4819 Debugfs was extended to support inode numbers in hex (by prefixing 4820 them with 0x), and so that modify_inode can set the inode generation 4821 number. Also, there is now a new function command called logdump 4822 which will dump an ext3 journal. 4823 4824 Fixed a bug in debugfs so that quitting out of the pager doesn't kill 4825 debugfs. 4826 4827 Debugfs's dump command now stops immediately upon reporting a disk 4828 read error. (Fixed a bug in ext2fs_file_read library routine which 4829 caused debugfs not to stop.) (Debian bug #79163) 4830 4831 On systems with /proc/mounts (mainly Linux systems), /proc/mounts is 4832 checked before /etc/mtab is used, since /proc/mounts is more likely to 4833 be accurate. 4834 4835 Added portability fixes for Solaris and Linux/ia64. 4836 4837 Various manual pages were clarified and cleaned up. (Fixed debian 4838 bugs #63442, #67446, and #87216) 4839 4840 4841 Programmer's notes: 4842 ------------------- 4843 4844 The e2fsck message printer now supports %Iu and %Ig, which will print 4845 out the inode's user and group owners, respectively. 4846 4847 E2fsprogs now includes its own version of include/linux/ext2_fs.h, so 4848 that no longer dependent on the system having the correct version of 4849 the kernel header files. 4850 4851 Added a new function to libext2, ext2fs_find_block_device(), which 4852 searches the system (i.e., /dev, /devfs, /devices) for a pathname to a 4853 device given its device number. 4854 4855 Added a new function to libext2, ext2fs_sync_device, which centralizes 4856 all of the places which might try to use the BLKFLSBUF or FDFLUSH 4857 ioctls (and usually failing to define them since the system header 4858 files don't usually do this for us, and we're trying to avoid usage of 4859 kernel include files now). 4860 4861 Added new utility programs in tests/progs: random_exercise and 4862 hold_inode. They aren't built by default; they're useful for 4863 exercising ext3 filesystem code. 4864 4865 Added a new ext2 filesystem flag, EXT2_FLAG_SUPER_ONLY, which causes 4866 the filesystem close functions to only update the superblock, and to 4867 not touch the block group descriptors. Needed by tune2fs when 4868 modifying a mounted filesystem. 4869 4870 Got rid of struct ext2fs_sb and replaced it with the standard struct 4871 ext2_super_block from include/linux/ext2_fs.h. Note: this may break 4872 source (but not binary) compatibility of some users of the ext2 4873 library. Those applications should just simply do a global search and 4874 replace of struct ext2fs_sb with struct ext2_super_block, and include 4875 the new header file <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> which defines it. 4876 4877 The ino_t type has been renamed ext2_ino_t to protect applications 4878 that attempt to compile -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, since this 4879 inexplicably changes ino_t(!?). So we use ext2_ino_t to avoid an 4880 unexpected ABI change. 4881 4882 The Makefiles have been reworked so that "make check" can be run from 4883 the top-level Makefile. 4884 4885 Fix general gcc -Wall complaints and removed dead code. 4886 4887 Remove use of NOARGS, because we assume everyone does ANSI C these 4888 days. 4889 4890 Added build-rpm script from sct. 4891 4892 New functions ext2fs_image_{inode,super,bitmap}_{read,write} added 4893 to support e2image. 4894 4895 New function ext2fs_flush_icache which must be called if the 4896 application program modifies the inode table blocks without going 4897 through ext2fs_write_inode() interface. 4898 4899 New ext2fs_check_mount_point() function, which will return the mount 4900 point of a device if mounted. 4901 4902 The io_channel abstraction now has an optional interface, 4903 io_channel_write_range, which allows specific byte ranges to be 4904 written. 4905 4906 The unix_io IO channel now supports write-through caching, so that 4907 journal creation is more efficient. 4908 4909 Added x86 assembly language routines to support byte swapping, to 4910 reduce executable size. 4911 4912 Fixed bug in the utility program subst so that it's possible to 4913 replace a substitution variable with a zero-length string. 4914 4915 Fixed numbering e2fsck pass1 problem numbers; an extra zero had 4916 slipped into some of the problem number. 4917 4918 E2fsprogs 1.19 (July 13, 2000) 4919 ============================== 4920 4921 Release the resize2fs program since the timeout before it could 4922 be released under the GPL has finally expired. 4923 4924 Add experimental support needed for the ext2 compression patches. 4925 This requires compiling e2fsprogs with the --enable-compression flag 4926 to the configure script. 4927 4928 Added ext3 journalling support. E2fsck will run the journal (if 4929 necessary) by temporarily mounting the filesystem. /sbin/fsck.ext3 is 4930 installed as a symlink to e2fsck. Fsck has been taught about ext3, 4931 and treats it the same as ext2 in terms of the progress bar logic. 4932 Dumpe2fs will display the superblock journaling information if the 4933 filesystem has a journal. The ext2 library will now permit opening an 4934 ext3 filesystem with the recovery flag set. This is necessary for 4935 on-line dump's to work correctly, but there may be issues with this 4936 working well since ext3 is much less agressive about syncing blocks to 4937 the filesystem, since they're safe on the journal. 4938 4939 Tune2fs and e2fsck have been changed to allow the mount_count check to 4940 be disabled by setting max_mount_count to -1. (This was already 4941 supported by the kernel.) 4942 4943 Create a symbolic link for fsck.ext3, since the e2fsprogs utilities 4944 are used for ext3 as well. 4945 4946 Added internationalization support for e2fsprogs; must be enabled 4947 by passing --enable-nls to configure. 4948 4949 Always use the provided ext2fs header files to insulate ourselves from 4950 kernel version changes. Which include files are used by e2fsprogs 4951 have also been cleaned up to improve portability. 4952 4953 Limit the number of times that e2fsck updates the progress bar so that 4954 people who are booting using a 9600 baud console don't get swampped by 4955 too many updates. 4956 4957 Improved the loop detection algorithm in e2sck's pass #3 so that it is 4958 much, much faster for large filesystems with a large number of 4959 directories. 4960 4961 The memory footprint for e2fsck is now slightly smaller than before. 4962 4963 E2fsck now checks if special devices have a non-zero size, and offers 4964 to clear the size field if it finds such an inode. 4965 4966 E2fsck now checks if special devices have the append-only flag set, 4967 and offers to clear the inode. 4968 4969 E2fsck now properly handles some "should never fail" cases during a 4970 bitmap copy in pass5. 4971 4972 E2fsck now properly prints control characters in filenames as ^A .. ^Z. 4973 4974 E2fsck now calculates the correct location of the backup superblock in 4975 the case of filesystem blocksizes > 1k. 4976 4977 Fixed a bug in e2fsck's calculation of the number of inodes_per_block 4978 which normally didn't cause problems under most filesystem parameters, 4979 but could cause a valid superblock to be rejected in extreme cases. 4980 Other checks for validating superblock values were made more 4981 stringent. 4982 4983 Added non-destructive write testing to the badblocks program, courtesy 4984 of David Beattie. The badblocks also now has an option to input the 4985 current set of bad blocks, so that known bad blocks are skipped to 4986 speed up the badblocks test. There is also a persistent rescan 4987 feature which causes badblocks to run until it has completed some 4988 number of passes without discovering any new bad blocks. 4989 4990 Badblocks now checks to see if the device is mounted and refuses to do 4991 the tests involving writing to the device if it is mounted. Also, 4992 badblocks now allows the number of blocks to be checked to be 4993 defaulted to the size of the partition. 