package new upstream e2fsprogs 1.41

Bug #246461 reported by Shirish Agarwal
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Changelog from sourceforge.net

https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=612695

E2fsprogs 1.41 (July 10, 2008)
==============================

Add support for ext4 filesystem features, in particular extents,
uninit_bg, flex_bg, huge_file, and dir_nlink features. Also add
support for checking journal checksums. Debugfs will print new
superblock and inode fields that were defined for ext4. For example,
the nanosecond and i_version fields of an inode, and the
s_min_extra_isize and s_wanted_extra_isize fields from the superblock.
Note: Resize2fs doesn't currently support the combination of flex_bg
and !resize_inode. (Addresses Debian Bug: #388452, #425477)

Tune2fs can support migrating a filesystem from using 128 byte inodes
to 256 byte inodes, so it can take advantage of the full features of
ext4.

Add support for "undo" support. E2fsck and mke2fs can optionally
record an undo log which can replayed by the program e2undo.

E2fsck could damage a filesystem by trying to relocate inode tables
due to corrupted block group descriptors, where the attempted inode
table relocation would do far more harm than good. E2fsck has been
fixed to detect this these sorts of corrupted block group descriptors
much earlier in e2fsck processing, so it can try to use the backup
superblock and block group descriptors first. This should be a much
better strategy for recovering these types of corrupted filesystems.
(Addresses Sourceforge Bug: #1840291)

E2fsck will display a more understandable message when the last check
field in the superblock is in the future. (Addresses Debian Bug:
#446005).

E2fsck now performs more extensive and careful checks of extended
attributes stored in the inode.

Enhance mke2fs to print a more explanatory error message when
ext2fs_get_device_size() returns EFBIG. (Addresses Debian Bug:
#488663)

Fix mke2fs to use a default block size of 4k when formatting an
external journal device. This is done by using a fixed filesystem
type list that consists only of the single filesystem type "journal"
when looking up configuration keys in /etc/mke2fs.conf. (Addresses
Debian Bug: #488663)

Speed up how mke2fs writes the journal data blocks by writing the disk
blocks in larger chunks.

Fix blkid handling of stale devices. Fix a bug which could cause a
core dump while garbage collecting the blkid cache, and assure that
blkid_find_dev_with_tag() never returns a non-existent device. Also,
if a filesystem is found at a new /dev location, eliminate any
duplicate stale entries which can not be verified.
(Addresses-Debian-Bugs: #487758, #487783)

Add more paranoid checks for LVM volumes and swap partitions in
blkid's probe function, to reduce the chances of false positives.

The mke2fs program now has a much more sophisticated system for
controlling configuration parameters of a newly created filesystem
based on a split filesystem and usage type system. The -t option to
mke2fs was a deprecated alias to -c; it now specifies a filesystem
type (ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.), while the -T option can now be a comma
separated usage list. The filesystem type information and type
information is used to extract configuration parameters from the
/etc/mke2fs.conf file.

The mke2fs program will no longer complain and request the -f option
when the user tries to create a filesystem with greater than 2**31
blocks.

When creating a filesystem for the GNU Hurd use a fs-type of Hurd and
adjust the mke2fs.conf file so filesystems for the Hurd are created
with a blocksize of 4096 and inode size of 128, which is all it knows
how to handle. (Addresses Debian Bug: #471977)

Mke2fs will always make sure that lost+found always has at least 2
blocks, even for filesystems with very large blocksizes (i.e., 64kb).

Resize2fs will now print the minimum needed filesystem size if given
the -P option, and will resize the filesystem to the smallest possible
size if given the -M option.

Fix resize2fs to clean up the resize_inode if all of the reserved gdt
blocks are consumed during an off-line resize.

The "ls" command in debugfs now supports the -p option, which causes
it to quote the filenames so that spaces or tabs in directory entries
are easily visible. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #149480; Addresses
Sourceforge Feature Request: #1201667)

Fix a potential off-by-one buffer oveflow in the fs_device_name in an
e2image file.

