E2fsprogs 1.40.8 (March 13, 2008)

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Fixed e2image -I so it works on image files which are larger than 2GB.

Fixed e2fsck's handling of directory inodes with a corrupt size field.  If

the size is larger than the number of blocks found in the inode, don't

try to allocate extra empty blocks at the end of the directory to make

up the difference; there's no point to doing that.  In addition, if

the size is not a multiple of a blocksize, always fix it.

E2fsck handled a pass 2 "should never happen error" by not giving

enough information and then core dumping.  Unfortunately, it was all

too easy to trigger the "should never happen" situation if a

directory's inode size was not correct.  This has been fixed, but

e2fsck has also been taught how to handle this situation more

gracefully, by simply removing the inode hash tree information, so

that it can be rebuilt again after e2fsck's pass 3.  (Addresses

Launchpad Bug: #129395)

Resize2fs had a bug resizing large inodes with extended attributes

that was fixed in 1.40.6; unfortunately, it turned out it wasn't fixed

completely on big-endian systems such as PowerPC.  The bug should be

completely fixed now.  Yay for regression test suites.  (Addresses Red

Hat Bugzilla: #434893)

Updated German, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese

translations.  Many thanks to Philipp Thomas from Novell for stepping

up to become the new German translation maintainer!  (Addresses Debian

Bugs: #302512, #370247, #401092, #412882).

When e2fsck is clearing a corrupt inode's HTREE directory information,

make it clear that it is just clearing the HTREE information, not the

entire inode.

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.  

Programmer's notes

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Add new functions, ext2fs_dblist_get_last() and

ext2fs_dblist_drop_last(), which allows the caller to examine the last

directory block entry added to the list, and to drop if it necessary.

Fixed a portability problem in libblkid with DJGPP.

Fix an obvious typo in an "internal error" message in e2fsck.  Thanks

to Philipp Thomas for pointing this out.

If the info files are not built, change "make install" so it doesn't

fail with an error code.

E2fsprogs 1.40.7 (February 28, 2008)

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Remove support for clearing the SPARSE_SUPER feature from tune2fs, and

depreciate the -s option, since it can result in filesystems which

e2fsck can't fix easily.  There are very good reasons for wanting to

disable sparse_super; users who wants to turn off sparse_super can use

debugfs.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840286)

Add missing options to mke2fs's usage message.  (Addresses Sourceforge

Bug: #1751393)

Fix bug in resize2fs when large (greater than 128 byte) inodes are

moved when a filesystem is shrunk; it was only moving the first 128

bytes, so extended attributes were not getting moved.  (Addresses Red

Hat Bugzilla: #434893)

E2fsck now prints an explicit message when the bad block inode is

updated, to avoid confusion about why the filesystem was modified.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #756460)

Allow mke2fs and tune2fs manipulate the large_file feature.

Previously we just let the kernel and e2fsck do this automatically,

but e2fsck will no longer automatically clear the large_file feature.

It still isn't really necessary to worry about this feature flag

explicitly, but some users seem to care.  (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:

#258381)

Suppress message about an old-style fstab if the fstab file is empty.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #468176)

Fix (really minor) bug in debugfs's find_free_block so it avoids

reporting a free block more than once if there are too few free blocks

in the filesystem.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1096315)

Change e2fsck to no longer clear the LARGE_FILES feature flag

automatically, when there are no more > 2GB files in the filesystem.

It's been almost a decade since there have been kernels that don't

support this flag, and e2fsck clears it quietly without telling the

user why the filesystem has been changed.

Fix bug which could cause libblkid to seg fault if a device mapper

volume disappears while it is being probed.  (Addresses RedHat

Bugzilla: #433857)

Inhance e2fsck's reporting of unsupported filesystem feature flags.

(Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request: #1175808)

Fix option syntax in dumpe2fs for explicit superblock and blocksize

parameters.  What was currently documented in the man page has been

broken for some time, due to getopt() implementation changes.  The

option sytax has been changed to one which is can be more portable

supported and which is consistent with the format for extended options

in mke2fs and tune2fs.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1830994)

Add support to tune2fs to clear the resize_inode feature.  This

requires an fsck afterwards.  (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #167816)

Teach blkid to detect LVM2 physical volumes.  (Addresses Red Hat

Bugzilla: #409321)

Add support for setting RAID stride and stripe-width via mke2fs and

tune2fs.  Teach dumpe2fs to print the RAID parameters.

Add support for setting new superblock fields to debugfs's

set_super_value.

Add support for printing "mostly-printable" extended attributes in

Debugfs.

Add support for the -M option to fsck, which causes it to ignore

mounted filesystem.

Fix uuidd so that it creates the pid file with the correct pid number.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893244)

Fix various gcc -Wall warnings.

Update Czech, Dutch, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.  

(Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1399325)

Programmer's notes:

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Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #466929)

Add new flag EXT2_FLAG_NONFREE_ON_ERROR ext2fs_open2() which returns a

partially filled-in filesystem object on an error, so that e2fsck can

print more intelligent error messages.

Add a new function e2p_edit_feature2() which allows the caller to

specify which feature flags are OK to set or clear, and which returns

more specific information about feature flags which are not allowed to

be set/cleared.

Set the C locale in the test_script driver since it uses [A-Za-z].

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1890526)

Use fcntl locking instead of lockf in libuuid since Cygwin doesn't

support lockf().

Change configure.in to avoid using the 'dc' command unless it is

absolutely needed. (i.e., when using parsing a WIP-style version

number)  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1893024)

Add portability checks to support compilation under DJGPP.

Update to the latest samba tdb code before the LGPLv3 change, which

fixes a realloc() leak on failure.

Fix memory leak in ext2fs_alloc_block().

Fix makefile dependency issues for various install targets.

(Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #1903484, #1903466, #1903456)

Improve descriptions for the r_move_itable and r_resize_inode tests.

E2fsprogs 1.40.6 (February 9, 2008)

===================================

Add support for returning labels for UDF filesystems in the blkid

library.

Fix bug in the blkid library where cached filesystems was not being

flushed when opening USB devices returned the error ENOMEDIUM.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #463787)

Added logic to the blkid library to automatically choose whether a

filesystem should be mounted as ext4 or ext4dev, as appropriate.

Allow tune2fs to set and clear the test_fs flag on ext4 filesystems.

Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to core dump if e2fsprogs had been

configured with --enable-jbd-debug.

Document the BLKID_FILE environment variable in the libblkid man page

Programmer's Notes:

-------------------

Update e2fsprogs translation template and Vietnamese and Czech translations

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bugs: #436058)

Don't try to create $DESTDIR/etc/init.d as part of make install as we

don't install the init.d script (and it's not the recommended way to

start uuidd anyway).  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1885085)

Use thread local storage to fix a theoretical race condition if two

threads try to format an unknown error code at the same time in the

com_err library.

E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008)

===================================

Fix a potential overflow big in e2image if the device name is too

long.

Mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes and the

ext_attr feature flag by default.  This allows for much better future

compatibity with ext4 and speeds up extended attributes even on ext3

filesystems.

