The stable util-linux-ng 2.17 release is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel Util-linux-ng 2.17 Release Notes (08-Jan-2010) ============================================== Release highlights ------------------ fallocate: - this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to fallocate Linux syscall and allows to preallocate blocks to a file. unshare - this NEW COMMAND is a command line interface to unshare Linux syscall and allows to run program with some namespaces unshared from parent. wipefs - this NEW COMMAND is based on libblkid and allows to remove filesystem or RAID signatures from a device. libblkid: - libblkid allows to gather information about block device topology, currently supported methods are: * ioctl - supported since kernel 2.6.32 * sysfs - supported since kernel 2.6.31 * fallback for DM, MD, LVM and EVMS on old kernels (based on code from xfsprogs/libdisk) The topology support is mostly designed for mkfs programs or partitioning tools (already used in mkfs.xfs, mkex2fs, libparted and fdisk) - libblkid supports partition tables parsing (currently supported are aix, bsd, dos, mac, gpt, minix, sgi, solaris, sun and unixware). This functionality is designed for mkfs programs, DeviceKits, [k]partx or so. - libblkid API documentation is available at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/libblkid-docs/ blockdev: - supports all new topology ioctls fdisk: - the fdisk command aligns newly created partitions to minimum_io_size boundary ("minimum_io_size" is physical sector size or stripe chunk size on RAIDs). - the fdisk command supports disks with alignment_offset now. Stable maintenance releases between v2.16 and v2.17 --------------------------------------------------- util-linux-ng 2.16.1 [07-Sep-2009] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.1-ChangeLog util-linux-ng 2.16.2 [30-Nov-2009] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.2-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.2-ChangeLog ChangeLog between v2.16 and v2.17 --------------------------------- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/ addpart: - addpart.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] blkid: - add ID_FS_AMBIVALENT for udev output [Karel Zak] - add pretty output, document -L incompatibility with e2fsprogs [Karel Zak] - allow to use -s <TAG> for low-level probing (-p mode) [Karel Zak] blockdev: - add support for uint and ushort ioctls [Karel Zak] - add topology ioctls support [Karel Zak] - blockdev.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - fix topology ioctls [Karel Zak] - refactoring (better commands definition) [Karel Zak] - use c.h [Karel Zak] build-sys: - add --disable-makeinstall-setuid [Karel Zak] - add HAVE_LIBBLKID_INTERNAL [Karel Zak] - check for pkg-config before gtk-doc [Karel Zak] - check for union semun instead of using _SEM_SEMUN_UNDEFINED [Guillem Jover] - clean up gtk-doc stuff [Karel Zak] - clean up gtk-doc usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup --disable-{fallocate,pivot_root,unshare} [Karel Zak] - cleanup AM_CFLAGS usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup static building [Karel Zak] - detect if const is available [Guillem Jover] - detect if volatile is available [Guillem Jover] - don't distribute generated *.pc files [Karel Zak] - don't distribute generated blkid.h [Karel Zak] - enable silent rules if automake >= 1.11 [Guillem Jover] - fix (official) gtk-doc.make [Karel Zak] - fix BUILD_PIVOT_ROOT condition [Karel Zak] - fix blkid CFLAGS in fdisk/Makefile.am [Karel Zak] - fix out-of-source build [Karel Zak] - release++ (v2.17-rc1) [Karel Zak] - release++ (v2.17-rc2) [Karel Zak] - release++ (v2.17-rc3) [Karel Zak] - remove LT_STATIC_LDFLAGS [Karel Zak] - remove gtkdocize from autogen.sh [Karel Zak] - remove obsolete --with-fsprobe from distcheck flags [Karel Zak] - rewrite TLS detection [Karel Zak] cal: - cal.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - fix (harmless) typo [Peter Breitenlohner] - fix broken computation for Sep 1752 [Peter Breitenlohner] - remove obsolete <localeinfo.h> include [Guillem Jover] - use c.h [Karel Zak] cfdisk: - cfdisk.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - more key alternatives [Jan Sarenik] chfn: - chfn.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] chrt: - use c.h [Karel Zak] chsh: - chsh.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ctrlaltdel: - ctrlaltdel.