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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 1999-11-10 15:56:16 +0000 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 1999-11-10 15:56:16 +0000 |
commit | 24ded091e3938a6fb8fbf68404e1f648032fa9f0 (patch) | |
tree | 57fb5d6156ce926f9065ff8b7c1cca3e68343623 | |
parent | a846d2f49996c7675cd21da30956272422b67c81 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-24ded091e3938a6fb8fbf68404e1f648032fa9f0.tar.gz |
README, RELEASE-NOTES, TODO, e2fsprogs.spec, version.h:
Update for 1.18 release.
-rw-r--r-- | README | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 46 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | TODO | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | e2fsprogs.spec | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | version.h | 4 |
5 files changed, 60 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - This is the new version (1.17) of the second extended file system -management programs. + This is the new version (1.18) of the second extended file +system management programs. From time to time, I release new versions of e2fsprogs, to fix bugs and to make the utilities more robust. You can always find diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 5b0ea157..7eb0023d 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,49 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.18 (November 10, 1999) +================================== + +Fix a core dumping bug in e2fsck if an imagic inode is present or +(more rarely) if the filesystem is badly corrupted enough that e2fsck +has to restart pass 1 processing. E2fsck now closes the filesystem +before freeing a large number of its data structures, so in the case +of future memory faults, at least the fixed filesystem will be fully +written out. + +If a filesystem doesn't support imagic inodes, and e2fsck discovers an +imagic inode, it will offer to clear the imagic flag. + +E2fsck will now offer to clear the immutable flag on special files +(device/socket/fifos) when running it in non-preen mode. + +E2fsck will now set the filetype when creating /lost+found, and when +connected orphaned inodes to /lost+found. + +Debugfs's ncheck and icheck commands now handles the case where there +are bad blocks in the inode table without bombing out. + +The badblocks list processing code has been made more efficiently for +appending a large number of (ordered) badblocks to the badblocks list. + +Some minor man page updates. + +Fsck now allows interactive e2fsck's when using fsck -As (not a common +mode, but some people like to do this in boot scripts for silly reasons). + +Programmer's notes: +------------------- + +The internal e2fsck problem code for PR_2_SPLIT_DOT was fixed to meet +with the problem code convention. + +The badblocks list regression test program has been updated to work +with previously made API name changes. + +The ext2fs_free() command now uses the new badblocks API to avoid +using the compatibility layer. + +Added new regression test cases; the run_e2fsck test script now +supports the ability for a test case to run a prepratory command +before running e2fsck. + E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999) ================================= @@ -52,3 +52,11 @@ used anywhere else. fix up get_backup_sb, so that it doesn't choose something bogus if fs->super->.... is ridiculous +---------------------------------- + +Maybe a bug in debugfs v.1.14: +if a file has more than one hardlink, only the first filename is shown when +using command + ncheck <inode> + +------------------------------------ diff --git a/e2fsprogs.spec b/e2fsprogs.spec index 823eef6a..5e14821d 100644 --- a/e2fsprogs.spec +++ b/e2fsprogs.spec @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ Summary: Utilities for managing the second extended (ext2) filesystem. Name: e2fsprogs -Version: 1.17 +Version: 1.18 Release: 0 Copyright: GPL Group: System Environment/Base -Source: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs/e2fsprogs-1.17.tar.gz +Source: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs/e2fsprogs-1.18.tar.gz BuildRoot: /tmp/e2fsprogs-root %description @@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ * may be redistributed under the GNU Public License. */ -#define E2FSPROGS_VERSION "1.17" -#define E2FSPROGS_DATE "26-Oct-1999" +#define E2FSPROGS_VERSION "1.18" +#define E2FSPROGS_DATE "11-Nov-1999" |