Teach e2fsck to ignore certain "safe" filesystem features which are

set automatically by the kernel.  Having the kernel set features

automagically behind the user's back is a bad idea, and we should try

to break the kernel of this habit, especially for the newer ext4

feature flags.  But for now, we will try to avoid needless full checks

which can annoy users who are doing fresh installs.

Add support in tune2fs and mke2fs for making a filesystem as being "ok

to be used with test kernel code".  This will be needed for using test

filesystems with the latest ext4 kernel code.

Change e2fsck -fD so that it sorts non-htree directories by inode

numbers instead of by name, since that optimizes performances much

more significantly.  (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #532439)

If e2image fills the disk, fix it so it exits right away instead of

spewing large numbers of error messages.

(Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #606508)

If ftruncate64() is not available for resize2fs, let it use ftrucate()

instead, but have it check to see if the size would get truncated, and

skip calling ftruncate in that case.

Add support for detecting HFS+ filesystems in the blkid library.

Add supprt in the blkid library for ext4/ext4dev filesystems.

Fix a bug in blkid where it could die on a floating point exception

when presented with a corrupt reiserfs image.

Fix blkid's handling of ntfs UUID's so that leading zeros are printed

such that UUID string is a fixed length.

Add sample python bindings for the uuid library to the contrib

directory.  (Addresses-Sourceforge-Patches: #778817)

Fix debugfs's 'lsdel' command so it uses ext2fs_block_iterate2 so it

will work with large files.  (Addresses Sourceforge Feature Request:

#1257500 and Sourceforge Support Request: #1253511)

Allow the debugfs 'undel' command to undelete an inode without linking

it to a specific destination directory, since this might require

allocating blocks that could overwrite some yet-to-be-recovered

deleted files.  (Addresses-Sourceforge-Feature-Request: #967141)

Update Swedish translations from the Translation Project.

Programmer's Notes:

-------------------

Fix configure handling of --sbindir (which should rarely be used, but

someone did complain, so let's fix it).  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:

#498381)

Updated e2fsprogs.spec file to include a new uuidd package

Use pkg-config to determine where to find the devmapper library so we

can find out where it is located on different distributions.

Fix Makefile race so that "make -j3 distclean" works correctly

Fix portability problems on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems,

especially on MacOS X systems.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bugs: #1861633,

#1819034, #1863819)

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bugs: #459403, #459475, #459614)

Remove the --enable-dynamic-static configure option, and build e2fsck

dynamically by default.  If the user wants e2fsck.static, he/she will

need to build it via "make -C e2fsck e2fsck.static"

Fix various build warnings due to missing prototypes.

(Addresses Sourceforge Patch: #1861663, #1861659)

E2fsprogs 1.40.4 (December 31, 2007)

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Improve time-based UUID generation.  A new daemon uuidd, is started

automatically by libuuid if necessary.  This daemon is setuid to allow

updates to /var/lib/libuuid, so the clock sequence number can be

stored and so if the clock is set backwards, it can be detected.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1529672, Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:

#233471)

Filter out the NEEDS_RECOVERY feature flag when writing out the backup

superblocks.  This avoids e2fsck from concluding that a full

filesystem check is required before backing up the superblock due to

changes in the feature flags.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #454926)

Fix fsck to only treat the '#' character as a comment at the beginning

of the line in /etc/fstab.  Otherwise fstabs for the fuse filesystem

will cause fsck to issue an bogus warning message.

(Addresses Gentoo bug: #195405, Addresses Sourceforge bug: #1826147)

Format control characters and characters with the high eighth bit set

when printing the contents of the blkid cache, to prevent filesystems

with garbage labels from sending escape sequences to the user's screen

that might, for example place it in graphics mode.  (Addresses Ubuntu

Bug: #78087)

Fix sign-extension problem on 64-bit systems in in the com_err

library.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1809658)

Avoid division by zero error when probing an invalid FAT filesystem in

the blkid library.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1831627)

Update Dutch, Polish, and Vietnamese translations from the Translation

Project.  Remove the Rwandan translation upon advice of the

Translation Project.

Programmer's Notes:

-------------------

Fix the libss "make check" regression test so that it works if the

current directory is not in the user's path or if the libss shared

library is not installed.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1848974)

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.

(Addresses Debian Bugs: #444883, #441872)

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bugs: #437720, #451172, #458017)

Fix build failure on non-Linux/non-Hurd/non-Masix systems.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1859778)

Fix Hurd portability issues.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #437720)

E2fsprogs 1.40.3 (December 5, 2007)

===================================

Fix a potential security vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem

can be corrupted in such a way that a program using libext2fs will

allocate a buffer which is far too small.  This can lead to either a

crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow crash.  No known

exploits exist, but main concern is where an untrusted user who

possesses privileged access in a guest Xen environment could corrupt a

filesystem which is then accessed by the pygrub program, running as

root in the dom0 host environment, thus allowing the untrusted user to

gain privileged access in the host OS.  Thanks to the McAfee AVERT

Research group for reporting this issue.  (Addresses CVE-2007-5497.)

Fix hueristics in blkid which could cause a disk without partitions to

be incorrectly skipped when a loopback device is present.  (Addresses

Red Hat Bugzilla #400321.)

Fix e2image so that in raw mode it does not create an image file which

is one byte too large.

Change mke2fs's usage message so it recommends the preferred -E option

instead of the deprecated -R option.

Enhance the blkid library so it will recognize squashfs filesystems.

(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #305151.)

Enhance e2fsck so it will force the backup superblocks to be backed up

if the filesystem is consistent and key constants have been changed

(i.e., by an on-line resize) or by e2fsck in the course of its

operations.

Enhance blkid's detection of FAT filesystems; so that USB disks with

only a single bootable partition will not get missed.

E2fsck will no longer mark a filesystem as invalid if it has time

errors (i.e., if superblock mount time or last write time is in the

future) and the user refuses to fix the problem.

The Ubuntu init scripts don't properly set the system time correctly

from hardware clock if the hardware clock is configured to tick local

time instead of GMT time.  Work around this as best as we can by

providing an option, buggy_init_scripts, in /etc/e2fsck.conf which can

be set on Ubuntu systems.  (Addresses Debian Bug #441093, and Ubuntu

Bug #131201.)

Fix fsck to ignore /etc/fstab entries for bind mounts.  (Addresses Red

Hat Bugzilla #151533.)

Fix e2fsck so that if the superblock is corrupt, but still looks

vaguely like an ext2/3/4 superblock, that it automatically tries to

fall back to the backup superblock, instead of failing with a hard

error.

Make the e2fsprogs program more robust so that they will not crash

when opening a corrupt filesystem where s_inode_size is zero.

Change e2fsck so it uses sscanf() instead of atoi() so it non-numeric

arguments are detected as such and the parse error is reported to the

user.   (Addresses Debian Bug #435381.)

Change e2fsck so it will not complain if a file has blocks reallocated

up to the next multiple of a system's page size.

