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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 1998-07-05 19:37:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 1998-07-05 19:37:53 +0000 |
| commit | c9833a605c5710865fb7811c0c38ef7cecb542a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cb0c47244696164f9df8f896a768abf2da52b87 /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | 3ba00d681da00062a943a33fef711c47d837b63f (diff) | |
| download | e2fsprogs-c9833a605c5710865fb7811c0c38ef7cecb542a1.tar.gz | |
ChangeLog, script:
f_swapfs: Fix script to ignore the version string header which debugfs
now prints when it starts up.
libext2fs.texinfo:
Update copyright notice and revision date.
RELEASE-NOTES, version.h:
Update for 1.12 release.
Diffstat (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES')
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 03c60eb1..e1ac4414 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -E2fsprogs 1.12 (February 20, 1998) +E2fsprogs 1.12 (July 4, 1998) ================================== E2fsprogs now works with glibc (at least with the version shipped wtih @@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ explicitly do a configure test to see if (a) llseek is in libc, and complaints about libc developers don't understand the concept of compatibility with previous versions of libc.) -Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_DIRNAME_SIZE feature, +The ext2fs library now writes out the block group number in each of +the superblock copies. This makes it easier to automatically +determine the starting block group of the filesystem when the block +group information is trashed. + +Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature, which means that e2fsprogs will ignore the high 8 bits of the directory entry's name_len field, so that it can be used for other purposes. @@ -31,6 +36,12 @@ Mke2fs will check the size of the device, and if the user specifies a filesystem size larger than the apparent size of the device it will print a warning message and ask if the user wants to proceed. +E2fsck has a new option -C, which sends completion information to the +specified file descriptor. For the most part, this is intended for +programs to use, although -C 0 will print a spinning character to the +stdout device, which may be useful for users who want to see something +happening while e2fsck goes about its business. + Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause a core dump when it needs to expand the /lost+found directory, and sometimes the bitmaps haven't been merged in. Also fixed a related bug where ext2fs_write_dir_block |