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E2fsprogs 1.42.12 (August 25, 2014)
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Fix various e2fsck bugs when trying to repair bigalloc file systems.
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E2fsck can now repair a file system with an overly large
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s_first_meta_bg field, which had previously caused all e2fsprogs
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programs to crash when trying to open such a file system.
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Fix e2fsck so that it can correctly fix a number of rare file system
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corruptions that were discovered when using a file system fuzzer.
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Fix e2fsck so it does not try to write back block group descriptors if
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they have not been modified.
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Mke2fs program will now place metadata blocks in the last flex_bg so
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they are contiguous. This reduces free space fragmentation in a
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freshly created file system, as well as allowing mke2fs commands which
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request extremely large flex_bg size to succeed.
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Mke2fs now creates hugefiles more efficiently (with fewer extent tree
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Fix a 32/64-bit overflow bug that could cause resize2fs to loop
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forever. (Addresses-Launchpad-Bug: #1321958)
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The resize2fs program will now use much less memory when resizing very
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Fix a bug which could cause resize2fs to get confused and produce a
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corrupted file system when shrinking a file system that had been
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previously expanded and converted to use the meta_bg file system
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format, but which no longer needs to use the meta_bg file system
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format any longer. This typically happened with large (> 16TB) file
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systems. (Addresses Debian Bug: #756922)
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The e4defrag program will now defrag backwards-allocated files.
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Fix tune2fs updating UUID's when manipulating file systems with
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external journals (both the file system and journal UUID).
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Fix tune2fs so it can remove an external journal for file systems with
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Add a new debugfs command, "inode_dump", which prints the inode in hex
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The debugfs's "set_inode_field" will now automatically allocate blocks
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for indirect blocks and extent tree blocks.
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Fix debugfs's "set_inode_field" so can properly handle
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"block[IND|DIND|TIND]".
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The debugfs "rdump" command will now take multiple source arguments.
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Fixed a double close(2) bug in "rdump" and "rdump -p".
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Fix debugfs's argument parsing for the freefrag command.
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Fix filefrag to properly handle using the FIBMAP ioctl (with -B).
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(Addresses Launchpad Bug: #1356496)
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Clarified messages that were confusing users in debugfs, e2fsck,
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mke2fs, and resize2fs (Addresses Debian Bugs: #758029, #757543,
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Dumpe2fs will now complain if extra arguments are given to it.
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(Addresses Debian Bug: #758074)
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Updated/fixed various man pages. (Addresses-Debian-Bug: #726760)
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Update Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish, Sweedish, Ukrainian, and
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Vietnamese translations.
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The Unix I/O layer will now use pread[64]/pwrite[64] to reduce the
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number of system calls issued.
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The libext2fs library will now more efficiently split an extent tree
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index block when appending to an end of a file.
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Fixed free block accounting for 64-bit file systems.
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Add a new function ext2s_inode_size_set() which takes care of all of
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the required feature flag modifications.
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The regression tests no longer require the presence of the md5sum
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Fix build failure on MIPS platforms on Debian (Addresses Debian Bug:
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Fix various Coverity warnings (#1225003, #1229243, #1252003)
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E2fsprogs 1.42.11 (July 9, 2014)
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Add support so that mke2fs can create hugefiles so that they are
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aligned relative to the beginning of the disk, instead of relative to
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the beginning of the partition, using the mke2fs.conf configuration
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parameter "hugefiles_align_disk".
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Fix a bug which causes e2fsck to abort a journal replay on a file
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system with bigalloc enabled. (Addresses Debian Bug: #744953)
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Add sanity checks so that mke2fs will refuse insanely large flex_bg
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counts specified by the -G option. Insanely large flex_bg sizes can
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result in a file system which can't be unmounted, or with extremely
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pessimal metadata layouts.
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The mke2fs program will provide a better metadata layout for
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moderately large (but believable) flex_bg counts, such as 133,072.
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The mke2fs progam will also check the kernel version number to
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determine whether the lazy_itable_init option is supported, so that
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lazy inode table initialization can be used even if the ext4 is
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compiled as a module which isn't loaded at the time that mke2fs is
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Add description of ext4's mount options to the ext4 section 5 man
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Improve the chattr man page and clean up the chattr usage message.
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E2fsck will now automatically fix a last mount time or last write time
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which is in the future in preen mode, instead of aborting the fsck
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Mke2fs will now check the file system revision number requested by the
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command line, and reject it if it is too large. A file system with an
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unsupported revision number will not be accepted by any of the other
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file system tools, and this command line option is rarely used, so
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let's try to help the user not shoot their own foot off.
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The debugfs progam can now set the error count and associated
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first_error and last_error fields in the superblock using the
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set_super_value command.
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Resize2fs will not try to calculate the minimum size of a file system
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if it contains errors. Otherwise a very badly corrupted file system
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image can cause the minimum size calculation to loop forwever. Since
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resize2fs will not allow a file system marked as containing errors to
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be resized. It's pointless to calculate the minimum size, so just
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Fixed a typo in one of mke2fs's error message.
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If filefrag runs into an error, it will continue processing the rest
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of the files specified on thec ommand line, but then exit with an
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Filefrag now prints some additional new flags (such as
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FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED), and print unknown flags as hex values.
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Fixed support in filefrag for files with > 2**32 blocks on 32-bit
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Fixed a file descriptor leak in debugfs when copying files.
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Fixed a regression introduced in 1.42.10 which caused mke2fs to fail
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to create file systems larger than 2GB on 32-bit platforms.
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(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #1099892, Debian Bug: #752107)
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Add Esparanto and Ukrainian translations, and update Czech, Dutch,
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French, German, Italian, Polish, Sweedish, and Vietnamese
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Fixed various compiler warnings.
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The gcc "-checker" option has been long deprecated, so remove support
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from e2fsprogs. It was causing a few people to be confused when they
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tried enabling the configure option.
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Update to the latest version of the config.status and config.rpath
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files, as well as newer versions of the autoconf files in aclocal.m4.
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Also, move the e2fsprogs-specific macros to acinclude.m4, which allows
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people who want to use autoreconf to do so.
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Make the use of strptime() function in debugfs to be more portable to
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fix regression test failures for FreeBSD and MacOS.
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A few miscellaneous changes designed to make life easier for
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Fix the f_quota test and some Makefile dependencies if quota support
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Fix cross-compilation support, which got broken in 1.42.10.
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(Addresses Debian Bug: #753375)
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Delete lib/ext2_types.h on a make clean, and build it as necessary.
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Add a debug program used for libext2fs unit tests.
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Clean up the tests so that it avoids using GNU-specific behaviour in
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mktemp. Make sure the temporary files are cleaned up if the tests are
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Add a new ext2fs_close_free() helper function which automatically
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takes care of freeing the ext2_filsys structure even if ext2fs_close()
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E2fsprogs 1.42.10 (May 18, 2014)
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