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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2005-01-28 12:33:01 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2005-01-28 12:33:01 -0500 |
commit | 8ceb55f0e589c7bf6ffe32cabf94f5bcde866dae (patch) | |
tree | c4329d889785befe6de8517682e164f34615d6bd /RELEASE-NOTES | |
parent | a894eb47952040cd48da125f3cfd1aa8e3f925a1 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-8ceb55f0e589c7bf6ffe32cabf94f5bcde866dae.tar.gz |
Update release notes and version.h for e2fsprogs 1.36-rc5 release.
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 5dccb682..fae72dd3 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -E2fsprogs 1.36-rc4 (January 26, 2005) +E2fsprogs 1.36-rc5 (January 27, 2005) ===================================== All of the patches that were applied to Fedore Core 3's @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Fix e2fsck to not complain when the resize_inode feature is enabled, s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero, and there is no DIND block allocated in the resize inode. +Fix e2fsck to note delete symlinks that contain an extended attribute +after the ext_attr feature flag has been cleared. (Addresses Red Hat +Bugzilla #146284). + Add new utility program, copy_sparse.c, which is very useful for dealing with large sparse files (such as e2image files). @@ -56,6 +60,11 @@ Fix filefrag so that it works correctly with sparse files. Add interpretation of OS Creator values for FreeBSD and Lites in mke2fs and dumpe2fs. +Add mke2fs support so that it can support filesystems larger than 4TB +automatically, by retrying with a 4k blocksize if the device size is +too big to be expressed using a 1k blocksize. (Addresses Sourceforge +bug #1106631) + Change blkid to test for NTFS first because Windows sometimes doesn't clear enough of the parition to confuse the probing routines into thinking the old filesystem type is still valid. (Addresses Debian @@ -66,7 +75,9 @@ Add support for swap partition label and uuid's in the blkid library. Add support to the blkid library to recognize Oracle ASM volumes. Make blkid -t display all devices that match the specified criteria, -not just the first one. (Addresses Debian Bug #290530) +not just the first one, and work more consistently when the blkid +cache file is not available or set to /dev/null. (Addresses Debian +Bug #290530 and #292425) Badblocks will now correctly display block numbers greater than 999,999,999 in its progress display. @@ -105,7 +116,9 @@ specifiers, via the syntax: "/tmp/test.img?offset=1024". E2fsprogs programs will now accept blocksizes up to 65536; kernel support on the x86 doesn't exist for now, but it can be useful on -other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k. +other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k. There are 2.6 +kernel patches out there which enable this, but they are of this +writing still experimental. The e2image command now takes the -s option which will scramble directory entries for raw image files. @@ -263,8 +276,8 @@ Improved support for compiling e2fsprogs under dietlibc. Make e2fsprogs portable to Solaris and FreeBSD systems. -Add blkid_get_library_version() and blkid_parse_version_string() -functions to the blkid library. +Add blkid_verify(), blkid_get_library_version(), and +blkid_parse_version_string() functions to the blkid library. Add pkg-config files for e2fsprogs's libraries. |