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] cytune: - cytune.8 missing description of `-S', formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ddate: - ddate.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] delpart: - delpart.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] dmesg: - add -r to help output [Karel Zak] - dmesg.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - fix typo in man page [Ken Kopin] docs: - README width and language correction [Jan Sarenik] - add 'unshare' and 'wipefs' to AUTHORS [Karel Zak] - add LGPLv2+ to list of licenses [Karel Zak] - add ngettext() into TODO file [Karel Zak] - add v2.17 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - update "The Perfect Patch" URL [Karel Zak] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] - update TODO [Karel Zak] - update TODO file [Karel Zak] - update TODO list [Karel Zak] - update v2.17 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] elvtune: - elvtune.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] fallocate: - check for ERANGE errors [Karel Zak] - new command [Karel Zak, Eric Sandeen] fdformat: - fdformat.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - fix memory leak in verify_disk() [Cristian Rodríguez] fdisk: - add basic routines for LBA alignment [Karel Zak] - add regression test listing empty/nonsense images [Zdenek Behan] - align end of partition when defined by +size{K,M,G} [Karel Zak] - check for partition boundary [Karel Zak] - fdisk.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak] - offer aligned first sector [Karel Zak] - print info and recommendations about alignment [Karel Zak] - read topology info from libblkid [Karel Zak] - sgi label - remove duplicate swab16swab[16,32]() definitions [Karel Zak] - sleep-after-sync and fsync usage [Karel Zak] - use c.h [Karel Zak] - use minimal_io_size for the first partition [Karel Zak] findfs: - fix typo in findfs.8 [Karel Zak] flock: - fix hang when parent ignores SIGCHLD [Mike Frysinger] fsck: - document fsck behavior wrt nofail option and fstype 'auto' [Ludwig Nussel] - fsck.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - honor nofail option in fsck [Ludwig Nussel] fsck.minix: - fix broken zone checking [Karel Zak] - fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak] - fsck.minix.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] fstab: - fstab.5 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] getopt: - getopt.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] hexdump: - bug in hexdump when offset == file length [Américo Wang] - hexdump.1 erroneous .Nm "" [Peter Breitenlohner] hwclock: - do not access hardware clock when using --systz [Scott James Remnant] - hwclock.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - set kernel timezone with --systz --utc [Scott James Remnant] - use c.h [Karel Zak] - use time limit for KDGHWCLK busy wait [Karel Zak] include: - add c.h with fundamental C definitions [Karel Zak] - use c.h in canonicalize.h [Karel Zak] initctl: - fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak] - initctl.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ionice: - add a note about none class and CFQ [Karel Zak] - ionice.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ipcmk: - ipcmk.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ipcrm: - ipcrm.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ipcs: - ipcs.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use __GLIBC__ instead of obsolete __GNU_LIBRARY__ [Guillem Jover] isosize: - isosize.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] kill: - kill.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h [Karel Zak] last: - fix utmp.ut_time usage [Karel Zak] - last.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ldattach: - ldattach.