The chattr program will return a non-zero exit code in case of
failures, and error messages can be suppressed with the -f option.
(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #180596)

Fix a bug in badblocks which caused it to overrun an array and likely
crash if more than 8 test patterns are specified using the -t option.
(Addresses Debian Bug: #487298)

Add support to badblocks to limit how quickly it reads from the disk
drive (so it can be used for background scrubbing), and so it will
abort after finding a given number of errors.

Remove support for the legacy big-endian filesystem format which only
existed on extremely long-dead PowerPC kernels almost a decade ago.

Remove MASIX support from e2fsprogs.

Add I/O statistics reporting to e2fsck.

Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Dutch,
Czech translations.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #487443, #487675, #490003)

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
(Addresses Debian Bugs: #393313, #487849, #440983, #440981)

Programmer's Notes
------------------

Factor out bitmap code in preparation for adding 64-bit new-style
bitmaps.

Fix gcc -Wall warnings

Fix the pkg-config files so that private librares are specified in
"Libs.private:".

Fix the libext2fs.texinfo manual so it builds with modern versions of
texinfo.

Silence the makefile from showing the awk command used to build the

Clean up the badblocks group so to make it more portable and robust.

Avoid using predictable filenames in /tmp in blkid's regression test
suite. Also remove bashism's in the regression test script.

If the configure script is given --with-diet-libc, don't use thread
local storage, since diet libc doesn't support TLS. (Addresses
Sourceforge Bug: #2000654)

Fix the blkid regression test suite to tolerate older versions of
mkswap that don't support the -U option.

A few library routines have been converted to support 64-bit block
numbers; in particular, the I/O manager functions, the test_io,
inode_io, and unix_io managers have all be converted to support 64-bit
operation.

Debugfs can now be extended for use by test programs. See
lib/ext2fs/extents.c for an example for how it can be used. The test
program links against the debugfs object files, and provides
additional commands by defining an auxiliary libss command table.

The lazy_bg filesystem feature, which was only used by developer's
testing, has been removed since it has been largely supplanted by
uninit_bg. This also simplifies the code.

Here's the changelog from upstream (of 1.41-WIP-0707)

https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=611911

Upstream released new release of e2fsprogs which has many updates for ext4

There is 1.41~WIP-2008-06-17-1 in Debian experimental.

E2fsprogs 1.41-WIP-0707 (July 7, 2008) git ID: c03d9924
=======================================================

Add support for ext4 filesystem features, in particular extents,
uninit_bg, flex_bg, huge_file, and dir_nlink features. Also add
support for checking journal checksums. Debugfs will print new
superblock and inode fields that were defined for ext4. For example,
the nanosecond and i_version fields of an inode, and the
s_min_extra_isize and s_wanted_extra_isize fields from the superblock.
Note: Resize2fs doesn't currently support the combination of flex_bg
and !resize_inode. (Addresses Debian Bug: #388452, #425477)

Tune2fs can support migrating a filesystem from using 128 byte inodes
to 256 byte inodes, so it can take advantage of the full features of
ext4.

Add support for "undo" support. E2fsck and mke2fs can optionally
record an undo log which can replayed by the program e2undo.

E2fsck will display a more understandable message when the last check
field in the superblock is in the future. (Addresses Debian Bug:
#446005).

Enhance mke2fs to print a more explanatory error message when
ext2fs_get_device_size() returns EFBIG. (Addresses Debian Bug:
#488663)

Fix mke2fs to use a default block size of 4k when formatting an
external journal device. This is done by using a fixed filesystem
type list that consists only of the single filesystem type "journal"
when looking up configuration keys in /etc/mke2fs.conf. (Addresses
Debian Bug: #488663)

Speed up how mke2fs writes the journal data blocks by writing the disk
blocks in larger chunks.

