Theodore Ts'o | 5570a65 | 2000-08-21 01:23:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | E2fsprogs 1.20 (August 20, 2000 --- WORK IN PROGRESS) |
| 2 | ===================================================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Add support for replaying the ext3 journal purely in user mode. Used |
| 5 | code contributed by Andreas Dilger, with bug fixes by Theodore Ts'o. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | E2fsck will now check for the existence of a linked list of orphan |
| 8 | inodes in the superblock, and clear those inodes before starting the |
| 9 | rest of the filesystem check (but after the journal playback). |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Fixed bug in the progress bar printing code which could cause e2fsck |
| 12 | to core dump on an illegal filesystem. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Fsck using a UUID or a LABEL specifier will work even if devfs is |
| 15 | compiled into the kernel and not mounted. If the pathnames in |
| 16 | /proc/partitions are incorrect, fsck will search /dev for the correct |
| 17 | device (using the new ext2fs_find_block_device library function). |
| 18 | Fsck now also checks the RAID devices first so that they are properly |
| 19 | found when they are in use. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | The dumpe2fs program can now print out the group description |
| 22 | information in hex, and also prints the location of the superblock and |
| 23 | block group descriptor for those block groups that have them. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Mke2fs now clears the ext2 superblock before it starts creating a |
| 26 | filesystem, so that the superblock magic number is only written if the |
| 27 | filesystem creation process successfully completes. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | The debugfs program's stat command now pretty-prints the blocks used |
| 30 | by an inode so that it's more compact and informative. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | The debugfs stats command now uses the same libe2p code (which is used |
| 33 | by dumpe2fs) to print the superblock header information. This is more |
| 34 | complete, and it avoids a bit of code duplication. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Added a new debugfs command, set_super_value (ssv) which allows the |
| 37 | user to set arbitrary superblock fields. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Programmer's notes: |
| 41 | ------------------- |
| 42 | |
| 43 | The e2fsck message printer now supports %Iu and %Ig, which will print |
| 44 | out the inode's user and group owners, respectively. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Added a new function to libext2, ext2fs_find_block_device(), which |
| 47 | searches the system (i.e., /dev, /devfs, /devices) for a pathname to a |
| 48 | device given its device number. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Added new utility programs in tests/progs: random_exercise and |
| 51 | hold_inode. They aren't built by default; they're useful for |
| 52 | exercising ext3 filesystem code. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | |
Theodore Ts'o | b777e26 | 2000-07-27 01:39:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | E2fsprogs 1.19 (July 13, 2000) |
| 56 | ============================== |
Theodore Ts'o | ab14676 | 2000-07-07 04:37:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | |
| 58 | Release the resize2fs program since the timeout before it could |
Theodore Ts'o | 006ea71 | 2000-08-21 03:39:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | be released under the GPL has finally expired. |
Theodore Ts'o | ab14676 | 2000-07-07 04:37:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | |
| 61 | Add experimental support needed for the ext2 compression patches. |
| 62 | This requires compiling e2fsprogs with the --enable-compression flag |
| 63 | to the configure script. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Added ext3 journalling support. E2fsck will run the journal (if |
| 66 | necessary) by temporarily mounting the filesystem. /sbin/fsck.ext3 is |
| 67 | installed as a symlink to e2fsck. Fsck has been taught about ext3, |
| 68 | and treats it the same as ext2 in terms of the progress bar logic. |
| 69 | Dumpe2fs will display the superblock journaling information if the |
| 70 | filesystem has a journal. The ext2 library will now permit opening an |
| 71 | ext3 filesystem with the recovery flag set. This is necessary for |
| 72 | on-line dump's to work correctly, but there may be issues with this |
| 73 | working well since ext3 is much less agressive about syncing blocks to |
| 74 | the filesystem, since they're safe on the journal. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Tune2fs and e2fsck have been changed to allow the mount_count check to |
| 77 | be disabled by setting max_mount_count to -1. (This was already |
| 78 | supported by the kernel.) |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Create a symbolic link for fsck.ext3, since the e2fsprogs utilities |
| 81 | are used for ext3 as well. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Added internationalization support for e2fsprogs; must be enabled |
| 84 | by passing --enable-nls to configure. |
| 85 | |
| 86 | Always use the provided ext2fs header files to insulate ourselves from |
| 87 | kernel version changes. Which include files are used by e2fsprogs |
| 88 | have also been cleaned up to improve portability. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | Limit the number of times that e2fsck updates the progress bar so that |
| 91 | people who are booting using a 9600 baud console don't get swampped by |
| 92 | too many updates. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | Improved the loop detection algorithm in e2sck's pass #3 so that it is |
| 95 | much, much faster for large filesystems with a large number of |
| 96 | directories. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | The memory footprint for e2fsck is now slightly smaller than before. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | E2fsck now checks if special devices have a non-zero size, and offers |
| 101 | to clear the size field if it finds such an inode. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | E2fsck now checks if special devices have the append-only flag set, |
| 104 | and offers to clear the inode. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | E2fsck now properly handles some "should never fail" cases during a |
| 107 | bitmap copy in pass5. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | E2fsck now properly prints control characters in filenames as ^A .. ^Z. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | Added non-destructive write testing to the badblocks program, courtesy |
| 112 | of David Beattie. The badblocks also now has an option to input the |
| 113 | current set of bad blocks, so that known bad blocks are skipped to |
| 114 | speed up the badblocks test. There is also a persistent rescan |
Theodore Ts'o | 006ea71 | 2000-08-21 03:39:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | feature which causes badblocks to run until it has completed some |
| 116 | number of passes without discovering any new bad blocks. |
Theodore Ts'o | ab14676 | 2000-07-07 04:37:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | |
| 118 | Badblocks now checks to see if the device is mounted and refuses to do |
| 119 | the tests involving writing to the device if it is mounted. Also, |
| 120 | badblocks now allows the number of blocks to be checked to be |
| 121 | defaulted to the size of the partition. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | Fixed a bug in fsck which didn't allow non-root users to be able to |
| 124 | check filesystems if there were any LABEL= or UUID= entries in |
| 125 | /etc/fstab. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | The Hurd doesn't support the filetype filesystem feature. The mke2fs |
| 128 | program now makes sure that for the Hurd, the filestype feature is |
| 129 | turned off. E2fsck will check to see if the filetype feature is |
| 130 | turned on for Hurd filesystems, and offer to turn off the feature. |
| 131 | |
| 132 | Mke2fs now has a safety check to make sure the number of blocks do not |
| 133 | exceed 32 bits even on a 64 bit platform. |
| 134 | |
| 135 | Really fixed a bug in fsck to allow "fsck -As" to run interactive |
| 136 | fsck's. (For those people who like to do interactive fsck's in the |
| 137 | /etc/rc scripts!?!) |
| 138 | |
| 139 | Debugfs has a few new features: the rdump command, which will do a |
| 140 | recursive dump of a directory and all of its contents, and the lcd |
| 141 | command which does a local chdir (much like the ftp command of the |
| 142 | same name). In addition, the debugfs program and the open_filesystem |
| 143 | command now takes three new options: -b and -s, which allows the |
| 144 | blocksize and superblock location to be specified, and the -c option |
| 145 | which is used in catastrophic situations where the block group |
| 146 | descriptors are corrupt. If the -c option is specified, debugfs will |
| 147 | skip trying to read in the block and inode bitmaps. |
| 148 | |
| 149 | Debufs's lsdel command was fixed to handle bad blocks in the inode |
| 150 | table. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | A Y2K bug in debugfs's "ls -l" handling was fixed by switching to use |