4994 4995 Fixed a bug in fsck which didn't allow non-root users to be able to 4996 check filesystems if there were any LABEL= or UUID= entries in 4997 /etc/fstab. 4998 4999 The Hurd doesn't support the filetype filesystem feature. The mke2fs 5000 program now makes sure that for the Hurd, the filestype feature is 5001 turned off. E2fsck will check to see if the filetype feature is 5002 turned on for Hurd filesystems, and offer to turn off the feature. 5003 5004 Mke2fs now has a safety check to make sure the number of blocks do not 5005 exceed 32 bits even on a 64 bit platform. 5006 5007 Really fixed a bug in fsck to allow "fsck -As" to run interactive 5008 fsck's. (For those people who like to do interactive fsck's in the 5009 /etc/rc scripts!?!) 5010 5011 Debugfs has a few new features: the rdump command, which will do a 5012 recursive dump of a directory and all of its contents, and the lcd 5013 command which does a local chdir (much like the ftp command of the 5014 same name). In addition, the debugfs program and the open_filesystem 5015 command now takes three new options: -b and -s, which allows the 5016 blocksize and superblock location to be specified, and the -c option 5017 which is used in catastrophic situations where the block group 5018 descriptors are corrupt. If the -c option is specified, debugfs will 5019 skip trying to read in the block and inode bitmaps. 5020 5021 Debufs's lsdel command was fixed to handle bad blocks in the inode 5022 table. 5023 5024 A Y2K bug in debugfs's "ls -l" handling was fixed by switching to use 5025 4 digit years. 5026 5027 General improvements in error messages 5028 5029 - Mke2fs prints a sane error message if the partition size is zero 5030 (usually because the partition table wasn't reread by the 5031 kernel due to the partition being busy), instead of "invalid 5032 argument passed to ext2 library while initializing superblock". 5033 5034 - Fsck now prints more self-explanatory message if an invalid UUID= 5035 or LABEL= specification is passed to it. 5036 5037 UUID library changed to use the LGPL. 5038 5039 Fixed a bug in the UUID library where very rapid calls to the 5040 time-based UUID generator could cause duplicate UUID's to be returned. 5041 This was not a problem for e2fsprogs, but it could be a problem for 5042 other users of the library. 5043 5044 Make the UUID library more robust in the face of missing or an 5045 improper /dev/urandom or /dev/random files. 5046 5047 Added some random portability fixes for Solaris. 5048 5049 Some minor man page updates. 5050 5051 Fixed a memory leak in the ss library. 5052 5053 5054 Programmer's notes: 5055 ------------------- 5056 5057 We now try to use lseek64 and open64 from the LFS if possible. 5058 5059 The 3rd parameter in e2p's print_flags is now a flags word, instead of 5060 a boolean option. 5061 5062 The mark and unmark bitmap functions now return the previous state of 5063 the bit that was being changed, which is useful for some speed 5064 optimizations. 5065 5066 The following functions have been added to enhance the badblocks list 5067 handling in libext2fs: ext2fs_write_bb_FILE, ext2fs_read_bb_FILE2, and 5068 ext2fs_badblocks_equal. 5069 5070 The ext2 header files now have the latest journalling fields to the 5071 superblock. 5072 5073 The ext2fs_mkdir function in libext2fs now properly backs out of error 5074 conditions robustly. 5075 5076 Cleaned up makefiles: 5077 - to cleanly compile with the -j flag. 5078 - so distclean removes all generated files. 5079 - so in case of an error while installing header files, the make aborts. 5080 5081 Fix test_script so that it works correctly when compiling in the 5082 source directory. 5083 5084 The random UUID generation routine has been made slightly better in 5085 the case where /dev/random doesn't exist. (Use of randomly-based UUID 5086 is still not recommended if /dev/random doesn't exist, however; it's 5087 better to use the time/ethernet MAC address UUID in this case.) 5088 5089 Clean up the build process so it's more friendly in case of missing 5090 directories. 5091 5092 The ext2fs header file can now be #include'd into C++ programs. 5093 5094 The e2p.h header file is now installed. 5095 5096 Added workaround to a gawk 3.0.5 bug in lib/ss/mk_cmds. 5097 5098 5099 5100 E2fsprogs 1.18 (November 10, 1999) 5101 ================================== 5102 5103 Fix a core dumping bug in e2fsck if an imagic inode is present or 5104 (more rarely) if the filesystem is badly corrupted enough that e2fsck 5105 has to restart pass 1 processing. E2fsck now closes the filesystem 5106 before freeing a large number of its data structures, so in the case 5107 of future memory faults, at least the fixed filesystem will be fully 5108 written out. 5109 5110 If a filesystem doesn't support imagic inodes, and e2fsck discovers an 5111 imagic inode, it will offer to clear the imagic flag. 5112 5113 E2fsck will now offer to clear the immutable flag on special files 5114 (device/socket/fifos) when running it in non-preen mode. 5115 5116 E2fsck will now set the filetype when creating /lost+found, and when 5117 connected orphaned inodes to /lost+found. 5118 5119 Debugfs's ncheck and icheck commands now handles the case where there 5120 are bad blocks in the inode table without bombing out. 5121 5122 The badblocks list processing code has been made more efficiently for 5123 appending a large number of (ordered) badblocks to the badblocks list. 5124 5125 Some minor man page updates. 5126 5127 Fsck now allows interactive e2fsck's when using fsck -As (not a common 5128 mode, but some people like to do this in boot scripts for silly reasons). 5129 5130 Programmer's notes: 5131 ------------------- 5132 5133 The internal e2fsck problem code for PR_2_SPLIT_DOT was fixed to meet 5134 with the problem code convention. 5135 5136 The badblocks list regression test program has been updated to work 5137 with previously made API name changes. 5138 5139 The ext2fs_free() command now uses the new badblocks API to avoid 5140 using the compatibility layer. 5141 5142 Added new regression test cases; the run_e2fsck test script now 5143 supports the ability for a test case to run a prepratory command 5144 before running e2fsck. 5145 5146 E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999) 5147 ================================= 5148 5149 Fixed nasty typo in fsck which caused parallelized fsck's to go into an 5150 infinite loop. 5151 5152 Fixed a bug in fsck where it used strncmp to compare a binary UUID, 5153 thus potentially causing problems if a binary UUID contained a NULL 5154 character. 5155 5156 E2fsck now uses stricter checks for directory entries in pass 2: 5157 zero-length filenames are not allowed; neither are 8 byte long 5158 directory entries. 5159 5160 The debugfs "dirty" command now clears the filesystem valid bit. 5161 (Previously this just set the dirty-as-in-needs-writing-out-to-disk 5162 bit in the in-core superblock image. The new functionality is more 5163 what the user expects, and is more useful.) 5164 5165 Added a debugging hook to test parallel fsck; if the environment 5166 variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL, then filesystems on the same drive 5167 will be checked in parallel when they normally would not be. 5168 5169 Programmer's notes: 5170 ------------------- 5171 5172 Fixed some #ifdef's for compilation under the Hurd OS. 5173 5174 Fixed minor W2K compatibility problems. 5175 5176 Fixed some miscellaneous GCC warnings. 5177 5178 5179 E2fsprogs 1.16 (October 22, 1999) 5180 ================================= 5181 5182 Fixed a race condition bug in fsck; when printing a progress bar, if 5183 checking multiple filesystems in parallel, it was possible for fsck to 5184 send e2fsck a SIGUSR1 signal before e2fsck had installed its signal 5185 handler, which would cause it to terminate with a signal 10. 5186 5187 E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the 5188 INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature turned on. It can be used to convert a 5189 filesystem into using or not using FILETYPE feature. 