Fix bug in ext2fs_check_desc() which will cause e2fsck to complain

about (valid) filesystems where the inode table extends to the last

block of the block group.  (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #214765.)

Fix a bug in ext2fs_initialize() which causes mke2fs to fail while

allocating inode tables for some relatively rare odd disk sizes.

(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla #241767.)

Add Catalan translation and update Dutch and Swedish translations

from the Translation Project.

Fix big-endian byte-swapping bug in ext2fs_swap_inode_full().  We

still had an issue when trying to figure out whether we need to

byte-swap fast symlinks that contained extended attributes.

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.

(Addresses SourceForge Bug #1821333.)

Programmer's Notes:

-------------------

Fix mke2fs tests to avoid needing any significant ^M (CR) characters

Add "make check" to the RPM spec file

Fix "make install" and 'make unstall" in misc/Makefile.in so that it

works correctly when the prefix is not the root directory.

Fix the resize2fs tests, r_move_itable and r_resize_inode, so they

clena up after themselves by deleting the test.img temporary file

after completing the test.

Fixed a corner case bug ext2fs_unlink() when trying to delete the

first directory entry in a directory block and the last directory

entry in the previous directory block is not in use.  Fortunately

ext2fs_unlink() is only used by debugfs and e2fsck, and in e2fsck in

places where it is extremely unlikely to run into this corner case.

Fix missing dependency which would cuase parallel builds to fail.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1842331.)

Fix a build error on newer gcc caused by lib/ext2fs/ismounted.c

calling open(O_CREATE) with a missing mode parameter.

Fix the test_ss.c in lib/ss so it can be used as an example

application program for the library as well as a regression test

suite.

Fix ext2fs_dblist_dir_iterate() so that error codes and abort codes

are properly passed back up through the call stack.

E2fsprogs 1.40.2 (July 12, 2007)

================================

A recent change to e2fsck_add_dir_info() to use tdb files to check

filesystems with a very large number of filesystems had a typo which

caused us to resize the wrong data structure.  This would cause a

array overrun leading to malloc pointer corruptions and segfaults.

Since we normally can very accurately predict how big the the dirinfo

array needs to be, this bug only got triggered on very badly corrupted

filesystems.

Fix a bug in e2fsck which caused it to incorrectly salvange

directories when the last entry's rec_len is bogusly too big.  This

resulted in a nonsense filesystem corruption to be reported, and

required a second run of e2fsck to fully fix up the directory.

Update tune2fs man page to include more discussion of reserved blocks

(Addresses Launchpad bug #47817)

Update Turkish, Polish, Dutch, and Vietnamese PO files from the

Translation Project

E2fsprogs 1.40.1 (July 7, 2007)

===============================

Fix bug which could cause libblkid to loop forever.  When revalidating

a partition where there is obsolete information in /etc/blkid.tab, we

end up freeing a the type tag without clearing dev->bid_type, causing

blkid_verify() to loop forever.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #432052)

The Turkish translation has a bug in it where it has the translation

of "E@e '%Dn' in %p (%i)" to "E@E".  This causes @E to be expanded at

@E, recursively, forever, until the stack fills up and e2fsck core

dumps.  We fix this by making e2fsck stop @-expansions after a

recursive depth of 10, which is far more than we need.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1646081)

Compile the default mke2fs.conf into mke2fs program.  People are

getting surprised by mke2fs creating filesystems with different

defaults than earlier versions of mke2fs if mke2fs.conf is not

present.  So we now create a built in version of mke2fs.conf file

which is used by mke2fs if the /etc/mke2fs.conf is not present.

(Addresses SourceforgeBug: #1745818)

Improve the config/parse_types.sh helper script.  Fix a potential

security problem if e2fsprogs is built as root (as Gentoo does!).  In

addition fix the script and how it is called from the configure script

so that it does the right thing when cross-compiling.  (Fixes Gentoo

bug: #146903)

Update Vietnamese, French, and Dutch PO files from the Translation

Project.  Also created a new e2fsprogs.pot file for translator.

Fix bogus strip permission errors when building under Debian.  When

building the e2fsprogs dpkg's, the dh_strip command emits a large

number of error messages caused by the permissions not being right.

So run dh_fixperms before running dh_strip.

Programmer's Notes:

-------------------

Add new function: profile_set_default().  This function sets the value

of the pseudo file "<default>".  If the file "<default>" had

previously been passed to profile_init(), then def_string parameter

will be parsed and used as the profile information for the "<default>"

file.

Fix mk_cmds's error reporting so that it is unambiguous that it is the

mk_cmds script which is generating the error.  (Obviates Gentoo patch:

e2fsprogs-1.32-mk_cmds-cosmetic.patch)

Fix the test suite to use LC_ALL instead of LANG.  LC_ALL is the "high

priority" environment variable that overrides all others, where as

LANG is the lowest priorty environment variable.  If LC_ALL is set, it

doesn't matter whether LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MESSAGES, and

the all the rest are set.  This will assure that the locale when

running the test suites is the "C" locale.  (Obviates Gentoo patch:

e2fsprogs-1.38-tests-locale.patch)

E2fsprogs 1.40 (June 29, 2007)

==============================

Fix divide by zero error in blkid's NTFS probing logic.

Add new blkid -g option which causes the blkid cache to be garbage

collected.

Fix a bug in libblkid which could cause the internal field bid_type to

become corrupted.  Fortunately bid_type isn't used much, and bid_label

and bid_uuid is only used by debugging code, so the impact of this bug

was very minor.

Mke2fs will now store the RAID stride value when a filesystem is

created with a requested RAID stride, and then use it automatically in

resize2fs.

Mke2fs has a sanity check added to make sure (inode_size * num_inodes)

isn't too big.  In some cases Lustre users have tried specifying an

inode size of 4096 bytes, while keeping an inode ratio of one inode

per 4096 bytes.  

Improve sanity check in e2fsck's algorithm for finding a backup

superblock, so that it won't accidentally find a superblock that was

located in the journal, and then later reject it as being not a valid

backup superblock.

Fix e2fsck get_size logic so that it will work with the Linux floppy

driver.  The Linux floppy driver is a bit different from the other

block device drivers, in that if the device has been opened with

O_EXCL, it disallows another open(), even if the second open() does

not have the O_EXCL flag.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #410569)

Fix error checking of badblock's last-block and start-block arguments.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #416477)

Fix e2fsck so that it doesn't overwrite the backup superblocks when

recovering a journal until the master superblock has been confirmed as

being sane.

Change the blkid library to be much more paranoid about concluding

that a partition contains an NTFS filesystem, and fetch the UUID and

LABEL information from NTFS filesystems.  (Addresses Launchpad Bug:

#110138)

Factor out the code which sets the default journal size and move it

into libext2fs.

Enhance e2fsck so it will recreate the ext3 journal if the original

journal inode was cleared to due it being corrupt after finishing the

filesystem check.

Fix e2fsck so that it updates the journal inode if it is corrupted and

the backup journal information from the superblock was successfully

used to recover the filesystem.