| 153 | 4 digit years. |
| 154 | |
| 155 | General improvements in error messages |
| 156 | |
| 157 | - Mke2fs prints a sane error message if the partition size is zero |
| 158 | (usually because the partition table wasn't reread by the |
| 159 | kernel due to the partition being busy), instead of "invalid |
| 160 | argument passed to ext2 library while initializing superblock". |
| 161 | |
| 162 | - Fsck now prints more self-explanatory message if an invalid UUID= |
| 163 | or LABEL= specification is passed to it. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | UUID library changed to use the LGPL. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | Fixed a bug in the UUID library where very rapid calls to the |
| 168 | time-based UUID generator could cause duplicate UUID's to be returned. |
| 169 | This was not a problem for e2fsprogs, but it could be a problem for |
| 170 | other users of the library. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | Make the UUID library more robust in the face of missing or an |
| 173 | improper /dev/urandom or /dev/random files. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | Added some random portability fixes for Solaris. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | Some minor man page updates. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | Fixed a memory leak in the ss library. |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 182 | Programmer's notes: |
| 183 | ------------------- |
| 184 | |
| 185 | We now try to use lseek64 and open64 from the LFS if possible. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | The 3rd parameter in e2p's print_flags is now a flags word, instead of |
| 188 | a boolean option. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | The mark and unmark bitmap functions now return the previous state of |
| 191 | the bit that was being changed, which is useful for some speed |
| 192 | optimizations. |
| 193 | |
| 194 | The following functions have been added to enhance the badblocks list |
| 195 | handling in libext2fs: ext2fs_write_bb_FILE, ext2fs_read_bb_FILE2, and |
| 196 | ext2fs_badblocks_equal. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | The ext2 header files now have the latest journalling fields to the |
| 199 | superblock. |
| 200 | |
| 201 | The ext2fs_mkdir function in libext2fs now properly backs out of error |
| 202 | conditions robustly. |
| 203 | |
| 204 | Cleaned up makefiles: |
| 205 | - to cleanly compile with the -j flag. |
| 206 | - so distclean removes all generated files. |
| 207 | - so in case of an error while installing header files, the make aborts. |
| 208 | |
| 209 | Fix test_script so that it works correctly when compiling in the |
| 210 | source directory. |
| 211 | |
| 212 | Update libraries to build under a.out shared libraries (again). |
| 213 | |
| 214 | Clean up the build process so it's more friendly in case of missing |
| 215 | directories. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | The ext2fs header file can now be #include'd into C++ programs. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | The e2p.h header file is now installed. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | Added workaround to a gawk 3.0.5 bug in lib/ss/mk_cmds. |
| 222 | |
| 223 | |
| 224 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 24ded09 | 1999-11-10 15:56:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | E2fsprogs 1.18 (November 10, 1999) |
| 226 | ================================== |
| 227 | |
| 228 | Fix a core dumping bug in e2fsck if an imagic inode is present or |
| 229 | (more rarely) if the filesystem is badly corrupted enough that e2fsck |
| 230 | has to restart pass 1 processing. E2fsck now closes the filesystem |
| 231 | before freeing a large number of its data structures, so in the case |
| 232 | of future memory faults, at least the fixed filesystem will be fully |
| 233 | written out. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | If a filesystem doesn't support imagic inodes, and e2fsck discovers an |
| 236 | imagic inode, it will offer to clear the imagic flag. |
| 237 | |
| 238 | E2fsck will now offer to clear the immutable flag on special files |
| 239 | (device/socket/fifos) when running it in non-preen mode. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | E2fsck will now set the filetype when creating /lost+found, and when |
| 242 | connected orphaned inodes to /lost+found. |
| 243 | |
| 244 | Debugfs's ncheck and icheck commands now handles the case where there |
| 245 | are bad blocks in the inode table without bombing out. |
| 246 | |
| 247 | The badblocks list processing code has been made more efficiently for |
| 248 | appending a large number of (ordered) badblocks to the badblocks list. |
| 249 | |
| 250 | Some minor man page updates. |
| 251 | |
| 252 | Fsck now allows interactive e2fsck's when using fsck -As (not a common |
| 253 | mode, but some people like to do this in boot scripts for silly reasons). |
| 254 | |
| 255 | Programmer's notes: |
| 256 | ------------------- |
| 257 | |
| 258 | The internal e2fsck problem code for PR_2_SPLIT_DOT was fixed to meet |
| 259 | with the problem code convention. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | The badblocks list regression test program has been updated to work |
| 262 | with previously made API name changes. |
| 263 | |
| 264 | The ext2fs_free() command now uses the new badblocks API to avoid |
| 265 | using the compatibility layer. |
| 266 | |
| 267 | Added new regression test cases; the run_e2fsck test script now |
| 268 | supports the ability for a test case to run a prepratory command |
| 269 | before running e2fsck. |
| 270 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 28e1194 | 1999-10-26 18:17:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999) |
| 272 | ================================= |
| 273 | |
| 274 | Fixed nasty typo in fsck which caused parallelized fsck's to go into an |
| 275 | infinite loop. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | Fixed a bug in fsck where it used strncmp to compare a binary UUID, |
| 278 | thus potentially causing problems if a binary UUID contained a NULL |
| 279 | character. |
| 280 | |
| 281 | E2fsck now uses stricter checks for directory entries in pass 2: |
| 282 | zero-length filenames are not allowed; neither are 8 byte long |
| 283 | directory entries. |
| 284 | |
| 285 | The debugfs "dirty" command now clears the filesystem valid bit. |
| 286 | (Previously this just set the dirty-as-in-needs-writing-out-to-disk |
| 287 | bit in the in-core superblock image. The new functionality is more |
| 288 | what the user expects, and is more useful.) |
| 289 | |
| 290 | Added a debugging hook to test parallel fsck; if the environment |
| 291 | variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL, then filesystems on the same drive |
| 292 | will be checked in parallel when they normally would not be. |
| 293 | |
| 294 | Programmer's notes: |
| 295 | ------------------- |
| 296 | |
| 297 | Fixed some #ifdef's for compilation under the Hurd OS. |
| 298 | |
| 299 | Fixed minor W2K compatibility problems. |
| 300 | |
| 301 | Fixed some miscellaneous GCC warnings. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 8a31ffe | 1999-10-23 03:33:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | E2fsprogs 1.16 (October 22, 1999) |
| 305 | ================================= |
| 306 | |
| 307 | Fixed a race condition bug in fsck; when printing a progress bar, if |
| 308 | checking multiple filesystems in parallel, it was possible for fsck to |
| 309 | send e2fsck a SIGUSR1 signal before e2fsck had installed its signal |
| 310 | handler, which would cause it to terminate with a signal 10. |
| 311 | |
| 312 | E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the |
| 313 | INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature turned on. It can be used to convert a |
| 314 | filesystem into using or not using FILETYPE feature. |
| 315 | |
| 316 | E2fsck now properly handles filesystems that have the IMAGIC feature |
| 317 | turned on (this is used on Linux AFS servers). |
| 318 | |
| 319 | The mke2fs program now creates filesystems that have the filetype and |
| 320 | sparse_superblock features enabled by default, unless it is run on a |
| 321 | pre-2.2 kernel. These features are not supported by a pre-2.2 kernel, |
| 322 | so there is now a new flag -O which allows the user to specify with |
| 323 | which features she would like to create the filesystem; "mke2fs -O |
| 324 | none" will create a filesystsem compatible with 2.0 kernels. |
| 325 | |
| 326 | The tune2fs program now has a -O option which allows the user to set |
| 327 | and reset "safe" filesystem features. Currently, the only ones which |
| 328 | allows to be modified are the filetype and sparse_superblock features. |
| 329 | Note setting or clearing either feature will require running e2fsck on |
| 330 | the filesystem afterwards. (n.b. Clearing the sparse_superblock feature |
| 331 | requires that there is enough free space on the filesystem for the |
| 332 | extra superblocks which will be created by e2fsck.) |
| 333 | |
| 334 | Debugfs can now set and print filesystem features in the superblock |
| 335 | using the "features" command. Dumpe2fs will print out the complete |
| 336 | set of features when listing the superblock. |
| 337 | |
| 338 | Dumpe2fs has new options -f (force) and -h (header-only). |