5190 5191 E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the IMAGIC feature 5192 turned on (this is used on Linux AFS servers). 5193 5194 The mke2fs program now creates filesystems that have the filetype and 5195 sparse_superblock features enabled by default, unless it is run on a 5196 pre-2.2 kernel. These features are not supported by a pre-2.2 kernel, 5197 so there is now a new flag -O which allows the user to specify with 5198 which features she would like to create the filesystem; "mke2fs -O 5199 none" will create a filesystsem compatible with 2.0 kernels. 5200 5201 The tune2fs program now has a -O option which allows the user to set 5202 and reset "safe" filesystem features. Currently, the only ones which 5203 allows to be modified are the filetype and sparse_superblock features. 5204 Note setting or clearing either feature will require running e2fsck on 5205 the filesystem afterwards. (n.b. Clearing the sparse_superblock feature 5206 requires that there is enough free space on the filesystem for the 5207 extra superblocks which will be created by e2fsck.) 5208 5209 Debugfs can now set and print filesystem features in the superblock 5210 using the "features" command. Dumpe2fs will print out the complete 5211 set of features when listing the superblock. 5212 5213 Dumpe2fs has new options -f (force) and -h (header-only). 5214 5215 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause the PROGRAMMING ERROR/bonehead 5216 message to come up. This could happen when decrementing or 5217 incrementing a link count could result in an overflow. 5218 5219 Fixed a bug in e2fsck where the block count on the lost+found 5220 directory would not be properly incremented when the directory was 5221 expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be allocated. 5222 5223 E2fsck now makes some additional sanity checks on the superblock to 5224 avoid crashing or giving a memory allocation error if some of the 5225 values in the superblock are unresonable (but the superblock otherwise 5226 looks valid). 5227 5228 Fixed a bug in e2fsck where a very badly corrupted filesystem might 5229 require two passes to completely fix the filesystem. This happened if 5230 an inode claimed blocks that was part of the filesystem metadata 5231 (typically, when garbage was written into an inode table or indirect 5232 block, since this kind of filesystem corruption normally doesn't 5233 happen otherwise). 5234 5235 On the Alpha, glibc declares st_flags although it isn't actually used; 5236 the configure script was improved to detect this case so that 5237 e2fsprogs can avoid using the non-functional stat field. 5238 5239 The manual pages were updated to use a more consistent formatting 5240 style consistent with standard Unix man pages. Mke2fs's man page 5241 added documentation for a few previously undocumented options. 5242 5243 Fixed minor display bugs in tune2fs and mke2fs. 5244 5245 Programmer's notes: 5246 ------------------- 5247 5248 Improved portability of e2fsprogs to non-Unix systems (in particular, NT). 5249 5250 Added features to parse and print feature strings into the e2p library. 5251 (e2p_feature2string, e2p_string2feature, e2p_edit_feature). 5252 5253 ext2fs_mkdir() and ext2fs_new_dir_block() now creates directories 5254 whose directory entries contain proper filetype information if the 5255 filesystem supports it. 5256 5257 ext2fs_link() now uses the low 3 bits of its flags parameter to pass 5258 the directory entry filetype information. This is used to set the 5259 directory entry filetype information if the filesystem supports it. 5260 5261 Fixed a bug in ext2fs_expand_dir() where the block count in a 5262 directory's inode would not be properly incremented when the directory 5263 was expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be 5264 allocated. 5265 5266 5267 E2fsprogs 1.15 (July 18, 1999) 5268 ============================== 5269 5270 Add configuration checks so that e2fsprogs will compile cleanly on 5271 Linux 2.3 kernels that have renamed i_version to i_generation. 5272 5273 E2fsck now prints a progress/completion bar (and not just a simple 5274 spinner) if the -C0 option is requested or if it receives a SIGUSR1 5275 signal. Fsck will automatically manage the (potentially muliple) 5276 e2fsck processes to print completion bars if it is given a -C option, 5277 with the right thing happening if multiple filesystems are being 5278 checked in parallel. 5279 5280 Mke2fs now has better automatic hueristics to determine the filesystem 5281 parameters to be used for a particular filesystem. Added a new option 5282 -T which allows the user to specify how the filesystem is to be used, 5283 which helps mke2fs do a better job selecting the filesystem parameters. 5284 5285 Mke2fs now creates revision 1 filesystems by default, and with the 5286 sparse superblock feature enabled. The sparse superblock feature is 5287 not understood by Linux 2.0 kernels, so they will only allow read-only 5288 mounts of filesystems with this sparse superblocks. 5289 5290 Fix bug where if /dev/null couldn't be opened (should never happen), 5291 e2fsck would hang in a tight loop. 5292 5293 Make e2fsck handle the case where /lost+found isn't a directory. 5294 5295 E2fsck now uses mallinfo if it exists to get accurate statistics about 5296 its memory usage. 5297 5298 Fix bug in e2fsck where it wouldn't check to see if a disconnected 5299 inode had any problems before connecting it to /lost+found. 5300 5301 Add check to e2fsck so it makes sure that total number of inodes in 5302 the filesystem is a sane number. 5303 5304 Fix fencepost error when clearing an the end of the block bitmap which 5305 caused the last block in the bitmap not to get cleared. 5306 5307 Cleaned up a number of messages in e2fsck: 5308 * The message "Group's #'s copy of the group descriptor..." 5309 was fixed so that the correct number would be displayed. 5310 * Added missing space in the "disk write-protected" error messsage 5311 * Cleaned up the error message printed when a non-interactive 5312 e2fsck needs to abort a check because the filesystem 5313 appears to be mounted. 5314 5315 Added a new command-line utility, uuidgen, which will create and print 5316 a UUID. 5317 5318 Make debugfs's icheck command more robust by checking to make sure an 5319 inode has valid blocks before interarting over the inode's blocks. 5320 5321 UUID generation now uses a random-based scheme whenever possible to 5322 prevent potential privacy problems. 5323 5324 Man pages for all of the UUID functions in the lirbary were added. 5325 5326 Fixed bug in fsck so it won't coredump if a filesystem not in 5327 /etc/fstab is given to it. 5328 5329 Fsck now understands the UUID=xxxx and LABEL=yyyy forms in /etc/fstab 5330 that most of the other mount utilities understands. 5331 5332 Mke2fs will make a filesystem even if it appears mounted if the force 5333 option is given. 5334 5335 Dumpe2fs has new command-line options which allow a filesystem expert 5336 to specify the superblock and blocksize when opening a filesystem. 5337 This is mainly useful when examining the remains of a toasted 5338 filesystem. 5339 5340 The badblocks program has been updated to display correctly on disks 5341 with large block numbers. 5342 5343 The badblocks program no longer gives spurious errors when errors 5344 occur on non-block boundaries, which is common if the blocksize is 5345 larger than 1k. 5346 5347 Mke2fs will sync the disk device every MKE2FS_SYNC block groups if the 5348 MKE2FS_SYNC environment variable is set. This is to work around a VM 5349 bug in the 2.0 kernel. I've heard a report that a RAID user was able 5350 to trigger it even using a 2.2 kernel, but hopefully it will not be 5351 needed for most Linux 2.2 users. 5352 5353 Fixed miscellaneous documentation and man pages. 5354 5355 Programmer's notes: 5356 ------------------- 5357 5358 Cleaned up functions such as pass1_get_blocks, pass1_read_inode which 5359 in e2fsck's pass1.c really should have been static. 5360 5361 The return value of the uuid_compare() function was changed to make it 5362 match with the convetions used by strcmp, memcmp, and Paul Leach's 5363 UUID sample document. 