I've released e2fsprogs 1.42.6 in all of the usual places; it's tagged in the git trees on git.kernel.org, github, sourceforge, and code.google.com, and available for ftp at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.42.6 and http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.42.6.tar.gz The major improvement in e2fsprogs 1.42.6 is enabling online resizing for file systems larger than 16TB or which have the 64bit feature enable. This requires kernel patches that will be in 3.7. In addition, I've released the first 1.43 WIP snapshot. It has all of the fixes of 1.42.6, plus support for metadata checksums. - Ted E2fsprogs 1.43-WIP (September 22, 2012) ======================================= Add support for the ext4 metadata checksum feature. Check to make sure file system features which can not be supported by HURD are not enabled if the file system is created to be HURD-compatible. Programmer's Notes ------------------ Reduce the use of libc functions in libext2fs that may not be present in the boot loader environment, at least for those functions that are needed by boot loadsers such as yaboot. Support for the MMP feature can now be disabled at compile time. E2fsprogs 1.42.6 (September 21, 2012) ===================================== When mke2fs creates file systems with lazy itable initialization, the progress updates for writing the inode table happens so quickly that on a serial console, the time to write the progress updates can be the bottleneck. So mke2fs will now only update its progress indicators once a second. Resize2fs will skip initializing the inode tables if the kernel supports lazy_itable_init, which speeds up growing off-line growth of uninit_bg file systems significantly. Resize2fs will now also correctly set the itable_unused field in the block group descriptor to speed up the first e2fsck after the file system is grown. Resize2fs has been fixed so that on-line resizing of meta_bg file systems work correctly. This is needed to grow file system which are larger than 16T. Resize2fs will now correctly handle resizing file systems to 16TB on 32-bit file systems when "16TB" is specified on the command line. Fix mke2fs so that it will be careful to set the reserved blocks ratio larger than 50%; this can happen when creating small file systems and when the last block group is dropped because there are not enough blocks to support the metadata blocks in the last block group. Fixed spelling mistake in debugfs's help message. Fixed a potential seg fault in e2fsck when there is an I/O error while reading the superblock. Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (Addresses Debian Bug #677497) Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3559210) Programmer's Notes ------------------ The configure option --enable-relative-symlink was broken so that it needed to be --enable-symlink-relative-symlinks. We will support both for at least two years, but then the worng configure option will be removed. Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.5 so the link order for e2fsprogs' libraries will be correct for both static and shared linking. (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #3554345) Add support for e2fsprogs to be compiled using clang/LLVM. Fix portability problems on non-Linux systems: avoid compile failures on systems that don't have malloc.h Fix f_mmp regression test suite so that debugfs gets killed if the test is interrupted. -- 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
