Changelog
e2fsprogs (1.42~WIP-2011-07-02-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release * Add support for 64-bit file systems * Add support for bigalloc file systems * Fixed an e2fsck bug which caused "*** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***" without an explanation of what was fixed. * E2fsck will no longer attempt to clone an extended attribute block in pass1b handling if the file system does not support extended attributes. * E2fsck will be more careful accidentally asking the user to continue if the file system is mounted, so that an escape sequence won't cause a false positive. (Closes: #619859) * E2fsck now uses less cpu time in pass 5 * E2fsck will no longer segault when a corrupted file system has a bad extent, and removing it leads to a block needing to be deallocated. * E2fsck now supports an extended "discard" option which will cause e2fsck to attempt discard all unused blocks after a full check * The e2image program now supports the qcow2 format, a more efficient way of capturing file system metadata snapshots. * Mke2fs now supports the [devices] stanza in mke2fs.conf. * Mke2fs now supports the reserved_ratio relation in mke2fs.conf. * Mke2fs now creates extent-mapped directories for the root and lost+found directories. * Mke2fs will skip zero'ing the journal if the extended option "lazy_journal_init" is specified. * Mke2fs will now create file systems that enable user namespace extended attributes and with time- and mount count-based file system checks disabled. * Mke2fs will not set a stride or strip size of one block based on block bevice attributes obtained from sysfs. * Mke2fs now displays a progress report during the discard process. * Mke2fs now handles extreme file system parameters correctly which previously caused the inodes per group to drop below 8, leading to a segfault. * Debugfs's icheck will now correctly find inodes which use the searched-for block as an extended attribute block. * Debugfs now has a new "punch" command which remove blocks from the middle of an inode. * The badblocks program now correctly recovers from I/O errors when direct I/O is being used. The badblocks command now also supports a -B option which forces the use of buffered I/O, and the -v option will provide a more detailed breakdown of read, write, and failed comparison errors. * Added e4defrag tool which uses the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl. * Added support for journals larger than 2GB. * Support using both hard links and symlinks when installing e2fsprogs. * Add overflow checking to tune2fs -i's fsck interval, which must fit in a 32-bit field. * Filefrag will report 0 extents correctly in verbose mode. * Logsave's usage message has been fixed. (Closes: #619788) * Update translations: French, Chinese, Germany, Indonesian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Polish, Dutch, Czech. * Updated/clarified man pages. -- Theodore Y. Ts'o <email address hidden> Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:38:57 -0400