5364 5365 The "make depend" process has now been made more automated; it now 5366 automatically word-wraps the dependencies, and only replaces source 5367 Makefile.in if there has been a change in the dependencies. Also, a 5368 top-level "make depend" now recurses through all the subdirectories 5369 automatically. 5370 5371 The Makefile in .../util has been changed so that subst is built using 5372 the native C compiler during a cross-compilation, since the subst 5373 program is only used during the build process. Also add an explicit 5374 rule to build util/subst by cd'ing to the correct directory and 5375 running Makefile. 5376 5377 The man directories are defined in terms mandir, so that the configure 5378 script can override the location of the manual pages. 5379 5380 The config files have been updated to recognize new machine types for 5381 both the i386 and alpha families. 5382 5383 Fsck has been modified so that it will accurately create an 5384 fsck_instance even when the noexecute flag is set. This allows for 5385 accurate debugging of the fsck pass structure. Also, when the verbose 5386 flag is given twice, fsck will print debugging information about when 5387 fsck is waiting for jobs to finish. 5388 5389 5390 E2fsprogs 1.14 (January 9, 1999) 5391 ================================ 5392 5393 Fix the fstab parsing code so that it can handle blank lines and 5394 comment characters. Also, missing pass numbers need to be treated as 5395 zero. 5396 5397 Fixed a bug in e2fsck where under some circumstances (when e2fsck 5398 needs to restart processing after fixing an egregious inconsistency) 5399 it would try to access already freed memory. 5400 5401 E2fsck now prints non-printable characters in directory entries and 5402 pathnames using '^' and 'M-' notation. 5403 5404 Fixed chattr so that it will ignore symbolic links when doing 5405 recursive descent traversals. For both chattr and lsattr, no longer 5406 print the version string unless the -V option is given. 5407 5408 Allow the system administrator to directly specify the number of 5409 inodes desired in the filesystem, for some special cases where this is 5410 necessary. 5411 5412 Fix portability problems so that e2fsprogs can be compiled under Linux 5413 1.2 systems and Solaris systems. 5414 5415 Update the config.guess file with a more recent version that will 5416 identify newer Linux platforms. 5417 5418 Programmer's notes 5419 ------------------ 5420 5421 Ext2fs_read_inode and ext2fs_write_inode will now return an error if 5422 an inode number of zero is passed to them. 5423 5424 E2fsprogs 1.13 (December 15, 1998) 5425 ================================== 5426 5427 Fixed a bug in debugfs where an error messages weren't getting printed 5428 when the ext2 library routines to read inodes returned errors in the 5429 stat, cmri and rm commands. 5430 5431 Fixed a bug in mke2fs so that if a ridiculous inode ratio parameter is 5432 provided, it won't create an inode table smaller than the minimum 5433 number of inodes required for a proper ext2 filesystem. 5434 5435 Fsck now parses the /etc/fstab file directly (instead of using 5436 getmntent()), so that it can distinguish between a missing pass number 5437 field and pass number field of zero. This caused problems for 5438 diskless workstations where all of the filesystems in /etc/fstab have 5439 an explicit pass number of zero, and fsck could not distinguish this 5440 from a /etc/fstab file with missing pass numbers. 5441 5442 E2fsck will create a /lost+found directory if there isn't one in the 5443 filesystem, since it's safer to create the lost+found directory before 5444 it's needed. 5445 5446 Fixed e2fsck so that it would detect bogus immutable inodes which 5447 happen to be sockets and FIFO files, and offer to clear them. 5448 5449 If a filesystem has multiple reasons why it needs to be checked, and 5450 one of the reasons is that it is uncleanly mounted, e2fsck will print 5451 that as the reason why the filesystem is being checked. 5452 5453 Cleaned up the output routines of mke2fs so that it doesn't overflow 5454 an 80 column display when formating really big filesystems. 5455 5456 Added a sanity check to e2fsck to make sure that file descriptors 0, 5457 1, 2 are open before opening the hard disk. This avoids a problem 5458 where a broken program might exec e2fsck with those file descriptors 5459 closed, which would cause disastrous results if the kernel returns a 5460 file descriptor for the block device which is also used by FILE * 5461 stdout. 5462 5463 Fixed up the e2fsck progress reporting functions so that the values 5464 reliably reach 100% at the completion of all of the e2fsck passes. 5465 5466 Fixed minor documentation bugs in man pages and usage messages. 5467 5468 Programmer's notes: 5469 ------------------- 5470 5471 Fixed a number of lint warnings in the ext2fs library and potential 5472 portability problems from other OS's header files that might define 5473 CPP macros for names like "max" and "min". 5474 5475 ext2fs_badblocks_list_add() has been made more efficient when it needs 5476 to grow the bad blocks list. 5477 5478 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to dereference a freed pointer 5479 just before exiting. 5480 5481 Fixed the substition process for generating the mk_cmds and compile_et 5482 scripts so that they will work outside of the build tree. 5483 5484 Add sanity check to e2fsck so that if an internal routine 5485 (ext2fs_get_dir_info) returns NULL, avoid dereferencing the pointer 5486 and causing a core dump. This should never happen, but... 5487 5488 E2fsprogs 1.12 (July 9, 1998) 5489 ================================== 5490 5491 E2fsprogs now works with glibc (at least with the version shipped wtih 5492 RedHat 5.0). The ext2fs_llseek() function should now work even with 5493 i386 ELF shared libraries and if llseek() is not present. We also 5494 explicitly do a configure test to see if (a) llseek is in libc, and 5495 (b) if llseek is declared in the system header files. (See standard 5496 complaints about libc developers don't understand the concept of 5497 compatibility with previous versions of libc.) 5498 5499 The ext2fs library now writes out the block group number in each of 5500 the superblock copies. This makes it easier to automatically 5501 determine the starting block group of the filesystem when the block 5502 group information is trashed. 5503 5504 Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature, 5505 which means that e2fsprogs will ignore the high 8 bits of the 5506 directory entry's name_len field, so that it can be used for other 5507 purposes. 5508 5509 Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature. 5510 E2fsprogs will now support filesystems with 64-bit sized files. 5511 5512 Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_PREALLOC feature. 5513 5514 Added new program "e2label", contributed by Andries Brouwer. E2label 5515 provides an easy-to-use interface to modify the filesystem label. 5516 5517 Fixed bug so that lsattr -v works instead of producing a core dump. 5518 5519 Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs so that all groups with bad superblock 5520 backup blocks are printed (not just the first one). 5521 5522 Mke2fs will check the size of the device, and if the user specifies a 5523 filesystem size larger than the apparent size of the device it will 5524 print a warning message and ask if the user wants to proceed. 5525 5526 E2fsck has a new option -C, which sends completion information to the 5527 specified file descriptor. For the most part, this is intended for 5528 programs to use, although -C 0 will print a spinning character to the 5529 stdout device, which may be useful for users who want to see something 5530 happening while e2fsck goes about its business. 