Fix blkid handling of stale devices. Fix a bug which could cause a
core dump while garbage collecting the blkid cache, and assure that
blkid_find_dev_with_tag() never returns a non-existent device. Also,
if a filesystem is found at a new /dev location, eliminate any
duplicate stale entries which can not be verified.
(Addresses-Debian-Bugs: #487758, #487783)

Add more paranoid checks for LVM volumes and swap partitions in
blkid's probe function, to reduce the chances of false positives.

The mke2fs program now has a much more sophisticated system for
controlling configuration parameters of a newly created filesystem
based on a split filesystem and usage type system. The -t option to
mke2fs was a deprecated alias to -c; it now specifies a filesystem
type (ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.), while the -T option can now be a comma
separated usage list. The filesystem type information and type
information is used to extract configuration parameters from the
/etc/mke2fs.conf file.

Resize2fs will now print the minimum needed filesystem size if given
the -P option, and will resize the filesystem to the smallest possible
size if given the -M option.

The mke2fs program will no longer complain and request the -f option
when the user tries to create a filesystem with greater than 2**31
blocks.

E2fsck now performs more extensive and careful checks of extended
attributes stored in the inode.

Mke2fs will always make sure that lost+found always has at least 2
blocks, even for filesystems with very large blocksizes (i.e., 64kb).

The "ls" command in debugfs now supports the -p option, which causes
it to quote the filenames so that spaces or tabs in directory entries
are easily visible. (Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #149480; Addresses
Sourceforge Feature Request: #1201667)

Fix a potential off-by-one buffer oveflow in the fs_device_name in an
e2image file.

The chattr program will return a non-zero exit code in case of
failures, and error messages can be suppressed with the -f option.
(Addresses Red Hat Bugzilla: #180596)

Fix a bug in badblocks which caused it to overrun an array and likely
crash if more than 8 test patterns are specified using the -t option.
(Addresses Debian Bug: #487298)

Add support to badblocks to limit how quickly it reads from the disk
drive (so it can be used for background scrubbing), and so it will
abort after finding a given number of errors.

Remove support for the legacy big-endian filesystem format which only
existed on extremely long-dead PowerPC kernels almost a decade ago.

Remove MASIX support from e2fsprogs.

Add I/O statistics reporting to e2fsck.

Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan, Dutch,
Czech translations.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
details. (Addresses Debian Bugs: #487443, #487675)

Fixed spelling mistakes, typos, and otherwise clarified man pages.
(Addresses Debian Bug: #393313)

Programmer's Notes
------------------

Factor out bitmap code in preparation for adding 64-bit new-style
bitmaps.

Fix gcc -Wall warnings

Fix the pkg-config files so that private librares are specified in
"Libs.private:".

Fix the libext2fs.texinfo manual so it builds with modern versions of
texinfo.

Silence the makefile from showing the awk command used to build the

Clean up the badblocks group so to make it more portable and robust.

Avoid using predictable filenames in /tmp in blkid's regression test
suite. Also remove bashism's in the regression test script.

A few library routines have been converted to support 64-bit block
numbers; in particular, the I/O manager functions, the test_io,
inode_io, and unix_io managers have all be converted to support 64-bit
operation.

Debugfs can now be extended for use by test programs. See
lib/ext2fs/extents.c for an example for how it can be used. The test
program links against the debugfs object files, and provides
additional commands by defining an auxiliary libss command table.

The lazy_bg filesystem feature, which was only used by developer's
testing, has been removed since it has been largely supplanted by
uninit_bg. This also simplifies the code.