| 339 | |
| 340 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause the PROGRAMMING ERROR/bonehead |
| 341 | message to come up. This could happen when decrementing or |
| 342 | incrementing a link count could result in an overflow. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck where the block count on the lost+found |
| 345 | directory would not be properly incremented when the directory was |
| 346 | expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be allocated. |
| 347 | |
| 348 | E2fsck now makes some additional sanity checks on the superblock to |
| 349 | avoid crashing or giving a memory allocation error if some of the |
| 350 | values in the superblock are unresonable (but the superblock otherwise |
| 351 | looks valid). |
| 352 | |
| 353 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck where a very badly corrupted filesystem might |
| 354 | require two passes to completely fix the filesystem. This happened if |
| 355 | an inode claimed blocks that was part of the filesystem metadata |
| 356 | (typically, when garbage was written into an inode table or indirect |
| 357 | block, since this kind of filesystem corruption normally doesn't |
| 358 | happen otherwise). |
| 359 | |
| 360 | On the Alpha, glibc declares st_flags although it isn't actually used; |
| 361 | the configure script was improved to detect this case so that |
| 362 | e2fsprogs can avoid using the non-functional stat field. |
| 363 | |
| 364 | The manual pages were updated to use a more consistent formatting |
| 365 | style consistent with standard Unix man pages. Mke2fs's man page |
| 366 | added documentation for a few previously undocumented options. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | Fixed minor display bugs in tune2fs and mke2fs. |
| 369 | |
| 370 | Programmer's notes: |
| 371 | ------------------- |
| 372 | |
| 373 | Improved portability of e2fsprogs to non-Unix systems (in particular, NT). |
| 374 | |
| 375 | Added features to parse and print feature strings into the e2p library. |
| 376 | (e2p_feature2string, e2p_string2feature, e2p_edit_feature). |
| 377 | |
| 378 | ext2fs_mkdir() and ext2fs_new_dir_block() now creates directories |
| 379 | whose directory entries contain proper filetype information if the |
| 380 | filesystem supports it. |
| 381 | |
| 382 | ext2fs_link() now uses the low 3 bits of its flags parameter to pass |
| 383 | the directory entry filetype information. This is used to set the |
| 384 | directory entry filetype information if the filesystem supports it. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | Fixed a bug in ext2fs_expand_dir() where the block count in a |
| 387 | directory's inode would not be properly incremented when the directory |
| 388 | was expanded to the point where an indirect block needed to be |
| 389 | allocated. |
| 390 | |
| 391 | |
Theodore Ts'o | a39f3ef | 1999-07-20 02:02:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | E2fsprogs 1.15 (July 18, 1999) |
Theodore Ts'o | e2a99be | 1999-07-19 15:48:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 | ============================== |
Theodore Ts'o | 6d53db3 | 1999-07-03 20:52:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | |
| 395 | Add configuration checks so that e2fsprogs will compile cleanly on |
| 396 | Linux 2.3 kernels that have renamed i_version to i_generation. |
| 397 | |
Theodore Ts'o | e2a99be | 1999-07-19 15:48:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | E2fsck now prints a progress/completion bar (and not just a simple |
| 399 | spinner) if the -C0 option is requested or if it receives a SIGUSR1 |
| 400 | signal. Fsck will automatically manage the (potentially muliple) |
| 401 | e2fsck processes to print completion bars if it is given a -C option, |
| 402 | with the right thing happening if multiple filesystems are being |
| 403 | checked in parallel. |
| 404 | |
| 405 | Mke2fs now has better automatic hueristics to determine the filesystem |
| 406 | parameters to be used for a particular filesystem. Added a new option |
| 407 | -T which allows the user to specify how the filesystem is to be used, |
| 408 | which helps mke2fs do a better job selecting the filesystem parameters. |
| 409 | |
Theodore Ts'o | a39f3ef | 1999-07-20 02:02:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | Mke2fs now creates revision 1 filesystems by default, and with the |
| 411 | sparse superblock feature enabled. The sparse superblock feature is |
Theodore Ts'o | 8a31ffe | 1999-10-23 03:33:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | not understood by Linux 2.0 kernels, so they will only allow read-only |
| 413 | mounts of filesystems with this sparse superblocks. |
Theodore Ts'o | a39f3ef | 1999-07-20 02:02:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 414 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 6d53db3 | 1999-07-03 20:52:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 415 | Fix bug where if /dev/null couldn't be opened (should never happen), |
| 416 | e2fsck would hang in a tight loop. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | Make e2fsck handle the case where /lost+found isn't a directory. |
| 419 | |
| 420 | E2fsck now uses mallinfo if it exists to get accurate statistics about |
| 421 | its memory usage. |
| 422 | |
| 423 | Fix bug in e2fsck where it wouldn't check to see if a disconnected |
| 424 | inode had any problems before connecting it to /lost+found. |
| 425 | |
| 426 | Add check to e2fsck so it makes sure that total number of inodes in |
| 427 | the filesystem is a sane number. |
| 428 | |
| 429 | Fix fencepost error when clearing an the end of the block bitmap which |
| 430 | caused the last block in the bitmap not to get cleared. |
| 431 | |
| 432 | Cleaned up a number of messages in e2fsck: |
| 433 | * The message "Group's #'s copy of the group descriptor..." |
| 434 | was fixed so that the correct number would be displayed. |
| 435 | * Added missing space in the "disk write-protected" error messsage |
| 436 | * Cleaned up the error message printed when a non-interactive |
| 437 | e2fsck needs to abort a check because the filesystem |
| 438 | appears to be mounted. |
| 439 | |
| 440 | Added a new command-line utility, uuidgen, which will create and print |
| 441 | a UUID. |
| 442 | |
| 443 | Make debugfs's icheck command more robust by checking to make sure an |
| 444 | inode has valid blocks before interarting over the inode's blocks. |
| 445 | |
| 446 | UUID generation now uses a random-based scheme whenever possible to |
| 447 | prevent potential privacy problems. |
| 448 | |
| 449 | Man pages for all of the UUID functions in the lirbary were added. |
| 450 | |
| 451 | Fixed bug in fsck so it won't coredump if a filesystem not in |
| 452 | /etc/fstab is given to it. |
| 453 | |
| 454 | Fsck now understands the UUID=xxxx and LABEL=yyyy forms in /etc/fstab |
| 455 | that most of the other mount utilities understands. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | Mke2fs will make a filesystem even if it appears mounted if the force |
| 458 | option is given. |
| 459 | |
| 460 | Dumpe2fs has new command-line options which allow a filesystem expert |
| 461 | to specify the superblock and blocksize when opening a filesystem. |
| 462 | This is mainly useful when examining the remains of a toasted |
| 463 | filesystem. |
| 464 | |
| 465 | The badblocks program has been updated to display correctly on disks |
| 466 | with large block numbers. |
| 467 | |
Theodore Ts'o | e2a99be | 1999-07-19 15:48:08 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | The badblocks program no longer gives spurious errors when errors |
| 469 | occur on non-block boundaries, which is common if the blocksize is |
| 470 | larger than 1k. |
| 471 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 6d53db3 | 1999-07-03 20:52:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | Mke2fs will sync the disk device every MKE2FS_SYNC block groups if the |
| 473 | MKE2FS_SYNC environment variable is set. This is to work around a VM |
| 474 | bug in the 2.0 kernel. I've heard a report that a RAID user was able |
Theodore Ts'o | a39f3ef | 1999-07-20 02:02:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 475 | to trigger it even using a 2.2 kernel, but hopefully it will not be |
| 476 | needed for most Linux 2.2 users. |
Theodore Ts'o | 6d53db3 | 1999-07-03 20:52:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 477 | |
| 478 | Fixed miscellaneous documentation and man pages. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | Programmer's notes: |
| 481 | ------------------- |
| 482 | |
| 483 | Cleaned up functions such as pass1_get_blocks, pass1_read_inode which |
| 484 | in e2fsck's pass1.c really should have been static. |
| 485 | |
| 486 | The return value of the uuid_compare() function was changed to make it |
| 487 | match with the convetions used by strcmp, memcmp, and Paul Leach's |
| 488 | UUID sample document. |
| 489 | |
| 490 | The "make depend" process has now been made more automated; it now |
| 491 | automatically word-wraps the dependencies, and only replaces source |
| 492 | Makefile.in if there has been a change in the dependencies. Also, a |
| 493 | top-level "make depend" now recurses through all the subdirectories |
| 494 | automatically. |
| 495 | |
| 496 | The Makefile in .../util has been changed so that subst is built using |
| 497 | the native C compiler during a cross-compilation, since the subst |
