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-E2fsprogs 1.42.9 (December 28, 2013)
-====================================
-
-Mke2fs will detect an attempt to create a file system on a loop
-mounted file and complain without the -FF option. Also fixed mke2fs
-so it allows the creation of a file system on a mounted device with
-two -F options, as documented in the man page, instead of three -F
-options.
-
-Fixed a large number of bugs in resize2fs, e2fsck, debugfs, and
-libext2fs to correctly handle bigalloc and 64-bit file systems. There
-were many corner cases that had not been noticed in previous uses of
-these file systems, since they are not as common. Some of the bugs
-could cause file system corruption or data loss, so users of 64-bit or
-bigalloc file systems are strongly urged to upgrade to e2fsprogs
-1.42.9.
-
-The tune2fs program will now not allow changing the uuid on a mounted
-file system which has the uninit_bg feature enabled. This avoids a
-nasty race where the kernel and tune2fs are both retrying rewrite the
-group descriptors at the same time, with different ideas about what
-the UUID should be.
-
-When e2fsck is rehashing an extent-mapped directory, it's possible
-(although very rare) that an extent block will need to be allocated;
-fix e2fsck to make sure that the block gets marked as used.
-
-Mke2fs will now properly set the LARGE_FILE feature when creating a
-journal >= 2GB --- which can happen when using 64k block size.
-
-Fixed debugfs so that its freei command will correctly handle a request
-to free a range of consecutive inodes.
-
-Fixed 2fsck so it will not erroneously complain that an external journal
-is invalid if it is exactly 2**32 blocks.
-
-Fixed e2fsck so it won't try checking for, and adding, a missing
-lost+found directory when running in read-only mode.
-
-Fixed e2image to avoid some buffer overruns which would cause it to when
-creating a "standard (non-raw, non-qcow2) image file. Standard
-e2image files are actually very rarely used, so we didn't notice when
-the changes to enable the qcow2 format broke this e2image mode.
-
-Fixed mke2fs so that the extended option "-E resize=NNN" will not turn
-on the resize_inode feature when the meta_bg feature is set, since
-these two features can not be set at the same time.
-
-Fixed tune2fs so that when it disables the quota feature, it updates all
-of the backup superblocks.
-
-Fixed dumpe2fs that would cause it to abort when run using an image file
-when trying to print the journal information (which is not present in
-an e2image created image file).
-
-Fixed a potential integer overflow in e2reefrag.
-(Addresses-Debian-Bug: #718205)
-
-Enhance debugfs so that when copying a sparse file from a native file
-system into the file system image using the "write" command, it will
-create a sparse file into the destination file system.
-
-Enhanced debugfs so it can support a command line which is up to 8k
-long.
-
-E2image will refuse (unless the -f option is specified to force the
-issue) to create a raw or qcow image using a mounted file system,
-unless the -f option is specified to force the issue.
-
-E2image has been optimized for using it to efficiently copy a file
-system by only copying the allocated blocks, by using the options -ra.
-New options (-o and -O) have been added so that a source and
-destination offset can be given. The -p option will print progress
-information so the user will know how far along the copy is going.
-And finally, the new option -c is useful for updating a file system on
-an SSD, by avoiding unnecessary writes. E2image can also shift a file
-system image by doing an in place move.
-
-Fix a regression introduced in 1.42.8 which would cause e2fsck to
-erroneously report uninitialized extents past the EOF (as determined by
-i_size) to be invalid.
-
-Fixed resize2fs so under a corner case when an inode has a complex
-extent tree, it will not corrupt an interior node in the extent tree.
-
-Fixed resize2fs which would sometimes corrupt a file system when
-shrinking a file system to a minimum size using resize2fs -M.
-(Addresses Debian Bug: #660793)
-
-Fixed resize2fs so that it will relocate inode table blocks if this
-becomes necessary when shrinking the file system.
-
-Fixed resize2fs and e2fsck so they will not crash when hit a failure
-while operating on a file system with the MMP feature enabled.
-
-Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused it create an invalid inode when
-trying to write a zero-length file.
-
-E2fsck will no longer crash if it tries to delete an invalid
-extent-mapped symlink.
-
-E2fsck will no longer crash if it comes across an directory which is
-larger than 2GB (which is not allowed in valid file systems).
-
-Fixed debugfs's help texts to fully document all options and otherwise
-be more helpful.
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #586218,
-#669730, #698076)
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (#698879, #721365)
-
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Fix sparse, gcc -Wall and clang nits.
-
-Update config.{guess,sub} to the latest version
-
-Fixed various memory and file descriptor leaks on various error paths,
-as well as some missing error return checks, which were found using
-Coverity.
-
-Run sparse against source files when building e2fsprogs with 'make
-C=1'. If instead C=2, it configures basic ext2 types for bitwise
-checking with sparse, which can help find the (many many) spots where
-conversion errors are (possibly) happening.
-
-Allow the regression test to be run in chrooted environments where
-/etc/mtab might be missing.
-
-The ext2fs_punch() function, which was introduced in 1.42, was broken
-in many ways, but this was never noticed since it wasn't used for
-anything significant. Some of the bugs include failing when trying to
-punch a completely sparse file, failing when punching an extent-mapped
-inode when the starting block was at the beginning of the inode, and
-not being able to punch a single block (where start_blk == end_block).
-It also didn't handle being passed an invalid, too-large ending block
-number, and didn't handle properly terminate at the right place when
-operating on an indirect-mapped inode.
-
-Fixed some minor typo's in the error catalog for libext2fs.
-
-Fixed ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that if it truncates an inode by
-setting the file size, to zero the rest of the block to the end of the
-file, so that if an ext4 FUSE driver tries to extended the file, that
-we don't avoid stale data from being returned.
