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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 727e5543..8638a4ce 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,62 @@ +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) ================================ |