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author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-12-28 22:39:41 -0500 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-12-28 23:19:52 -0500 |
commit | 036a84710dfe0d9b47cba835b8eba38a06a447ea (patch) | |
tree | 9b74758dfe19271be5227de46c1bc747c83a1e92 /RELEASE-NOTES | |
parent | 7f196ef755ddaad78422c470c01b34c39373a3a6 (diff) | |
download | e2fsprogs-036a84710dfe0d9b47cba835b8eba38a06a447ea.tar.gz |
Update release notes, etc., for final 1.42.9 release
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index e51b1f5f..e3db1b0f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,188 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.42.9 (December 28, 2013) +==================================== + +Mke2fs will detect an attempt to create a file system on a loop +mounted file and complain without the -FF option. Also fixed mke2fs +so it allows the creation of a file system on a mounted device with +two -F options, as documented in the man page, instead of three -F +options. + +Fixed a large number of bugs in resize2fs, e2fsck, debugfs, and +libext2fs to correctly handle bigalloc and 64-bit file systems. There +were many corner cases that had not been noticed in previous uses of +these file systems, since they are not as common. Some of the bugs +could cause file system corruption or data loss, so users of 64-bit or +bigalloc file systems are strongly urged to upgrade to e2fsprogs +1.42.9. + +The tune2fs program will now not allow changing the uuid on a mounted +file system which has the uninit_bg feature enabled. This avoids a +nasty race where the kernel and tune2fs are both retrying rewrite the +group descriptors at the same time, with different ideas about what +the UUID should be. + +When e2fsck is rehashing an extent-mapped directory, it's possible +(although very rare) that an extent block will need to be allocated; +fix e2fsck to make sure that the block gets marked as used. + +Mke2fs will now properly set the LARGE_FILE feature when creating a +journal >= 2GB --- which can happen when using 64k block size. + +Fixed debugfs so that its freei command will correctly handle a request +to free a range of consecutive inodes. + +Fixed 2fsck so it will not erroneously complain that an external journal +is invalid if it is exactly 2**32 blocks. + +Fixed e2fsck so it won't try checking for, and adding, a missing +lost+found directory when running in read-only mode. + +Fixed e2image to avoid some buffer overruns which would cause it to when +creating a "standard (non-raw, non-qcow2) image file. Standard +e2image files are actually very rarely used, so we didn't notice when +the changes to enable the qcow2 format broke this e2image mode. + +Fixed mke2fs so that the extended option "-E resize=NNN" will not turn +on the resize_inode feature when the meta_bg feature is set, since +these two features can not be set at the same time. + +Fixed tune2fs so that when it disables the quota feature, it updates all +of the backup superblocks. + +Fixed dumpe2fs that would cause it to abort when run using an image file +when trying to print the journal information (which is not present in +an e2image created image file). + +Fixed a potential integer overflow in e2reefrag. +(Addresses-Debian-Bug: #718205) + +Enhance debugfs so that when copying a sparse file from a native file +system into the file system image using the "write" command, it will +create a sparse file into the destination file system. + +Enhanced debugfs so it can support a command line which is up to 8k +long. + +E2image will refuse (unless the -f option is specified to force the +issue) to create a raw or qcow image using a mounted file system, +unless the -f option is specified to force the issue. + +E2image has been optimized for using it to efficiently copy a file +system by only copying the allocated blocks, by using the options -ra. +New options (-o and -O) have been added so that a source and +destination offset can be given. The -p option will print progress +information so the user will know how far along the copy is going. +And finally, the new option -c is useful for updating a file system on +an SSD, by avoiding unnecessary writes. E2image can also shift a file +system image by doing an in place move. + +Fix a regression introduced in 1.42.8 which would cause e2fsck to +erroneously report uninitialized extents past the EOF (as determined by +i_size) to be invalid. + +Fixed resize2fs so under a corner case when an inode has a complex +extent tree, it will not corrupt an interior node in the extent tree. + +Fixed resize2fs which would sometimes corrupt a file system when +shrinking a file system to a minimum size using resize2fs -M. +(Addresses Debian Bug: #660793) + +Fixed resize2fs so that it will relocate inode table blocks if this +becomes necessary when shrinking the file system. + +Fixed resize2fs and e2fsck so they will not crash when hit a failure +while operating on a file system with the MMP feature enabled. + +Fixed a bug in debugfs which caused it create an invalid inode when +trying to write a zero-length file. + +E2fsck will no longer crash if it tries to delete an invalid +extent-mapped symlink. + +E2fsck will no longer crash if it comes across an directory which is +larger than 2GB (which is not allowed in valid file systems). + +Fixed debugfs's help texts to fully document all options and otherwise +be more helpful. + +Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #586218, +#669730, #698076) + +Fixed various Debian Packaging Issues (#698879, #721365) + + +Programmer's Notes +------------------ + +Fix sparse, gcc -Wall and clang nits. + +Update config.{guess,sub} to the latest version + +Fixed various memory and file descriptor leaks on various error paths, +as well as some missing error return checks, which were found using +Coverity. + +Run sparse against source files when building e2fsprogs with 'make +C=1'. If instead C=2, it configures basic ext2 types for bitwise +checking with sparse, which can help find the (many many) spots where +conversion errors are (possibly) happening. + +Allow the regression test to be run in chrooted environments where +/etc/mtab might be missing. + +The ext2fs_punch() function, which was introduced in 1.42, was broken +in many ways, but this was never noticed since it wasn't used for +anything significant. Some of the bugs include failing when trying to +punch a completely sparse file, failing when punching an extent-mapped +inode when the starting block was at the beginning of the inode, and +not being able to punch a single block (where start_blk == end_block). +It also didn't handle being passed an invalid, too-large ending block +number, and didn't handle properly terminate at the right place when +operating on an indirect-mapped inode. + +Fixed some minor typo's in the error catalog for libext2fs. + +Fixed ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that if it truncates an inode by +setting the file size, to zero the rest of the block to the end of the +file, so that if an ext4 FUSE driver tries to extended the file, that +we don't avoid stale data from being returned. + +Fixed ext2fs_bmap() to disallow clients from trying to map or set +logical blocks which are larger than what an extent-mapped or indirect +block-mapped inode can allow. + +If debugfs (or some userspace program using libext2fs) creates a file +which is larger than 2GB, make sure the large_file feature flag gets +set. + +Fix a bug in ext2fs_link() where if there is multiple empty slots in the +directory which are large enough, the directory entry could get +inserted more than once in the directory. + +If quota support is disabled (which is the default), make sure that +all traces of the quota support is removed from usage messages, man +pages, and tune2fs must not be able to enable the quota file system +feature. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1010709) + +The ext2fs_file_write() now updates i_size on a successful write, +instead of only updating i_size wen the file is closed via +ext2fs_file_close(). + +Added a shell script, populate-extfs.sh which uses debugfs to populate +an ext2/3/4 file system image from a given directory. It is similar +to the genext2fs program, but it supports ext3 and ext4 file system. + +Add changes to the libext2fs library to support block group +descriptors larger than 64 bytes (for future compatibility). + +Fixed an off-by-one bug in ext2fs_file_set_size2() so that it will not +leave an extra block in the file when truncating the file down to +size. + +The html version info pages are now built using makeinfo --html +instead of the unmaintained and now-obsolete texi2html program. + + E2fsprogs 1.42.8 (June 20, 2013) ================================ |