-
-Fixed ext2fs_bmap() to disallow clients from trying to map or set
-logical blocks which are larger than what an extent-mapped or indirect
-block-mapped inode can allow.
-
-If debugfs (or some userspace program using libext2fs) creates a file
-which is larger than 2GB, make sure the large_file feature flag gets
-set.
-
-Fix a bug in ext2fs_link() where if there is multiple empty slots in the
-directory which are large enough, the directory entry could get
-inserted more than once in the directory.
-
-If quota support is disabled (which is the default), make sure that
-all traces of the quota support is removed from usage messages, man
-pages, and tune2fs must not be able to enable the quota file system
-feature. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1010709)
-
-The ext2fs_file_write() now updates i_size on a successful write,
-instead of only updating i_size wen the file is closed via
-ext2fs_file_close().
-
-Added a shell script, populate-extfs.sh which uses debugfs to populate
-an ext2/3/4 file system image from a given directory. It is similar
-to the genext2fs program, but it supports ext3 and ext4 file system.
-
-Add changes to the libext2fs library to support block group
-descriptors larger than 64 bytes (for future compatibility).
-
-Fixed an off-by-one bug in ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that it will not
-leave an extra block in the file when truncating the file down to
-size.
-
-The html version info pages are now built using makeinfo --html
-instead of the unmaintained and now-obsolete texi2html program.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.8 (June 20, 2013)
-================================
-
-As a part of mke2fs's option parsing cleanup, the use of the -R option
-will give a warning that it is depreated (it has been so documented
-since 2005) and -E should be used instead.
-
-Mke2fs will not give warnings about the bigalloc and quota options in
-quiet mode.
-
-If an invalid journal size is given to mke2fs, it will now complain
-and exit sooner.
-
-Debugfs was erroneously giving spurious error messages for certain
-extent_inode subcommands which take arguments (split_node,
-replace_node, and insert_node). This has been fixed.
-
-Fix the parsing of the 's' (sectors) in parse_num_blocks2, which among
-other programs is used by mke2fs.
-
-Change mke2fs so that it does not set the root directory to the real
-uid/gid of the mke2fs process. Add the extended option root_owner to
-override this behavior.
-
-Fix resize2fs when shrinking file systems to make sure that bitmap
-blocks aren't left outside the bounds of the shrunken file system.
-This could happen with flex_bg file systems that were grown using
-the old online resizing algorithm.
-
-E2fsck will now detect and repair corrupted extent trees which contain
-invalid extents at the end of the extent tree leaf block.
-
-E2fsck will now longer complain about zero length extended attribute
-values.
-
-Fix a regression introduced in e2fsprogs v1.42 which caused e2image -s
-to crash.
-
-Add safety check so tune2fs will not attempt to set the inode size to
-be larger than the block size.
-
-Fix e2fsck so it can check a read-only root file system with an
-external journal. (Addresses Debian Bug: #707030
-
-Fix off-line resizing of file systems with flex_bg && !resize_inode
-(Addresses Debian Bug: #696746)
-
-Fix e2image with large (> 32-bit) file systems (Addresses Debian Bug:
-#703067)
-
-Enhance chattr to allow clearing the extent flag if the kernel allows
-migrating extent based files to use indirect blocks.
-
-Update German translation.
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #712429,
-#712430, #707609)
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #708307)
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Use secure_getenv() in preference to __secure_getenv().
-
-Optimize CPU utilization of ext2fs_bg_has_super().
-
-Fix ext2fs_llseek() on 32-bit i386 systems to work correctly when
-SEEK_CUR is used with large files.
-
-The ext2fs_read_inode_full() function will no longer use
-fs->read_inode() if the caller has requested more than the base 128
-byte inode structure and the inode size is greater than 128 bytes.
-
-Fix build failure with --enable-jbd-debug.
-
-Clean up filtering of outputs for the regression tests by using a
-common sed script.
-
-Fix gcc -Wall and clang nits.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.7 (January 21, 2013)
-===================================
-
-Add warnings to mke2fs, resize2fs, and tune2fs that the bigalloc and
-quota features are still under development. For more information
-please see:
- * https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Bigalloc
- * https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Quota
-
-Add some new options to filefrag from Lustre's patches to e2fsprogs:
- * add -k option to print extents in kB-sized units (like df -k)
- * add -b {blocksize} to print extents in blocksize units
- * add -e option to print extent format, even when FIBMAP is used
- * add -X option to print extents in hexadecimal format
-
-Fix resize2fs so that it can handle off-line resizes of file systems
-with the flex_bg feature but without a resize_inode (or if we run out
-of reserved gdt blocks). This also fixes a problem where if the user
-creates a filesystem with a restricted number of reserved gdt blocks,
-an off-line resize which grows the file system could potentially
-result in file system corruption.
-
-Fix a resize2fs bug which could cause it to corrupt bigalloc file
-systems when doing an off-line resize.
-
-Further optimize resize2fs so it doesn't use quite as much CPU when
-resizing very large file systems.
-
-Fixed 32-bit overflow bugs which could cause resize2fs to fail and
-possibly corrupt the file system while resizing 64-bit file systems.
-
-Fix a bug in mke2fs where parsing "-E resize=NNN" will result in a
-mke2fs crash due to a divide-by-zero if the 64bit file system feature
-is enabled.
-
-Add better error checking to mke2fs to check for invalid parameters
-when creating bigalloc file system.
-
-When creating bigalloc filesystems, the -g option to mke2fs will now
-specify the number of clusters per block group.
-
-Add to debugfs the functionality to corrupt a specific file system
-block via the "zap_block" command.
