From cd1a79a5ce80d80cde1dc2461407f9ac13fe33bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:36:42 -0500 Subject: Update for 1.26-WIP release. --- RELEASE-NOTES | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES') diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 57200038..773a57f9 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,64 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.26-WIP (November 26, 2001) +====================================== + +Fixed a bug in e2fsck where it wasn't allocating a new block or inode +bitmap if it wasn't present and the blocksize was 2k or 4k. +(Addresses Debian Bug #116975) + +E2fsck will check and fix botched ext3 V1 to V2 superblock updates by +clearing the new V2 fields if they do not make sense or if the ext3 +superblock is version 1 superblock. + +E2fsck will automatically relocate the ext3 journal from a visible +file (i.e., /.journal) to an hidden inode if the filesystem has been +opened read/write. This allows the users to add a journal while the +filesystem is mounted, but the next time the system is rebooted, the +journal file will disappear. This avoids problems with backups, +stupid operators with superuser bits, etc. + +Fix a bug in fsck where it would not support a filesystem type of +"auto" if the device was specified in terms of LABEL=xxx or UUID=xxx. + +Work around a bug in 2.4.10+ kernels by trying to unset the filesize +limit if at all possible, when opening a block device. (The filesize +limit shouldn't be applied against writes to a block device.) + +Mke2fs now automatically clears the immutable attribute on a +pre-existing .journal file left over from a previous failed attempt to +add a journal to an alreadyy-mounted filesystem. + +Fixed mke2fs's exit codes to consistently indicate when the mke2fs +operation failed. + +Speed up e2image when creating sparse raw image files by optimizing +away excess lseek() system calls. + +Fix support of large (> 2GB) files when used as a filesystem in +mke2fs, tune2fs, debugfs, and findsuper. + +Debugfs's stat and icheck commands now properly deals with large (> +2GB) files. + +Debugfs's set_super_value command now prints out the list of valid +superblock fields which can be set using the command. + +Add support for a new ext2 file attribute, EXT2_NOTAIL_FL, which will +be used to signal that a particular inode should not be eligible for +tail-merging --- this is needed for programs like LILO. + +The findsuper (an unreleased, uninstalled utility program) has been +improved to add extra validity checks and to add a progress meter. +(It is still an unsupported program; the officially supported way to +recover from a trashed partition table is to use gpart; findsuper is +for wizards only. :-) + +Debugfs was fixed to compile with "configure --disable-swapfs". + +Cleaned up various manual pages. (Addresses Debian bug #119624) + +Added new translation file for Turkish. + + E2fsprogs 1.25 (September 20, 2001) =================================== -- cgit v1.2.3