5531 5532 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause a core dump when it needs to 5533 expand the /lost+found directory, and sometimes the bitmaps haven't 5534 been merged in. Also fixed a related bug where ext2fs_write_dir_block 5535 was used to write out a non-directory block. (Which would be bad on a 5536 non-Intel platform with byte swapping going on.) 5537 5538 Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would print a "programming error" message 5539 instead of correctly identifying where a bad block was in used when 5540 the bad block was in a non-primary superblock or block group 5541 descriptor. Also fixed a related bug when sparse superblocks are in 5542 use and there is a bad block where a superblock or block group 5543 descriptor would have been in a group that doesn't include a 5544 superblock. 5545 5546 Fixed a bug in e2fsck (really in libext2fs's dblist function) where if 5547 the block group descriptor table is corrupt, it was possible to try to 5548 allocate a huge array, fail, and then abort e2fsck. 5549 ext2fs_get_num_dirs() now sanity checks the block group descriptor, 5550 and subsitutes reasonable values if the descriptors are obviously bogus. 5551 5552 If e2fsck finds a device file which has the immutable flag set and the 5553 i_blocks beyond the normal device number are non-zero, e2fsck will 5554 offer to remove it, since it's probably caused by garbage in the inode 5555 table. 5556 5557 When opening a filesystem, e2fsck specially checks for the EROFS error 5558 code, and prints a specific error message to the user which is more 5559 user friendly. 5560 5561 If the filesystem revision is too high, change the e2fsck to print 5562 that this is either because e2fsck is out of date, or because the 5563 superblock is corrupt. 5564 5565 E2fsck now checks for directories that have duplicate '.' and '..' 5566 entries, and fixes this corruption. 5567 5568 E2fsck no longer forces a sync of the filesystem (with attendant sleep 5569 calls) at all times. The ext2fs_flush() function now performs a sync 5570 only if it needed to write data blocks to disk. 5571 5572 Fixed a minor bug in e2fsck's pass1b's file cloning function, where 5573 certain errors would not be properly reported. 5574 5575 Updated and expanded a few points in the man pages which users 5576 complained wheren't explicit enough. 5577 5578 Added special case byte-swapping code if compiling on the PowerPC, to 5579 accomodate the strange big-endian variant of the ext2 filesystem that 5580 was previously used on the PowerPC port. 5581 5582 5583 Programmer's notes: 5584 ------------------- 5585 5586 Removed C++ keywords from the ext2fs libraries so that it could be 5587 compiled with C++. 5588 5589 E2fsck's internal organization has now been massively reorganized so 5590 that pass*.c don't have any printf statements. Instead, all problems 5591 are reported through the fix_problem() abstraction interface. E2fsck 5592 has also been revamped so that it can be called as a library from a 5593 application. 5594 5595 Added new fileio primitives in libext2fs for reading and writing 5596 files on an unmounted ext2 filesystem. This interface is now used by 5597 debugfs. 5598 5599 Added a new libext2fs function for mapping logical block numbers of 5600 a file to a physical block number. 5601 5602 Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_alloc_block(), which allocates 5603 a block, zeros it, and updates the filesystem accounting records 5604 appropriately. 5605 5606 Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_set_bitmap_padding(), which 5607 sets the padding of the bitmap to be all one's. Used by e2fsck pass 5. 5608 5609 The libext2fs functions now use a set of memory allocation wrapper 5610 functions: ext2fs_get_mem, ext2fs_free_mem, and ext2fs_resize_mem, 5611 instead of malloc, free, and resize. This makes it easier for us to 5612 be ported to strange environments where malloc, et. al. aren't 5613 necessarily available. 5614 5615 Change the libext2fs fucntion to return ext2-specific error codes 5616 (EXT2_DIR_EXISTS and EXT2_DB_NOT_FOUND, for example) instead of using 5617 and depending on the existence of system error codes (such as EEXIST 5618 and ENOENT). 5619 5620 Renamed io.h to ext2_io.h to avoid collision with other OS's header 5621 files. 5622 5623 Add protection against ext2_io.h and ext2fs.h being included multiple 5624 times. 5625 5626 The types used for memory lengths, etc. have been made more portable. 5627 In generla, the code has been made 16-bit safe. Added Mark 5628 Habersack's contributed DOS disk i/o routines. 5629 5630 Miscellaneous portability fixes, including not depending on char's 5631 being signed. 5632 5633 The io_channel structure has a new element, app_data, which is 5634 initialized by the ext2fs routines to contain a copy of the filesystem 5635 handle. 5636 5637 ext2fs_check_directory()'s callback function may now return the error 5638 EXT2_ET_CALLBACK_NOTHANDLED if it wishes ext2fs_check_directory() to 5639 really do the checking, despite the presence of the callback function. 5640 5641 5642 E2fsprosg 1.11 (June 17, 1997) 5643 ============================== 5644 5645 Fixed e2fsck to detect (previously ignored) conflicts between the 5646 superblock or block group descriptors and block bitmaps, inode 5647 bitmaps, and inode tables. 5648 5649 Fixed bug in e2fsck so that when the message printed out when a block 5650 or inode bitmap conflicts with other data, it has the correct group 5651 number. 5652 5653 Fixed bug in e2fsck and mke2fs where the blocksize wasn't being passed 5654 to badblocks. This meant that not all of the filesystem was being 5655 tested for bad blocks! 5656 5657 Fixed an array boundary overrun case which cropped up in 5658 ext2fs_badblocks_list_test when a user tried running "mke2fs -c 5659 -b 4096". 5660 5661 Adjusted the number of columns printed by mke2fs when displaying the 5662 superblock backups to avoid running over 80 columns when making a 5663 really big filesystem. 5664 5665 Fixed up the man pages for e2fsck, debugfs, badblocks, chattr, 5666 dumpe2fs, fsck, mke2fs, and tune2fs (typos and other minor grammar 5667 fixes), thanks to some suggestions from Bill Hawes (whawes (a] star.net). 5668 5669 Programmer's notes: 5670 ------------------- 5671 5672 Fixed install rule in lib/ss so that ss_err.h is actually getting 5673 installed. 5674 5675 Fixed bug in ext2fs_copy_bitmap; the destination bitmap wasn't getting 5676 bassed back to the caller. 5677 5678 Fixed bug in ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup; it had not been 5679 setting the current inode number (which meant this function wasn't 5680 working at all). 5681 5682 Fixed bug in ext2fs_resize_generic_bitmap; it had not be zeroing all 5683 blocks in the bitmap when increasing the size of the bitmap. 5684 5685 Changed the initial number of blocks allocated by ext2fs_init_dblist() 5686 to be more realistic. 5687 5688 Added a new function ext2fs_allocate_group_table, which sets up the 5689 group descriptor information (and allocates inode and block bitmaps, 5690 and inode tables for a particular group). The function was created by 5691 factoring out code form ext2fs_allocate_tables(). 5692 5693 Added a new function ext2fs_move_blocks which takes a bitmap of the 5694 blocks to be moved, and moves them to another location on the 5695 boardboard. 5696 5697 Make the unix_io channel's io_channel_flush implementation calls sync() 5698 to to flush the kernel buffers to disk. 5699 5700 Added a new function ext2fs_dblist_count returns the number of 5701 directory blocks in dblist. 5702 5703 5704 E2fsprogs 1.10 (April 24, 1997) 5705 =============================== 5706 5707 Mke2fs once again defaults to creating revision #0 filesystems, since 5708 people were complaining about breaking compatibility with 1.2 kernels. 5709 Warning messages were added to the mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that 5710 the sparse superblock option isn't supported by most kernels yet (1.2 5711 and 2.0 both don't support parse superblocks.) 5712 5713 Added new flag to mke2fs, -R <raid options>, which allows the user to 5714 tell mke2fs about the RAID configuration of the filesystem. Currently 5715 the only supported raid option is "stride" which specifies the width 5716 of the RAID stripe. 