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author | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2009-08-23 03:35:00 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2009-08-23 03:35:00 +0000 |
commit | c95af954facd01145b60ecdc57c2f159a366b971 (patch) | |
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parent | ca881105990abf3224897cd0e5ce31bd9fe29d40 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-c95af954facd01145b60ecdc57c2f159a366b971.tar.gz |
Update for 1.41.9 release
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index 760e8446c..e5e7af5ef 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 1.41.9 (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> <LI><A HREF="#1.41.6">E2fsprogs 1.41.6 (May 30, 2009)</A> @@ -91,6 +92,83 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<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 +could cause it to loop forever on an ext4 filesystem with the FLEX_BG +filesystem feature with a relatively rare (and specific) filesystem +corruption. This fix causes e2fsck to try to find space for a new +portion of the inode table in the containing flex_bg, and if that +fails, the new portion of the inode table will be allocated in any +free space available in the filesystem.</P> + +<P>Make e2fsck less annoying by only asking for permission to relocate a +block group's inode table once, instead of for every overlapping +block. Similarly, only ask once to recompute the block group +checksums, instead of once for each corrupted block group's checksum.</P> + +<P>Fix filefrag to avoid print the extent header if the FIEMAP ioctl is +not present, and it needs to fall back to using the FIBMAP ioctl.</P> + +<P>Fix filefrag to correctly print the number of extents for zero-length +files. (Addresses Debian Bug: #540376)</P> + +<P>Filefrag now has a -B option which forces the use of the FIBMAP ioctl +to more easily debug the FIBMAP code.</P> + +<P>Fixed filefrag for non-extent based files.</P> + +<P>Add a new program, e2freefrag, which displays information about the +free space fragmentation in an ext2/3/4 filesystem.</P> + +<P>Fix inode resizing via tune2fs -I so that it works correctly in the +face of non-empty bad blocks inodes, and if the filesystem was +formatted using the "mke2fs -E stride=N" option for RAID arrays.</P> + +<P>Fix regression in ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() caused e2fsck -fD to fail +and corrupt large directories if the directory needs to shrink by more +than one block. (Addresses Debian Bug: #537510)</P> + +<P>Fix e2fsck's buggy_init_scritps=1 so that the if the last write and/or +last mount times are in the future, they are corrected even if +buggy_init_scripts is set. This is needed because otherwise resize2fs +will refuse to resize the filesystem, even after running "e2fsck -f". +(Addresses Launchpad bug: #373409)</P> + +<P>E2fsck will now print much fuller information when the last mount time +or last written time is in the future, since most people can't seem to +believe their distribution has buggy init scripts, or they have a +failed CMOS/RTS clock battery.</P> + +<P>Enhance dumpe2fs to dump the extent information via the 'stat' +command, and more detailed extent information via the new command +'dump_extents'.</P> + +<P>Update French, Polish, Czech, and Sweedish translation from the +Translation Project.</P> + +<P>Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for +details.</P> + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall warnings.</P> + +<P>Fixed memory leak in error path in ext2fs_block_iterate2()</P> + +<P>Fixed non-Linux build of the intl directory by adding support for the +E/Q/V macros.</P> + +<P>The bitmap read/write functions now treat uninitialized bitmaps as +unallocated; this fixes a number of problems in all e2fsprogs for ext4 +filesystems when there is a need to allocate new blocks or inodes, and +there aren't any free blocks or inodes in the already-used block +groups.</P> + +<P>Improve ext2fs_extent_set_bmap() to avoid creating new extents which +get inserted into the extent tree when they are not needed.</P> + + <H2><A NAME="1.41.8">E2fsprogs 1.41.8 (July 11, 2009)</A></H2> <P>Fix resize2fs's online resizing, fixing a regression which in diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index d5f0de736..f7ce95faa 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 1.41.8 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.41.9 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On July 11, 2009, version 1.41.8 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On August 22, 2009, version 1.41.9 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 8732edfc1..17417855b 100644 --- a/htdocs/index.html +++ b/htdocs/index.html @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ <A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html">here</A>.</P> - <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.8 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.9 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 1.41.8 version as - soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.8.tar.gz">here</A>.</P> + 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> <P>This release contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. For more details, see the |