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1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.248 2004/05/24 12:39:23 stelian Exp $
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3Changes between versions 0.4b36 and 0.4b37 (released ??????????????)
4====================================================================
5
61. Added the --enable-staticz configure option which enables
7 dump and restore to be linked with static versions of
8 libz and libbz2 (and dynamic versions of all other libraries).
9 This will make Debian users happy, because libz and libbz2
10 were the only needed libraries living in /usr, all the
11 others live in /lib. In case of system emergency, it is
12 better not to have to rely on an extra filesystem.
13 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for the suggestion.
14
15Changes between versions 0.4b35 and 0.4b36 (released April 21, 2004)
16====================================================================
17
181. Fixed dump compilation with old gcc versions. Thanks to
19 Mike Castle <dalgoda@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch.
20
212. Fixed some warnings (howmany, roundup, powerof2 redefined)
22 when compiling against a recent glibc version.
23
243. Fixed a bug in restore preventing the read of a dump tape
25 written with Solaris 7 ufsdump. Thanks to Patrick Higgins
26 <phiggins@transzap.com> for reporting the bug and providing
27 the test case.
28
294. Changed dump to enable the creation of volumes of different
30 sizes in a single run (make -B accept a list of values).
31 Patch contributed by Florian Zumbiehl <florz@gmx.de>.
32
335. Use the glibc provided minor() and major() macros instead
34 of our own bitmask implementation. This should be safe for
35 when the major/minor namespace will migrate to 32 bits.
36 Thanks to Zhang Jun <zhangjun@nanjing-fnst.com> for reporting
37 the bug.
38
396. Made explicit in the dump man page that dump will not create
40 a remote file, it will only write to an already existing one.
41
427. Another try at making size estimates better again.
43
448. Put back the inconditional running of the end-of-tape
45 script which was changed in 0.434 to be run only when -M
46 or multiple -f were NOT specified. Some users rely on this
47 feature even when it is combined with -M/-f.
48
499. Fixed restore when restoring huge backups (where rstdir...
50 temporary files are over 2GB). Thanks to
51 Raphael Jaffey <rjaffey@artic.edu> for reporting this,
52 debugging the issue and making the patch.
53
5410. Made restore understand FreeBSD UFS2 tapes. Thanks to
55 David <vrtin@users.sourceforge.net> for submitting the bug
56 and providing a test case.
57
5811. Made dump work with an arbitrary integer level (no more 10
59 levels only limitation). Thanks to Matthew
60 <msvincen@midway.uchicago.edu> for the patch.
61
62Changes between versions 0.4b34 and 0.4b35 (released December 21, 2003)
63=======================================================================
64
651. Added a note in the dump man page saying that the default
66 blocksize can be 32 if -d is used with a high density argument.
67 Thanks to Antonios Christofides <A.Christofides@itia.ntua.gr>
68 for the patch.
69
702. Fixed configure to correctly understand CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS,
71 LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Arcady Genkin
72 <antipode@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
73
743. Made -e/-E options of dump accept an unlimited number of inodes
75 to be excluded, rather than a hardcoded maximum. Thanks to
76 Dietrich Rothe <d-rothe@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch.
77
784. Updated the autoconf system to 2.50. Forced the -D_BSD_SOURCE
79 and -D_USE_BSD_SIGNAL defines in configure in order to solve
80 64bit build problems because quad_t is redifined with a
81 different signature. Thanks to Mike Harris <mharris@redhat.com>
82 for reporting this bug.
83
845. Made restore build on Solaris, making possible to
85 restore Linux's "enhanced" tapes. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
86 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch.
87
886. Made an extension in the dump tape format capable of saving
89 MacOSX specific inode extensions. Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>
90 wrote the extension and contributed the restore code back
91 into this codebase. The same extension mechanism will be
92 used in the future to save ACLs...
93
947. Made rmt work correctly with regard to QFA and local/remote
95 files and tapes. The remote access will however work only
96 when the dump provided rmt version is used. If you want to
97 use another rmt server, please do not use the QFA feature.
98 Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch.
99
100Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released April 18, 2003)
101====================================================================
102
1031. Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths.