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h [Karel Zak] lib: - add a generic crc32() [Karel Zak] - bug (typo) in function MD5Final() [Karel Zak] - fix file descriptor leak in is_mounted() [Theodore Ts'o] - fix lib/Makefile.am (remove pttype.c) [Karel Zak] - import whole ismounted.c code from e2fsprogs [Karel Zak] - remove pttype.c [Karel Zak] libblkid: - DRBD support for blkid [Bastian Friedrich] - add *.ko.gz support to modules.dep parser [Karel Zak] - add AIX partitions support [Karel Zak] - add BLKID_SUBLKS_* flags [Karel Zak] - add BLKID_{VERSION,DATE} to blkid.h [Karel Zak] - add BSD partitions support [Karel Zak] - add DM topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak] - add EFI GPT partitions support [Karel Zak] - add EVMS topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak] - add LVM topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak] - add MAC partitions support [Karel Zak] - add MD topology support (for old kernels) [Karel Zak] - add MINIX partitions support [Karel Zak] - add MS-DOS partitions support [Karel Zak] - add SGI partitions support [Karel Zak] - add SOLARIS-X86 partitions support [Karel Zak] - add SUN partitions support [Karel Zak] - add UBI volume support [Corentin Chary] - add UBIFS support [Corentin Chary] - add UNIXWARE partitions support [Karel Zak] - add a probe for bfs [Christoph Hellwig] - add blkid_devno_to_wholedisk() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_driver_has_major() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_new_probe_from_filename() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_partition_get_type_string() [Karel Zak] - add blkid_probe_get_{size,sectorsize,devno} [Karel Zak] - add blkit_[un]ref() to TODO [Karel Zak] - add chain structs [Karel Zak] - add functions for chain tags [Karel Zak] - add generic filter functions [Karel Zak] - add generic function for binary data [Karel Zak] - add missing comments [Karel Zak] - add missing comments to probe.c [Karel Zak] - add missing packed attributes [Karel Zak] - add mkfs sample [Karel Zak] - add note about UUID_SUB, increment number of superblock values [Karel Zak] - add partitions filter routines [Karel Zak] - add partitions parsing support [Karel Zak] - add partitions sample [Karel Zak] - add private blkid_topology_set_*() functions [Karel Zak] - add samples/topology.c [Karel Zak] - add sector size funcs to blkid.h.in [Karel Zak] - add superblocks chain [Karel Zak] - add superblocks filter functions [Karel Zak] - add superblocks.c sample [Karel Zak] - add support for SBMAGIC and SBMAGIC_OFFSET [Karel Zak] - add support for VMFS (VMware File System) [Mike Hommey] - add support for topology ioctls [Karel Zak] - add test cases for VMFS [Mike Hommey] - add topology support [Karel Zak] - allow linking with uClibc [Daniel Mierswa] - allow to change dimension of probing area [Karel Zak] - allow to read in sectors [Karel Zak] - allows more probing methods for topology chain [Karel Zak] - announce Joliet extension [Maxim Levitsky] - cleanup blkid_probe_set_device() [Karel Zak] - cleanup topology fallback [Karel Zak] - convert GPT partition LBA to 512-byte sectors [Karel Zak] - cosmetic change in topology sample [Karel Zak] - create a generic blkid_encode_to_utf8() [Karel Zak] - create a generic blkid_unparse_uuid() [Karel Zak] - does not return useless binary data [Karel Zak] - don't return empty LABELs [Karel Zak] - don't scan private /dev/.udev directory [Karel Zak] - fix Adaptec RAID detection [Karel Zak] - fix FALSE definition [Karel Zak] - fix FAT super block definition [Lawrence Rust] - fix NTFS non-ASCII labels [Karel Zak] - fix UFS detection [Karel Zak] - fix blkid_devno_to_wholedisk() [Karel Zak] - fix blkid_do_probe() to work properly with chains [Karel Zak] - fix blkid_fstatat() code [Karel Zak] - fix blkid_probe_set_utf8label() call for Joliet [Karel Zak] - fix buffer overflow in blkid_encode_string() [Florian Zumbiehl] - fix cache->probe memory leak [Karel Zak] - fix ext2 detection on systems with ext4 only [Karel Zak] - fix gcc warning (warn_unused_result) [Karel Zak] - fix highpoint37x detection [Karel Zak] - fix non-magic FAT detection [Karel Zak] - fix probing for binary interface [Karel Zak] - fix segfault in blkid_do_probe() [Karel Zak] - fix the default cache file path [Karel Zak] - fix topology information values [Eric Sandeen] - fix typo (swsupend -> swsuspend) [Karel Zak] - fix typo s/Hihg/High/ [Jim Meyering] - fix warning message in mkfs sample [Karel Zak] - gtkdocize (API docs generated by gtk-docs) [Karel Zak] - minor changes to dm topology code [Karel Zak] - minor changes to samples [Karel Zak] - minor fix in topology sample [Karel Zak] - move FS/raid stuff to superblocks directory [Karel Zak] - move blkid_known_fstype() to superblocks.c [Karel Zak] - move filter macros to header file [Karel Zak] - prefer ISO9660 PVD Label to Joliet Label [Karel Zak] - properly reset position in probing chains [Karel Zak] - refresh blkid.