Fix e2fsck so that it checks all of the blocks in the journal inode

for validity.  The original code only checked the direct blocks to

make sure the journal inode was sane.  Unfortunately, if some or all

of the indirect or doubly indirect blocks were corrupted, this would

not be caught.

Add support in blkid to detect LUKS encrypted partitions.

Add extra sanity checks for extended attributes in the case where the

size is zero but the offset is very large.

Fix byte-swapping issues for large inodes in ext2fs_read_inode_full()

and ext2fs_get_next_inode_full().

Clarify the copyright licenses used by the various libraries in

the top-level COPYING  file (Red Hat Bugzilla: 166058)

Make mke2fs's defaults when /etc/mke2fs.conf doesn't exist more sane.

Fix mke2fs and debugfs to support large (> 16 bit) uid's and gid's.

Remove check in e2fsck which requires EA's in inodes to be sorted;

they don't need to be sorted, and e2fsck was previously wrongly

clearing unsorted EA's stored in the inode structure.

Allow mke2fs or tune2fs to create a substantially larger journal (up

to 10,240,000 blocks).

Fix MD superblock detection, and make sure the correct UUID is

reported from the MD superblock.

Fix a signed vs. unsigned bug in debugfs.

Enhance debugfs's date parser so that it accepts integer values.

Fix e2fsck's pass1c accounting so it doesn't terminate too early if a

file with multiply claimed blocks is hard linked. or not at all if the

root directory contains shared blocks

Enhance debugfs so it can modify the block group descriptors using the

command set_block_group_descriptor.

Improve e2fsck's reporting of I/O errors so it's clearer what it was

trying to do when an error happens

Fix a bug in in how e2fsprogs byte swaps inodes containing fast

symlinks that have extended attributes.  (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla:

#232663 and LTC Bugzilla: #27634)

Fix potential file descriptor leak in ext2fs_get_device_size() in an

error case.

Add libreadline.so.5 support to libss.

Impove badblocks -n/-w exclusive usage message.

Fix dump_unused segfault in debugfs when a filesystem is not open

Fix memory leak in blkid library.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #413661)

Allow the debugfs lcd command to work w/o a filesystem being open.

(Addresses LTC Bugzilla #27513)

Fix e2fsck to clear i_size for special devices with a bogus i_blocks

field on the first pass.

Fix e2fsck to set the file type of the '..' entry when connecting

a directory to lost+found.  (Addresses Lustre Bug: #11645)

Enhance e2fsck to recover directories whose modes field were corrupted

to look like special files.  This is probably only useful in

artificial test cases, but it will be useful if we ever do the "inodes

in directory" idea for ext4.

Allow debugfs to dump (and rdump) > 2GB files.  (Addresses Debian Bug:

#412614)

Fix resize2fs parsing of size parameter (in sector units).  This was

actually a bug in libe2p's parse_num_blocks() function.  When handling

the 's' suffix, it was ignoring the blocksize information passed in

from the caller and always interpreting the number in terms of a 1k

blocksize.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #408298)

There was a floating point precision error which could cause e2fsck to

loop forever on really big filesystems with a large inode count.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #411838)

Fix memory leak in ext2fs_write_new_inode()

Add support for using a scratch files directory to reduce e2fsck's

emory utilization on really big filesystems.  This uses the TDB

library.  See the [scratch_files] section of the e2fsck.conf man page

for more details.

Fixed type-punning bug which caused dumpe2fs to crash on the Arm

platform (Addresses Debian Bug: #397044)

Add explanatory message to badblocks that -n and -w are mutually exclusive

(Addresses Debian Bug: #371869)

Allow debugfs and dumpe2fs to support fs features under development.

Add support for the new flag EXT2_FLAG_SOFTSUPP_FEATURES flag to

ext2fs_open() , which allows application to open filesystes with features

which are currently only partially supported by e2fsprogs.

Allow unix_io to support offsets greater than 2G (Addresses

SourceForge Bug: #1547922)

Fixed overflow and signed/unsigned problems caused by the number of

blocks or inodes exceeding 2**31 or being close to 2**32-1.

Add support for unsigned directory hash calculations with hints in the

superblock to fix cross-architectural portability for htree

directories with filenames where the high 8th bit is set.  (Addresses

Debian: #389772)

Fix resize2fs so that it gives user-intelligible error messages if the

filesystem or the kernel does not support on-line resizing.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #380548)

Require mke2fs -F -F for really dangerous operations, since -F is

needed for less dangerous operations such as creating filesystems

images in regular files, or creating filesystems on whole block

devices.  These relatively innocuous usages should NOT be confused

with running mke2fs on an apparently-mounted or in-use filesystem.

Allow the default inode size to be specified into the mke2fs.conf

file.

Make the smallest default journal size is big enough so that on-line

resizing should always work.

Fix silly spelling error in e2fsck.  (Addresses SourceForge bug:

#1531372)

Fix debugfs coredump when lsdel is run without an open filesystem

(Addresses Debian Bug: #378335)

Fix debugfs display bug us that bytes that have the high bit set are

displayed as "ec" instead of "ffffffec".

Add support in lsattr so it will display the EXT4_EXTENTS_FL flag.

Device mapper scanning wasn't working in the blkid library because the

pathnames had an extra "/dev" when they were being probed.

Add GFS/GFS2 support to the blkid library.

Fix blkid support of empty FAT filesystem labels.

Avoid recursing forever (or for a long time) when the blkid library

searches for a device and there are symlinks to directories in /dev.

Avoid unaligned halfword access in blkid when accessing FAT

superblocks, as this will cause Sparc/Solaris systems to throw a

SIGBUS error.

The latest devmapper libraries requires pthreads, add -lpthreads to

the static link libraries for e2fsck.static if devmapper is enabled.

(Addresses Debian bug: #388718)

Improve the (non-installed, for experts only) findsuper program by

printing the uuid and label from the superblocks, as well as the

starting and ending offsets of the filesystem given the information in

the superblock.  Omit by default printing superblocks that are likely

found in located in an ext3 journal unless an explicit -j option is

given.

Updated Spanish, French and Dutch translations and added Catalan

translation.  (Addresses Debian bug: #411562)

Use FreeBSD's DIOCGMEDIASIZE and DIOCGDINFO ioctls if available when

determining a partition's size, since binary searching to determine

the device doesn't work on FreeBSD.

Documentation about UUID's is available in enough places, and it's

awkward to deal with debian-legal's insanities.  So I'm caving in the

"more-lunatic-than-RMS" wing of Debian by removing RFC-4122 so we

don't have do the dfsg tarball.  Also remove the rule that only tried

to install RFC-4122 on Ubuntu, since Ubuntu seems to want to fetch

e2fsprogs exclusively from Debian.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #407107)

Fix the info-dir line so that the menu name does not contain a .info

prefix.  First of all, it's ugly, secondly, it causes the install-info

command to fail to remove the com_err info file from the

/usr/share/info/dir file when the comerr-dev package is removed and

purged.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #401711)

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #369761, #373004, #379695)

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bugs #389554, #390664, #413208, #419605,

#408352, #415560, #399155)

Programmer's notes:

-------------------

E2fsck now supports the %It expansion when printing a problem report.