-
-Add to debugfs the functionality to print out a hex dump of a block in
-the file system via the "block_dump" command.
-
-Add to debugfs the functionality to manipulate the extent tree
-directly via the "extent_open" command.
-
-Fixed debugfs's mknod command so that it updates the block group
-statistics.
-
-Fix e2fsck so it can detect and fix inconsistencies in the interior
-nodes of an inode's extent tree.
-
-Fix a potential memory corruption failure in e2fsck's error path if
-the call to ext2fs_open2() fails.
-
-Fix e2fsck if its logging function is enabled in e2fsck.conf, and the
-resulting file name for the log file is longer than 100 bytes, that it
-properly handles this situation instead of crashing.
-
-E2fsck will now report the amount of memory that it attempted to
-allocate when a memory allocation request fails, to make it easier to
-track down the problem.
-
-Fix mke2fs's handling of the mmp_update_interval option. (Addresses
-Lustre Bug: LU-1888)
-
-E2image can now include all data blocks in the e2image output file
-when the user specifies the -a option.
-
-If e2fsprogs is compiled without --enable-quota, make sure that
-tune2fs can not turn on the feature for new-style quota support, since
-afterwards, none of the e2fsprogs tools will be willing to touch that
-file system.
-
-Optimize e2fsck's so that it uses much less CPU for large file
-systems. This can result in significant speedups, especially on
-CPU-constrained systems. This was primarily done by optimizing
-libext2fs's bitmap functions. (Addresses Google Bug: #7534813)
-
-Fix debugfs's htree command so that all its messages are sent through
-the pager.
-
-Fixed debugfs's "dump_file" and "cat" functions work correctly
-on file systems whose block size is greater than 8k.
-
-Fix e2freefrag so it works on 64-bit file systems, and so it uses much
-less memory. (Addresses Google Bug: 7269948)
-
-Update the spd_readdir.c file in the contrib directory to include some
-additions which were made in 2008 that didn't get folded into the
-version which we checked into the e2fsprogs source tree. These
-enhancements include thread safety, support for readdir64_r(), and
-safe_getenv() support in case spd_readdir.so is used for setuid binaries.
-
-Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese
-translations
-
-Add a command to debugfs to create symlinks.
-
-Document the bigalloc feature in the mke2fs man page. (Addresses
-Debian Bug: #669730)
-
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Fix gcc -Wall nits.
-
-Fix a spelling typo in the libext2fs texinfo documentation.
-
-Change the output from "make check" so that tools such as emacs's "M-x
-compile" does not mistake the output as containing a compiler error.
-
-Export two new functions from libext2fs: ext2fs_extent_node_split()
-and ext2fs_extent_goto2().
-
-The ext2fs_extents_fix_parents() was fixed so it does not modify the
-location of the extent handle if its current location is at an
-interior node, rather than a leaf node of an inode's extent tree.
-
-Add a regression test to assure that e2fsck can correctly fix an
-inconsistent interior node in an inode's extent tree.
-
-The ext2fs_{mark,unmark,test}_block_bitmap_range2() functions now
-correctly support bigalloc file systems which use store block usage
-information in units of clusters.
-
-Fixed the help text in the configure script for --enable-quota.
-
-The m68k-specific bitops code has been removed since they were
-incorrectly treating bit numbers with the high bit set as signed
-integers. Furthermore, modern compilers do a good enough job
-optimizing the generic code there is no point in having the m68k
-specific asm statements.
-
-Fixed how we link the test programs so they always use the static
-libraries, so that we test using the libraries which we have just
-built.
-
-Update config.guess and config.sub to the latest versions from the GNU
-project.
-
-Fixed the com_err.texinfo file so that it can produce a valid
-postscript/pdf printed output.
-
-Add a regression test which checks debugfs's ability to create
-symlinks, named FIFO's, and device nodes.
-
-Add a function ext2fs_symlink(), which creates symlinks to the
-libext2fs library.
-
-Add debugging code so we can test old kernel interfaces for online
-resize to resize2fs. This backwards compatibility checking is keyed
-off of the RESIZE2FS_KERNEL_VERSION, which is designed to allow us to
-test the functionality of the kernel's older resize ioctls without
-needing to install an old version of resize2fs, and to also test a
-modern resize2fs's ability to work with older kernels without having
-to install an older version of the kernel.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.6 (September 21, 2012)
-=====================================
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-Resize2fs will now correctly handle resizing file systems to 16TB on
-32-bit file systems when "16TB" is specified on the command line.
-
-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.
-
-Fixed spelling mistake in debugfs's help message.
-
-Fixed a potential seg fault in e2fsck when there is an I/O error while
-reading the superblock.
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #677497)
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
-#3559210)
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-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.
-
-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)
-
-Add support for e2fsprogs to be compiled using clang/LLVM.
-
-Fix portability problems on non-Linux systems: avoid compile failures
-on systems that don't have malloc.h
-
-Fix f_mmp regression test suite so that debugfs gets killed if the
-test is interrupted.
-
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.5 (July 29, 2012)
-================================
-
-Fixed a bug with mke2fs where if there is only 8 inodes per block
-group, the calculation of the number of uninitialized inodes in the
-first block group would go negative. This resulted in "mke2fs -N 256
--t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 256m" trying to write so many blocks that /tmp
-would run out of space. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3528892)
-
-Fixed a bug in how e2fsck would uniquify directory entry names.
-(AddressesSourceforge Bug: #3540545)
-
-Previously, e2fsck would only allow a mounted file system to be
-checked if it was the root file system and it was mounted read-only.
-Now it will allow any file system mounted read-only to be checked if
-the -f option is specified. This makes it easier to test how e2fsck
-handles checking file systems which are mounted without having to test
-on the root file system.
