Hi Theo, just one small note, I don't see it tagged in the git... ? n. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:26:27PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Since Sourceforge has changed its File Release System, and no longer has > a way of making announcements when a new release has gone out (and I > don't know how many people were using it), I'll just make a quick > announcement here. > > E2fsprogs 1.41.10 has been released. It can be found in the usual > places (ftp.kernel.org, sourceforge), and of course in the e2fsprogs git > repositories. > > - Ted > > E2fsprogs 1.41.10 (February 7, 2010) > ==================================== > > Fix resize2fs bug which causes it to access invalid memory. > > Add libss support for libreadline.so.6. > > Fix e2fsck's check for extent-mapped directory with an incorrect file > type. > > Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock > to support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks. Also, since too > many distributions seem to have broken virtualization scripts now, > e2fsck will by default accept dates which are off by up to 24 hours by > default. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #559776, #557636) > > Fix a bug where mke2fs may not use the best placement of the inode > table when there is only room for a single block group in the last > flex_bg. > > E2fsck is now smarter when it needs to allocate blocks in the course > of fixing file system problems. This reduces the number of spurious > differences found in pass #5. > > E2fsck will no longer rehash directories which fit in a single > directory block. > > E2fsck now correctly handles holes in extent-mapped directories (i.e., > sparse directories which use extents). > > Fix big-endian problems with ext2fs_bmap() and ext2fs_bmap2(). > > Fix a bug in filefrag where on platforms which can allow file systems > with 8k blocks, that it doesn't core dump when it sees a file system > with 8k block sizes. (Thanks to Mikulas Patocka for pointing this > out.) > > E2fsck will correctly fix directories that are have an inaccurate > i_size as well as other problems in a single pass, instead of > requiring two e2fsck runs before the file system is fully fixed. > > Fix e2fsck so it will correctly find and detect duplicate directory > entries for non-indexed directories. ( Addresses Sourceforge Bug: > #2862551) > > Mke2fs will use BLKDISCARD to pre-discard all blocks on an SSD or > thinly-provisioned storage device. This can be disabled using the -K > option. > > Enhance libext2fs so it works around bug in Linux version 2.6.19 > and earlier where the /proc/swaps file was missing the header on > the first line. > > Fix bug in Linux version 2.6.19 and earlier where the /proc/swaps file > was missing the header on the first line. > > Fix some big-endian bugs in e2fsck and libext2fs. > > Fix resize2fs so it works correctly on file systems with external > journals instead of failing early with the error "Illegal inode > number". > > Fix libss so that it does not seg fault when using a readline library > which does not supply a readline_shutdown() function. > > Updated dumpe2fs's usage message so it correctly gives the right > arguments summary for "-o superblock=<num>" and "-o blocksize=<num>". > (Addresses Launchpad Bug: #448099) > > Teach libext2fs to ignore the high 32 bits of the i_blocks field > when huge_file file system feature is set, but the inode does not > have the HUGE_FILE_FL flag set. > > Fix e2fsck's handling of 64-bit i_blocks fields. > > E2fsck will now print "Illegal indirect block", "Illegal > double-indirect block", etc., instead of "Illegal block #-1" or > "Illegal block #-2", etc. This makes it easier for users to > understand what has gone wrong. (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #2871782) > > Mke2fs now will obtain get device topology information from blkid and > use it to populate the superblock stride and stripe sizes. It will > also warn if the block device is misaligned > > Fix file descriptor leaks in fsck and debugfs. (Addresses Novell Bug: > ##524526) > > Fix the libext2fs library code to round up the bitmap size to a 4-byte > boundary, to prevent spurious seg faults caused by the x86 > architecture. This doesn't affect Linux systems, but was a major > problem on a number of *BSD systems. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: > #2328708) > > Fix resize2fs's minimum size required for a file system so it doesn't > fail when "resize2fs -M" is run. (Addresses RedHat Bugzilla: #519131) > > Dumpe2fs now prints summary information about the contents of the > journal. > > Avoid printing scary error messages when e2fsck starts running > problems on low-memory systems, as it tends to panic and mislead the > user. (Addresses Debian Bug: #509529) > > Fix blkid's modules.dep parser so it handles compressed (.ko.gz) > modules files. (Address Red Hat Bug: #518572) > > Fix tune2fs so it can add a journal when an extent-enabled file system > is mounted. (Addresses Launchpad bug: #416648) > > Update Czech, Indonesian, Polish and Vietnamese translations (from the > Translation Project). > > Update/clarify man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2822186) > > Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for > details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #540111) > > Programmer's Notes > ------------------ > > The configure script supports the --with-cc, --with-ccopts, and > --with-ldopts options. Instead, the more standard use of CC=, > CCFLAGS=, and LDFLAGS= in the configure command line is used instead. > Also, --with-ld, which never worked, was also removed. > (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #2843248) > > The in-tree header files are only used if the in-tree uuid or blkid > libraries are used. 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