{h,sym} [Karel Zak] - remove duplicate debug message [Karel Zak] - remove superblock functions from probe.c [Karel Zak] - rename highpoint RAIDs to hpt{37,45}x_raid_member [Karel Zak] - return first detected crypto device [Scott James Remnant] - topology - add logical and physical sector size [Karel Zak] - topology - ignore non-blockdevs [Karel Zak] - trim tailing whitespace from unicode LABELs [Karel Zak] - update docs/.gitignore [Karel Zak] - use BLKSSZGET for GPT sectors [Karel Zak] - use blkid_new_probe_from_filename() in docs [Karel Zak] - use c.h [Karel Zak] - use c.h in samples [Karel Zak] - use chains in blkid_do_{safe,full,}_probe() [Karel Zak] - use chains in prober (de)initialization [Karel Zak] - use fstatat(), improve readdir() usage [Karel Zak] - use private {lookup,get}_value functions [Karel Zak] - use superblock filter functions [Karel Zak] - use superblocks.h [Karel Zak] - use the new API in whole u-l-ng [Karel Zak] libuuid: - remove .UE macro from libuuid man pages. [Milan Broz] line: - remove deprecated #ident directive [Karel Zak] losetup: - losetup.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - remove unused macro [Karel Zak] lscpu: - add {32,64}-bit CPU modes detection [Karel Zak] - lscpu.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mcookie: - mcookie.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mesg: - mesg.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mkfs: - mkfs.8 incomplete sentence and formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mkfs.bfs: - mkfs.bfs.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mkfs.cramfs: - fix gcc warning (incompatible pointer type) [Karel Zak] mkfs.minix: - fix strict-aliasing bugs [Karel Zak] - mkfs.minix.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mkswap: - fix memory leaks, cleanup check_blocks() [Karel Zak] - mkswap.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - restore device argument in mkswap.8 synopsis [Peter Breitenlohner] - unbreak -c ("check") option. [Peter De Wachter] - use libblkid to detect PT [Karel Zak] more: - limited line buffer length results in corrupted UTF-8 text [Karel Zak] - more.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] mount: - add --no-canonicalize option [Karel Zak] - add a note about /dev/disk/by-* to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add a note about bind-dir remounts [Karel Zak] - add info about ext{3,4} barriers to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add long options to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add squashfs to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add ubifs to the mount.8 man page [Sebastian Andrzej Siewior] - and libblkid covert /dev/dm-N to /dev/mapper/<name> [Karel Zak] - better --move description [Karel Zak] - check for unsuccessful read-only bind mounts [Karel Zak] - disable --no-canonicalize for non-root users [Karel Zak] - document changed semantics of tmpfs size option in mount.8 [kevin.granade@xxxxxxxxx] - fix mount.8, xfs attr2 is enabled by default [Karel Zak] - fix reference to samba-client in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - fix typo in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - mention mtab for single mount point mount in mount.8 [Peter Volkov] - more explicitly explain 'strictatime' in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - more verbose "mount only root can do that" message [Karel Zak] - mount.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - move info about devices to the top of mount.8 [Karel Zak] - update list of pseudo filesystems [Karel Zak] namei: - better mount points detection [Karel Zak] - fix alone symlink evaluation [Karel Zak] - gater information about / (root) [Karel Zak] - namei.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h [Karel Zak] newgrp: - newgrp.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h, remove tailing whitespace [Karel Zak] partx: - partx.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h [Karel Zak] - work properly with 512 sectors (dos PT) [Karel Zak] pg: - command enters infinite loop [Mike Frysinger] - compiler warning with NLS disabled [Peter Breitenlohner] - pg.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] pivot_root: - pivot_root.