| 498 | program is only used during the build process. Also add an explicit |
| 499 | rule to build util/subst by cd'ing to the correct directory and |
| 500 | running Makefile. |
| 501 | |
| 502 | The man directories are defined in terms mandir, so that the configure |
| 503 | script can override the location of the manual pages. |
| 504 | |
| 505 | The config files have been updated to recognize new machine types for |
| 506 | both the i386 and alpha families. |
| 507 | |
| 508 | Fsck has been modified so that it will accurately create an |
| 509 | fsck_instance even when the noexecute flag is set. This allows for |
| 510 | accurate debugging of the fsck pass structure. Also, when the verbose |
| 511 | flag is given twice, fsck will print debugging information about when |
| 512 | fsck is waiting for jobs to finish. |
| 513 | |
| 514 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 14790ed | 1999-01-12 23:32:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | E2fsprogs 1.14 (January 9, 1999) |
| 516 | ================================ |
| 517 | |
| 518 | Fix the fstab parsing code so that it can handle blank lines and |
| 519 | comment characters. Also, missing pass numbers need to be treated as |
| 520 | zero. |
| 521 | |
| 522 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck where under some circumstances (when e2fsck |
| 523 | needs to restart processing after fixing an egregious inconsistency) |
| 524 | it would try to access already freed memory. |
| 525 | |
| 526 | E2fsck now prints non-printable characters in directory entries and |
| 527 | pathnames using '^' and 'M-' notation. |
| 528 | |
| 529 | Fixed chattr so that it will ignore symbolic links when doing |
| 530 | recursive descent traversals. For both chattr and lsattr, no longer |
| 531 | print the version string unless the -V option is given. |
| 532 | |
| 533 | Allow the system administrator to directly specify the number of |
| 534 | inodes desired in the filesystem, for some special cases where this is |
| 535 | necessary. |
| 536 | |
| 537 | Fix portability problems so that e2fsprogs can be compiled under Linux |
| 538 | 1.2 systems and Solaris systems. |
| 539 | |
| 540 | Update the config.guess file with a more recent version that will |
| 541 | identify newer Linux platforms. |
| 542 | |
| 543 | Programmer's notes |
| 544 | ------------------ |
| 545 | |
| 546 | Ext2fs_read_inode and ext2fs_write_inode will now return an error if |
| 547 | an inode number of zero is passed to them. |
| 548 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 556ad13 | 1998-12-19 08:10:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 549 | E2fsprogs 1.13 (December 15, 1998) |
| 550 | ================================== |
| 551 | |
| 552 | Fixed a bug in debugfs where an error messages weren't getting printed |
| 553 | when the ext2 library routines to read inodes returned errors in the |
| 554 | stat, cmri and rm commands. |
| 555 | |
| 556 | Fixed a bug in mke2fs so that if a ridiculous inode ratio parameter is |
| 557 | provided, it won't create an inode table smaller than the minimum |
| 558 | number of inodes required for a proper ext2 filesystem. |
| 559 | |
| 560 | Fsck now parses the /etc/fstab file directly (instead of using |
| 561 | getmntent()), so that it can distinguish between a missing pass number |
| 562 | field and pass number field of zero. This caused problems for |
| 563 | diskless workstations where all of the filesystems in /etc/fstab have |
| 564 | an explicit pass number of zero, and fsck could not distinguish this |
| 565 | from a /etc/fstab file with missing pass numbers. |
| 566 | |
| 567 | E2fsck will create a /lost+found directory if there isn't one in the |
| 568 | filesystem, since it's safer to create the lost+found directory before |
| 569 | it's needed. |
| 570 | |
| 571 | Fixed e2fsck so that it would detect bogus immutable inodes which |
| 572 | happen to be sockets and FIFO files, and offer to clear them. |
| 573 | |
| 574 | If a filesystem has multiple reasons why it needs to be checked, and |
| 575 | one of the reasons is that it is uncleanly mounted, e2fsck will print |
| 576 | that as the reason why the filesystem is being checked. |
| 577 | |
| 578 | Cleaned up the output routines of mke2fs so that it doesn't overflow |
| 579 | an 80 column display when formating really big filesystems. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | Added a sanity check to e2fsck to make sure that file descriptors 0, |
| 582 | 1, 2 are open before opening the hard disk. This avoids a problem |
| 583 | where a broken program might exec e2fsck with those file descriptors |
| 584 | closed, which would cause disastrous results if the kernel returns a |
| 585 | file descriptor for the block device which is also used by FILE * |
| 586 | stdout. |
| 587 | |
| 588 | Fixed up the e2fsck progress reporting functions so that the values |
| 589 | reliably reach 100% at the completion of all of the e2fsck passes. |
| 590 | |
| 591 | Fixed minor documentation bugs in man pages and usage messages. |
| 592 | |
| 593 | Programmer's notes: |
| 594 | ------------------- |
| 595 | |
| 596 | Fixed a number of lint warnings in the ext2fs library and potential |
| 597 | portability problems from other OS's header files that might define |
| 598 | CPP macros for names like "max" and "min". |
| 599 | |
| 600 | ext2fs_badblocks_list_add() has been made more efficient when it needs |
| 601 | to grow the bad blocks list. |
| 602 | |
| 603 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck which caused it to dereference a freed pointer |
| 604 | just before exiting. |
| 605 | |
| 606 | Fixed the substition process for generating the mk_cmds and compile_et |
| 607 | scripts so that they will work outside of the build tree. |
| 608 | |
| 609 | Add sanity check to e2fsck so that if an internal routine |
| 610 | (ext2fs_get_dir_info) returns NULL, avoid dereferencing the pointer |
| 611 | and causing a core dump. This should never happen, but... |
| 612 | |
Theodore Ts'o | a569671 | 1998-07-09 05:38:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 613 | E2fsprogs 1.12 (July 9, 1998) |
Theodore Ts'o | 21d5385 | 1998-02-21 03:14:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | ================================== |
| 615 | |
| 616 | E2fsprogs now works with glibc (at least with the version shipped wtih |
| 617 | RedHat 5.0). The ext2fs_llseek() function should now work even with |
| 618 | i386 ELF shared libraries and if llseek() is not present. We also |
| 619 | explicitly do a configure test to see if (a) llseek is in libc, and |
| 620 | (b) if llseek is declared in the system header files. (See standard |
| 621 | complaints about libc developers don't understand the concept of |
| 622 | compatibility with previous versions of libc.) |
| 623 | |
Theodore Ts'o | c9833a6 | 1998-07-05 19:37:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | The ext2fs library now writes out the block group number in each of |
| 625 | the superblock copies. This makes it easier to automatically |
| 626 | determine the starting block group of the filesystem when the block |
| 627 | group information is trashed. |
| 628 | |
| 629 | Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE feature, |
Theodore Ts'o | 101c84f | 1998-03-24 16:27:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 630 | which means that e2fsprogs will ignore the high 8 bits of the |
| 631 | directory entry's name_len field, so that it can be used for other |
| 632 | purposes. |
| 633 | |
| 634 | Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature. |
| 635 | E2fsprogs will now support filesystems with 64-bit sized files. |
| 636 | |
| 637 | Added support for the EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_PREALLOC feature. |
| 638 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 21d5385 | 1998-02-21 03:14:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 639 | Added new program "e2label", contributed by Andries Brouwer. E2label |
| 640 | provides an easy-to-use interface to modify the filesystem label. |
| 641 | |
Theodore Ts'o | a4b2d3c | 1998-04-03 16:12:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 642 | Fixed bug so that lsattr -v works instead of producing a core dump. |
| 643 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 21d5385 | 1998-02-21 03:14:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 644 | Fixed a minor bug in mke2fs so that all groups with bad superblock |
| 645 | backup blocks are printed (not just the first one). |
Theodore Ts'o | a4b2d3c | 1998-04-03 16:12:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 646 | |
| 647 | Mke2fs will check the size of the device, and if the user specifies a |
| 648 | filesystem size larger than the apparent size of the device it will |
| 649 | print a warning message and ask if the user wants to proceed. |
| 650 | |
Theodore Ts'o | c9833a6 | 1998-07-05 19:37:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 651 | E2fsck has a new option -C, which sends completion information to the |
| 652 | specified file descriptor. For the most part, this is intended for |
| 653 | programs to use, although -C 0 will print a spinning character to the |
| 654 | stdout device, which may be useful for users who want to see something |
| 655 | happening while e2fsck goes about its business. |
| 656 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 21d5385 | 1998-02-21 03:14:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 657 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck which could cause a core dump when it needs to |
