1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.10 1999/10/31 19:48:25 tiniou Exp $
3 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
4 ===================================================================
6 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
7 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
9 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
10 easily verify the version he is using.
12 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
13 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
14 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
16 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
17 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
18 for submitting the bug report.
20 5. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
21 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
22 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
23 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
25 6. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
26 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
27 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
30 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
31 ===================================================================
33 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
36 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
37 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
39 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
40 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
41 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
42 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
43 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
45 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
46 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
48 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
49 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
50 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
52 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
54 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
55 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
58 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
59 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
60 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
61 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
62 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
63 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
65 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
66 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
69 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
70 included the current date/version in man pages.
72 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
73 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
74 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
75 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
76 the results canceled each other...
78 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
79 ===================================================================
81 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
83 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
85 - several fixes in the man pages.
86 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
87 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
89 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
90 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
91 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
92 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
94 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
95 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
97 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
99 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
100 routines (only if available).
102 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
103 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
105 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
106 ======================================================================
108 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
109 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
110 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
111 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
114 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
116 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
117 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
120 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
121 This works for me, needs further testing.
123 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
124 ====================================================================
126 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
127 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
129 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
130 ========================================
132 1. Use realpath() if available
136 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
137 ========================================
139 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
142 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
144 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
146 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
147 ======================================
149 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
151 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
153 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
155 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
156 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
158 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
159 distribution's one) to use autoconf
161 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
163 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
164 ======================================
166 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
168 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
170 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
171 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
173 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
176 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
178 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
179 correctly files ending by a hole.
181 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
182 ======================================
184 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
185 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
187 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
188 ======================================
190 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
192 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
194 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
195 ======================================
197 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
199 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
200 ======================================
202 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
204 2. Enabled optimization again.
206 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
207 =====================================
209 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
211 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
212 ====================================
214 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
215 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
216 use the mntent functions).
218 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
219 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
220 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
221 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
224 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
225 filesystems like the BSD version.
227 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
230 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
231 ====================================
233 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
235 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
237 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
240 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.