-
-Fixed a problem if e2fsck where if the root file system is mounted
-read-only, e2fsck would not clear an error indication in the journal
-superblock. Combined with a kernel bug, this would cause the e2fsck
-to check the file system after every single boot.
-
-The e4defrag program can now handle device symlinks, such as
-/dev/mapper/testvg-testlv, instead of insisting on a less
-human-friendly name such as /dev/dm-2. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
-#707209)
-
-Fixed filefrag so it will not crash with a segfault on files from a
-virtual file system such as /proc. (e.g., "filefrag
-/proc/partitions")
-
-Fixed filefrag so that it correctly reports the number of extents.
-(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #840848)
-
-Fixed a file descriptor leak in logsave which could cause it to hang.
-(Addresses Debian Bug: #682592)
-
-Fixed e2fsck so that the file system is marked as containing an error
-if the user chooses not to fix the quota usage information.
-
-Fixed tune2fs so that it correctly removes the quota feature when the
-last quota inode is removed.
-
-Fix tune2fs so that after removing a quota inode, the block bitmap is
-updated; otherwise, e2fsck would complain after running 'tune2fs -O
-^quota <dev>'.
-
-Fix tune2fs so that when converting a file system from using legacy
-quota files to the new quota file system feature with hidden quota
-files, the accounting for these files is handled correctly so that
-e2fsck doesn't complain.
-
-Improved e2fsck's verbose reporting statistics, and allow the more
-verbose reporting to be enabled via /etc/e2fsck.conf.
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #678395)
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #680114)
-
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Fixed portability problems on other operating systems (e.g., Hurd and
-FreeBsd) caused by the attempted inclusion of <sys/quota.h>.
-
-Make sure that shared libraries link with the shared libraries built
-in the build tree, instead of the system provided libraries.
-Previously, libraries and executables were linked with the system
-libraries if present, and possibly using static archives instead of
-shared libraries. This was also problematic since if libext2fs.so is
-linked with a static libcom_err.a from system, the build system would
-attempt to link without -lpthread. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
-#3542572)
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.4 (June 12, 2012)
-================================
-
-Fixed more 64-bit block number bugs (which could end up corrupting
-file systems!) in e2fsck, debugfs, and libext2fs.
-
-Fixed e2fsck's handling of the journal's s_errno field. E2fsck was
-not properly propagating the journal's s_errno field to the superblock
-field; it was not checking this field if the journal had already been
-replayed, and if the journal *was* being replayed, the "error bit"
-wasn't getting flushed out to disk.
-
-Fixed a false positive complaint by e2fsck if all of the extents in
-the last extent tree block are uninitalized and located after the end
-of the file as defined by i_size.
-
-The dumpe2fs will now display the journal's s_errno field if it is
-non-zero, and it will also display the journal's 64-bit feature flag
-if present.
-
-Fix e2fsck so that it always opens the device file in exclusive mode
-when it might need to modify the file system, and never if the -n
-option is specified. (Previously, there were a few corner cases where
-it might get things wrong in either direction.)
-
-E2fsck now correctly truncates or deallocates extent-mapped inodes on
-the orphan list. The root cause was a bug in libext2fs's block
-iterator which could end up skipping an extent when the last block in
-an extent is removed, causing the current extent to be removed from
-the extent tree.
-
-E2fsck now correctly sets the global free block and inode counts when
-truncating or removing inodes on the orphan list in preen mode.
-Previously, it would leave these values would be set incorrectly,
-which is largely a cosmetic issue since the kernel no longer pays
-attention to those fields, but it can cause spurious complaints in
-subsequent e2fsck runs.
-
-Fix i_blocks accounting when the libext2fs library needs to add or
-remove an extent tree block on bigalloc file systems.
-
-The lsattr and chattr programs now support the No_COW flag for the
-benefit of btrfs.
-
-Debugfs now interprets date strings of the form @ddd as ddd seconds
-after the beginning of the epoch. This is handy when setting an inode
-number into the d_time field when debugging orphan list handling.
-
-Fix a precedence bug with built-in quota support which might result in
-e2fsck paying attention to the quota inode field even if the built-in
-quota feature flag is not set. Fortunately, in practice that
-superblock field should be zero for non-built-in quota file systems,
-so it's unlikely this bug would have caused problems.
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #674453,
-#674694)
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-The regression test suite can now run the integration tests in the
-tests directory in parallel, via "make -jN check".
-
-Add new test, f_zero_extent_length which tests e2fsck's handling of
-the case where all of the extents in the last extent tree block are
-uninitialized extents after i_size.
-
-Add a new test, f_jnl_errno, which checks handling of an error
-indication set in the journal superblock.
-
-Fix the test f_jnl_64bit so that it properly checks e2fsck's handling
-of a 64-bit journal.
-
-Add two tests, f_orphan_indirect_inode and f_orphan_extent_inode which
-tests e2fsck's handling of orphan inodes in preen mode, and truncation
-of extent inodes on the orphan list.
-
-Fixed more OS X portability issues.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.3 (May 14, 2012)
-===============================
-
-Fix a bug in the Unix I/O manager which could cause corruption of file
-systems with more than 16TB when e2fsprogs is compiled in 32-bit mode
-(i.e., when unsigned long is 32-bits). Also fix a bug which caused
-dumpe2fs to incorrectly display block numbers > 32-bits.
-
-Improve the support for integrated quota files (where quota is a first
-class supported feature using hidden files in the ext4 file system).
-Previously the quota file was getting rewritten even when it was not
-necessary, and e2fsck would erroneously try to hide quota files which
-were already hidden.
