Hi all, I've released e2fsprogs 1.42.4 in all of the usual places; it's tagged in the git trees on git.kernel.org, github, and sourceforge, and available for ftp at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.42.4 and http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.4.tar.gz The release notes are attached below - Ted E2fsprogs 1.42.4 (June 12, 2012) ================================ Fixed more 64-bit block number bugs (which could end up corrupting file systems!) in e2fsck, debugfs, and libext2fs. Fixed e2fsck's handling of the journal's s_errno field. E2fsck was not properly propagating the journal's s_errno field to the superblock field; it was not checking this field if the journal had already been replayed, and if the journal *was* being replayed, the "error bit" wasn't getting flushed out to disk. Fixed a false positive complaint by e2fsck if all of the extents in the last extent tree block are uninitalized and located after the end of the file as defined by i_size. The dumpe2fs will now display the journal's s_errno field if it is non-zero, and it will also display the journal's 64-bit feature flag if present. Fix e2fsck so that it always opens the device file in exclusive mode when it might need to modify the file system, and never if the -n option is specified. (Previously, there were a few corner cases where it might get things wrong in either direction.) E2fsck now correctly truncates or deallocates extent-mapped inodes on the orphan list. The root cause was a bug in libext2fs's block iterator which could end up skipping an extent when the last block in an extent is removed, causing the current extent to be removed from the extent tree. E2fsck now correctly sets the global free block and inode counts when truncating or removing inodes on the orphan list in preen mode. Previously, it would leave these values would be set incorrectly, which is largely a cosmetic issue since the kernel no longer pays attention to those fields, but it can cause spurious complaints in subsequent e2fsck runs. Fix i_blocks accounting when the libext2fs library needs to add or remove an extent tree block on bigalloc file systems. The lsattr and chattr programs now support the No_COW flag for the benefit of btrfs. Debugfs now interprets date strings of the form @ddd as ddd seconds after the beginning of the epoch. This is handy when setting an inode number into the d_time field when debugging orphan list handling. Fix a precedence bug with built-in quota support which might result in e2fsck paying attention to the quota inode field even if the built-in quota feature flag is not set. Fortunately, in practice that superblock field should be zero for non-built-in quota file systems, so it's unlikely this bug would have caused problems. Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #674453, #674694) Programmer's Notes ------------------ The regression test suite can now run the integration tests in the tests directory in parallel, via "make -jN check". Add new test, f_zero_extent_length which tests e2fsck's handling of the case where all of the extents in the last extent tree block are uninitialized extents after i_size. Add a new test, f_jnl_errno, which checks handling of an error indication set in the journal superblock. Fix the test f_jnl_64bit so that it properly checks e2fsck's handling of a 64-bit journal. Add two tests, f_orphan_indirect_inode and f_orphan_extent_inode which tests e2fsck's handling of orphan inodes in preen mode, and truncation of extent inodes on the orphan list. Fixed more OS X portability issues. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
