Version 0.4b6.

[dump.git] / dump-0.3.announce

	Ok, I'm back ;-)

	Dump 0.3 is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu in the directory
/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.

	Restore is now able to restore named pipes (fifos).  Thanks to
Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com> for reporting the bug.  I have also fixed
a bug in the symlink restoration: owner and group were not set by previous
version.  Thanks to Klaus Kudielka <kkudielk@cacofonix.nt.tuwien.ac.at> for
reporting it.  Restore is now able to restore correctly files ending with
a hole (mainly DLL shared libraries under Linux).  Thanks to David Monro
<davidm@cs.su.oz.au> for sending me a patch much cleaner than mine :-)

	Kevin Layer <layer@Franz.COM> has implemented a verify option in
restore.  It is now possible to check a dump against the contents of the
filesystem.  Thank you very much, Kevin!

	Some bug fixes from FreeBSD 2.2-current have also been integrated.

	Last, I have added the file `linux-1.2.x.patch' in the distribution. 
This patch for 1.2 kernels should be applied if you want to get better
performances.

	I remind you that dump and restore should be considered as software
in BETA test.  Don't rely too much on them for your backups...

--
Remy Card
Remy.Card@freenix.fr

No to nuclear testings!