Changes:
e2fsprogs (1.41~WIP-2008-07-07-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (pre-release for e2sprogs 1.41)
  * Update to indicate compliance with debian policy version 3.8.0.0.
  * Fix e2fsck to not truncate valid extent files that are larger than
    what is supported by indirect files.
  * Add -dbg packages which contain the debugging information.
  * mke2fs: Print a better error message when a device is too big.
    (Closes: #488663)
  * Create external journal devices with a default blocksize of 4k
  * Fix bug in badblocks which caused crash when lots of -t patterns are
    given. (Closes: #487298)
  * Fix blkid handling of stale entries. (Closes: #487758, #487783)
  * Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan,
    Dutch, Czech translations from the translation project.
  * Fix FTBFS problem on MIPS (Closes: #487675)
  * Fix bug in libuuid1.postinst which would cause it to blow up if
    there were spaces around the equals sign in /etc/adduser.conf.
    (Closes: #487443)
  * Update/clarified man pages. (Closes: #393313)

 -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:30:43 -0400

Debian has till 1.41~WIP-2008-06-17-1

the changelog from there

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.41~WIP-2008-06-17-1/changelog

 e2fsprogs (1.41~WIP-2008-06-17-1) experimental; urgency=low

   * New upstream version (pre-release for e2fsprogs 1.41)
   * New options to badblocks allow it to limit how quickly it reads
     from disk (for background scrubbing) and abort after a finding
     giving a number of errors.
   * Add support for ext4 filesystem features. (Closes: #388452, #425477)
   * Tune2fs can migrate a filesystem from using 128 byte inodes to
     larger inode sizes so the user can take full advantage of ext4)
   * E2fsck and mke2fs can optionally record an undo log which can be
     replayed by the e2undo program.
   * E2fsck will display a less cryptic message when the last check field
     in the superblock is in the future. (Closes: #446005)
   * Improve blkid probes for LVM volumes and swap partitions
   * Mke2fs has a much more sophisticated system for controlling the

     parameters of newly created filesystems. The -t option now is used
     to specify the filesystem type. See the mke2fs and mke2fs.conf man
     pages for more details.
   * Resize2fs will now print the minimum needed filesystem size if given
     the -P option, and will resize the filesystem to the smallest possible
     size if given the -M option.
   * E2fsck now performs more extensive and careful checks of extended
     attributes stored in the inode.
   * Mke2fs will always make sure that lost+found always has at least 2
     blocks, even for filesystems with very large blocksizes (i.e., 64kb).
   * The debugfs "ls" command now supports the -p option, which causes
     filenames to be printed surrounded by double quotes.
   * Fix a potential off-by-one buffer overflow in e2image
   * The chattr program will now return a non-zero exit code in case of
     failures.
   * This version of e2fsprogs removes support for legacy big-endian
     filesystems and for MASIX filesystems.
   * Add I/O statistics reporting to e2fsck.

 -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:57:08 -0400
e2fsprogs (1.40.11-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Change mke2fs, tune2fs and resize2fs to use floating point precision
     when calculating the number of reserved blocks. (Closes: #452639)
   * Update Spanish and Catalan translations.
   * Fix ext2fs_swap{16,32,64} for external applications. (Closes: #484879)
   * Improve uuid-runtime package description. (Closes: #483962)
   * Improve e2fsprogs package description. (Closes: #483023)
   * Add support for detecting ZFS volumes to libblkid.
   * Clarify debugfs man page. (Closes: #486463)

 -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:59:21 -0400
e2fsprogs (1.40.10-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix a very rare potential data corruption bug in e2fsck's journal
     replay.
   * Updated German, Dutch, Sweedish, and Vietnamese translations.
   * Force blkid to revalidate a device if its mtime is newer than the
     last validation time in the cache.

