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author | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2010-02-10 22:27:57 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2010-02-10 22:27:57 +0000 |
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download | e2fsprogs-7385f168158d64afa61ba51c0d0b3336a6d2aa2d.tar.gz |
Update for 1.41.10 release
git-svn-id: https://e2fsprogs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/e2fsprogs/web@31 46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index e5e7af5ef..febabe9a6 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="#1.41.9">E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 10, 2010)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.9">E2fsprogs 1.41.9 (August 22, 2009)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.8">E2fsprogs 1.41.8 (July 11, 2009)</A> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.7">E2fsprogs 1.41.7 (June 29, 2009)</A> @@ -92,6 +93,139 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.41.10">E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 10, 2010)</A></H2> + +<P>Fix resize2fs bug which causes it to access invalid memory.</P> + +<P>Add libss support for libreadline.so.6.</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck's check for extent-mapped directory with an incorrect file +type.</P> + +<P>Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock +to support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks. Also, since too +many distributions seem to have broken virtualization scripts now, +e2fsck will by default accept dates which are off by up to 24 hours by +default. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #559776, #557636)</P> + +<P>Fix a bug where mke2fs may not use the best placement of the inode +table when there is only room for a single block group in the last +flex_bg.</P> + +<P>E2fsck is now smarter when it needs to allocate blocks in the course +of fixing file system problems. This reduces the number of spurious +differences found in pass #5.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will no longer rehash directories which fit in a single +directory block.</P> + +<P>E2fsck now correctly handles holes in extent-mapped directories (i.e., +sparse directories which use extents).</P> + +<P>Fix big-endian problems with ext2fs_bmap() and ext2fs_bmap2().</P> + +<P>Fix a bug in filefrag where on platforms which can allow file systems +with 8k blocks, that it doesn't core dump when it sees a file system +with 8k block sizes. (Thanks to Mikulas Patocka for pointing this +out.)</P> + +<P>E2fsck will correctly fix directories that are have an inaccurate +i_size as well as other problems in a single pass, instead of +requiring two e2fsck runs before the file system is fully fixed.</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck so it will correctly find and detect duplicate directory +entries for non-indexed directories. ( Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#2862551)</P> + +<P>Mke2fs will use BLKDISCARD to pre-discard all blocks on an SSD or +thinly-provisioned storage device. This can be disabled using the -K +option.</P> + +<P>Enhance libext2fs so it works around bug in Linux version 2.6.19 +and earlier where the /proc/swaps file was missing the header on +the first line.</P> + +<P>Fix bug in Linux version 2.6.19 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file +was missing the header on the first line.</P> + +<P>Fix some big-endian bugs in e2fsck and libext2fs.</P> + +<P>Fix resize2fs so it works correctly on file systems with external +journals instead of failing early with the error "Illegal inode +number".</P> + +<P>Fix libss so that it does not seg fault when using a readline library +which does not supply a readline_shutdown() function.</P> + +<P>Updated dumpe2fs's usage message so it correctly gives the right +arguments summary for "-o superblock=<num>" and "-o blocksize=<num>". +(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #448099)</P> + +<P>Teach libext2fs to ignore the high 32 bits of the i_blocks field +when huge_file file system feature is set, but the inode does not +have the HUGE_FILE_FL flag set.</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck's handling of 64-bit i_blocks fields.</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now print "Illegal indirect block", "Illegal +double-indirect block", etc., instead of "Illegal block #-1" or +"Illegal block #-2", etc. This makes it easier for users to +understand what has gone wrong. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2871782)</P> + +<P>Mke2fs now will obtain get device topology information from blkid and +use it to populate the superblock stride and stripe sizes. It will +also warn if the block device is misaligned</P> + +<P>Fix file descriptor leaks in fsck and debugfs. (Addresses Novell Bug: +##524526)</P> + +<P>Fix the libext2fs library code to round up the bitmap size to a 4-byte +boundary, to prevent spurious seg faults caused by the x86 +architecture. This doesn't affect Linux systems, but was a major +problem on a number of *BSD systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: +#2328708)</P> + +<P>Fix resize2fs's minimum size required for a file system so it doesn't +fail when "resize2fs -M" is run. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #519131)</P> + +<P>Dumpe2fs now prints summary information about the contents of the +journal.</P> + +<P>Avoid printing scary error messages when e2fsck starts running +problems on low-memory systems, as it tends to panic and mislead the +user. (Addresses Debian Bug: #509529)</P> + +<P>Fix blkid's modules.dep parser so it handles compressed (.ko.gz) +modules files. (Address Red Hat Bug: #518572)</P> + +<P>Fix tune2fs so it can add a journal when an extent-enabled file system +is mounted. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #416648)</P> + +<P>Update Czech, Indonesian, Polish and Vietnamese translations (from the +Translation Project).</P> + +<P>Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2822186)</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for +details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #540111)</P> + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>The configure script supports the --with-cc, --with-ccopts, and +--with-ldopts options. Instead, the more standard use of CC=, +CCFLAGS=, and LDFLAGS= in the configure command line is used instead. +Also, --with-ld, which never worked, was also removed. +(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2843248)</P> + +<P>The in-tree header files are only used if the in-tree uuid or blkid +libraries are used. Otherwise, use the system-provided uuid or blkid +header files if using the system-provided libraries.</P> + +<P>Fix some build failures caused by --disable-* configure options.</P> + +<P>Work around a bug in autoconf 2.64.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.41.9">E2fsprogs 1.41.9 (August 22, 2009)</A></H2> <P>Fix a bug in e2fsck routines for reallocating an inode table which diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index f7ce95faa..3182d4332 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 1.41.9 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.41.10 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On August 22, 2009, version 1.41.9 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On February 10, 2010, version 1.41.10 of e2fsprogs was <A HREF="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net">announced</A>.</P> <H2>Ext2fs Utilities</H2> @@ -125,8 +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: Tue Jan 27 19:55:37 EST 2009 -<!-- hhmts end --> +<!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Wed Feb 10 17:27:02 EST 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> </BODY> </HTML> diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html index de6ba887b..1ede67613 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 1.41.9 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.10 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 1.41.9 version as - soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.9.tar.gz">here</A>.</P> + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.41.10 version as + soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.10.tar.gz">here</A>.</P> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the @@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ <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> <p> <!-- Created: Thu Jan 3 20:06:34 EST 2008 --> -<!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Tue Jan 27 19:55:17 EST 2009 -<!-- hhmts end --> +<!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Wed Feb 10 17:26:42 EST 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> </body> </html> |