It will print the type of the inode in the problem context.

Fix misc/Makefile.in so that it builds even if e2fsck hasn't been built yet

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1565561)

Remove unused variables and other lint/gcc -Wall cleanups

Add check to ext2fs_get_device_size() so it will return EFBIG for for

filesystems contained in regular files where the filesystem image size

is returned by stat64().

Set local environment variables to C so mk_cmds and compile_et always

work.  (Addresses SourceForge Bug: #1532177)

Added the 64-bit byte swapping function ext2fs_swab64().

Added two new helper functions to prevent 2**31/2**32-1 overflow

problems: ext2fs_div_ceil() and e2p_percent().

Create new ext2fs library inline functions ext2fs_group_first_block()

and ext2fs_group_last_block() in order to calculate the starting and

ending blocks in a block group.

Create the generated files read-only to remind developers not to edit them.

Add support for autoconf 2.60 (with backwards compatibility for older

versions of autoconf).

Added an "make rpm" target to top-level Makefile

Added various FreeBSD portability fixes.

Exclude mercurial files from the RPM build tree to speed up copy/build.

Use root_sysconfdir to define the locations of mke2fs.conf and

e2fsck.conf instead of using a hard-coded /etc pathname.

Prevent e2fsck.h and ext2_ext_attr.h from getting included multiple times.

Fixed "make clean" in blkid's Makefile.in file from removing tst_*.c files.

If diff -u is supported, use it to report test failures.

Updates/improvements to RPM spec file

Add on-disk format definitions for the following new features:

EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM,

EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_64BIT,

EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_EXTRA_ISIZE

Add a new make target "checked-failed" in the tests directory which

reruns any failed tests

Update draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt with rfc4122.txt

Fix miscellaneous bugs reported by Coverity: Dead code, potential nul

pointer dereferences, memory leaks, etc.  None were security-criticial

problems.

Fix up usage and decrement error messages in the test_icount program

Add debugging code to the com_err library; if the environment variable

COMERR_DEBUG is set to 1, print out debugging messages as error tables

are added and removed from the com_err library.  If the

COMERR_DEBUG_FILE environment variable is set (and the process is not

setuid) the debugging messages may be redirected to a file.

Change all of the e2fsprogs programs to use the newer add_error_table()

and remove_error_table() interfaces instead of the much older

initialize_*_error_table() function.

Add TDB support into the ext2fs library.  This allows us to have a

guaranteed library we can count on always being present so we can

store data in an on-disk database.

Add support for using TDB to store the icount data, so we don't run out

of memory when checking really large filesystems.

Change the regression test suite so that it skips empty test directories.

Define the l_i_iversion field in ext2_inode.  The l_i_version field is

now defined from the old l_i_reserved1 field in the ext2 inode.  This

field will be used to store high 32 bits of the 64-bit inode version

number.

Add Makefile production rule for e2fsprogs.spec in case it gets

deleted.

Add new function profile_get_uint() to allow for a clean way to fetch

unsigned integers from the context.

Add test to make sure the ext2 superblock structure is 1024 bytes.

Fix typo in name of f_dup4 regression test

Add new function blkid_gc_cache() which performs a garbage collection

pass on the /etc/blkid.tab file.

The ext2fs_open() function now sets EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY.  In

general, only e2fsck (after the filesystem is clean), tune2fs, and

resize2fs should change the backup superblocks by default.  Most

callers of ext2fs_open() should not be touching any superblock fields

which require the backups to be touched.

Add new function to libext2fs, ext2fs_default_journal_size(), which

returns the default journal size.

E2fsprogs 1.39 (May 29, 2006) 

=============================

Fix 32-bit cleanliness in e2fsprogs so that we can support filesystems

between 2**31 and 2**32 blocks.

Change mke2fs to use /etc/mke2fs.conf as a configuration file to

configure the filesystem features, blocksize, and inode_ratio for

different filesystem types.

Mke2fs will now create filesystems hash trees and on-line resizing

enabled by default, based on the new /etc/mke2fs.conf file.

The e2fsprogs tools (resize2fs, e2fsck, mke2fs) will open the

filesystem device node in exclusive mode to prevent accidents by

system administrators.  In the case of resize2fs and mke2fs, it will

only use exclusive mode if the filesystem is not mounted.

Fixed a bug in mke2fs which caused it to to fail when creating the

resize inode for large filesystems.  (Addresses Debian Bug #346580)

When allocating space for the RAID filesystems with the stride

parameter, mke2fs will now place each portion of the group's inode

table right up after the superblock (if present) in order to minimize

fragmentation of the freespace.

Speed up mke2fs and e2fsck by writing inode and block bitmaps more

efficiently by writing the inode and block bitmaps in one pass, thus

reducing the number of disk seeks required.

Add support for on-line resizing to resize2fs.

Fix blkid library so that logic to determine whether or not a device's

cached information in /etc/blkid.tab needs to be verified or not

doesn't get confused by a system clock which is insane (for example,

if the battery is dead on a Macintosh running PPC Linux.  (Addresses

Red Hat Bug: #182188)

The blkid library will now store the UUID of the external journal used

by ext3 filesystems, so that in the future, the userspace mount binary

can use this to find the location of the external journal and pass

this information to the kernel.

E2fsck will now consult a configuration file, /etc/e2fsck.conf to

control how various options should be handled.  See the e2fsck.conf

man page for more details.   (Addresses Debian Bug: #150295)

E2fsck now prints an explanatory message when delaying a filesystem

check when the system is running on battery.  (Addresses Debian Bug:

#350306)

E2fsck will detect if the superblock's last mount field or last write

field is in the future, and offer to fix if so.  (Addresses Debian Bug

#327580) These problems will be fixed automatically in preen mode

since Debian's boot sequence bogusly doesn't set the time correctly

until potentially very late in the bootup process, and this can cause

false positives which will cause users' systems to fail to boot.

(Addresses Debian Bugs #343662 and #343645)

E2fsck now checks to see if the superblock hint for the location of

the external journal is incorrect, and if so, offer to update it.

(Addresses Debian Bug: #355644)

Fix e2fsck from segfaulting on disconnected inodes that contain one or

more extended attributes.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #316736, #318463)

E2fsck will stop and print a warning if the user tries running a

read/write badblocks test on a read-only mounted root filesystem.

Fix a memory leak in e2fsck's error paths.  (Thanks to Michael

C. Thompson for pointing these out; they were originally found using

Coverity.)

When resizing a file containing a filesystem, resize2fs will expand or

truncate a file as necessary.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #271607)

Resize2fs will now automatically determine the RAID stride parameter that

had been used to create the filesystem, and use that for newly created

block groups.   The RAID stride parameter may also be manually specified

on the command line using the new -S option to resize2fs.

