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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2001-08-15 21:02:23 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2001-08-15 21:02:23 -0400 |
commit | c4ac9e14c498f3b6aa891bfc969dbf08dce46488 (patch) | |
tree | 718a97becfbf055b294985228cf40131a7a37a0d /RELEASE-NOTES | |
parent | 7141b54b1af506a9a5fdf4aed649eb6526bad706 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-c4ac9e14c498f3b6aa891bfc969dbf08dce46488.tar.gz |
Update for 1.23 release.
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 9cb121cd..5fd58ad7 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -E2fsprogs 1.23-WIP (August 9, 2001) -================================== +E2fsprogs 1.23-WIP (August 15, 2001) +==================================== Add initial support for extended attributes (EA); e2fsck will correctly handle a filesystem with EA's and check the EA blocks for @@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ E2fsck's symlink sanity checking has been cleaned up. It now checks the i_size value of fast symlinks, and checks for immutable flags being set of symlinks, etc. +E2fsck now offers to clear inodes which are special files that have a +non-zero i_blocks or i_size field. (The i_size field check was in the +previous version of the code, but due to a bug it didn't offer to +clear the inode unless i_size and i_size_high were both non-zero.) + E2image can now create "raw" image files, which only contain the filesystem metadata placed in a spare file so that e2fsck, dumpe2fs, debugfs, etc., can be run directly on the raw image file. @@ -31,22 +36,32 @@ of all of the superblock and block group descriptors. Speed up creating an internal journal using tune2fs in the case where the filesystem has a lot blocks already allocated. +Tune2fs has been fixed to make sure that only error messages go to +stderr, and normal message go to stdout. (Addresses Debian bug #108555) + Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs; if -O none is passed to mke2fs, it will -now not set the sparse_super feature. +now not set the sparse_super feature. (Addresses Debian bug #108165) Add support in fsck for the filesystem type "auto". +Fsck -A will not try to interpret device names for filesystems which +have a pass number is 0. (Addresses Debian bug #106696). + +Fsck prints a warning message if now valid filesystems are passed to +it. (Addresses Debian Bug #107458.) + E2fsck now gives an explicit warning if there filesystem still has errors at the end of the run. (Addresses Debian bug #104502) E2fsck will set the EXT2_ERROR_FS flag if the journal superblock -reflects an error. +reflects an error. E2fsck will also not run the orphan list if the +filesystem contains errors, since the orphan list might be corrupted. E2fsck now prints the number of large files when given the -v option. Fixed minor memory leaks in e2fsck. -Some minor man pages updates. (Addresses Debian bug #30833) +Some minor man pages updates. (Addresses Debian bug #30833, #108174) E2fsprogs 1.22 (June 22, 2001) |