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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2021-12-30 11:26:35 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2021-12-30 11:26:35 -0500 |
commit | 58f7e801c857de913247a10551d23b502703de2e (patch) | |
tree | 10968cbec6cb11bbaed77a5cd7a8b192a96b9c72 | |
parent | 7cd5f3fcc8b19dbf0a61f3fda5d9dcc7115d5b21 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-58f7e801c857de913247a10551d23b502703de2e.tar.gz |
Update for the 1.46.5 release
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 2454b613c..6ea0d5ce0 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="#1.46.5">E2fsprogs 1.46.5 (December 30, 2021)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.46.4">E2fsprogs 1.46.4 (August 18, 2021)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.46.3">E2fsprogs 1.46.3 (July 27, 2021)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.46.2">E2fsprogs 1.46.2 (February 28, 2021)</A> @@ -142,6 +143,81 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.46.5">E2fsprogs 1.46.5 (December 30, 2021)</A></H2> + +<h3>UI and Features</h3> + +<P>When resizing a file system and the inode count exceeds the 2**32 +maximum, if resize2fs can successfully perform the resize by dropping +the last block group, resize2fs will do that in order to allow the file +system grow operation to succeed. For example, using the default inode +ratio size of 16k, this will allow a successful resize to 64TB - 128MB +when the storage device is 64TB.</P> + +<h3>Fixes</h3> + +<P>Avoid a potential infinite loop in resize2fs -P when the file system is +corrupted (introduced in e2fsprogs 1.45.5). (Addresses github issue +https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/issues/94)</P> + +<P>E2fsck now updates the bg_checksum after fixing problems in the block +group descriptor, which eliminates some unnecessary messages printed or +asked of the system administrator.</P> + +<P>Fixed some potential deadlock problems in the unix_io handler in the case +of I/O errors. The fix should also improve the performance of parallel +bitmap loading.</P> + +<P>Fixed e2fsck's fast commit handling which could result it in crashing +when trying to merge extents when there were none available to be +merged.</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck's support of quota limit data, which could sometimes get +dropped when the quota data needs to be regenerated, or when processing +the orphan list.</P> + +<P>Fix tune2fs to correctly transfer the quota limits when converting quota +files to the internal quota inodes. Also add support for tune2fs to +properly handle the older version 0 quota files.</P> + +<P>Fix debugfs's get_quota and list_quota commands so that the header of +the report printed by these commands correctly reflect that the units of +used space is in bytes instead of blocks.</P> + +<h3>Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.</h3> + +<P>Add some additional packages to the setup-schroot script to account for +the fact that the script can be run on older Debian distributions and so +the build dependencies might omit some packages needed to build +e2fsprogs on unstable version of Debian.</P> + +<P>Reduce resize2fs's CPU overhead when counting the number of blocks in +use which can reduce the wall clock time for very large file systems +by substantial amount.</P> + +<P>Teach libuuid to use getrandom() or getentropy() if available in favor +of reading from /dev/[u]random.</P> + +<P>Teach libss to use libreadline.so.8 if it is available.</P> + +<P>Update some test expect files to fix some regression tests that were +broken in e2fsprogs 1.46.4.</P> + +<P>If the PRINT_FAILED environment variable is set, failed tests will +display the diff output to make it easier to debug test failures on +autobuilders.</P> + +<P>Fix various compiler warnings.</P> + +<P>Update tst_getsize to use ext2fs_get_size2() to support testing devices +which are larger than 2**32 sectors.</P> + +<P>Fixed spelling mistakes in the mke2fs.conf man page.</P> + +<P>Update Chinese, Malay, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian +translations.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.46.4">E2fsprogs 1.46.4 (August 18, 2021)</A></H2> <h3>UI and Features</h3> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 7d34b1d30..d6461ee21 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 1.46.4 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.46.5 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On August 18, 2021, version 1.44.3 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On December 30, 2021, version 1.46.5 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 008ec7bc8..392428003 100644 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -34,18 +34,18 @@ <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 1.46.4 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.46.5 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 1.46.4 version as + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.46.5 version as soon as possible, which can be - downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.46.4.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> - or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.46.4">kernel.org</A>.</P> + downloaded from <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.46.5.tar.gz">sourceforge</A> + or <A HREF="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.46.5">kernel.org</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the - <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.46.4">release notes.</A></P> + <A HREF="e2fsprogs-release.html#1.46.5">release notes.</A></P> <ADDRESS> |