5717 5718 Fixed bug in e2fsck where pass1b would bomb out if there were any 5719 blocks marked bad in the inode table. 5720 5721 Fixed rare bug in mke2fs where if the user had a very unlucky number 5722 of blocks in a filesystem (probability less than .002) the resulting 5723 filesystem would be corrupt in the last block group. 5724 5725 Fixed bug where if e2fsck tried to allocate a block to fix a 5726 filesystem corruption problem and the filesystem had no free blocks, 5727 ext2fs_new_block() would loop forever. 5728 5729 The configure script now checks explicitly to see if "-static" works, 5730 since that can't be assumed to be true --- RedHat doesn't install 5731 libc-static by default. 5732 5733 Fixed bug in libext2's block iterator functions where under some 5734 cirmcustances, file with holes would cause the bcount parameter to the 5735 callback function to be incorrect. This bug didn't affect any of 5736 e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by Paul Mackerras, the 5737 author of the PPC boot loader. 5738 5739 Removed use of static variables to store the inode cache in libext2fs. 5740 This caused problems if more than one filesystem was accessed via 5741 libext2fs (static variables in libraries are generally a bad idea). 5742 Again, this didn't affect e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by 5743 Paul Mackerras. 5744 5745 Fixed minor bugs and version code drift to assure that e2fsprogs 1.10 5746 will compile cleanly with 1.2.13 kernels (even with a.out shared 5747 libraries!) 5748 5749 Programmer's notes: 5750 ------------------- 5751 5752 Added new functions to duplicate an ext2 filesystem handle, and its 5753 associated substructure. New functions: ext2fs_dup_handle(), 5754 ext2fs_copy_dblist(), ext2fs_badblocks_copy(), ext2fs_copy_bitmap(). 5755 Other structures, such as the io_channel and the inode_cache, now have 5756 a ref count so that they only get freed when they are no longer used 5757 by any filesystem handle. (These functions were added as part of the 5758 development effort for an ext2 resizer). 5759 5760 E2fsprogs 1.09 (April 14, 1997) 5761 =============================== 5762 5763 Fixed bug in mke2fs (really in lib/ext2fs/initialize.c) which was 5764 accidentally introduced in the 1.08 release. The overhead calculation 5765 was accidentally removed, which caused ext2fs_initialize() to not 5766 notice when the filesystem size needed to be adjusted down because 5767 there wasn't enough space in the last block group. 5768 5769 Fixed bug in version parsing library routine; it was always parsing 5770 the library version string, instead of using the passed-in string. 5771 5772 Clarified chattr man page. 5773 5774 E2fsprogs 1.08 (April 10, 1997) 5775 =============================== 5776 5777 E2fsck 1.07 was very slow when checking very large filesystems with a 5778 lot of files that had hard links (i.e., news spools). This was fixed 5779 by seriously revamping the icount abstraction. Added a formal test 5780 suite for the icount abstraction. 5781 5782 Debugfs now has a "-l" option to the "ls" command, which lists the 5783 inode number, permissions, owner, group, size, and name of the files 5784 in the directory. 5785 5786 Fix a bug in e2fsck where when a directory had its blocks moved to 5787 another location during the pass 1b processing, the directory block 5788 list wasn't updated, so pass 2 wouldn't check (and correct) the 5789 correct directory block. 5790 5791 E2fsck will now treat inodes which contain blocks which are claimed by 5792 the filesystem metadata by treating them as multiply claimed blocks. 5793 This way, the data in those blocks can be copied to a new block during 5794 the pass 1b--1d processing. 5795 5796 E2fsck will attempt to determine the correct superblock number and 5797 display it in the diagnostic and warning messages if possible. 5798 5799 Add support for a new (incompatible) feature, "sparse_super". This 5800 feature reduces the number of blocks which contain copies of backup 5801 superblocks and block group descriptors. (It is only an incompatible 5802 feature because of a bug in ext2_free_blocks.) mke2fs and tune2fs now 5803 support a new -s option; e2fsck will recognize filesystems built with 5804 this feature turned on. 5805 5806 E2fsck now checks the library to make sure is the correct version, 5807 using new library functions. (This helps to diagnose incorrectly 5808 installed e2fsprogs distributions.) 5809 5810 Dumpe2fs now prints more information; its now prints the the 5811 filesystem revision number, the filesystem sparse_super feature (if 5812 present), the block ranges for each block group, and the offset from 5813 the beginning of the block group. 5814 5815 Mke2fs now distributes the inode and block bitmap blok so that the 5816 won't be concentrated in one or two disks in RAID/striping setups. 5817 Also, if the user chooses a 2k or 4k block group, mke2fs will try to 5818 choose the largest blocks per group that be chosen. (For 2k blocks, 5819 you can have up to 16384 blocks/group; for 4k blocks, you can have up 5820 to 32768 blocks/group.) Previously mke2fs would not allow 5821 specification of more than 8192 blocks per group, even if you were 5822 using a 2k or 4k block group. 5823 5824 Programmer's notes: 5825 ------------------- 5826 5827 Added a new function ext2fs_create_icount2() which takes a "hint" 5828 argument. This hint argument presets the icount array with the list 5829 of inodes which actually need to be in the icount array. This really 5830 helps to speed up e2fsck. 5831 5832 Added a new function ext2fs_icount_validate() which checks the rep 5833 invariant for the icount structure. This is used mostly for testing. 5834 5835 The error mesasage given when a bad inode number is passed to 5836 test_generic_bitmap to reflect EXT2FS_TEST_ERROR (instead of 5837 EXT2FS_UNMARK_ERROR). 5838 5839 Added a new function ext2fs_set_dir_block which sets the block of a 5840 dblist entry, given the directory inode and blockcnt. 5841 5842 Added a new function ext2fs_get_library_version() which returns the 5843 current library version, and ext2fs_parse_version_string() which 5844 returns a version number based on a e2fsprogs version string. 5845 5846 The icount functions will return EINVAL if the passed in inode number 5847 is out of bounds. 5848 5849 E2fsprogs 1.07 (March 9, 1997) 5850 ============================== 5851 5852 E2fsck is now uses much less memory when checking really large 5853 filesystems (or rather, filesystems with a large number of inodes). 5854 Previously a filesystem with 1 million inodes required 4 megabytes of 5855 memory to store inode count statistics; that storage requirement has 5856 now been reduced to roughly half a megabyte. 5857 5858 E2fsck can now properly deal with bad blocks appearing inside the 5859 inode table. Instead of trying to relocate the inode table (which 5860 often failed because there wasn't enough space), the inodes in the bad 5861 block are marked as in use. 5862 5863 E2fsck will automatically try to use the backup superblocks if the 5864 primary superblocks have a bad magic number or have missing meta-data 5865 blocks (or meta-data blocks which are out of range). 5866 5867 E2fsck's pass 3 has been made more efficient; most noticeable on 5868 filesystems with a very large number of directories. 5869 5870 Completely revamped e2fsck's system of printing problem reports. It 5871 is now table driven, to make them more easily customizeable and 5872 extendable. Error messages which can be printed out during preen mode 5873 are now one line long. 5874 5875 Fixed e2fsck's filesystem swapping code so that it won't try to swap 5876 fast symbolic links or deleted files. 5877 5878 Fixed e2fsck core dumping when fixing a filesystem which has no 5879 directories (not even a root directory). 5880 5881 Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that the length of every 5882 directory entry is a multiple of 4 (since the kernel complains if it 5883 isn't). 