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author | tytso <tytso@98845421-ceb7-42bc-b399-d8302b86146b> | 2013-12-29 18:27:07 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@98845421-ceb7-42bc-b399-d8302b86146b> | 2013-12-29 18:27:07 +0000 |
commit | 5591b63649070b7c05347cae448f06603741f861 (patch) | |
tree | 8a879042bcfa56092c5a2d50e9ae6738845b8e44 | |
parent | 326d3a03a2e65fb2ff0502abc017aad1d466bb7b (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-5591b63649070b7c05347cae448f06603741f861.tar.gz |
Update for 1.42.6 release
git-svn-id: https://e2fsprogs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/e2fsprogs/web@45 98845421-ceb7-42bc-b399-d8302b86146b
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index bc657fd8b..9eadf1148 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="#1.42.6">E2fsprogs 1.42.6 (September 21, 2012)</A> <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> @@ -103,6 +104,62 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.42.6">E2fsprogs 1.42.6 (September 21, 2012)</A></H2> + +<P>When mke2fs creates file systems with lazy itable initialization, the +progress updates for writing the inode table happens so quickly that +on a serial console, the time to write the progress updates can be the +bottleneck. So mke2fs will now only update its progress indicators +once a second.</P> + +<P>Resize2fs will skip initializing the inode tables if the kernel +supports lazy_itable_init, which speeds up growing off-line growth of +uninit_bg file systems significantly. Resize2fs will now also +correctly set the itable_unused field in the block group descriptor to +speed up the first e2fsck after the file system is grown.</P> + +<P>Resize2fs has been fixed so that on-line resizing of meta_bg file +systems work correctly. This is needed to grow file system which are +larger than 16T.</P> + +<P>Resize2fs will now correctly handle resizing file systems to 16TB on +32-bit file systems when "16TB" is specified on the command line.</P> + +<P>Fix mke2fs so that it will be careful to set the reserved blocks ratio +larger than 50%; this can happen when creating small file systems and +when the last block group is dropped because there are not enough +blocks to support the metadata blocks in the last block group.</P> + +<P>Fixed spelling mistake in debugfs's help message.</P> + +<P>Fixed a potential seg fault in e2fsck when there is an I/O error while +reading the superblock.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #677497)</P> + +<P>Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#3559210)</P> + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>The configure option --enable-relative-symlink was broken so that it +needed to be --enable-symlink-relative-symlinks. We will support both +for at least two years, but then the worng configure option will be +removed.</P> + +<P>Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.5 so the link order for +e2fsprogs' libraries will be correct for both static and shared +linking. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3554345)</P> + +<P>Add support for e2fsprogs to be compiled using clang/LLVM.</P> + +<P>Fix portability problems on non-Linux systems: avoid compile failures +on systems that don't have malloc.h</P> + +<P>Fix f_mmp regression test suite so that debugfs gets killed if the +test is interrupted.</P> + + <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 diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 23da50a62..789b645ed 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 1.42.5 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.42.6 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On July 29, 2012, version 1.42.5 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On September 21, 2012, version 1.42.6 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 29e6d5965..7e77b6334 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 1.42.5 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.42.6 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 1.42.5 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.6 version as soon as possible, which can be - 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> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.6.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.42.6">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the |