Fix mke2fs so that it correctly creates external journals on

big-endian machines (such as a S/390).  

Fix a bug in the e2p library which could cause dumpe2fs to (rarely)

fail to print out the journal or hash seed UUID.  (Thanks to Guillaume

Chambraud for pointing this out.)

Dumpe2fs will now print the size of the journal (if present).

Fix debugfs's set_inode_field command so it can properly set the frag,

fsize, uid_high, gid_high, and author fields in the inode instead of

silently failing, and so that setting the i_size actually sets i_size

correctly.

Add a new debugfs command, set_current_time, which sets fs->now so

that regression test suites can repeatedly modify the filesystem's

last_write fields.

Fix a bug in debugfs's icheck which would incorrectly report the owner

of an extended attribute block.

Fix the debugfs commands htree_dump, dx_hash, and list_dir so they print a

print a usage message when an illegal option character is given.

Fix debugfs's dump_unsued command on filesystems with a 64k blocksize

so it won't core dump.  (Addresses SourceForge bug #1424311)

Fix mklost+found so that it creates a full-sized directory on

filesystems with larger block sizes.

Fix a file descriptor leak in blkid library.

Fix a display bug in "badblocks -sv" so that the done message properly

clears the block number at the end of the test.  (Addresses Debian Bug

#322231)

Allow fractional percentages to the -m option in mke2fs and tune2fs

(Addresses Debian Bug: #80205)

Use fstat/fstat64 in getsize.c if the the target is a regular file,

instead of attempting to do a binary search.  Fix some fd leaks in

error cases.

Add support for device mapper library to the blkid library to ensure

that the "best" (i.e., leaf) device is probed by the blkid library.

Fix the blkid library so that it notices when an ext2 filesystem is

upgraded to ext3.

Improve the blkid's library VFAT/FAT detection; it now understands

labels stored in the root directory, and is more paranoid about

checking the FAT superblock values.

Fixed a fd leak in the uuid library which was causing problems for the

LVM tools.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #345832)

Add support for the reiser4 and software suspend partitions to the

blkid library.  Also add support for extract the label from iso9660

filesystems.

Fix a compile_et bug which miscount the number of error messages if

continuations are used in the .et file.

Add extra sanity checks to protect users from unusual cirucmstances

where /etc/mtab may not be sane, by checking to see if the device is

reported busy (works on Linux 2.6) kernels.  (Addresses Debian Bug

#319002)

Updated French, Dutch, Polish, and Swedish translations.  (Addresses Debian

Bug: #343149, #341911, #300871, #316604, #316782, #330789)

Fix use-after-free bug in e2fsck when finishing up the use of the

e2fsck context structure.

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages and

documentation.  (Addresses Debian Bugs: #329859, #322188, #316811,

#312515, #351268, #357951, #347295, #316040, #368392, #368393, #368394,

#368179)

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bugs #317862, #320389, #290429, #310950,

#310428, #330737, #330736, #329074, #356293, #360046, #366017, #364516,

#362544, #362970)

Programmer's notes:

-------------------

Update config.guess and config.sub to latest version (2006-02-23) from

FSF.

Fix asm_types.h type conflicts on AMD 64 platforms.  (Addresses Debian

Bugs: #360661, #360317)

Fixed the Makefile so that they work correctly on newer versions of

GNU make (i.e., 3.81).

Add valgrind support to the regression test suites, and eliminate

false positives from valgrind.

Add a regression test suite for the blkid library.

Fix a fencepost error in resize2fs caught by valgrind.  

Fix compiler warnings about missing memcpy prototypes.

We no longer have the sparc assembly code in the header file any more,

so we shouldn't set _EXT2_HAVE_HAS_BITOPS_ for the sparc.  This would

break compiles on the sparc architectures when using gcc.

In the libext2fs library, add the new field fs->now which if non-zero

is used instead of the system time when setting various filesystem

fields (last modified time, last write time, etc.)

Fix gcc 4.01 complaints by adding a missing #include <string.h> to

ext2fs.h which is needed since the inline functions use memcpy().

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug #1251062)

Use BUILD_CFLAGS and BUILD_LDFLAGS instead of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in

the build system when building files in the util directory which are

needed during the build process.  This avoids potential problems when

cross-compiling and some of the options specified in CFLAGS or LDFLAGS

are not recognized as valid by the host compiler.  (Addresses

Sourceforge Bug #1261547)

Clean up the blkid library by making the superblock and generic i/o

functions to be more generic.  Clean up interface to the probe

function, and fix memory leak.  Finallly, remove an unneeded reference

to probe.h in the lib/blkid/resolve.c

Add an ext2fs_read_bb_FILE regression test to confirm proper detection

of invalid block #'s.

The x86 asm constraints for ext2fs_{set/clear}_bit have been fixed to

indicate that the the function read/writes the memory location.

Fix various gcc -Wall complaints.

Add a dependency to make sure that the subdirectories are created

before creating all of the object files, in order to address parallel

build problem in the library Makefiles.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:

#1261553)

Add $(LDFLAGS) to the command line argument when generating an ELF or

Solaris shared library, to allow cross-compile and other builds that

might need to specify -L paths to needed libraries.  (Addresses

Sourceforge Bug #1261549)

Add a new feature, EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_LAZY_BG, which is initially

intended for testing purposes.  It allows an ext2/ext3 developer to

create very large filesystems using sparse files where most of the

block groups are not initialized and so do not require much disk

space.  Eventually it could be used as a way of speeding up mke2fs and

e2fsck for large filesystem, but that would be best done by adding an

RO_COMPAT extension to the filesystem to allow the inode table to be

lazily initialized on a per-block basis, instead of being entirely

initialized or entirely unused on a per-blockgroup basis.

Fix backwards compatibility so e2fsprogs will better compile on Linux

2.0.35 systems.

Make test scripts more robust against locale-related environment variables

Fix type warning problem with sizeof() in ext2fs_open2().

Fix type warning problem with time_t in debugfs.

E2fsprogs 1.38 (June 30, 2005)

==============================

Fix blkid's test programs (built with "make check") compile correctly

even without "configure --enable-blkid-debug".

Fix ia64 core dump bug caused by e2fsprogs running afoul of C99 strict

type aliasing rules on newer gcc compilers.  (Addresses Red Hat

Bugzilla ##161183.)

Fix com_err library to make it more compatible with recent changes

made to the com_err library in MIT Kerberos V5 version 1.4.

(Addresses Sourcefroge Bug #1150146)

General cleanup of messages printed by e2fsprogs programs for grammar,

consistency, and to make life easier for translators.  Fixed a few

strings containing English that had not been marked as needing

translations.  Removed strings that do not need to be translated, to

make life easier for translators.

Mke2fs and badblocks will take advantage of a feature in Linux 2.6 to

test to see if a device appears to be in use instead of just relying

on /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab.  (Addresses Debian Bug #308594).

Fix portability problem in the filefrag program affecting platforms

where the size of an integer is smaller than the size of a long.

