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1 | $Id: CHANGES,v 1.230 2003/05/08 21:11:33 stelian Exp $ | |
2 | ||
3 | Changes between versions 0.4b34 and 0.4b35 (released ??????????????) | |
4 | ==================================================================== | |
5 | ||
6 | 1. Added a note in the dump man page saying that the default | |
7 | blocksize can be 32 if -d is used with a high density argument. | |
8 | Thanks to Antonios Christofides <A.Christofides@itia.ntua.gr> | |
9 | for the patch. | |
10 | ||
11 | 2. Fixed configure to correctly understand CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, | |
12 | LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Arcady Genkin | |
13 | <antipode@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug. | |
14 | ||
15 | Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released April 18, 2003) | |
16 | ==================================================================== | |
17 | ||
18 | 1. Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths. | |
19 | Thanks to David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for | |
20 | reporting the bug. | |
21 | ||
22 | 2. Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence | |
23 | instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues | |
24 | with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen | |
25 | <kari@funky.pp.fi> for reporting the bug. | |
26 | ||
27 | 3. Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing | |
28 | a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks | |
29 | to Gunther Reiszig <gunther@mit.edu> for reporting the bug. | |
30 | ||
31 | 4. Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument) | |
32 | even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet | |
33 | <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug. | |
34 | ||
35 | 5. Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt. | |
36 | Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting | |
37 | the bug. | |
38 | ||
39 | 6. Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes | |
40 | dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet | |
41 | <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug. | |
42 | ||
43 | 7. Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having | |
44 | a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <minduni@ti-edu.ch> | |
45 | for reporting the bug. | |
46 | ||
47 | 8. Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a | |
48 | problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified | |
49 | between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for | |
50 | the bug report and the patch. | |
51 | ||
52 | 9. Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full | |
53 | filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen | |
54 | to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned, | |
55 | dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is. | |
56 | Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr> for reporting the | |
57 | bug and providing the fix. | |
58 | ||
59 | 10. Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and | |
60 | table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to | |
61 | Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
62 | ||
63 | 11. Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0. | |
64 | This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used. | |
65 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
66 | ||
67 | 12. Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been | |
68 | dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid). | |
69 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
70 | ||
71 | 13. Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part. | |
72 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
73 | ||
74 | 14. Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics | |
75 | (and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot | |
76 | script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or | |
77 | when multiple tapes are listed on the command line | |
78 | (-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense). | |
79 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
80 | ||
81 | 15. Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per | |
82 | ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change. | |
83 | ||
84 | 16. Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has | |
85 | the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming | |
86 | on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch | |
87 | <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> for the patch and to | |
88 | Markus Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> for giving special permission | |
89 | to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore. | |
90 | ||
91 | 17. Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia | |
92 | <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> for reporting the bugs. | |
93 | ||
94 | 18. Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing | |
95 | to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on | |
96 | how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde | |
97 | <ken@globalremit.com> for the patch. | |
98 | ||
99 | 19. Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics. | |
100 | Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> for the patch. | |
101 | ||
102 | 20. Fixed a bug which caused dump -w|-W not to work anymore, because | |
103 | the fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/mtab are always set | |
104 | to 0 0. Thanks to Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> for | |
105 | reporting the bug. | |
106 | ||
107 | Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003) | |
108 | ======================================================================= | |
109 | ||
110 | 1. Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question | |
111 | 'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by | |
112 | restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes. | |
113 | ||
114 | 2. Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes. | |
115 | Thanks to Dark Force <daq4th@users.sourceforge.net> for | |
116 | reporting this bug and providing test cases. | |
117 | ||
118 | 3. Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed | |
119 | an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic | |
120 | <dkrnic@lycos.com> for reporting this bug. | |
121 | ||
122 | 4. Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab | |
123 | when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems | |
124 | caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts. | |
125 | Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uhlar@fantomas.sk>, Elliott Mitchell | |
126 | <ehem@m5p.com>, Greg Edwards <gedwards@users.sourceforge.net>, | |
127 | Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@opus.co.nz>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086 | |
128 | and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832). | |
129 | ||
130 | 5. Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the | |
131 | read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running | |
132 | dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to | |
133 | John I Wang <jiwang@users.sourceforge.net> for the suggestion. | |
134 | ||
135 | 6. Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of | |
136 | 'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always | |
137 | 1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and | |
138 | made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of | |
139 | a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> for | |
140 | the suggestions. | |
141 | ||
142 | 7. Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks. | |
143 | ||
144 | 8. Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where | |
145 | EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined. | |
146 | ||
147 | 9. Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line | |
148 | (-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one. | |
149 | Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb22@users.sourceforge.net> for the | |
150 | suggestion. | |
151 | ||
152 | 10. Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in | |
153 | ./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions | |
154 | of config.guess, config.sub etc). | |
155 | ||
156 | Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002) | |
157 | ======================================================================= | |
158 | ||
159 | 1. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead | |
160 | of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old | |
161 | locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the | |
162 | dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack | |
163 | on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new | |
164 | scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file. | |
165 | Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for | |
166 | reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post). | |
167 | ||
168 | 2. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings | |
169 | about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling | |
170 | <jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this | |
171 | bug. | |
172 | ||
173 | 3. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes. | |
174 | ||
175 | 4. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB | |
176 | (raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs | |
177 | this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp | |
178 | <dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this. | |
179 | ||
180 | 5. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an | |
181 | inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount | |
182 | of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin | |
183 | <sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug. | |
184 | ||
185 | 6. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases, | |
186 | to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP | |
187 | directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks | |
188 | to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and | |
189 | providing the test cases. | |
190 | ||
191 | 7. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump: | |
192 | replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with | |
193 | 'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested | |
194 | by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report. | |
195 | ||
196 | Changes between versions 0.4b30 and 0.4b31 (released July 30, 2002) | |
197 | =================================================================== | |
198 | ||
199 | 1. Fixed rmt open flags transmission (GNU's symbolic syntax over | |
200 | rmt) which I broke in 0.4b29. Thanks to Eros Albertazzi | |
201 | <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting the bug. | |
202 | ||
203 | Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002) | |
204 | =================================================================== | |
205 | ||
206 | 1. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read | |
207 | error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command, | |
208 | in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this | |
209 | usage in dump's man page. | |
210 | ||
211 | 2. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big | |
212 | endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was | |
213 | contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>. | |
214 | ||
215 | 3. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes | |
216 | and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold | |
217 | <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug. | |
218 | ||
219 | 4. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based | |
220 | on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD | |
221 | media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to | |
222 | Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts. | |
223 | ||
224 | 5. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved | |
225 | by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD | |
226 | inode format, which means that the tape format was changed. | |
227 | However, since all restore versions out there should | |
228 | transparently support both inode formats, the change should | |
229 | have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for | |
230 | reporting the bug. | |
231 | ||
232 | 6. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling | |
233 | with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree | |
234 | <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this. | |
235 | ||
236 | 7. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to | |
237 | Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the | |
238 | patch. | |
239 | ||
240 | 8. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro | |
241 | package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD | |
242 | format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify. | |
243 | ||
244 | Changes between versions 0.4b28 and 0.4b29 (released June 8, 2002) | |
245 | ================================================================== | |
246 | ||
247 | 1. Fixed a problem in the rmt ioctl command, where ioctl's issued from | |
248 | non Linux clients were misinterpreted. The description of the problem | |
249 | (incompatible numbering in Linux mtio opcodes) is documented at | |
250 | ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.mtio . Thanks to | |
251 |