5884 5885 Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that a directory entry isn't a 5886 link to the root directory, since that isn't allowed. 5887 5888 Added a check to e2fsk to now make sure the '.' and '..' directory 5889 entries are null terminated, since the 2.0 kernel requires it. 5890 5891 Added check to write_bitmaps() to make sure the superblock doesn't get 5892 trashed if the inode or block bitmap is marked as being block zero. 5893 5894 Added checking of the new feature set fields in the superblock, to 5895 avoid dealing with new filesystem features that this package wasn't 5896 set up to handle. 5897 5898 Fixed a fencepost error in ext2fs_new_block() which would occasionally 5899 try to allocate a block beyond the end of a filesystem. 5900 5901 When the UUID library picks a random IEEE 802 address (because it 5902 can't find one from a network card), it sets the multicast bit, to 5903 avoid conflicting with a legitimate IEEE 802 address. 5904 5905 Mke2fs now sets the root directory's owner to be the real uid of the 5906 user running mke2fs. If the real uid is non-zero, it also sets 5907 the group ownership of the root directory to be the real group-id of 5908 the user running mke2fs. 5909 5910 Mke2fs now has more intelligent error checking when it is given a 5911 non-existent device. 5912 5913 When badblocks is given the -vv option, it now updates the block that 5914 it is currently testing on every block. 5915 5916 Fixed a bug in fsck where it wouldn't modify the PATH envirnoment 5917 currently correctly if PATH wasn't already set. 5918 5919 Shared libraries now built with dependencies. This allows the shared 5920 library files to be used with dlopen(); it also makes the transition 5921 to libc 6 easier, since ld.so can tell which libc a particular shared 5922 library expects to use. 5923 5924 Programmer's notes: 5925 ------------------- 5926 5927 Added new abstraction (defined in dblist.c) for maintaining a list of 5928 blocks which belongs to directories. This is used in e2fsck and other 5929 programs which need to iterate over all directories. 5930 5931 Added new functions which test to see if a contiguous range of blocks 5932 (or inodes) are available. (ext2fs_*_bitmap_range). 5933 5934 Added new function (ext2_inode_has_valid_blocks) which returns true if 5935 an inode has valid blocks. (moved from e2fsck code). 5936 5937 Added new function (ext2fs_allocate_tables) which allocates the 5938 meta-data blocks as part of initializing a filesystem. (moved from 5939 mke2fs code). 5940 5941 Added a new I/O manager for testing purposes. It will either allow a 5942 program to intercept I/O requests, or print debugging messages to 5943 trace the activity of a program using the I/O manager. 5944 5945 The badblocks_list functions now store the bad blocks in a sorted 5946 order, and use a binary search to speed up badblocks_list_test. 5947 5948 The inode scan function ext2fs_get_next_inode() may now return a soft 5949 error returns: MISSING_INODE_TABLE and BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE in 5950 those cases where part of an inode table is missing or there is a bad 5951 block in the inode table. 5952 5953 Added a new function (ext2fs_block_iterate2) which adds new arguments to 5954 the callback function to return a pointer (block and offset) to the 5955 reference of the block. 5956 5957 Added new function (ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup) which allows an 5958 application to jump to a particular block group while doing an inode 5959 scan. 5960 5961 The badblocks list functions were renamed from badblocks_* to 5962 ext2fs_badblocks_*. Backwards compatibility functions are available 5963 for now, but programs should be modified to use the new interface. 5964 5965 Some of the library functions were reorganized into separate files to 5966 reduce the size of some programs which statically link against the 5967 ext2 library. 5968 5969 Put in some miscellaneous fixes for the Alpha platform. 5970 5971 5972 E2fsprogs 1.06 (October 7, 1996) 5973 ================================ 5974 5975 Fixed serious bug in e2fsck: if the block descriptors are bad, don't 5976 smash the backup copies in ext2fs_close(). (The problem was that when 5977 e2fsck -p discovered the problem, while it was closing the filesystem 5978 and exiting, it was also blowing away the backup superblocks on the 5979 disk, which was less than friendly.) We now make it the case that we 5980 only write out the backup superblock and the back block descriptors if 5981 the filesystem is completely free from problems. 5982 5983 Fixed a bug in block_interate in the lib/ext2fs library which caused 5984 e2fsck to fail on GNU Hurd-created filesystems. 5985 5986 Add support for Linux/FT's bootloader, which actually uses 5987 EXT2_BOOT_LOADER, and sets its mode bits which caused e2fsck to want 5988 to clear the inode. 5989 5990 Add support for the "A" (no atime update) attribute. (Note: this 5991 attribute is not yet in production kernels.) 5992 5993 The test suite is not automatically run when doing a "make all" from 5994 the top level directory. Users should manually run "make check" if 5995 they wish to run the test suite. 5996 5997 Upon a preenhalt(), make the printed message more explicit that 5998 running e2fsck "MANAULLY" means without the -p or -a options. 5999 6000 In e2fsck, if a disconnected inode is zero-length, offer to clear it 6001 instead of offering to connect it to lost+found. 6002 6003 In e2fsck, if a filesystem was just unmounted uncleanly, and needs 6004 e2fsck to be run over it, change e2fsck to explicitly display this 6005 fact. 6006 6007 For dumpe2fs and e2fsck, cause the -V option to print out which 6008 version of the ext2fs library is actually getting used. (This will 6009 help detect mismatches of using a 1.06 utility with a 1.05 library, 6010 etc.) 6011 6012 Programmers' notes: 6013 ------------------- 6014 6015 EXT2_SWAP_BYTES was changed to EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES, which better fits 6016 the naming convention. 6017 6018 In ext2fs_initialize(), make sure the description for the inode bitmap 6019 is correctly initialize. 6020 6021 Fixed minor type typo in ext2fs_allocate_generic_bitmap(); 6022 6023 E2fsprogs 1.05 (September 7, 1996) 6024 ================================== 6025 6026 Add support for new fields in the ext2 superblock --- volume name, 6027 volume UUID, and last mounted field. Dumpe2fs displays these fields, 6028 tune2fs and mke2fs allows you to set them. E2fsck will automatically 6029 generate a UUID for those volumes that don't have them. 6030 6031 Put in support for e2fsck to recognize HURD specific ext2 features --- 6032 most notably, the translator block. The e2fsprogs tools will now use 6033 the creator_os field in the superblock to correctly handle different 6034 OS-specific variants of the ext2 filesystem. 6035 6036 E2fsck now fixes inodes which have a the deletion time set, but which 6037 have a non-zero i_link_count field by offering to clear the deletion 6038 time. Previously e2fsck assumed that the inode was deleted (per 0.3c 6039 ext2 kernel behavior) and offered to unlink the file. 6040 6041 If e2fsck sets the clean bit, but nothing else, set the exit code 6042 FSCK_NONDESTRUCT. After all, e2fsck did fix a filesystem error --- it 6043 set the filesystem valid bit when it was previously cleared. :-) This 6044 was needed to make the HURD fsck driver happy. 6045 6046 If the user refuses to attach an unattached inode, e2fsck will no 6047 longer set the inode's link count. Otherwise, the inode would end up 6048 getting marked as unused, which might cause loss of data later. 6049 6050 Make the message issued by e2fsck when the superblock is corrupt less 6051 confusing for users. It now mentions that another reason for the 6052 "corrupt superblock" message might be that the partition might not be 6053 an ext2 filesystem at all (it might swap, msdos filesystem, ufs, etc.) 6054 6055 Make the libext2 library more robuest so that e2fsck won't coredump on 6056 an illegal superblock where the blocksize is zero. (f_crashdisk is 6057 the test case). 