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| 2 | A test release of dump 0.4 is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu, | |
| 3 | in the file /pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/dump-0.4b1.tar.gz. | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | This new version is based on the latest dump and restore suite | |
| 6 | available from Berkeley (I have integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2). | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | It also includes lots of changes from the Debian 1.2 and Red Hat 4.0 | |
| 9 | distributions (I have included most of the patches made by maintainers of | |
| 10 | these distributions). | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | Some changes were made to improve the portability of dump and restore: | |
| 13 | - fixed size types are now used, so that the dump format is the same | |
| 14 | on every architecture supported by Linux, | |
| 15 | - dump now uses the Ext2fs library to get the block addresses | |
| 16 | to solve an endianness problem that was present on SparcLinux. | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | Autoconf is now used to configure dump and restore. I have shamelessly | |
| 19 | adapted the configure script from the one present in the e2fsprogs | |
| 20 | distribution (thanks Ted!). | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | Last, a few minor bugs have been fixed. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | This version is a test release. Use it only for testing :-) New | |
| 25 | beta versions will probably be released before a stable dump 0.4 version is | |
| 26 | available. | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | If you encounter problems with this test release, please send a | |
| 29 | detailled bug report (please look at the file KNOWNBUGS before sending a | |
| 30 | bug report). | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | -- | |
| 33 | Remy Card | |
| 34 | card@Linux.EU.Org | |
| 35 |