Dump accepts ext3 filesystems. Checking the superblock features.

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-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.9 1999/10/30 22:55:45 tiniou Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.18 1999/11/21 02:24:45 tiniou Exp $

 
 

-Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
-===================================================================
+Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released ???????????????)
+====================================================================
+
+1.     Make configure test if the system glob routines support 
+       extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
+       routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski 
+       <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
+       and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
+       glitches.
+
+2.     Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
+       feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti 
+       <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
+       Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
+
+3.     Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
+       has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
+       contents.
+
+4.     Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
+       which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
+       is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
+       filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
+       NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
+       it is dumped (it should not). 
+
+5.     Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
+       to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
+====================================================================
+
+1.     Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem 
+       when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
+       to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
+       Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
+       this and providing the patch.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
+====================================================================

 
 1.     Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
        one can use 'ident' on binary files.
 
 1.     Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
        one can use 'ident' on binary files.


@@ -17,11 +55,19 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
        contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
        for submitting the bug report.
 
        contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
        for submitting the bug report.
 

-5.     Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
+5.     Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
+       this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
+
+6.     Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to

        use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
        bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
        backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
 
        use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
        bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
        backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
 

+7.     Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
+       we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
+       Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
+       this should work.
+

 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
 ===================================================================
 
 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
 ===================================================================