-
-Quiet complaints in e2fsck when the total free blocks or inodes are
-incorrect in the superblock after an system crash, since we don't
-update nor depend on the superblock summaries at each commit boundary.
-
-Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.2 which would cause applications
-outside of e2fsprogs which did not pass the EXT2_FLAG_64BIT (and so
-would were still using the legacy 32-bit bitmaps) to crash. This was
-due to missing 32-bit compat code in side the function
-ext2fs_find_first_zero_generic_bmap(). (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:
-#808421)
-
-Fix a bug which would cause mke2fs to fail creating the journal if
-/etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are missing. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
-#3509398)
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages.
-
-Update Czech, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese
-translations
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging issues.
-
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Change the nonsensically wrong types in the function signature of the
-inline function ext2fs_find_first_zero_block_bitmap2(). This was
-caused by a cut and paste error; fortunately no code in e2fsprogs used
-this inline function, and there are any users of this functions
-outside of e2fsprogs.
-
-Add support for systems which have valloc(), but which do have
-posix_memalign() nor memalign() (such as MacOS 10.5).
-
-Refactor and clean up the allocation of aligned buffers for Direct I/O
-support. Previously some allocations were requesting a greater
-alignment factor that what was strictly necessary. Also optimize
-reading and writing bitmaps using Direct I/O when the size of the
-bitmap did not fully cover the file system blocksize.
-
-Reserve the codepoints for the INCOMPAT features LARGEDATA and
-INLINEDATA.
-
-Improved the regression test suite by adding some new integration
-tests (f_jnl_32bit, f_jnl_64bit) which detect breakage of the on-disk
-jbd2 format, as well as f_eofblocks which tests the new handling of
-uninitialized and initialized blocks beyond i_size. Also add a new
-unit test which verifies 32-bit bitmaps support and the new
-find_first_zero primitives.
-
-Add a few dependencies to fix parallel (make -j) builds.
-
-Removed bash'isms which were breaking the regression test suite on
-systems where /bin/sh is not bash.
-
-The config.guess and config.sub have been updated to the 2012-02-10
-version.
-
-Fix a portability problem caused by assuming the present of mntent.h
-means that setmntent() exists. Instead, explicitly test for this in
-the configure script.
-
-If the sys/signal.h header file does not exist, don't try to include
-it, since it's not available on all systems.
-
-Add support for systems that do not support getpwuid_r()
-
-The configure script now supports a new option,
---enable-relative-symlinks, which will install relative symlinks for
-the ELF shared library files. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3520767).
-
-When building BSD shared libraries make sure the LDFLAGS variable is
-passed to the linker. Fixing this allows, for example, e2fsprogs to
-be built in 32-bit mode on Mac OS X Lion (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:
-#3517272)
-
-Fix gcc -Wall nitpicks
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.2 (March 27, 2012)
-=================================
-
-The resize2fs program uses much less CPU and is much faster for very
-large file systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #663237)
-
-The seti and freei commands in debugfs can now take an optional length
-argument to set and clear a contiguous range of inodes.
-
-E2fsck will now make explicit checks for the EOFBLOCKS_FL, since we
-plan to remove support for it from the kernel file system driver. It
-really wasn't very useful and was causing more problems than it
-solves. Since e2fsck will complain if inodes that should have
-EOFBLOCKS_FL do not have the flag set, we are going to remove this
-check from e2fsprogs first, and then only remove the flag from the
-kernel much later.
-
-The mke2fs program can now use direct I/O via "mke2fs -D". This will
-slow down the mke2fs, but it makes it more polite on a loaded server
-by limiting the amount of memory that gets dirtied by mke2fs when it
-is using buffered I/O.
-
-E2fsck was needlessly closing and re-opening the file system as a side
-effect of adding Multiple Mount Protection (MMP). This isn't
-necessary for non-MMP file systems, so drop it.
-
-Print errors returned by ext2fs_open2() and ext2fs_check_desc() so we
-can more easily diagnose memory allocation failures caused by
-insufficient memory. E2fsck will now abort if there are memory
-allocation failures when the file system is initially opened and
-during the block group descriptor checks. (Addresses Google Bug:
-#6208183)
-
-If there are incorrect block group checks, e2fsck will now report the
-incorrect and corrected checksum values.
-
-The e2fsck progam can now write log files containing the details of
-the problems that were found and fixed directly, via configuration
-parameters in /etc/e2fsck.conf.
-
-Added the ability to limit the number of messages reported by e2fsck
-for a given problem type. This avoids a potential bottleneck if there
-is a serial console which can cause a boot sequence to take a long
-time if e2fsck needs to report many, many file system errors.
-
-The dumpe2fs, debugfs, and tune2fs now use rbtree bitmaps, which cause
-them to use much less memory for large file systems.
-
-The dumpe2fs program will now print the expected block group checksum
-if it is incorrect. This helps to diagnose problems caused by
-incorrect block group checksums.
-
-E2fsck now checks for extents with a zero length, since the kernel
-will oops if it comes accross such a corrupted data structure. (See
-https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42859)
-
-E2fsck has a number of bugs relating to discard that have been fixed.
-(1) Fixed a bug which could cause e2fsck to discard portions of the
-inode table which were actually in use. (2) E2fsck will now avoid
-using discard if the block device doesn't zero data on discard, since
-otherwise this could cause problems if the file system gets corrupted
-in the future. (3) E2fsck will now avoid using discard when it is run
-in read-only mode. (4) Fixed a bug which caused e2fsck to not issue
-discards in the last block group.
-
-E2fsck's CPU utilization in pass 5 has been optimized, which will
-speed up e2fsck slightly.
-
-E2image will now skip copying uninitialized bitmap and inode table
-blocks.