| 658 | expand the /lost+found directory, and sometimes the bitmaps haven't |
| 659 | been merged in. Also fixed a related bug where ext2fs_write_dir_block |
| 660 | was used to write out a non-directory block. (Which would be bad on a |
| 661 | non-Intel platform with byte swapping going on.) |
| 662 | |
| 663 | Fixed bug in e2fsck where it would print a "programming error" message |
| 664 | instead of correctly identifying where a bad block was in used when |
| 665 | the bad block was in a non-primary superblock or block group |
| 666 | descriptor. Also fixed a related bug when sparse superblocks are in |
| 667 | use and there is a bad block where a superblock or block group |
| 668 | descriptor would have been in a group that doesn't include a |
| 669 | superblock. |
| 670 | |
| 671 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck (really in libext2fs's dblist function) where if |
| 672 | the block group descriptor table is corrupt, it was possible to try to |
| 673 | allocate a huge array, fail, and then abort e2fsck. |
| 674 | ext2fs_get_num_dirs() now sanity checks the block group descriptor, |
| 675 | and subsitutes reasonable values if the descriptors are obviously bogus. |
| 676 | |
| 677 | If e2fsck finds a device file which has the immutable flag set and the |
| 678 | i_blocks beyond the normal device number are non-zero, e2fsck will |
| 679 | offer to remove it, since it's probably caused by garbage in the inode |
| 680 | table. |
| 681 | |
| 682 | When opening a filesystem, e2fsck specially checks for the EROFS error |
| 683 | code, and prints a specific error message to the user which is more |
| 684 | user friendly. |
| 685 | |
| 686 | If the filesystem revision is too high, change the e2fsck to print |
| 687 | that this is either because e2fsck is out of date, or because the |
| 688 | superblock is corrupt. |
| 689 | |
| 690 | E2fsck now checks for directories that have duplicate '.' and '..' |
| 691 | entries, and fixes this corruption. |
| 692 | |
| 693 | E2fsck no longer forces a sync of the filesystem (with attendant sleep |
| 694 | calls) at all times. The ext2fs_flush() function now performs a sync |
| 695 | only if it needed to write data blocks to disk. |
| 696 | |
| 697 | Fixed a minor bug in e2fsck's pass1b's file cloning function, where |
| 698 | certain errors would not be properly reported. |
| 699 | |
| 700 | Updated and expanded a few points in the man pages which users |
| 701 | complained wheren't explicit enough. |
| 702 | |
| 703 | Added special case byte-swapping code if compiling on the PowerPC, to |
| 704 | accomodate the strange big-endian variant of the ext2 filesystem that |
| 705 | was previously used on the PowerPC port. |
| 706 | |
| 707 | |
| 708 | Programmer's notes: |
| 709 | ------------------- |
| 710 | |
| 711 | Removed C++ keywords from the ext2fs libraries so that it could be |
| 712 | compiled with C++. |
| 713 | |
| 714 | E2fsck's internal organization has now been massively reorganized so |
| 715 | that pass*.c don't have any printf statements. Instead, all problems |
| 716 | are reported through the fix_problem() abstraction interface. E2fsck |
| 717 | has also been revamped so that it can be called as a library from a |
| 718 | application. |
| 719 | |
| 720 | Added new fileio primitives in libext2fs for reading and writing |
| 721 | files on an unmounted ext2 filesystem. This interface is now used by |
| 722 | debugfs. |
| 723 | |
| 724 | Added a new libext2fs function for mapping logical block numbers of |
| 725 | a file to a physical block number. |
| 726 | |
| 727 | Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_alloc_block(), which allocates |
| 728 | a block, zeros it, and updates the filesystem accounting records |
| 729 | appropriately. |
| 730 | |
| 731 | Added a new libext2fs function, ext2fs_set_bitmap_padding(), which |
| 732 | sets the padding of the bitmap to be all one's. Used by e2fsck pass 5. |
| 733 | |
| 734 | The libext2fs functions now use a set of memory allocation wrapper |
| 735 | functions: ext2fs_get_mem, ext2fs_free_mem, and ext2fs_resize_mem, |
| 736 | instead of malloc, free, and resize. This makes it easier for us to |
| 737 | be ported to strange environments where malloc, et. al. aren't |
| 738 | necessarily available. |
| 739 | |
| 740 | Change the libext2fs fucntion to return ext2-specific error codes |
| 741 | (EXT2_DIR_EXISTS and EXT2_DB_NOT_FOUND, for example) instead of using |
| 742 | and depending on the existence of system error codes (such as EEXIST |
| 743 | and ENOENT). |
| 744 | |
| 745 | Renamed io.h to ext2_io.h to avoid collision with other OS's header |
| 746 | files. |
| 747 | |
| 748 | Add protection against ext2_io.h and ext2fs.h being included multiple |
| 749 | times. |
| 750 | |
| 751 | The types used for memory lengths, etc. have been made more portable. |
| 752 | In generla, the code has been made 16-bit safe. Added Mark |
| 753 | Habersack's contributed DOS disk i/o routines. |
| 754 | |
| 755 | Miscellaneous portability fixes, including not depending on char's |
| 756 | being signed. |
| 757 | |
| 758 | The io_channel structure has a new element, app_data, which is |
| 759 | initialized by the ext2fs routines to contain a copy of the filesystem |
| 760 | handle. |
| 761 | |
| 762 | ext2fs_check_directory()'s callback function may now return the error |
| 763 | EXT2_ET_CALLBACK_NOTHANDLED if it wishes ext2fs_check_directory() to |
| 764 | really do the checking, despite the presence of the callback function. |
| 765 | |
| 766 | |
Theodore Ts'o | bc21007 | 1997-06-17 05:41:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 767 | E2fsprosg 1.11 (June 17, 1997) |
| 768 | ============================== |
| 769 | |
| 770 | Fixed e2fsck to detect (previously ignored) conflicts between the |
| 771 | superblock or block group descriptors and block bitmaps, inode |
| 772 | bitmaps, and inode tables. |
| 773 | |
| 774 | Fixed bug in e2fsck so that when the message printed out when a block |
| 775 | or inode bitmap conflicts with other data, it has the correct group |
| 776 | number. |
| 777 | |
| 778 | Fixed bug in e2fsck and mke2fs where the blocksize wasn't being passed |
| 779 | to badblocks. This meant that not all of the filesystem was being |
| 780 | tested for bad blocks! |
| 781 | |
| 782 | Fixed an array boundary overrun case which cropped up in |
| 783 | ext2fs_badblocks_list_test when a user tried running "mke2fs -c |
| 784 | -b 4096". |
| 785 | |
| 786 | Adjusted the number of columns printed by mke2fs when displaying the |
| 787 | superblock backups to avoid running over 80 columns when making a |
Theodore Ts'o | 21d5385 | 1998-02-21 03:14:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 788 | really big filesystem. |
Theodore Ts'o | bc21007 | 1997-06-17 05:41:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 789 | |
| 790 | Fixed up the man pages for e2fsck, debugfs, badblocks, chattr, |
| 791 | dumpe2fs, fsck, mke2fs, and tune2fs (typos and other minor grammar |
| 792 | fixes), thanks to some suggestions from Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net). |
| 793 | |
| 794 | Programmer's notes: |
| 795 | ------------------- |
| 796 | |
| 797 | Fixed install rule in lib/ss so that ss_err.h is actually getting |
| 798 | installed. |
| 799 | |
| 800 | Fixed bug in ext2fs_copy_bitmap; the destination bitmap wasn't getting |
| 801 | bassed back to the caller. |
| 802 | |
| 803 | Fixed bug in ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup; it had not been |
| 804 | setting the current inode number (which meant this function wasn't |
| 805 | working at all). |
| 806 | |
| 807 | Fixed bug in ext2fs_resize_generic_bitmap; it had not be zeroing all |
| 808 | blocks in the bitmap when increasing the size of the bitmap. |
| 809 | |
| 810 | Changed the initial number of blocks allocated by ext2fs_init_dblist() |
| 811 | to be more realistic. |
| 812 | |
| 813 | Added a new function ext2fs_allocate_group_table, which sets up the |
| 814 | group descriptor information (and allocates inode and block bitmaps, |
| 815 | and inode tables for a particular group). The function was created by |
| 816 | factoring out code form ext2fs_allocate_tables(). |
| 817 | |
| 818 | Added a new function ext2fs_move_blocks which takes a bitmap of the |
| 819 | blocks to be moved, and moves them to another location on the |
| 820 | boardboard. |
| 821 | |
| 822 | Make the unix_io channel's io_channel_flush implementation calls sync() |
| 823 | to to flush the kernel buffers to disk. |
| 824 | |
| 825 | Added a new function ext2fs_dblist_count returns the number of |
| 826 | directory blocks in dblist. |
| 827 | |
| 828 | |
Theodore Ts'o | ae85148 | 1997-04-29 18:13:24 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 829 | E2fsprogs 1.10 (April 24, 1997) |
| 830 | =============================== |
| 831 | |
| 832 | Mke2fs once again defaults to creating revision #0 filesystems, since |
| 833 | people were complaining about breaking compatibility with 1.2 kernels. |
| 834 | Warning messages were added to the mke2fs and tune2fs man pages that |
| 835 | the sparse superblock option isn't supported by most kernels yet (1.2 |
| 836 | and 2.0 both don't support parse superblocks.) |
| 837 | |
| 838 | Added new flag to mke2fs, -R <raid options>, which allows the user to |