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] po: - fix grammar glitch in german translation [Hendrik Lönngren] - fix msgid bugs [Karel Zak] - merge changes [Karel Zak] - update POTFILES.in [Karel Zak] - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar] - update eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti Uranga] - update eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti] - update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi] - update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Nicolas Provost] - update id.po (from translationproject.org) [Arif E. Nugroho] - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Makoto Kato] - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] - update po/POTFILES.in [Karel Zak] - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall] - update zh_CN.po (from translationproject.org) [Ray Wang] rdev: - rdev.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] readprofile: - readprofile.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] rename: - rename.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] renice: - renice.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] reset: - reset.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] rtcwake: - add S5 support [Karel Zak] - ignore the tm_isdst field returned from the RTC [Paul Fox] - rtcwake.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] scriptreplay: - fix typo in error message [Karel Zak] - scriptreplay.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] setarch: - setarch.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] setsid: - setsid.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] setterm: - setterm.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h, remove tailing whitespace [Karel Zak] sfdisk: - confused about disk size [Karel Zak] - dump has to be $LANG insensitive [Karel Zak] - sfdisk.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] - use c.h, remove obsolete #ifdefs [Karel Zak] shutdown: - shutdown.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] simpleinit: - simpleinit.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] swapon: - fix typo on swapon.8 manpage [Florentin Duneau] - handle <=linux-2.6.19 bug in /proc/swaps [Mike Frysinger] - more robust progname probing [Karel Zak] - swapon.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] switch_root: - add note about subroots to switch_root.8 [Karel Zak] - remove TIOCSCTTY and setsid() [Karel Zak] - switch_root.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] tailf: - fix printf format [Mike Frysinger] - report inotify_add_watch() problems [Karel Zak] tests: - add BFS libblkid regression test [Karel Zak] - add NTFS blkid test [Karel Zak] - add UBIFS test image to blkid test suite [Corentin Chary] - add UFS test image for libblkid [Karel Zak] - add VIA RAID test image for libblkid [Karel Zak] - add adaptec RAID test [Karel Zak] - add blkid regression tests for ISO9660 [Karel Zak] - add hpt37x RAID test [Karel Zak] - add hpt45x RAID test [Karel Zak] - add isw RAID test [Karel Zak] - add jmicron RAID test [Karel Zak] - add lsi RAID test [Karel Zak] - add nvidia RAID test [Karel Zak] - add partitions probing test [Karel Zak] - add promise RAID test [Karel Zak] - add silicon RAID test [Karel Zak] - fdisk doslabel test also checks changing partition type [Zdenek Behan] - fdisk doslabel test also checks setting partition active [Zdenek Behan] - refresh GPT regression test [Karel Zak] - refresh lscpu tests [Karel Zak] - remove vol_id from tests [Karel Zak] - rename blkid/images to blkid/images-fs [Karel Zak] - swapon workaround for libtool wrapper [Karel Zak] - test for basic functionality of sun labels [Zdenek Behan] - update fsck.ismounted test [Karel Zak] tunelp: - tunelp.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] ul: - ul.1 erroneous .SH instead of .Sh [Peter Breitenlohner] umount: - add --no-canonicalize [Karel Zak] - umount.8 command line for umount helpers, formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] unshare: - new command [Mikhail Gusarov] uuidd: - uuidd.8 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] uuidgen: - uuidgen.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] vipw: - vipw.8 remove erroneous empty line, formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] whereis: - whereis.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] wipefs: - fix coding style [Karel Zak] - new command [Karel Zak] - remove obsolete comment [Karel Zak] write: - write.1 formatting [Peter Breitenlohner] -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
