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author | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2010-03-15 18:00:50 +0000 |
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committer | tytso <tytso@46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf> | 2010-03-15 18:00:50 +0000 |
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download | e2fsprogs-ff200c9a21167a9aecea6ad8a05dc2a86854c369.tar.gz |
Update for 1.41.11 release
git-svn-id: https://e2fsprogs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/e2fsprogs/web@32 46e75558-b442-0410-83ab-e6570fdeb8bf
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diff --git a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html index febabe9a6..116dc28ea 100644 --- a/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html +++ b/htdocs/e2fsprogs-release.html @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ <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="#1.41.11">E2fsprogs 1.41.11 (March 14, 2010)</A> +<LI><A HREF="#1.41.10">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> @@ -93,6 +94,60 @@ <LI><A HREF="#1.02">E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996)</A> </UL> +<H2><A NAME="1.41.11">E2fsprogs 1.41.11 (March 14, 2010)</A></H2> + +<P>E2fsck will no longer give a fatal error and abort if the physical +device has been resized beyond 2**32 blocks. (Addresses Launchpad +Bug: #521648)</P> + +<P>Debugfs has a bug fixed so that "logdump -b <blk>" now properly shows +the allocation status of the block <blk>. (Addresses Debian Bug: +#564084)</P> + +<P>E2fsck now prints a much more emphatic and hopefully scary message +when a file system is detected as mounted while doing a read/write +check of the filesystem. Hopefully this will dissuade users from +thinking, "surely that message doesn't apply to *me*" :-(</P> + +<P>E2fsck -n will now always open the file system read-only. We now +disallow certain combination of options which previously were manual +exceptions; this is bad because it causes users to think they are +smarter than they really are. So "-n -c", "-n -l", "-n -L", and "-n +-D" are no longer supported. (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #537483)</P> + +<P>In e2fsprogs 1.41.10, mke2fs would ask for confirmation to proceed if +it detected a badly aligned partition. Unfortunately, this broke some +distribution installation scripts, so it now just prints the warning +message and proceeds. (Addresses Red Hat Bug: #569021. Addresses +Launchpad Bug: #530071)</P> + +<P>Mke2fs would take a long time to create very large journal files for +ext4. This was caused by a bug in ext2fs_block_iterate2(), which is +now fixed.</P> + +<P>E2fsck now understands the EOFBLOCKS_FL flag which will be used in +2.6.34 kernels to make e2fsck not complain about blocks deliberately +fallocated() beyond an inode's i_size.</P> + +<P>E2fsprogs 1.41.10 introduced a regression (in commit b71e018) where +e2fsck -fD can corrupt non-indexed directories when are exists one or +more file names which alphabetically sort before ".". This can happen +with ext2 filesystems or for small directories (take less than a lock) +which contain filenames that begin with a space or some other +punctuation mark. (Addresses Debian Bug: #573923, Addresses Launchpad +Bug: #525114)</P> + + +<H3>Programmer's Notes</H3> + +<P>Add new test, f_rehash_dir, which checks to make sure e2fsck -D works +correctly.</P> + +<P>The libcom_err function now has support for Heimdal's com_right_r +function(). (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2963865, Addresses Debian +Bug: #558910)</P> + + <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> diff --git a/htdocs/ext2.html b/htdocs/ext2.html index 3182d4332..e0d7dc524 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 1.41.10 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> +<H2>Release 1.41.11 of e2fsprogs is available!</H2> -<P>On February 10, 2010, version 1.41.10 of e2fsprogs was <A +<P>On March 14, 2010, version 1.41.11 of e2fsprogs was <A HREF="http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net">announced</A>.</P> <H2>Ext2fs Utilities</H2> @@ -125,6 +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: Wed Feb 10 17:27:02 EST 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> +<!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Mon Mar 15 14:00:20 EDT 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> </BODY> </HTML> diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html index 1ede67613..d0adacf8c 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 1.41.10 of e2fsprogs is + <IMG SRC="images/new.gif" ALIGN=LEFT><H2>Release 1.41.11 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 1.41.10 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> + All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.41.11 version as + soon as possible, which can be found <A HREF="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.41.11.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 @@ -55,6 +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: Wed Feb 10 17:26:42 EST 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> +<!-- hhmts start -->Last modified: Mon Mar 15 14:00:03 EDT 2010 <!-- hhmts end --> </body> </html> |