Changelog
e2fsprogs (1.41.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix a number of filesystem corruption bugs in resize2fs when growing
or shrinking ext4 filesystems off-line (i.e., when the ext4
filesystem is not mounted).
* Clarify tune2fs man page (Closes: #515693)
* Add homepage field to the debian control file (Closes: #506279)
* Fix Hurd compilation problem (Closes: #521602)
* Debugfs can now set i_file_acl_high via the set_inodes_field command
* Debugfs will now display a 64-bit file acl block
* Fix various gcc compilation warnings and other programming cleanups
* Make sure libuuid closes all file descriptors before starting the
uuidd daemon.
* Avoid running e2fsck unnecessarily after doing an online resize
* Mke2fs -S will now avoid trying to create the journal
* Update the Czech translation from the translation project.
* Fix support for external journals (which was broken in e2fsprogs 1.41.4)
* Fix a compatibility issue with libext2fs info page and makeinfo 4.12
* Fix a segfault in debugfs when running stat without an open filesystem
* Teach the blkid library that starting in 2.6.29, ext4 can support
filesystems without journals.
* Add error check preventing the reserved_ratio argument to mke2fs and
tune2fs from being negative. (Closes: #517015)
* Add support for tracking the number kilobytes written to the
filesystem via the superblock field s_kbytes_written
* New upstream release (1.41.4 -- released to Ubuntu has 1.41.4-1)
* Fix bug which could sometimes cause blkid to return an exit value of
zero for a non-existent device (Closes: #502541)
* Fix spelling mistake in Debian changelog (Closes: #502323)
* Fix blkid to deal with an ext3 filesystem with the test_fs flag
* Fix debugfs's ncheck output to suppress extra characters at the end
of the file name
* Tune2fs now updates the block group checksums after changing the
filesystem's UUID
* Speed up tune2fs's inode resizing code so it is no longer vastly
inefficient for moderate to large filesystems
* Fix dumpe2fs so it doesn't attempt to print the inline journal
information on filesystems with an external journal
* Update the Catalan translation
* Filter out linux-vdso.so lines when determining the library
dependencies while building the initial ramdisk (Closes: #503057)
* Fix e2fsck so an errant INODE_UNINIT flag set in a block group
doesn't cause e2fsck to abort.
* E2fsck now distinguishes between fragmented directories and
fragmented files in verbose mode statistics and in the fragcheck
report.
* Avoid double-counting non-contiguous extent-based inodes in the
verbose mode statistics.
* E2fsck now leaves slack space when repacking directories so that a
few new directory entries won't cause leaf nodes to become split
right away.
* E2fsck was previously not handling the case of a corrupted interior
node in the extent tree, and would crash in that case. It now will
handle this and related failures robustly.
* E2fsck problem descriptions involving the journal are no longer
referred to as "ext3" problems, since ext4 filesystems also have
journals.
* Fix a long-standing bug in e2fsck which would cause it to crash when
replying journals for filesystems with block sizes greater than 8k.
* Fix a regression in debugfs's logdump command so it works for
filesystems with 32-bit block numbers. This was accidentally broken
when the header files were changed to support the 64-bit block numbers.
* Fix resize2fs for ext4 filesystems. Some blocks that that need moving
when shrinking filesystems with uninit_bg feature would not be
moved. In addition, blocks and inode table blocks were not being
correctly freed when shrinking filesystems with the flex_bg feable,
which caused resize2fs -M to fail. Finally, when blocks are moved,
make sure the uninitialized flag in extents is preserved.
* Add mkfs.ext4 symlink to the e2fsprogs-udeb package (Closes: #511207)
* Resize2fs now reserves some extra block when calculating the minimum
size to shrink the filesystem in case some extent allocation trees
* Add a "set -e" to uuid-runtime's prerm script to make Lintian happy
* The blkid library will now recognize btrfs filesystems and swap
devices currently used by user-level software suspend.
* tune2fs will not allow changing the inode size for filesystems that
have the flex_bg feature enabled, since the code currently assumes
the each block group's portion inode table is located in its own
block group.
* Fix tune2fs -I so it won't corrupt ext3/ext4 filesystem configured
for RAID storage devices.
* Mke2fs now understands a -U option which allows the UUID to be
specified for the new filesystem.
* Mke2fs will now treat devices with exactly 16TB as if they have 16TB
minus one block, since many users expect ext4 to support 16TB
devices, and the true maximum size is 16TB-1.
* E2fsck will now flag filesystems that have an insane s_first_ino
field in their superblock.
-- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:05:53 -0400