| 839 | tell mke2fs about the RAID configuration of the filesystem. Currently |
| 840 | the only supported raid option is "stride" which specifies the width |
| 841 | of the RAID stripe. |
| 842 | |
| 843 | Fixed bug in e2fsck where pass1b would bomb out if there were any |
| 844 | blocks marked bad in the inode table. |
| 845 | |
| 846 | Fixed rare bug in mke2fs where if the user had a very unlucky number |
| 847 | of blocks in a filesystem (probability less than .002) the resulting |
| 848 | filesystem would be corrupt in the last block group. |
| 849 | |
| 850 | Fixed bug where if e2fsck tried to allocate a block to fix a |
| 851 | filesystem corruption problem and the filesystem had no free blocks, |
| 852 | ext2fs_new_block() would loop forever. |
| 853 | |
| 854 | The configure script now checks explicitly to see if "-static" works, |
| 855 | since that can't be assumed to be true --- RedHat doesn't install |
| 856 | libc-static by default. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | Fixed bug in libext2's block iterator functions where under some |
| 859 | cirmcustances, file with holes would cause the bcount parameter to the |
| 860 | callback function to be incorrect. This bug didn't affect any of |
| 861 | e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by Paul Mackerras, the |
| 862 | author of the PPC boot loader. |
| 863 | |
| 864 | Removed use of static variables to store the inode cache in libext2fs. |
| 865 | This caused problems if more than one filesystem was accessed via |
| 866 | libext2fs (static variables in libraries are generally a bad idea). |
| 867 | Again, this didn't affect e2fsprogs programs, but it was discovered by |
| 868 | Paul Mackerras. |
| 869 | |
| 870 | Fixed minor bugs and version code drift to assure that e2fsprogs 1.10 |
| 871 | will compile cleanly with 1.2.13 kernels (even with a.out shared |
| 872 | libraries!) |
| 873 | |
| 874 | Programmer's notes: |
| 875 | ------------------- |
| 876 | |
| 877 | Added new functions to duplicate an ext2 filesystem handle, and its |
| 878 | associated substructure. New functions: ext2fs_dup_handle(), |
| 879 | ext2fs_copy_dblist(), ext2fs_badblocks_copy(), ext2fs_copy_bitmap(). |
| 880 | Other structures, such as the io_channel and the inode_cache, now have |
| 881 | a ref count so that they only get freed when they are no longer used |
| 882 | by any filesystem handle. (These functions were added as part of the |
| 883 | development effort for an ext2 resizer). |
| 884 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 2ecc6fe | 1997-04-29 17:57:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 885 | E2fsprogs 1.09 (April 14, 1997) |
| 886 | =============================== |
| 887 | |
| 888 | Fixed bug in mke2fs (really in lib/ext2fs/initialize.c) which was |
| 889 | accidentally introduced in the 1.08 release. The overhead calculation |
| 890 | was accidentally removed, which caused ext2fs_initialize() to not |
| 891 | notice when the filesystem size needed to be adjusted down because |
| 892 | there wasn't enough space in the last block group. |
| 893 | |
| 894 | Fixed bug in version parsing library routine; it was always parsing |
| 895 | the library version string, instead of using the passed-in string. |
| 896 | |
| 897 | Clarified chattr man page. |
| 898 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 24757fa | 1997-04-29 17:39:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 899 | E2fsprogs 1.08 (April 10, 1997) |
| 900 | =============================== |
| 901 | |
| 902 | E2fsck 1.07 was very slow when checking very large filesystems with a |
| 903 | lot of files that had hard links (i.e., news spools). This was fixed |
| 904 | by seriously revamping the icount abstraction. Added a formal test |
| 905 | suite for the icount abstraction. |
| 906 | |
| 907 | Debugfs now has a "-l" option to the "ls" command, which lists the |
| 908 | inode number, permissions, owner, group, size, and name of the files |
| 909 | in the directory. |
| 910 | |
| 911 | Fix a bug in e2fsck where when a directory had its blocks moved to |
| 912 | another location during the pass 1b processing, the directory block |
| 913 | list wasn't updated, so pass 2 wouldn't check (and correct) the |
| 914 | correct directory block. |
| 915 | |
| 916 | E2fsck will now treat inodes which contain blocks which are claimed by |
| 917 | the filesystem metadata by treating them as multiply claimed blocks. |
| 918 | This way, the data in those blocks can be copied to a new block during |
| 919 | the pass 1b--1d processing. |
| 920 | |
| 921 | E2fsck will attempt to determine the correct superblock number and |
| 922 | display it in the diagnostic and warning messages if possible. |
| 923 | |
| 924 | Add support for a new (incompatible) feature, "sparse_super". This |
| 925 | feature reduces the number of blocks which contain copies of backup |
| 926 | superblocks and block group descriptors. (It is only an incompatible |
| 927 | feature because of a bug in ext2_free_blocks.) mke2fs and tune2fs now |
| 928 | support a new -s option; e2fsck will recognize filesystems built with |
| 929 | this feature turned on. |
| 930 | |
| 931 | E2fsck now checks the library to make sure is the correct version, |
| 932 | using new library functions. (This helps to diagnose incorrectly |
| 933 | installed e2fsprogs distributions.) |
| 934 | |
| 935 | Dumpe2fs now prints more information; its now prints the the |
| 936 | filesystem revision number, the filesystem sparse_super feature (if |
| 937 | present), the block ranges for each block group, and the offset from |
| 938 | the beginning of the block group. |
| 939 | |
| 940 | Mke2fs now distributes the inode and block bitmap blok so that the |
| 941 | won't be concentrated in one or two disks in RAID/striping setups. |
| 942 | Also, if the user chooses a 2k or 4k block group, mke2fs will try to |
| 943 | choose the largest blocks per group that be chosen. (For 2k blocks, |
| 944 | you can have up to 16384 blocks/group; for 4k blocks, you can have up |
| 945 | to 32768 blocks/group.) Previously mke2fs would not allow |
| 946 | specification of more than 8192 blocks per group, even if you were |
| 947 | using a 2k or 4k block group. |
| 948 | |
| 949 | Programmer's notes: |
| 950 | ------------------- |
| 951 | |
| 952 | Added a new function ext2fs_create_icount2() which takes a "hint" |
| 953 | argument. This hint argument presets the icount array with the list |
| 954 | of inodes which actually need to be in the icount array. This really |
| 955 | helps to speed up e2fsck. |
| 956 | |
| 957 | Added a new function ext2fs_icount_validate() which checks the rep |
| 958 | invariant for the icount structure. This is used mostly for testing. |
| 959 | |
| 960 | The error mesasage given when a bad inode number is passed to |
| 961 | test_generic_bitmap to reflect EXT2FS_TEST_ERROR (instead of |
| 962 | EXT2FS_UNMARK_ERROR). |
| 963 | |
| 964 | Added a new function ext2fs_set_dir_block which sets the block of a |
| 965 | dblist entry, given the directory inode and blockcnt. |
| 966 | |
| 967 | Added a new function ext2fs_get_library_version() which returns the |
| 968 | current library version, and ext2fs_parse_version_string() which |
| 969 | returns a version number based on a e2fsprogs version string. |
| 970 | |
| 971 | The icount functions will return EINVAL if the passed in inode number |
| 972 | is out of bounds. |
| 973 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 21c84b7 | 1997-04-29 16:15:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 974 | E2fsprogs 1.07 (March 9, 1997) |
| 975 | ============================== |
| 976 | |
| 977 | E2fsck is now uses much less memory when checking really large |
| 978 | filesystems (or rather, filesystems with a large number of inodes). |
| 979 | Previously a filesystem with 1 million inodes required 4 megabytes of |
| 980 | memory to store inode count statistics; that storage requirement has |
| 981 | now been reduced to roughly half a megabyte. |
| 982 | |
| 983 | E2fsck can now properly deal with bad blocks appearing inside the |
| 984 | inode table. Instead of trying to relocate the inode table (which |
| 985 | often failed because there wasn't enough space), the inodes in the bad |
| 986 | block are marked as in use. |
| 987 | |
| 988 | E2fsck will automatically try to use the backup superblocks if the |
| 989 | primary superblocks have a bad magic number or have missing meta-data |
| 990 | blocks (or meta-data blocks which are out of range). |
| 991 | |
| 992 | E2fsck's pass 3 has been made more efficient; most noticeable on |
| 993 | filesystems with a very large number of directories. |
| 994 | |
| 995 | Completely revamped e2fsck's system of printing problem reports. It |
| 996 | is now table driven, to make them more easily customizeable and |
| 997 | extendable. Error messages which can be printed out during preen mode |
| 998 | are now one line long. |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | Fixed e2fsck's filesystem swapping code so that it won't try to swap |
| 1001 | fast symbolic links or deleted files. |
| 1002 | |
| 1003 | Fixed e2fsck core dumping when fixing a filesystem which has no |
| 1004 | directories (not even a root directory). |
| 1005 | |
| 1006 | Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that the length of every |
| 1007 | directory entry is a multiple of 4 (since the kernel complains if it |
