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1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.133 2001/08/16 13:12:30 stelian Exp $
2
3Changes between versions 0.4b23 and 0.4b24 (released ?????????????)
4===================================================================
5
61. Fixed the permissions of a newly created QFA file by dump.
7
82. Cleaned up the source of dump (the external variables
9 definition was a complete mess, making possible to have
10 objects overlap).
11
123. Fixed restore to use the full tape volume path when doing
13 a compare (since it changes the working directory to the
14 filesystem being compared in the process).
15
164. Added the -q option to dump which makes dump abort
17 whenever it needs operator attention. It should be
18 easier to use dump in scripts with this option.
19
205. Detect the use of incompatible options to dump and
21 refuse them (like -a and -B options together).
22
23Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
24===================================================================
25
261. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
27 Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
28
292. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
30 by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
31
323. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
33 the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
34 latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
35 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
36
374. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
38 positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
39 Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
40
415. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
42 previous version.
43
446. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
45 _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
46 Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
47 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
48 it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
49 data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
50 conservative.
51
527. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
53 the next volume in restore.
54
558. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
56 user to specify a script which will be launched at the
57 beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
58 tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
59 script parameters and return codes.
60
619. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
62 <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
63 the man pages.
64
6510. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
66 to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
67 be lost.
68
6911. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
70 comma separated list of inode numbers.
71
7212. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
73 inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
74
7513. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
76
77Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
78==================================================================
79
801. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
81 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
82
832. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
84 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
85 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
86 bug and providing a patch.
87
883. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
89 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
90
91 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
92 drives supporting variable block size.
93
94 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
95 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
96 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
97
984. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
99 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
100 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
101 it upstream.
102
1035. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
104 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
105 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
106
1076. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
108 are now based on the configure parameters.
109
1107. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
111 by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
112 a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
113 restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
114 to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
115 working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
116 large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
117 --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
118
1198. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
120 in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
121 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
122
1239. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
124 (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
125 correctly).
126
12710. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
128 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
129 process per tape).
130
13111. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
132 open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
133 e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
134 FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
135
136Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
137======================================================================
138
1391. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
140 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
141 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
142
1432. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
144 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
145 who reported this stupid error.
146
1473. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
148 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
149 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
150
1514. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
152 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
153 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
154 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
155 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
156 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
157
1585. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
159 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
160 for the patch.
161
1626. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
163 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
164 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
165 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
166 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
167 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
168 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
169
1707. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
171 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
172 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
173 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
174 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
175 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
176 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
177 useful thoughts.
178
1798. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
180 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
181 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
182 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
183 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
184
185Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
186=======================================================================
187
1881. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
189 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
190 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
191 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
192 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
193 a fix.
194
1952. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
196 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
197 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
198 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
199 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
200
2013. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
202 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
203 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
204 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
205
2064. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
207 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
208 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
209 when multiple -e options are used.
210
2115. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
212 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
213 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
214 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
215
2166. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
217 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
218
2197. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
220 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
221
2228. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
223 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
224 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
225
2269. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
227 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
228 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
229 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
230
23110. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
232 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
233 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
234 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
235
23611. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
237 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
238 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
239 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
240
241Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
242=====================================================================
243
2441. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
245 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
246 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
247
2482. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
249
2503. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
251 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
252 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
253 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
254
2554. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
256 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
257 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
258 for reporting the bug.
259
2605. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
261 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
262 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
263 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
264
2656. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
266 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
267 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
268 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
269 reporting the bug.
270
2717. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
272 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
273 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
274
2758. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
276 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
277 library in order to compile the readline support.
278
2799. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
280 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
281 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
282 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
283 for providing the patch.
284
285Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
286===================================================================
287
2881. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
289 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
290 the bug.
291
2922. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
293 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
294 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
295 for the bug report.
296
2973. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
298 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
299 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
300 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
301 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
302 the bugs to me.
303
3044. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
305 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
306 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
307 to make network backups should read first the man page
308 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
309
3105. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
311 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
312 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
313 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
314
315Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
316====================================================================
317
3181. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
319 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
320 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
321
322 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
323 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
324 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
325 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
326 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
327
3282. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
329 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
330 the patch.
331
3323. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
333 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
334 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
335 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
336 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
337
3384. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
339
3405. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
341 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
342 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
343
3446. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
345 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
346 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
347 suggestion.
348
3497. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
350 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
351 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
352 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
353
354Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
355====================================================================
356
3571. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
358 output of dump.
359
3602. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
361 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
362 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
363 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
364 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
365 character at the end).
366
3673. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
368 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
369 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
370
3714. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
372 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
373 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
374 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
375 patch.
376
3775. Added the device name and the current volume number
378 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
379
3806. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
381 broken it in 0.4b15).