-
-Fixed mke2fs -S so it does not corrupt the first block group's
-information.
-
-E2fsck will now check the new sysfs interface to determine if we are
-using the battery or AC mains. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3439277)
-
-Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bug: #665427)
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. (Addresses Debian Bug: #665885)
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Fixed various portability issues for non-Linux systems, particularly
-MacOS X, as well as Linux systems running with the just-released glibc
-2.15.
-
-Fix file descriptor leak in ext2fs_close() if the file system with
-uninit_bg is opened read/only with a backup superblock. (Addresses
-SourceForge Bug: #3444351)
-
-Fixed an invalid return in a non-void function in the quota code.
-(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #3468423)
-
-Fixed the debian rules file so that the calls to dpkg-buildflags works
-when the shell is dash.
-
-The debian package build now uses V=1 so that there is more
-information about potential build failures in debian buildd logs.
-
-If the uninit flags get cleared by functions such as
-ext2fs_new_inode() or ext2fs_new_block2(), we now make sure the
-superblock is marked dirty and the block group descriptor checksum is
-updated if necessary.
-
-The debian rules file will now try to load debian/rules.custom of it
-exists. This flie can skip various builds for speed reasons if there
-is no need for the e2fsck-static or udeb packages. Available
-customizations in the rules file includes SKIP_STATIC=yes,
-SKIP_BF=yes, and SKIP_DIETLIBC=yes.
-
-In addition, if the file misc/mke2fs.conf.custom.in exists in the
-source tree, it will be used instead of the standard misc.conf file in
-the upstream sources. This makes it easier for Debian-derived systems
-to distribute a custom mke2fs.conf file without having to worry about
-merge issues if future versions of e2fsprogs makes changes in the
-upstream default version of mke2fs.conf.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42.1 (February 17, 2012)
-===================================
-
-The mke2fs and e2fsck now use significantly less memory when creating
-or checking very large file systems. This was enabled by adding
-extent-based bitmaps which are stored using a red-block tree, since
-block and inode allocations tend to be contiguous.
-
-The command mke2fs -S is used as a last ditch recovery command to
-write new superblock and block group descriptors, but _not_ to destroy
-the inode table in hopes of recovering from a badly corrupted file
-system. So if the uninit_bg feature is enabled, mke2fs -S will now
-set the unused inodes count field to zero. Otherwise, e2fsck -fy
-after using mke2fs -S would leave the file system completely empty.
-
-Since mke2fs recognizes mke3fs in argv[0] to mean "mkfs.ext3", also
-honor "mke4fs" to work the same as "mke2fs.ext4", since RHEL5 has
-installed an mke2fs binary using that name.
-
-The usage and help messages for the -G, -t and -T options in mke2fs
-have been fixed.
-
-If e2fsck needs to use the backup group descriptors, the
-ext2fs_open2() function clears the UNINIT bits to ensure all of the
-inodes in the file systems get scanned. However, the code which reset
-the UNINIT flags did not also recalculate the checksum, which produced
-many spurious (and scary) e2fsck messages. This has been fixed by
-resetting cheksums when the UNINIT bits are cleared.
-
-Relax a check in e2fsck which required that the block bitmap to be
-initialized when the inode bitmap is in use. This will allow us to
-eventually eliminate code from the kernel which forcibly initialized
-the block bitmap when the inode bitmap is first used, requiring an
-extra journal credit and disk write. (Addresses Google Bug: #5944440)
-
-Make sure rdebugfs (which may be installed setuid or setgid disk) does
-not honor environment variables if euid != uid or egid != gid.
-
-Debugfs's ncheck command has been optimized and now is much more
-robust with faced with corrupted file systems. The ncheck command
-also now has a -c option which will verify the file type information
-in the directory entry to see if matches the inode's mode bits. This
-is extremely useful when trying to use debugsfs to determine which
-parts of the file system metadata can be trusted.
-
-E2image will try to use ftruncate64() to set the i_size for raw
-images, instead of writing a single null byte. This avoid allocating
-an extra block to the raw image, for those file systems and/or
-operating systems that support this. (Linux does.) In addition, fix
-a logic bug that caused the file to not be properly extended if the
-size of the last hole was exactly an multiple of a megabyte.
-
-Fixed a bug in resize2fs where for 1k and 2k file systems, where
-s_first_data_block is non-zero, this wasn't taken into account when
-calculate the minimum file system size for use with the -M option.
-
-Fixed the badblocks program to honor the -s flag when in read-only -t
-mode. (Addresses Debian Bug #646629)
-
-Update Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, and Sweedish translation from the
-Translation Project.
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging issues so that dpkg-buildflags is used
-if present, which allows e2fsprogs to be built with security hardening
-flags. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #654457)
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Fix a bug in ext2fs_clear_generic_bmap() when used for 32-bit bitmaps.
-This was only an issue for programs compiled against e2fsprogs 1.41
-that manipulate bitmaps directly. (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs:
-#3451486)
-
-The libext2fs library now uses sysconf() to fetch the page size, instead
-of the deprecated getpagesize().
-
-The ext2fs_get_pathname() function will return a partial path if an a
-directory in the path is not a directory, displaying it as an inode
-number in angle brackets instead of giving up and displaying an error.
-This is much more helpful when a user is trying to debug a corrupted
-file system.
-
-Codepoints for the RO_COMPAT_REPLICA feature has been reserved.
-
-Added a new library function, ext2fs_file_get_inode_num(), for use by
-fuse2fs.
-
-Fixed a bug in ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that when it is truncating a
-file, it actually works.
-
-The block iterator now properly honors the BLOCK_ABORT flag for
-extent-based flags. Previously, it didn't, which generally made code
-be less efficient, but it could cause bugs in ext2fs_link(), for
-example, by causing it to insert multiple directory entries.