| 1008 | isn't). |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | Added a check to e2fsck to make sure that a directory entry isn't a |
| 1011 | link to the root directory, since that isn't allowed. |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 | Added a check to e2fsk to now make sure the '.' and '..' directory |
| 1014 | entries are null terminated, since the 2.0 kernel requires it. |
| 1015 | |
| 1016 | Added check to write_bitmaps() to make sure the superblock doesn't get |
| 1017 | trashed if the inode or block bitmap is marked as being block zero. |
| 1018 | |
| 1019 | Added checking of the new feature set fields in the superblock, to |
| 1020 | avoid dealing with new filesystem features that this package wasn't |
| 1021 | set up to handle. |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | Fixed a fencepost error in ext2fs_new_block() which would occasionally |
| 1024 | try to allocate a block beyond the end of a filesystem. |
| 1025 | |
| 1026 | When the UUID library picks a random IEEE 802 address (because it |
| 1027 | can't find one from a network card), it sets the multicast bit, to |
| 1028 | avoid conflicting with a legitimate IEEE 802 address. |
| 1029 | |
| 1030 | Mke2fs now sets the root directory's owner to be the real uid of the |
| 1031 | user running mke2fs. If the real uid is non-zero, it also sets |
| 1032 | the group ownership of the root directory to be the real group-id of |
| 1033 | the user running mke2fs. |
| 1034 | |
| 1035 | Mke2fs now has more intelligent error checking when it is given a |
| 1036 | non-existent device. |
| 1037 | |
| 1038 | When badblocks is given the -vv option, it now updates the block that |
| 1039 | it is currently testing on every block. |
| 1040 | |
| 1041 | Fixed a bug in fsck where it wouldn't modify the PATH envirnoment |
| 1042 | currently correctly if PATH wasn't already set. |
| 1043 | |
| 1044 | Shared libraries now built with dependencies. This allows the shared |
| 1045 | library files to be used with dlopen(); it also makes the transition |
| 1046 | to libc 6 easier, since ld.so can tell which libc a particular shared |
| 1047 | library expects to use. |
| 1048 | |
| 1049 | Programmer's notes: |
| 1050 | ------------------- |
| 1051 | |
| 1052 | Added new abstraction (defined in dblist.c) for maintaining a list of |
| 1053 | blocks which belongs to directories. This is used in e2fsck and other |
| 1054 | programs which need to iterate over all directories. |
| 1055 | |
| 1056 | Added new functions which test to see if a contiguous range of blocks |
| 1057 | (or inodes) are available. (ext2fs_*_bitmap_range). |
| 1058 | |
| 1059 | Added new function (ext2_inode_has_valid_blocks) which returns true if |
| 1060 | an inode has valid blocks. (moved from e2fsck code). |
| 1061 | |
| 1062 | Added new function (ext2fs_allocate_tables) which allocates the |
| 1063 | meta-data blocks as part of initializing a filesystem. (moved from |
| 1064 | mke2fs code). |
| 1065 | |
| 1066 | Added a new I/O manager for testing purposes. It will either allow a |
| 1067 | program to intercept I/O requests, or print debugging messages to |
| 1068 | trace the activity of a program using the I/O manager. |
| 1069 | |
| 1070 | The badblocks_list functions now store the bad blocks in a sorted |
| 1071 | order, and use a binary search to speed up badblocks_list_test. |
| 1072 | |
| 1073 | The inode scan function ext2fs_get_next_inode() may now return a soft |
| 1074 | error returns: MISSING_INODE_TABLE and BAD_BLOCK_IN_INODE_TABLE in |
| 1075 | those cases where part of an inode table is missing or there is a bad |
| 1076 | block in the inode table. |
| 1077 | |
| 1078 | Added a new function (ext2fs_block_iterate2) which adds new arguments to |
| 1079 | the callback function to return a pointer (block and offset) to the |
| 1080 | reference of the block. |
| 1081 | |
| 1082 | Added new function (ext2fs_inode_scan_goto_blockgroup) which allows an |
| 1083 | application to jump to a particular block group while doing an inode |
| 1084 | scan. |
| 1085 | |
| 1086 | The badblocks list functions were renamed from badblocks_* to |
| 1087 | ext2fs_badblocks_*. Backwards compatibility functions are available |
| 1088 | for now, but programs should be modified to use the new interface. |
| 1089 | |
| 1090 | Some of the library functions were reorganized into separate files to |
| 1091 | reduce the size of some programs which statically link against the |
| 1092 | ext2 library. |
| 1093 | |
| 1094 | Put in some miscellaneous fixes for the Alpha platform. |
| 1095 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 5c57647 | 1997-04-29 15:29:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1096 | |
| 1097 | E2fsprogs 1.06 (October 7, 1996) |
| 1098 | ================================ |
| 1099 | |
| 1100 | Fixed serious bug in e2fsck: if the block descriptors are bad, don't |
| 1101 | smash the backup copies in ext2fs_close(). (The problem was that when |
| 1102 | e2fsck -p discovered the problem, while it was closing the filesystem |
| 1103 | and exiting, it was also blowing away the backup superblocks on the |
| 1104 | disk, which was less than friendly.) We now make it the case that we |
| 1105 | only write out the backup superblock and the back block descriptors if |
| 1106 | the filesystem is completely free from problems. |
| 1107 | |
| 1108 | Fixed a bug in block_interate in the lib/ext2fs library which caused |
| 1109 | e2fsck to fail on GNU Hurd-created filesystems. |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | Add support for Linux/FT's bootloader, which actually uses |
| 1112 | EXT2_BOOT_LOADER, and sets its mode bits which caused e2fsck to want |
| 1113 | to clear the inode. |
| 1114 | |
| 1115 | Add support for the "A" (no atime update) attribute. (Note: this |
| 1116 | attribute is not yet in production kernels.) |
| 1117 | |
| 1118 | The test suite is not automatically run when doing a "make all" from |
| 1119 | the top level directory. Users should manually run "make check" if |
| 1120 | they wish to run the test suite. |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | Upon a preenhalt(), make the printed message more explicit that |
| 1123 | running e2fsck "MANAULLY" means without the -p or -a options. |
| 1124 | |
| 1125 | In e2fsck, if a disconnected inode is zero-length, offer to clear it |
| 1126 | instead of offering to connect it to lost+found. |
| 1127 | |
| 1128 | In e2fsck, if a filesystem was just unmounted uncleanly, and needs |
| 1129 | e2fsck to be run over it, change e2fsck to explicitly display this |
| 1130 | fact. |
| 1131 | |
| 1132 | For dumpe2fs and e2fsck, cause the -V option to print out which |
| 1133 | version of the ext2fs library is actually getting used. (This will |
| 1134 | help detect mismatches of using a 1.06 utility with a 1.05 library, |
| 1135 | etc.) |
| 1136 | |
| 1137 | Programmers' notes: |
| 1138 | ------------------- |
| 1139 | |
| 1140 | EXT2_SWAP_BYTES was changed to EXT2_FLAG_SWAP_BYTES, which better fits |
| 1141 | the naming convention. |
| 1142 | |
| 1143 | In ext2fs_initialize(), make sure the description for the inode bitmap |
| 1144 | is correctly initialize. |
| 1145 | |
| 1146 | Fixed minor type typo in ext2fs_allocate_generic_bitmap(); |
| 1147 | |
Theodore Ts'o | fc6d9d5 | 1997-04-29 14:51:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1148 | E2fsprogs 1.05 (September 7, 1996) |
| 1149 | ================================== |
| 1150 | |
| 1151 | Add support for new fields in the ext2 superblock --- volume name, |
| 1152 | volume UUID, and last mounted field. Dumpe2fs displays these fields, |
| 1153 | tune2fs and mke2fs allows you to set them. E2fsck will automatically |
| 1154 | generate a UUID for those volumes that don't have them. |
| 1155 | |
| 1156 | Put in support for e2fsck to recognize HURD specific ext2 features --- |
| 1157 | most notably, the translator block. The e2fsprogs tools will now use |
| 1158 | the creator_os field in the superblock to correctly handle different |
| 1159 | OS-specific variants of the ext2 filesystem. |
| 1160 | |
| 1161 | E2fsck now fixes inodes which have a the deletion time set, but which |
| 1162 | have a non-zero i_link_count field by offering to clear the deletion |
| 1163 | time. Previously e2fsck assumed that the inode was deleted (per 0.3c |
| 1164 | ext2 kernel behavior) and offered to unlink the file. |
| 1165 | |
| 1166 | If e2fsck sets the clean bit, but nothing else, set the exit code |
| 1167 | FSCK_NONDESTRUCT. After all, e2fsck did fix a filesystem error --- it |
| 1168 | set the filesystem valid bit when it was previously cleared. :-) This |
| 1169 | was needed to make the HURD fsck driver happy. |
| 1170 | |
| 1171 | If the user refuses to attach an unattached inode, e2fsck will no |
| 1172 | longer set the inode's link count. Otherwise, the inode would end up |
| 1173 | getting marked as unused, which might cause loss of data later. |
| 1174 | |
| 1175 | Make the message issued by e2fsck when the superblock is corrupt less |
| 1176 | confusing for users. It now mentions that another reason for the |
| 1177 | "corrupt superblock" message might be that the partition might not be |
| 1178 | an ext2 filesystem at all (it might swap, msdos filesystem, ufs, etc.) |
| 1179 | |
| 1180 | Make the libext2 library more robuest so that e2fsck won't coredump on |
| 1181 | an illegal superblock where the blocksize is zero. (f_crashdisk is |
| 1182 | the test case). |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | By default, create filesystems where the default checkinterval is 6 |