(Addresses Debian Bug #309655)

Mke2fs will now use a larger journal by default for filesystems

greater than 4GB.  (128 MB instead of 32MB).

Mke2fs will refuse to create filesystems greater than 2**31-1 blocks,

unless forced.  This is to avoid signed vs. unsigned kernel bugs in

block numbers that still need to be fixed.

The blkid program has a new option which will more efficiently search

for device when it is known (or expected) that only one matching

device will be found in the system, such as when doing a lookup by

UUID.

Debian's e2fsprogs-specific initrd fragment will avoid including

unnecessary libraries into the initrd ramdisk by unsetting LD_PRELOAD

and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and filtering out libraries found in

/etc/ld.so.preload.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #304003)

Fixed a potential portability issue in the blkid programs for

architectures where the char type is unsigned.  (Addresses Sourceforge

Bug: #1180585)

Fix a bug in filefrag so that it doesn't falsely count an extra

discontinuity when the first block found is an indirect block.

(Addresses Debian Bug #307607).

Fix blkid's recognition of cramfs filesystems, and enhance it to be

able to handle cramfs labels.

Fix debugfs's stat command to not core dump when a filesystem is not

open.

Fix e2fsck's handling of error conditions caused by the resize inode

claiming blocks that are also used by other inodes, a filesystem

corruption which was commonly caused by a bug in Fedora Core 3's

resize2fs program.

Fixed bug in filefrag which caused it to fail on non-ext2/3

filesystems.  (Addresses Debian Bug: #303509)

If the superblock last mount time indicates that the system clock may

not be accurate, then e2fsck will omit checking inodes' deletion time

field for indications of a potential corrupted orphaned inode list.

(Previously e2fsck only ommited these LOW_DTIME checks when the

superblock's last write time looked insane.)

Fixed a IA64 core dump bug in the e2p library which affected dumpe2fs.

(Addresses Debian bug #302200)

Make the blkid library more paranoid about being run from setgid

programs, and to use __secure_getenv() from libc if it is available.

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.

(Addresses Debian Bugs: #304591, #304592, #304594, #304597, #304593

and Sourceforge Bug: #1189803)

Updated and fixed translations.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.

Programmer's notes:

-------------------

Ext2fs_set_bit(), ext2fs_clear_bit(), and ext2fs_test_bit( have been

changed to take an unsigned int for the bit number.  Negative bit

numbers were never allowed (and didn't make any sense), so this should

be a safe change.  This is needed to allow safe use of block numbers

greater than or equal to 2**31.

The compile_et program will avoid recreating generated foo_err.c and

foo_err.h files if no changes are necessary.  The compile_et program

will also atomically replace these files to avoid a potential parallel

build race problem on SMP systems.  (Addresses Sourceforge Bug:

#1157933)

Added a new function to the blkid library, blkid_probe_all_new(),

which only probes newly added disk devices, and change

blkid_find_dev_with_tag() to use this function so that when a

requested tag is not found, devices that were previously not checked

are searched before searching all devices in the system.

Added new functions to the blkid library, blkid_dev_set_search() and

blkid_dev_has_tag().

E2fsck's problem strings can now use @m and @n as abbrevations for

"multiply-claimed" and "invalid", respectively.

The e2fsprog.pot file now has an explanation of how the @-expansion

and %-expansion works, and strings in e2fsck/problem.c which contain @

characters now have comments in e2fsprogs.pot with the @-expansion to

make life easier for translators.

Fixed missing return values in the ext2fs library which could cause it

to return random garbage in certain error conditions.

Allow the current time to be overriden via the E2FSCK_TIME environment

variable for use in regression tests.

The test scrpit driver program now exits with a non-zero status if

there any of its test that it ran failed.

Fixed problems with parabuilds on SMP systems.  (Addresses Sourceforge

Bug: #1157933)

Fixed "make check" so that it compiles correctly even when e2fsprogs'

header files have not be installed in the system include directories.

(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1180572)

Fixed gcc -Wall nits.

E2fsprogs 1.37 (March 21, 2005)

===============================

Add support for checking the validity of Extended Attributes stored in

inodes to e2fsck.

Add support for dumping the contents of large inodes to debugfs,

including the extended attributes stored in inodes.

Fix mke2fs, e2fsck, debugfs, and the ext2fs_mkdir function so that

when we create a new inode we make sure that the extra information in

the inode (any extra fields in a large inode and any ea-in-inode

information) is initialized correctly.  This can take place when

mke2fs creates the root and lost+found directory, when e2fsck creates

a new root inode or a new lost+found directory, and when the user uses

the debugfs write, mknod, or mkdir commands.  Otherwise, the newly

create inode could inherit garbage (or old EA information) from a

previously deleted inode.

Fixed a bug in e2fsck so it would notice if a file with an extended

attribute block was exactly 2**32 blocks, such that i_blocks wrapped

to zero.

Added support to filefrag to detect files which are using the new

experimental file extents format, and use the non-ext2 algorithm in

that case.  Fixed a bug to avoid reporting a false discontinuity if

there is one or more unallocated blocks at the beginning of a file.

Duplicated a check for noticing whether or not the number of blocks

(given a certain blocksize) is greater than 2**32 when the

BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl is not available to ext2fs_get_device_size().  This

allows mke2fs to automatically use a larger blocksize when creating a

filesystem on a very large device when run on systems that do not

support BLKGETSIZE64.

Fix the I18N build which was broken in e2fsprogs 1.36 because the

build system had been switched to treat the .gmo files as shipped

files (for backwards compatibility with systems that have older GNU

I18N tools installed), but the gen_tarball.in script was still

removing the .gmo files from the official source distribution.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for

details.  (Addresses Debian Bugs ##296769, #299341)

Programmer's notes:

-------------------

Added new functions to the e2p library which convert between a string

and os_type: e2p_os2string() and e2p_string2os(), and used them to

make the generated binaries more compact.

Fixed a compile-time error on Darwin systems.

Cleaned up the lib/ext2fs Makefile slightly.

E2fsprogs 1.36 (February 4, 2005)

=================================

All of the patches that were applied to Fedore Core 3's

e2fsprogs-1.35-11.2 have been integrated, although sometimes with a

lot of bug fixes first.  Users of Fedora Core 3 are strongly

encouraged to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.36 as soon as possible.

Add support for filesystem with the online resizing via resize inode

feature.  Fixed numerous bugs from the Fedora patches.  The Fedora

patches also didn't bother to do any consistency checking on the

resize inode, or add any tests to the regression test suite.  The "-R

resize=4g" option to mke2fs was a no-op in the Fedora patches, despite

being listed in mke2fs's usage message.  All of these shortcomings

have been corrected.

E2fsck can also also fix filesystems trashed by Fedora's resize2fs

program.  In order to do this, the user must run the commands:

	debugfs -w /dev/hdXXX -R "features ^resize_inode"

        e2fsck -f /dev/hdXXX

Optionally, the ext2prepare command can be used to re-enable online

resizing after the filesystem has been fixed.

