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author | tytso <tytso@98845421-ceb7-42bc-b399-d8302b86146b> | 2013-12-29 18:27:05 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@98845421-ceb7-42bc-b399-d8302b86146b> | 2013-12-29 18:27:05 +0000 |
commit | 326d3a03a2e65fb2ff0502abc017aad1d466bb7b (patch) | |
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download | e2fsprogs-326d3a03a2e65fb2ff0502abc017aad1d466bb7b.tar.gz |
Update for 1.42.5 release
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 6dbf0ab38..bc657fd8b 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="#1.42.5">E2fsprogs 1.42.5 (July 29, 2012)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.42.4">E2fsprogs 1.42.4 (June 12, 2012)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.42.3">E2fsprogs 1.42.3 (May 14, 2012)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.42.2">E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)</A> @@ -102,6 +103,82 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.42.5">E2fsprogs 1.42.5 (July 29, 2012)</A></H2> + +<P>Fixed a bug with mke2fs where if there is only 8 inodes per block +group, the calculation of the number of uninitialized inodes in the +first block group would go negative. This resulted in "mke2fs -N 256 +-t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 256m" trying to write so many blocks that /tmp +would run out of space. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3528892)</P> + +<P>Fixed a bug in how e2fsck would uniquify directory entry names. +(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3540545)</P> + +<P>Previously, e2fsck would only allow a mounted file system to be +checked if it was the root file system and it was mounted read-only. +Now it will allow any file system mounted read-only to be checked if +the -f option is specified. This makes it easier to test how e2fsck +handles checking file systems which are mounted without having to test +on the root file system.</P> + +<P>Fixed a problem if e2fsck where if the root file system is mounted +read-only, e2fsck would not clear an error indication in the journal +superblock. Combined with a kernel bug, this would cause the e2fsck +to check the file system after every single boot.</P> + +<P>The e4defrag program can now handle device symlinks, such as +/dev/mapper/testvg-testlv, instead of insisting on a less +human-friendly name such as /dev/dm-2. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: +#707209)</P> + +<P>Fixed filefrag so it will not crash with a segfault on files from a +virtual file system such as /proc. (e.g., "filefrag +/proc/partitions")</P> + +<P>Fixed filefrag so that it correctly reports the number of extents. +(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #840848)</P> + +<P>Fixed a file descriptor leak in logsave which could cause it to hang. +(Addresses Debian Bug: #682592)</P> + +<P>Fixed e2fsck so that the file system is marked as containing an error +if the user chooses not to fix the quota usage information.</P> + +<P>Fixed tune2fs so that it correctly removes the quota feature when the +last quota inode is removed.</P> + +<P>Fix tune2fs so that after removing a quota inode, the block bitmap is +updated; otherwise, e2fsck would complain after running 'tune2fs -O +^quota <dev>'.</P> + +<P>Fix tune2fs so that when converting a file system from using legacy +quota files to the new quota file system feature with hidden quota +files, the accounting for these files is handled correctly so that +e2fsck doesn't complain.</P> + +<P>Improved e2fsck's verbose reporting statistics, and allow the more +verbose reporting to be enabled via /etc/e2fsck.conf.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #678395)</P> + +<P>Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #680114)</P> + + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>Fixed portability problems on other operating systems (e.g., Hurd and +FreeBsd) caused by the attempted inclusion of <sys/quota.h>.</P> + +<P>Make sure that shared libraries link with the shared libraries built +in the build tree, instead of the system provided libraries. +Previously, libraries and executables were linked with the system +libraries if present, and possibly using static archives instead of +shared libraries. This was also problematic since if libext2fs.so is +linked with a static libcom_err.a from system, the build system would +attempt to link without -lpthread. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#3542572)</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.42.4">E2fsprogs 1.42.4 (June 12, 2012)</A></H2> <P>Fixed more 64-bit block number bugs (which could end up corrupting diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index e3adf3886..23da50a62 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 1.42.4 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.42.5 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On June 12, 2012, version 1.42.4 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On July 29, 2012, version 1.42.5 of e2fsprogs was <A HREF="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net">announced</A>.</P> <H2>Ext2fs Utilities</H2> diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html index 87f2bbfa4..29e6d5965 100644 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ <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 1.42.4 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.42.5 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 1.42.4 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.5 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.4.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.42.3">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.5.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.42.5">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the |