382
383Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
384===================================================================
385
3861. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
387 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
388
3892. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
390 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
391 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
392 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
393 who forwarded me his mail).
394
3953. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
396 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
397 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
398 pager etc.).
399
4004. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
401 I made in 0.4b14.
402
4035. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
404 in both dump and restore.
405
406Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
407=======================================================================
408
4091. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
410 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
411 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
412 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
413 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
414 bug and submitting the patch.
415
4162. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
417 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
418 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
419 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
420
4213. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
422 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
423
4244. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
425 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
426
4275. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
428 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
429
4306. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
431 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
432 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
433
4347. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
435 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
436 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
437 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
438 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
439 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
440 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
441 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
442 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
443 helping me test the fix.
444
4458. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
446 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
447 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
448 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
449
450Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
451======================================================================
452
4531. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
454 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
455
4562. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
457 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
458 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
459
4603. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
461 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
462 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
463 helping me find this bug.
464
4654. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
466 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
467 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
468
4695. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
470 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
471
472Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
473=====================================================================
474
4751. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
476 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
477
4782. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
479 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
480 submitting the patch.
481
4823. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
483 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
484 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
485
4864. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
487 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
488 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
489
4905. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
491 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
492 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
493 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
494
4956. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
496 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
497 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
498 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
499 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
500
5017. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
502 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
503 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
504 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
505 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
506
507Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
508======================================================================
509
5101. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
511
5122. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
513 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
514 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
515 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
516
5173. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
518 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
519 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
520 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
521 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
522 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
523 asking to enter a new tape each time.
524
5254. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
526 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
527 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
528
529Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
530======================================================================
531
5321. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
533 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
534 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
535 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
536 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
537 glitches.
538
5392. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
540 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
541 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
542 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
543
5443. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
545 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
546 contents.
547
5484. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
549 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
550 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
551 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
552 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
553 it is dumped (it should not).
554
5555. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
556 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
557
558Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
559====================================================================
560
5611. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
562 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
563 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
564 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
565 this and providing the patch.
566
567Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
568====================================================================
569
5701. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
571 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
572
5732. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
574 easily verify the version he is using.
575
5763. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
577 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
578 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
579
5804. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
581 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
582 for submitting the bug report.
583
5845. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
585 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
586
5876. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
588 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
589 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
590 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
591
5927. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
593 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
594 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
595 this should work.
596
597Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
598===================================================================
599
6001. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
601 was not compiled in.
602
6032. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
604 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
605
6063. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
607 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
608 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
609 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
610 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
611
6124. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
613 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
614
6155. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
616 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
617 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
618
6196. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
620
6217. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
622 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
623 dump).
624
6258. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
626 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
627 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
628 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
629 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
630 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
631
6329. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
633 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
634 /etc/dumpdates.
635
63610. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
637 included the current date/version in man pages.
638
63911. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
640 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
641 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
642 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
643 the results canceled each other...
644
645Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
646===================================================================
647
6481. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
649
650 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
651 isn't specified.
652 - several fixes in the man pages.
653 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
654 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
655 - buffer overruns.
656 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
657 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
658 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
659 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
660
6612. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
662 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
663
6643. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
665
6664. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
667 routines (only if available).
668
6695. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
670 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
671
672Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
673======================================================================
674
6751. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
676 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
677 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
678 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
679 RMT etc.).
680
6812. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
682
6833. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
684 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
685 when comparing).
686
6874. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
688 This works for me, needs further testing.
689
690Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
691====================================================================
692
6931. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
694 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
695
696Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
697========================================
698
6991. Use realpath() if available
700
7012. Report statistics
702
703Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
704========================================
705
7061. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
707 the patch)
708
7092. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
710
7113. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
712
713Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
714======================================
715
7161. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
717
7182. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
719
7203. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
721
7224. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
723 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
724
7255. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
726 distribution's one) to use autoconf
727
7286. Fixed a few minor bugs
729
730Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
731======================================
732
7331. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
734
7352. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
736
7373. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
738 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
739
7404. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
741 not restored.
742
7435. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
744
7456. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
746 correctly files ending by a hole.
747
748Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
749======================================
750
7511. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
752 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
753
754Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
755======================================
756
7571. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
758
7592. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
760
761Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
762======================================
763
7641. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
765
766Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
767======================================
768
7691. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
770
7712. Enabled optimization again.
772
773Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
774=====================================
775
7761. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
777
778Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
779====================================
780
7811. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
782 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
783 use the mntent functions).
784
7852. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
786 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
787 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
788 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
789 0.2 :-(
790
7913. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
792 filesystems like the BSD version.
793
7944. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
795 than 2 GB.
796
797Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
798====================================
799
8001. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
801
8022. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
803
8043. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
805 incremental backups.
806
8074. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.