| 1185 | months (180 days). Linux servers can be robust enough that 20 reboots |
| 1186 | can be a long, long time. |
| 1187 | |
| 1188 | Added configure flag --enable-old-bitops, which forces the bitops to |
| 1189 | use the old (native) bitmask operations. By default on the sparc |
| 1190 | platform, the standard ext2 bit ordering is now used. |
| 1191 | |
| 1192 | Added a new feature to e2fsck to byte-swap filesystems; this can be |
| 1193 | used to convert old m68k filesystems to use the standard byte-order |
| 1194 | storage for the superblock, inodes, and directory blocks. This |
| 1195 | function is invoked by using the '-s' option to e2fsck. |
| 1196 | |
| 1197 | Debugfs's "dump" command has been enhanced so that it writes out the |
| 1198 | exact size of the file so that the nulls at the end of the file are |
| 1199 | eliminated. The command also accept a new "-p" option which will |
| 1200 | attempt preserve to preserve the ownernship, permissions, and |
| 1201 | file modification/access times. |
| 1202 | |
| 1203 | Debugfs has two new options, -f and -R. The -R option allows the user |
| 1204 | to execute a single debugfs command from the command line. The -f |
| 1205 | option allows the user to specify a "command file" containing debugfs |
| 1206 | commands which will get executed. |
| 1207 | |
| 1208 | Dumpe2fs now pretty prints the check interval, instead of just |
| 1209 | printing the check interval as a number of seconds. |
| 1210 | |
| 1211 | Fix bugs in debugfs: the params command when no filesystem is opened |
| 1212 | no longer causes a core dump. It is now possible to unlink a file |
| 1213 | when a pathame containing a '/' is specified. |
| 1214 | |
| 1215 | Tune2fs has a new -C option which sets the number of times the |
| 1216 | filesystem has been mounted. |
| 1217 | |
| 1218 | Fix the chattr '-v' option so that it actually works. Chattr was |
| 1219 | being buggy about the -v option parsing. |
| 1220 | |
| 1221 | Programmers' notes: |
| 1222 | ------------------- |
| 1223 | |
| 1224 | The directory lib/uuid contains a set of library routines to generate |
| 1225 | DCE compatible UUIDs. |
| 1226 | |
| 1227 | Extended ext2fs_namei() to handle symbolic links. Added new function |
| 1228 | ext2fs_nami_follow() which will follow last symbolic link in the case |
| 1229 | where the pathname points to a sym link. |
| 1230 | |
| 1231 | The ext2fs_block_iterate function will now return the HURD translator |
| 1232 | block, if present. The new flag BLOCK_FLAG_DATA_ONLY will cause the |
| 1233 | iterator to return data blocks only. The ext2fs.h file now defines |
| 1234 | constants BLOCK_COUNT_IND, BLOCK_COUNT_DIND, BLOCK_COUNT_TIND, and |
| 1235 | BLOCK_COUNT_TRANSLATOR, which are the magic values passed in the block |
| 1236 | count field of the iterator callback function. |
| 1237 | |
| 1238 | The test script driver now takes an optional second argument, which is |
| 1239 | the test case to be run. This allows you to run a test case without |
| 1240 | needing to run the entire test suite. |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | On Linux ELF systems, install the .so files in the correct places |
| 1243 | (/usr/lib). The .so files must be stored in the same directory as the |
| 1244 | .a files. |
| 1245 | |
| 1246 | Fixed miscellaneous HURD compilation issues with header file being |
| 1247 | included in the right order. |
| 1248 | |
| 1249 | Fixed debugfs so that it resets optind to zero, not one, since setting |
| 1250 | optind to zero is more correct. |
| 1251 | |
| 1252 | |
Theodore Ts'o | a4d0961 | 1997-04-29 14:28:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1253 | E2fsprogs 1.04 (May 16, 1996) |
| 1254 | ============================= |
| 1255 | |
| 1256 | First "official" (1.03 was a limited release only) to support building |
| 1257 | e2fsprogs under Linux 2.0 kernels (as well as late model 1.3 and 1.99 |
| 1258 | kernels). |
| 1259 | |
| 1260 | This package includes a RPM specs file, that it can be built using the |
| 1261 | RedHat Package Manager. |
| 1262 | |
| 1263 | E2fsck now prints a hint that if there are lots of incorrectly located |
| 1264 | inode bitmaps, block bitmaps, and inode table blocks, the user might |
| 1265 | want to try using e2fsck -b 8193 first, to see if that fares any |
| 1266 | better. |
| 1267 | |
| 1268 | For ext2 filesystem written with the hurd, debugfs will now print out |
| 1269 | the translator field when printing an inode structure. |
| 1270 | |
| 1271 | Lots of miscellaneous linking/installation cleanups: |
| 1272 | |
| 1273 | Libraries are now linked using a relative pathname, instead of |
| 1274 | relying on -L working correct. It doesn't, in many cases, including |
| 1275 | current versions of GNU ld. This guarantees that the build tree is |
| 1276 | linking with the right libraries, instead of the ones installed in |
| 1277 | /usr/lib. |
| 1278 | |
| 1279 | Header files, man pages, and the et/ss shell scripts are now |
| 1280 | generated using a custom substitution script, instead of relying on |
| 1281 | the configure script. This prevents needless recompilation of |
| 1282 | files; in addition, the custom substitution script is much faster. |
| 1283 | |
| 1284 | e2fsck may now be linked dynamically, by using the |
| 1285 | --enable-dynamic-e2fsck flag to configure. This is not recommended, |
| 1286 | since it increases e2fsck's dependence on other files, but some |
| 1287 | people need to save disk space, and other critical programs on their |
| 1288 | systems were being linked dynamically anyway. |
| 1289 | |
| 1290 | Programs such as fsck which didn't need to be linked against |
| 1291 | libext2fs (or mke2fs which didn't need to be linked against libe2p) |
| 1292 | only link against libraries they actually need. Otherwise, those |
| 1293 | programs would require the presense of libraries that otherwise |
| 1294 | could be removed from a rescuse diskette. |
| 1295 | |
| 1296 | The ss include files are now installed correctly so they can |
| 1297 | actually be used by another package. |
| 1298 | |
| 1299 | If the profiling libraries are built, they are now installed on a |
| 1300 | "make install-libs". |
| 1301 | |
| 1302 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 7f88b04 | 1997-04-26 14:48:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1303 | E2fsprogs 1.03 (March 27, 1996) |
| 1304 | =============================== |
| 1305 | |
| 1306 | Change the m68k bit numbering for bitmasks to match the bit numbering |
| 1307 | used by all other ext2 implementations. (This change was requested by |
| 1308 | the m68k kernel development team.) |
| 1309 | |
| 1310 | Support (in-development) filesystem format revision which supports |
| 1311 | (among other things) dynamically sized inodes. |
| 1312 | |
| 1313 | Fixed a bug in the ext2 library so that an intelligent error is |
| 1314 | returned if mke2fs is run with a ridiculously small number of blocks |
| 1315 | for a partition. |
| 1316 | |
| 1317 | Fixed a bug in the ext2 library which required that the device be |
| 1318 | openable in read/write mode in order to determine its size. This |
| 1319 | caused e2fsck -n to require read/write access when it was not |
| 1320 | previously necessary. |
| 1321 | |
| 1322 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck which casued it to occasionally fail the test |
| 1323 | suite depending on which version of the floating point library it was |
| 1324 | using. |
| 1325 | |
| 1326 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck so that it now halts with a fatal error when |
| 1327 | certain superblock consistency checks fail. Previously it continued |
| 1328 | running e2fsck, with some potential confusing/damaging consequences. |
| 1329 | |
| 1330 | Added new flag to fsck which allows the root to be checked in parallel |
| 1331 | with other filesytems. This is not the safest thing in the world to |
| 1332 | do, but some system administrators really wanted it. |
| 1333 | |
Theodore Ts'o | fc6d9d5 | 1997-04-29 14:51:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1334 | Fixed -Wall flames in lib/ss. |
| 1335 | |
Theodore Ts'o | 74becf3 | 1997-04-26 14:37:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1336 | |
| 1337 | E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996) |
| 1338 | ================================= |
| 1339 | |
| 1340 | Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels. |
| 1341 | |
| 1342 | Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are |
| 1343 | on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is |
| 1344 | guaranteed to be non-contiguous. |
| 1345 | |
| 1346 | In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole |
| 1347 | disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a |
| 1348 | whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk |
| 1349 | as a filesytem. |
| 1350 | |
| 1351 | Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking |
| 1352 | partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in |
| 1353 | the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same |
| 1354 | disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life. |
| 1355 | |
| 1356 | Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe. |
| 1357 | |
| 1358 | Minor compilation fixes: |
| 1359 | * Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs. |
| 1360 | * Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on. |