The fsck program will now accept an optional filedescriptor argument

to the -C option.  (The Fedora version of this patch would sometimes

cause fsck to ignore a parameter on fsck's command line in some rare

cases, sigh.)

Make sure e2fsprogs doesn't write garbage into the reserved portion of

large inodes.

Make sure resize2fs releases the blocks belonging to the old inode

table blocks when moving the inode table.  (Addresses Debian Bug:

#290894)

Skip the r_resize_inode test if resize2fs is not compiled (due to

configure --disable-resizer)

E2fsck now checks the summary filesystem accounting information, and

if any of the information is obviously wrong, it will force a full

filesystem check.  (Addresses Debian Bug #291571)

Fix e2fsck to not complain when the resize_inode feature is enabled,

s_reserved_gdt_blocks is zero, and there is no DIND block allocated in

the resize inode.

Fix e2fsck to note delete symlinks that contain an extended attribute

after the ext_attr feature flag has been cleared.  (Addresses Red Hat

Bugzilla #146284).

Add new utility program, copy_sparse.c, which is very useful

for dealing with large sparse files (such as e2image files).

Add support for jnl_blocks[] for debugfs's set_super_value.

Fix filefrag so that it works correctly with sparse files.

Filefrag -v will print first and last blocks.

Add interpretation of OS Creator values for FreeBSD and Lites in mke2fs

and dumpe2fs.

Add mke2fs support so that it can support filesystems larger than 4TB

automatically, by retrying with a 4k blocksize if the device size is

too big to be expressed using a 1k blocksize.  (Addresses Sourceforge

bug #1106631)

Change blkid to test for NTFS first because Windows sometimes doesn't

clear enough of the parition to confuse the probing routines into

thinking the old filesystem type is still valid.  (Addresses Debian

Bug #291990)

Add support for swap partition label and uuid's in the blkid library.

Add support to the blkid library to recognize Oracle ASM volumes.

Make blkid -t display all devices that match the specified criteria,

not just the first one, and work more consistently when the blkid

cache file is not available or set to /dev/null.  (Addresses Debian

Bug #290530 and #292425)

Badblocks will now correctly display block numbers greater than

999,999,999 in its progress display.

The tune2fs program will not allow the user from setting a ridiculous

number of reserved blocks which would cause e2fsck to assume the

superblock was corrupt.  E2fsck's standards for what is a ridiculous

number of reserved block has also been relaxed to 50% of the blocks in

the filesystem.

The blkid library will return vfat in preference to msdos, and ext3 in

preference to ext2 (if the journalling flag is set) so that mount will

do the right thing.  (Addresses Debian bug #287455)

Mke2fs will now use the -E option for extended options; the old -R

(raid options) option is still accepted for backwards compatibility.

Fix a double-free problem in resize2fs.  (Red Hat Bugzilla #132707)

Mke2fs will now accept a size in megabytes, gigabytes, and other units

(via "32m" or "4g" on the command line) if the user finds this more

convenient than specifying a block count.

Fix an obscure, hard-to find bug in "e2fsck -S" caused by an inode

cache conherency problem.

Debugfs now supports a new command, set_inode_field, which allows a

user to manually set a specific inode field more conveniently, as well

as set entries in the indirect block map.

Debugfs's set_super_value command has been enhanced so that the user

can set most superblock fields, including the date/time fields and

some of the more newsly added superblock fields.

E2fsprogs programs now accept an offset to be passed to the file

specifiers, via the syntax: "/tmp/test.img?offset=1024".

E2fsprogs programs will now accept blocksizes up to 65536; kernel

support on the x86 doesn't exist for now, but it can be useful on

other architectures with page sizes greater than 4k.  There are 2.6

kernel patches out there which enable this, but they are of this

writing still experimental.

The e2image command now takes the -s option which will scramble

directory entries for raw image files.

Fix a file descriptor leak in the filefrag program.

Make sure e2fsck doesn't crash when /proc/acpi/ac_adapter is not

present.

Fix bug in debugfs where kill_file would lead to errors when deleting

devices and symlinks.  (Sourceforge Bugs #954741 and #957244)

Fix bug in the blkid library when detecting the ocfs1 filesystem 

Remove obsolete EVMS 1.x and a.out DLL support.

E2fsck will attempt to recover from a journal containing illegal blocks.

Fixed two potential ordering constraint problems in e2fsck which might

cause the filesystem to be corrupted if e2fsck is interrupted during a

(extremely narrow) race window.  Thanks to Junfeng Yang from the

Stanford Metacompilation group for pointing this out.

Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would not accurately detect whether or

not the system is running on adaptor if the ACPI device representing

the AC adapter didn't correspond to the what was used on IBM

Thinkpads.

Change e2fsck to accept directories greater than 32MB.

Fix e2fsck so that a checkinterval of zero disables a time-based check

of the filesystem.

Debugfs will check the DEBUGFS_PAGER enviroment variable in preference

to the PAGER environment variable.  (Addresses Debian Bug #239547)

Tune2fs will not mark rewrite the superblock if the feature bitmasks 

are not modified.

The debugfs program will set the filetype information when creating a

link.

Add debugfs -d option to use a separate source of data blocks when

reading from an e2image file.

Add e2image -I option which allows the e2image metadata to be

installed into a filesystem.

Fixed bug in the badblocks program which caused "done" to always

appear in english even when a translation was available.  (Addresses

Debian Bug #252836)

The blkid program has a new option -o which controls the output format

of the blkid program; this is makes blkid more convenient to use in

shell scripts.

Fix a minor bug in uuid library, which was not using the full 14 bits

of clock sequence when generating UUID's.

Fix a Y8.8888K problem in the uuid library.

Logsave now creates a new session id for itself to avoid getting

killed by init whan transitioning between init levels.

Change the licensing of the UUID library to be the 3-clause BSD-style

license; this allows Apple to use the uuid library in Darwin.

Add ocfs and ocfs2 probe support into the blkid library.

Fix a memory and file descriptor leak in the blkid library.

The blkid library will revalidate the device if the system time is

earlier than last verification time of the device, since that

indicates that the system time is probably nottrustworthy.

The blkid library will override the default location of the blkid.tab

file by the BLKID_FILE environment variable, if it is available.

Change the getsize functions to use the BLKGETSIZE64 ioctl on Linux 2.6.

Add various portability fixes for lame new versions of glibc, Darwin

and GNU/KFreeBSD, as well as removing XSI:ism's.  (Addresses Debian

Bugs #239934, #264630, #269044, #255589, #289133)

Add support for Windows 9x/NT under Cygwin.

Updated and clarified various man pages.  (Addresses Debian Bugs #236383,

	#241940, #238741, #242995, #256669, #268148, #256760, #273679)

Updated and fixed translations.   (Addresses Debian bugs #244105, #262836)

Update the rpm spec files so that it works better with Fedora core 2

and RH9.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues (see debian/changelog).  In

particular, fixed the Debian initrd scripts.  (#241183, #248050,

#253595, #247775)

Programmer's notes: 

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Fixed various gcc -Wall warnings.