-
-Fixed an (harmless other than causing a compiler warning) use of an
-uninitialized variable in e2fsck's MMP code.
-
-
-E2fsprogs 1.42 (November 29, 2011)
-==================================
-
-This release of e2fsprogs has support for file systems > 16TB. Online
-resize requires kernel support which will hopefully be in Linux
-version 3.2. Offline support is not yet available for > 16TB file
-systems, but will be coming.
-
-This release of e2fsprogs has support for clustered allocation. This
-reduces the number of block (now cluster) bitmaps by allocating and
-deallocating space in contiguous power-of-2 collections of blocks,
-which are called clustered. This is a file system level feature,
-called 'bigalloc', which must be enabled when the file system is
-initially formatted. It is not backwards compatible with older
-kernels.
-
-Added support for the Multi-Mount Protection (MMP) feature.
-
-E2fsck more efficiently uses scratch files for really big file
-systems. (This is a feature that has to be turned on explicitly; see
-[scratch_files] in the e2fsck.conf man page.)
-
-Fix a bug in e2fsck where if the free blocks and inodes counts are
-incorrect, e2fsck would fix them without printing an error message.
-This would cause a "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***" message without
-any explanation of what was fixed.
-
-E2fsck will no longer attempt to clone an extended attribute block in
-pass1b handling if the file system does not support extended
-attributes.
-
-E2fsck will be more careful accidentally asking the user to continue
-if the file system is mounted, so that an escape sequence won't cause
-a false positive. (Addresses Debian Bug: #619859)
-
-E2fsck now uses less cpu time in pass 5 when large portions of the
-bitmaps are uninitialized.
-
-E2fsck will no longer segault when a corrupted file system has a bad
-extent, and removing it leads to a block needing to be deallocated.
-(Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2971800)
-
-E2fsck will catch termination signals (segfaults, bus errors, sigfpe)
-and print debugging information to make it easier to find potential
-problems.
-
-E2fsck will check to see if the bad block inode looks insane, and will
-skip trying to use if it certain fields which should be zero look
-non-zero. This is to avoid a corrupted bad block inode causing e2fsck
-to get confused and do more harm than good.
-
-If e2fsck modifies certain superblock fields which the kernel doesn't
-look at, it will now mark the superblock as dirty without marking the
-file system as changed. This avoids signalling the init scripts that
-a reboot is necessary, since the kernel isn't going to look at those
-fields, so it won't care if they have been changed.
-
-Fixed a bug in the libext2fs library (in the binary search routine of
-the icount abstraction) that could (very, very rarely) cause e2fsck to
-die in the middle of pass 1 or pass 2 processing.
-
-E2fsck will not try to do a discard operation if the -n option was
-specified on the command line.
-
-E2fsck now supports an extended "discard" option which will cause
-e2fsck to attempt discard all unused blocks after a full, successful
-file system check.
-
-E2fsck will check for the bad block inode to make sure it looks sane
-before trusting it, to avoid causing more harm than good to the file
-system.
-
-E2fsck now returns additional status bits in its exit code if it
-aborts early in the e2fsck run.
-
-E2fsck now correctly calculates the maximum file size in the case of
-the huge_file file system feature enabled without extents.
-
-The mke2fs and e2fsck programs now tries to use the punch hole command
-as a "discard" when operating on normal files.
-
-The e2image program now supports the qcow2 format, which is a more
-efficient way of capturing file system dumps.
-
-Mke2fs now supports the [devices] stanza in mke2fs.conf which allows
-per-device defaults to be specified in the configuration file.
-
-Mke2fs now supports the reserved_ratio relation in the [defaults] and
-[fs_types] section in mke2fs.conf.
-
-Mke2fs now creates extent-mapped directories for the root and
-lost+found directories.
-
-Mke2fs will skip zero'ing the journal if the extended option
-"lazy_journal_init" is specified. This can save a lot of time, but it
-does add a small amount of risk if the system crashes before the
-journal is overwritten entirely once. It is epsecially useful for
-testing.
-
-Mke2fs will now create file systems that enable user namespace
-extended attributes and with time- and mount count-based file
-system checks disabled.
-
-Mke2fs will not set a stride or strip size of one block based on block
-device attributes obtained from sysfs.
-
-Mke2fs now displays a progress report during the discard process.
-
-Mke2fs now handles extreme file system parameters correctly which
-previously caused the inodes per group to drop below 8, leading to a
-segfault. (The inodes per group must be a multiple of 8, but the code
-didn't correctly deal with an inodes per group count less than 8.)
-
-Mke2fs and tune2fs previously would give an error if the user tried
-setting the stride and stripe-width parameters to zero; but this is
-necessary to disable the stride and stripe-width settings. So allow
-setting these superblock fields to zero. (Addresses Google Bug:
-#4988557)
-
-Mke2fs now gives a warning if the auto-detected block size exceeds the
-system's page size.
-
-If the enable_periodic_fsck option is false in /etc/mke2fs.conf (which
-is the default), mke2fs will now set the s_max_mnt_count superblock
-field to -1, instead of 0. Kernels older then 3.0 will print a
-spurious message on each mount then they see a s_max_mnt_count set to
-0, which will annoy users. (Addresses Debian Bug: #632637)
-
-The default mke2fs.conf now has entries for "big" and "huge", which
-are needed for very big file systems.
-
-The resize2fs program now has support for a new online resize ioctl
-that can support file systems > 16TB, once it arrives in v3.x kernels.
