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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2001-08-15 21:02:23 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2001-08-15 21:02:23 -0400
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Update for 1.23 release.
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-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)