 -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Wed, 21 May 2008 13:35:12 -0400
e2fsprogs (1.40.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix fsck so that if multiple filesystems are being checked in
       parallel, the progress bar for subsequent filesystems will be
       correctly displayed. (Closes: #432865)
   * Fix fsck -Cn for n!=0 for better Ubuntu boot-time support
   * debugfs: Don't bother using a pager of stdout is not a tty
   * Fix tune2fs and debugfs to correctly parse time strings during
       daylight savings time. (Closes: #471882)
   * Teach fsck to treat ext4 and ext4 filesystems as ext* filesystems
   * Logsave will now propagate SIGINT and SIGTERM signals to its child
       process.
   * Mke2fs will not allow the illogical combination of the resize_inode
       and meta_bg filesystem features.
   * Use UID/GID ranges from adduser.conf if present, even though we
       don't use adduser to add users/groups. (Closes: #473179)
   * Updated German, Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Sweedish, and
       Vietnamese translations.
   * Update/clarified the mke2fs man page

 -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:35:20 -0400

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote :

Note that debian has e2fsprogs 1.41.0-1 in Unstable; it was uploaded last night, at the same time e2fsprogs 1.41 as released. I am running Ubuntu Hardy, and I have built Ubuntu packages from released tarball. In fact, it's what I'm using right now. :-)

If people really care I probably could make them available someplace....

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package e2fsprogs - 1.41.0-3ubuntu1

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e2fsprogs (1.41.0-3ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #254152, #246461), remaining changes:
    - Do not build-depend on dietlibc-dev, which is in universe.

e2fsprogs (1.41.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix mips-specific FTBFS problem in debian/rules file
  * Synchronize section and priority levels in control file with the
    FTP masters' override file.

e2fsprogs (1.41.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Don't try to check the group descriptor checksum if the GDT_CSUM
    feature is not present. (Closes: #490637)
  * Add a new blkid -L option which pretty-prints the currently
    available block devices. (Closes: #490527)

e2fsprogs (1.41.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
  * Make e2fsck detect corrupted block group descriptors that would
    cause it to relocate inode tables, causing more damage to the
    filesystem, and make it try the backup superblock/block group
    descriptors first.
  * Fix resize2fs to clean up the resize_inode if all of the reserved
    gdt blocks are consumed during an off-line resize.
  * Enable huge_file, dir_nlink, extra_isize feautres for mke2fs and tune2fs.
  * Enable huge_file, dir_nlink, extra_isize, and uninit_bg by default
    in mke2fs.conf.
  * Fix badblocks terminology in man page and program output.
    (Closes: #440983, #440981)
  * Clarify stripe-width and stride-size in mke2fs man page. (Closes: #487849)
  * mke2fs: Dumb down filesystems for GNU Hurd (Closes: #471977)
  * Add bash-static to the list of shells recommended for e2fsck-static
    (Closes: #490003)
  * mke2fs: Fix flex_bg metadata default layout to avoid a hole between
    the bitmaps and inode tables.

e2fsprogs (1.41~WIP-2008-07-07-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (pre-release for e2sprogs 1.41)
  * Update to indicate compliance with debian policy version 3.8.0.0.
  * Fix e2fsck to not truncate valid extent files that are larger than
    what is supported by indirect files.
  * Add -dbg packages which contain the debugging information.
  * mke2fs: Print a better error message when a device is too big.
    (Closes: #488663)
  * Create external journal devices with a default blocksize of 4k
  * Fix bug in badblocks which caused crash when lots of -t patterns are
    given. (Closes: #487298)
  * Fix blkid handling of stale entries. (Closes: #487758, #487783)
  * Update Vietnamese, Polish, French, Spanish, German, Catalan,
    Dutch, Czech translations from the translation project.
  * Fix FTBFS problem on MIPS (Closes: #487675)
  * Fix bug in libuuid1.postinst which would cause it to blow up if
    there were spaces around the equals sign in /etc/adduser.conf.
    (Closes: #487443)
  * Update/clarified man pages. (Closes: #393313)

e2fsprogs (1.41~WIP-2008-06-17-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (pre-release for e2fsprogs 1.41)
  * New options to badblocks allow it to limit how quickly it reads
    from disk (for background scrubbing) and abort after a finding
    giving a number of errors.
  * Add support for ext4 filesystem features. (Closes: #38845...

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