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author | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2010-12-13 16:00:43 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2010-12-13 16:00:43 +0000 |
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Update for 1.41.13 release
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index b882b1e59..6806de316 100644 --- a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html +++ b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ <H2>Release notes for the e2fsprogs package</H2> <UL> +<LI><A HREF="#1.41.13">E2fsprogs 1.41.13 (December 13, 2010)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.12">E2fsprogs 1.41.12 (May 17, 2010)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.11">E2fsprogs 1.41.11 (March 14, 2010)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.10">E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 10, 2010)</A> @@ -95,6 +96,149 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.41.13">E2fsprogs 1.41.13 (December 13, 2010)</A></H2> + +<P>E2fsck now supports the extended option "-E journal_only", which +causes it to only do a journal replay. This is useful for scripts +that want to first replay the journal and then check to see if it +contains errors.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now support UUID= and LABEL= specifiers for the -j option +(which specifies where to find the external journal). (Addresses +Debian Bug #559315)</P> + +<P>E2fsck now has support for the problems/<problem code>/force_no +configuration option in e2fsck.conf, which forces a problem to not be +fixed.</P> + +<P>Dumpe2fs will now avoid printing large negative offsets for the bitmap +blocks and instead print a message which is a bit more helpful for +flex_bg file systems.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will now check the file system type (specified with the -t +option) to make sure it is defined in the mke2fs.conf file; if it is +not, it will print an error and abort. If the usage type (specified +with the -T option) is not defined in mke2fs.conf, mke2fs will print a +warning but will continue. (Addresses Debian Bug #594609)</P> + +<P>Clarified error message from resize2fs clarifying that on-line +shrinking is not supported at all. (Addresses Debian Bug #599786)</P> + +<P>Fix an e2fsck bug that could cause a PROGRAMMING BUG error to be +displayed. (Addresses Debian Bug #555456)</P> + +<P>E2fsck will open the external journal in exclusive mode, to prevent +the journal from getting truncated while it is in use due to a user +accidentally trying to run e2fsck on a snapshotted file system volume. +(Addresses Debian Bug #587531)</P> + +<P>Fix a bug in e2fsck so it has the correct test for the EOFBLOCKS_FL +flag.</P> + +<P>The tune2fs program can now set the uninit_bg feature without +requiring an fsck.</P> + +<P>The tune2fs, dumpe2fs, and debugfs programs now support the new ext4 +default mount options settings which were added in 2.6.35.</P> + +<P>The e2fsck and dumpe2fs programs now support the new ext4 superblock +fields which track where and when the first and most recent file +system errors occurred. These fields are displayed by dumpe2fs and +cleared by e2fsck. These new superblock fields were added in 2.6.36.</P> + +<P>Debugfs now uses a more concicse format for listing extents in its +stat command. This format also includes the interior extent tree +blocks, which previously was missing from stat's output for +extent-based files.</P> + +<P>Debugfs has a new option, -D, which will request Direct I/O access of +the file system.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will skip initializing the inode table if a device supports +discard and the discard operation will result in zero'ed blocks.</P> + +<P>Badblocks will now correctly backspace over UTF-8 characters when +displaying its progress bar. (Addresses Gentoo Bug #309909; Addresses +Debian Bugs #583782 and #587834)</P> + +<P>E2freefrag will now display the total number of free extents.</P> + +<P>Resize2fs -P no longer requires a freshly checked filesystem before +printing the minimum resize size.</P> + +<P>Fixed a floating point precision error in a binary tree search routine +that can lead to seg fault in e2fsck and resize2fs.</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in e2fsck where if both the original and backup superblock +are invalid in some way, e2fsck will fail going back to the original +superblock because it didn't close the backup superblock first, and +the exclusive open prevented the file system from being reopened.</P> + +<P>Fixed a big in e2freefrag which caused getopt parsing to fail on +architectures with unsigned chars. (Addresses Gentoo Bug: #299386)</P> + +<P>Clarified an mke2fs error message so a missed common in an -E option +(i.e., mke2fs -t ext4 -E stride=128 stripe-width=512 /dev/sda1") +results in a more understandable explanation to the user.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs now displays the correct valid inode ratio range when +complaining about an invalid inode ratio specified by the user.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs now understands the extended option "discard" and "nodiscard", +and the older option -K is deprecated. The default of whether +discards are enabled by default can be controled by the mke2fs.conf +file.</P> + +<P>Mke2fs's handling of logical and physical sector sizes has been +improved to reflect the fact that there will be some SSD's with 8k and +16k physical sectors arriving soon. Mke2fs will no longer force block +size to be the physical sector size, since there will be devices where +the physical sector size is larger than the system's page size, and +hence larger than the maximal supported block size. In addition, if +the minimal and optimal io size are not exported by the device, and +the physical sector size is larger than the block size, the physical +sector size will be used to set the Raid I/O optimization hints in the +superblock.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now display a better, more specific error message when the +user enters a typo'ed device name, instead of blathering on about +alternate superblocks.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues</P> + +<P>Updated/clarified man pages (Addresses Debian Bugs: #580236, #594004, +#589345, #591083; Addresses Launchpad Bug: #505719)</P> + +<P>Update the Chinese, Chzech, Dutch, French, Germany, Indonesian, +Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese translations.</P> + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>Fix a dependency definition for the static and profiled blkid +libraries which could cause compile failures in some configurations. +(Addresses Debian Bug: #604629)</P> + +<P>Add support for Direct I/O in the Unix I/O access layer.</P> + +<P>Fixed a memory leak in the Unix I/O layer when changing block sizes.</P> + +<P>Fixed minor memory leaks in mke2fs.</P> + +<P>Added a new function to the ext2fs library, ext2fs_get_memalign().</P> + +<P>The tst_super_size test program will check to make sure the superblock +fields are correctly aligned and will print them out so they can be +manually checked for correctness.</P> + +<P>Fixed some makefile dependencies for test programs in lib/ext2fs.</P> + +<P>Reserved the feature flags and superblock fields needed for the Next3 +snapshot feature.</P> + +<P>Reserved the feature flags for EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_DIRDATA and +EXT4_INCOMPAT_EA_INODE.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.41.12">E2fsprogs 1.41.12 (May 17, 2010)</A></H2> <P>Mke2fs now gives a correct error message if the external journal diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 0dd59f5b6..d9c855061 100644 --- a/htdocs/ext2.html +++ b/htdocs/ext2.html @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ <!-- Begin actual content --> <IMG SRC="../images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT> -<H2>Release 1.41.11 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.41.13 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On May 17, 2010, version 1.41.12 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On December 13, 2010, version 1.41.13 of e2fsprogs was <A HREF="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net">announced</A>.</P> <H2>Ext2fs Utilities</H2> @@ -125,6 +125,6 @@ The following Ext2fs Utilities are available: <hr> <a href="http://sourceforge.net"><img src="http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=2406&type=2" width="125" height="37" border="0" alt="SourceForge.net Logo" /></a> -<!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Mon May 17 20:57:07 EDT 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> +<!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Mon Dec 13 09:00:45 EST 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> </BODY> </HTML> diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html index 4dcf6acde..ce0214497 100644 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ <A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html">here</A>.</P> - <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.12 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.13 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> <P>I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. - All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.41.12 version as - soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.12.tar.gz">here</A>.</P> + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.41.13 version as + soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.13.tar.gz">here</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. 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