-
-Fixed bug which caused resize2fs to fail when shrinking an empty file
-system down to its minimal size. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug #3404051)
-
-Fixed tune2fs's mount options parsing. (Addresses Debian Bug: #641667)
-
-Allow tune2fs to remove external journals if the device can not be
-found.
-
-Debugfs's icheck will now correctly find inodes which use the
-searched-for block as an extended attribute block.
-
-Debugfs now has a new "punch" command which remove blocks from the
-middle of an inode.
-
-Debugfs now has a new "e2freefrag" command which analyzes the free
-space fragmentation of the file system, using the same code as the
-e2freefrag program.
-
-Debugfs now has a "filefrag" command which displays information about
-a file's fragmentation.
-
-Add support to build a metadata-only, read-only, stripped-down version
-of debugfs called rdebugfs.
-
-Fixed a potential stack overrun bug in debugfs.
-
-The badblocks program now correctly recovers from I/O errors when
-direct I/O is being used. The badblocks command now also supports a
--B option which forces the use of buffered I/O, and the -v option will
-provide a more detailed breakdown of read, write, and failed
-comparison errors.
-
-Added e4defrag tool which uses the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl.
-
-Added support for journals larger than 2GB.
-
-Support using both hard links and symlinks when installing e2fsprogs.
-
-Add overflow checking to tune2fs -i's fsck interval, which must fit in
-a 32-bit field.
-
-The debugfs command now has a new 'blocks' command which prints out
-data blocks of a particular inode in a format which is useful for
-scripting.
-
-Filefrag will report 0 extents correctly in verbose mode. (Addresses
-RedHat Bugzilla: #653234)
-
-Filefrag has been fixed so its -v report prints the correct expected
-block number (previously there had been an off-by-one error). In
-addition, it will now display the number of contiguous extents when -v
-is not specified. This makes it consistent with the number of extents
-printed when the -v option was specified. In addition, the number of
-contiguous extents is far more interesting/useful than the number of
-physical extents for very large files. (Addresses Debian Bug:
-#631498, #644792)
-
-Logsave's usage message has been fixed. (Addresses Debian Bug:
-#619788)
-
-Avoid an infinite loop in ext2fs_find_block_device() if there are
-symlink loops in /dev caused by a buggy udev.
-
-Added a useful "fallocate" program to the contrib directory.
-
-Fixed an ABI compatibility problem in libext2fs which broke the dump
-program. Also added back some macros which dump needed so it could
-compile against the latest version of ext2_fs.h (Addresses Debian Bug:
-#636418)
-
-Fixed parsing of MNTOPT_ options for tune2fs and debugfs (Addresses
-Debian Bug: #641667)
-
-Added internationalization support for libcom_err error table strings.
-
-Fixed various spelling mistakes found in various output strings found
-by I18N translators.
-
-Update translations: French, Chinese, Germany, Indonesian, Swedish,
-Vietnamese, Polish, Dutch, Czech. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #520985,
-#620659)
-
-Fixed various Debian Packaging issues. (Addresses Debian Bugs:
-#614662, #632169, #641838, #627535, #629355)
-
-Updated/clarified man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #639411,
-#642193, #634883)
-
-Programmer's Notes
-------------------
-
-Initial support for quota as an integrated feature, where the quota
-files are hidden system files that are automatically maintained by
-e2fsck is present, although disabled by default. It must be enabled
-by using the configure option --enable-quota.
-
-Reserved the on-disk fields for the metadata checksum and snapshot
-features, which are currently in development.
-
-The ext2fs library now has the new functions ext2fs_punch(),
-ext2fs_get_memzero() and ext2fs_file_get_inode().
-
-The ext2fs library now has support for calculating the crc32c checksum
-(via the new functions ext2fs_crc32c_be and ext2fs_crc32c_le).
-
-The I/O manager now supports the discard operation.
-
-Reserved file system code points for new 1st class quota feature.
-
-Shortened the compilation lines by moving the autoconf defines to
-a config.h header file.
-
-Fixed a potential free of an unitialized pointer in
-ext2fs_update_bb_inode().
-
-Fixed miscellaneous gcc -Wall and coverity warnings.
-
-Fixed portability issues for Mac OS X, Hurd, and FreeBSD.
-
-Fixed a build failure when OMIT_COM_ERR is defined.
-
-Improved error checking and fixed memory leaks caused by error return
-paths.
-
-Add ext2fs_flush2() and ext2fs_close2() which takes a flag to allow
-the fsync() to be skipped.
-
-Added a test for extent-mapped journals by mke2fs and tune2fs.
-
-Added a test for creating a large (over 4GB) journal using mke2fs.
-
-Added a test to make sure the inode size remains constant.
-
-The regression test script now prints the list of which tests failed.
-
-The regression test system now uses /tmp for its scratch files, which
-is often a tmpfs mounted file system and hence much faster.
-
-The i_e2image test was fixed so it works with valgrind.
-
-Tests that rely on debugfs are now skipped if debugfs wasn't built.
-
-Fixed the dependencies for "make check" so all required dependencies
-are built before running the gression tests.
-
-A link to com_err.h is installed in $(includedir) during a "make install".
-
-The po/*.gmo files are automatically rebuilt if they are missing or
-out of date. This helps out Debian packaging.
-
-Allow ext2fs_get_memalign() to compile on systems that don't have
-posix_memalign().
-
-Fixed a namespace leak in libext2fs (tdb_null).
-
-
E2fsprogs 1.41.14 (December 22, 2010)
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@@ -3669,7 +2417,7 @@ loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count.
Fix memory leak in ext2fs_write_new_inode()
Add support for using a scratch files directory to reduce e2fsck's
-memory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB
+emory utilization on really big filesystems. This uses the TDB
library. See the [scratch_files] section of the e2fsck.conf man page
for more details.