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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-06-20 23:20:51 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-06-20 23:20:51 -0400
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@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ needed by boot loadsers such as yaboot.
Support for the MMP feature can now be disabled at compile time.
-E2fsprogs 1.42.8 (June 16, 2013)
-================================
+E2fsprogs 1.42.8 (June 20, 2013)
As a part of mke2fs's option parsing cleanup, the use of the -R option
will give a warning that it is depreated (it has been so documented
@@ -28,6 +27,9 @@ since 2005) and -E should be used instead.
Mke2fs will not give warnings about the bigalloc and quota options in
quiet mode.
+If an invalid journal size is given to mke2fs, it will now complain
+and exit sooner.
+
Debugfs was erroneously giving spurious error messages for certain
extent_inode subcommands which take arguments (split_node,
replace_node, and insert_node). This has been fixed.
@@ -39,6 +41,11 @@ Change mke2fs so that it does not set the root directory to the real
uid/gid of the mke2fs process. Add the extended option root_owner to
override this behavior.
+Fix resize2fs when shrinking file systems to make sure that bitmap
+blocks aren't left outside the bounds of the shrunken file system.
+This could happen with flex_bg file systems that were grown using
+the old online resizing algorithm.
+
E2fsck will now detect and repair corrupted extent trees which contain
invalid extents at the end of the extent tree leaf block.