| Theodore Ts'o | a4d0961 | 1997-04-29 14:28:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | E2fsprogs 1.04 (May 16, 1996) |
| 2 | ============================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | First "official" (1.03 was a limited release only) to support building |
| 5 | e2fsprogs under Linux 2.0 kernels (as well as late model 1.3 and 1.99 |
| 6 | kernels). |
| 7 | |
| 8 | This package includes a RPM specs file, that it can be built using the |
| 9 | RedHat Package Manager. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | E2fsck now prints a hint that if there are lots of incorrectly located |
| 12 | inode bitmaps, block bitmaps, and inode table blocks, the user might |
| 13 | want to try using e2fsck -b 8193 first, to see if that fares any |
| 14 | better. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | For ext2 filesystem written with the hurd, debugfs will now print out |
| 17 | the translator field when printing an inode structure. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Lots of miscellaneous linking/installation cleanups: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Libraries are now linked using a relative pathname, instead of |
| 22 | relying on -L working correct. It doesn't, in many cases, including |
| 23 | current versions of GNU ld. This guarantees that the build tree is |
| 24 | linking with the right libraries, instead of the ones installed in |
| 25 | /usr/lib. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Header files, man pages, and the et/ss shell scripts are now |
| 28 | generated using a custom substitution script, instead of relying on |
| 29 | the configure script. This prevents needless recompilation of |
| 30 | files; in addition, the custom substitution script is much faster. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | e2fsck may now be linked dynamically, by using the |
| 33 | --enable-dynamic-e2fsck flag to configure. This is not recommended, |
| 34 | since it increases e2fsck's dependence on other files, but some |
| 35 | people need to save disk space, and other critical programs on their |
| 36 | systems were being linked dynamically anyway. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Programs such as fsck which didn't need to be linked against |
| 39 | libext2fs (or mke2fs which didn't need to be linked against libe2p) |
| 40 | only link against libraries they actually need. Otherwise, those |
| 41 | programs would require the presense of libraries that otherwise |
| 42 | could be removed from a rescuse diskette. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | The ss include files are now installed correctly so they can |
| 45 | actually be used by another package. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | If the profiling libraries are built, they are now installed on a |
| 48 | "make install-libs". |
| 49 | |
| 50 | |
| Theodore Ts'o | 7f88b04 | 1997-04-26 14:48:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | E2fsprogs 1.03 (March 27, 1996) |
| 52 | =============================== |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Change the m68k bit numbering for bitmasks to match the bit numbering |
| 55 | used by all other ext2 implementations. (This change was requested by |
| 56 | the m68k kernel development team.) |
| 57 | |
| 58 | Support (in-development) filesystem format revision which supports |
| 59 | (among other things) dynamically sized inodes. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | Fixed a bug in the ext2 library so that an intelligent error is |
| 62 | returned if mke2fs is run with a ridiculously small number of blocks |
| 63 | for a partition. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Fixed a bug in the ext2 library which required that the device be |
| 66 | openable in read/write mode in order to determine its size. This |
| 67 | caused e2fsck -n to require read/write access when it was not |
| 68 | previously necessary. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck which casued it to occasionally fail the test |
| 71 | suite depending on which version of the floating point library it was |
| 72 | using. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | Fixed a bug in e2fsck so that it now halts with a fatal error when |
| 75 | certain superblock consistency checks fail. Previously it continued |
| 76 | running e2fsck, with some potential confusing/damaging consequences. |
| 77 | |
| 78 | Added new flag to fsck which allows the root to be checked in parallel |
| 79 | with other filesytems. This is not the safest thing in the world to |
| 80 | do, but some system administrators really wanted it. |
| 81 | |
| Theodore Ts'o | 74becf3 | 1997-04-26 14:37:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | |
| 83 | E2fsprogs 1.02 (January 16, 1996) |
| 84 | ================================= |
| 85 | |
| 86 | Fix to allow e2fsprogs to be compiled on recent 1.3 (pl45+) kernels. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Change e2fsck to print statistics of how many non-contiguous files are |
| 89 | on the system. Note that a file which is larger than 8k blocks, it is |
| 90 | guaranteed to be non-contiguous. |
| 91 | |
| 92 | In mke2fs, print a warning message if a user tries to format a whole |
| 93 | disk (/dev/hda versus /dev/hda1). If a user really wants to format a |
| 94 | whole disk, the -F (force) option forces mke2fs to format a whole disk |
| 95 | as a filesytem. |
| 96 | |
| 97 | Fix a bug in fsck where in some cases it might start checking |
| 98 | partitions in the next pass before it finishes checking partitions in |
| 99 | the current pass. This still won't cause two partitions on the same |
| 100 | disk will be checked, so it's rarely a problem in real life. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | Patch lsattr so that it won't hang when checking a named pipe. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | Minor compilation fixes: |
| 105 | * Fix the order of libraries that were linked in debugfs. |
| 106 | * Allow the sources to be compiled with -ansi turned on. |