6058 6059 By default, create filesystems where the default checkinterval is 6 6060 months (180 days). Linux servers can be robust enough that 20 reboots 6061 can be a long, long time. 6062 6063 Added configure flag --enable-old-bitops, which forces the bitops to 6064 use the old (native) bitmask operations. By default on the sparc 6065 platform, the standard ext2 bit ordering is now used. 6066 6067 Added a new feature to e2fsck to byte-swap filesystems; this can be 6068 used to convert old m68k filesystems to use the standard byte-order 6069 storage for the superblock, inodes, and directory blocks. This 6070 function is invoked by using the '-s' option to e2fsck. 6071 6072 Debugfs's "dump" command has been enhanced so that it writes out the 6073 exact size of the file so that the nulls at the end of the file are 6074 eliminated. The command also accept a new "-p" option which will 6075 attempt preserve to preserve the ownernship, permissions, and 6076 file modification/access times. 6077 6078 Debugfs has two new options, -f and -R. The -R option allows the user 6079 to execute a single debugfs command from the command line. The -f 6080 option allows the user to specify a "command file" containing debugfs 6081 commands which will get executed. 6082 6083 Dumpe2fs now pretty prints the check interval, instead of just 6084 printing the check interval as a number of seconds. 6085 6086 Fix bugs in debugfs: the params command when no filesystem is opened 6087 no longer causes a core dump. It is now possible to unlink a file 6088 when a pathame containing a '/' is specified. 6089 6090 Tune2fs has a new -C option which sets the number of times the 6091 filesystem has been mounted. 6092 6093 Fix the chattr '-v' option so that it actually works. Chattr was 6094 being buggy about the -v option parsing. 6095 6096 Programmers' notes: 6097 ------------------- 6098 6099 The directory lib/uuid contains a set of library routines to generate 6100 DCE compatible UUIDs. 6101 6102 Extended ext2fs_namei() to handle symbolic links. Added new function 6103 ext2fs_nami_follow() which will follow last symbolic link in the case 6104 where the pathname points to a sym link. 6105 6106 The ext2fs_block_iterate function will now return the HURD translator 6107 block, if present. The new flag BLOCK_FLAG_DATA_ONLY will cause the 6108 iterator to return data blocks only. The ext2fs.h file now defines 6109 constants BLOCK_COUNT_IND, BLOCK_COUNT_DIND, BLOCK_COUNT_TIND, and 6110 BLOCK_COUNT_TRANSLATOR, which are the magic values passed in the block 6111 count field of the iterator callback function. 6112 6113 The test script driver now takes an optional second argument, which is 6114 the test case to be run. This allows you to run a test case without 6115 needing to run the entire test suite. 6116 6117 On Linux ELF systems, install the .so files in the correct places 6118 (/usr/lib). The .so files must be stored in the same directory as the 6119 .a files. 6120 6121 Fixed miscellaneous HURD compilation issues with header file being 6122 included in the right order. 6123 6124 Fixed debugfs so that it resets optind to zero, not one, since setting 6125 optind to zero is more correct. 6126 6127 6128 E2fsprogs 1.04 (May 16, 1996) 6129 ============================= 6130 6131 First "official" (1.03 was a limited release only) to support building 6132 e2fsprogs under Linux 2.0 kernels (as well as late model 1.3 and 1.99 6133 kernels). 6134 6135 This package includes a RPM specs file, that it can be built using the 6136 RedHat Package Manager. 6137 6138 E2fsck now prints a hint that if there are lots of incorrectly located 6139 inode bitmaps, block bitmaps, and inode table blocks, the user might 6140 want to try using e2fsck -b 8193 first, to see if that fares any 6141 better. 6142 6143 For ext2 filesystem written with the hurd, debugfs will now print out 6144 the translator field when printing an inode structure. 6145 6146 Lots of miscellaneous linking/installation cleanups: 6147 6148 Libraries are now linked using a relative pathname, instead of 6149 relying on -L working correct. It doesn't, in many cases, including 6150 current versions of GNU ld. This guarantees that the build tree is 6151 linking with the right libraries, instead of the ones installed in 6152 /usr/lib. 6153 6154 Header files, man pages, and the et/ss shell scripts are now 6155 generated using a custom substitution script, instead of relying on 6156 the configure script. This prevents needless recompilation of 6157 files; in addition, the custom substitution script is much faster. 6158 6159 e2fsck may now be linked dynamically, by using the 6160 --enable-dynamic-e2fsck flag to configure. This is not recommended, 6161 since it increases e2fsck's dependence on other files, but some 6162 people need to save disk space, and other critical programs on their 6163 systems were being linked dynamically anyway. 6164 6165 Programs such as fsck which didn't need to be linked against 6166 libext2fs (or mke2fs which didn't need to be linked against libe2p) 6167 only link against libraries they actually need. Otherwise, those 6168 programs would require the presense of libraries that otherwise 6169 could be removed from a rescuse diskette. 6170 6171 The ss include files are now installed correctly so they can 6172 actually be used by another package. 6173 6174 If the profiling libraries are built, they are now installed on a 6175 "make install-libs". 6176 6177 6178 E2fsprogs 1.03 (March 27, 1996) 6179 =============================== 6180 6181 Change the m68k bit numbering for bitmasks to match the bit numbering 6182 used by all other ext2 implementations. (This change was requested by 6183 the m68k kernel development team.) 6184 6185 Support (in-development) filesystem format revision which supports 6186 (among other things) dynamically sized inodes. 6187 6188 Fixed a bug in the ext2 library so that an intelligent error is 6189 returned if mke2fs is run with a ridiculously small number of blocks 6190 for a partition. 6191 6192 Fixed a bug in the ext2 library which required that the device be 6193 openable in read/write mode in order to determine its size. This 6194 caused e2fsck -n to require read/write access when it was not 6195 previously necessary. 6196 6197 Fixed a bug in e2fsck which casued it to occasionally fail the test 6198 suite depending on which version of the floating point library it was 6199 using. 6200 6201 Fixed a bug in e2fsck so that it now halts with a fatal error when 6202 certain superblock consistency checks fail. Previously it continued 6203 running e2fsck, with some potential confusing/damaging consequences. 6204 6205 Added new flag to fsck which allows the root to be checked in parallel 6206 with other filesytems. This is not the safest thing in the world to 6207 do, but some system administrators really wanted it. 6208 6209 Fixed -Wall flames in lib/ss. 6210 6211 6212 E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996) 6213 ================================= 6214 6215 Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels. 6216 6217 Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are 6218 on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is 6219 guaranteed to be non-contiguous. 6220 6221 In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole 6222 disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a 6223 whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk 6224 as a filesytem. 6225 6226 Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking 6227 partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in 6228 the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same 6229 disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life. 6230 6231 Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe. 6232 6233 Minor compilation fixes: 6234 * Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs. 6235 * Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on. 6236