104 Thanks to David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for
105 reporting the bug.
106
1072. Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence
108 instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues
109 with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen
110 <kari@funky.pp.fi> for reporting the bug.
111
1123. Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing
113 a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks
114 to Gunther Reiszig <gunther@mit.edu> for reporting the bug.
115
1164. Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument)
117 even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
118 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
119
1205. Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt.
121 Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting
122 the bug.
123
1246. Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes
125 dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
126 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
127
1287. Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having
129 a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <minduni@ti-edu.ch>
130 for reporting the bug.
131
1328. Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a
133 problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified
134 between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for
135 the bug report and the patch.
136
1379. Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full
138 filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen
139 to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned,
140 dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is.
141 Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr> for reporting the
142 bug and providing the fix.
143
14410. Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and
145 table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to
146 Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
147
14811. Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0.
149 This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used.
150 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
151
15212. Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been
153 dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid).
154 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
155
15613. Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part.
157 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
158
15914. Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics
160 (and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot
161 script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or
162 when multiple tapes are listed on the command line
163 (-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense).
164 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
165
16615. Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per
167 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change.
168
16916. Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has
170 the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming
171 on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch
172 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> for the patch and to
173 Markus Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> for giving special permission
174 to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore.
175
17617. Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia
177 <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> for reporting the bugs.
178
17918. Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing
180 to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on
181 how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde
182 <ken@globalremit.com> for the patch.
183
18419. Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics.
185 Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> for the patch.
186
18720. Fixed a bug which caused dump -w|-W not to work anymore, because
188 the fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/mtab are always set
189 to 0 0. Thanks to Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> for
190 reporting the bug.
191
192Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003)
193=======================================================================
194
1951. Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question
196 'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by
197 restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes.
198
1992. Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes.
200 Thanks to Dark Force <daq4th@users.sourceforge.net> for
201 reporting this bug and providing test cases.
202
2033. Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed
204 an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic
205 <dkrnic@lycos.com> for reporting this bug.
206
2074. Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab
208 when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems
209 caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts.
210 Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uhlar@fantomas.sk>, Elliott Mitchell
211 <ehem@m5p.com>, Greg Edwards <gedwards@users.sourceforge.net>,
212 Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@opus.co.nz>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086
213 and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832).
214
2155. Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the
216 read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running
217 dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to
218 John I Wang <jiwang@users.sourceforge.net> for the suggestion.
219
2206. Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of
221 'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always
222 1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and
223 made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of
224 a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> for
225 the suggestions.
226
2277. Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks.
228
2298. Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where
230 EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined.
231
2329. Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line
233 (-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one.
234 Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb22@users.sourceforge.net> for the
235 suggestion.
236
23710. Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in
238 ./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions
239 of config.guess, config.sub etc).
240
241Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002)
242=======================================================================
243
2441. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead
245 of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old
246 locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the
247 dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack
248 on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new
249 scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file.
250 Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for
251 reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post).
252
2532. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings
254 about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling
255 <jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this
256 bug.
257
2583. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes.
259
2604. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB
261 (raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs
262 this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp
263 <dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this.
264
2655. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an
266 inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount
267 of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin
268 <sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug.
269
2706. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases,
271 to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP
272 directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks
273 to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and
274 providing the test cases.
275
2767. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump:
277 replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with
278 'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested
279 by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report.
280
281Changes between versions 0.4b30 and 0.4b31 (released July 30, 2002)
282===================================================================
283
2841. Fixed rmt open flags transmission (GNU's symbolic syntax over
285 rmt) which I broke in 0.4b29. Thanks to Eros Albertazzi
286 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting the bug.
287
288Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002)
289===================================================================
290
2911. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read
292 error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command,
293 in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this
294 usage in dump's man page.
295
2962. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big
297 endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was
298 contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>.
299
3003. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes
301 and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold
302 <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
303
3044. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based
305 on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD
306 media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to
307 Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts.
308
3095. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved
310 by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD
311 inode format, which means that the tape format was changed.
312 However, since all restore versions out there should
313 transparently support both inode formats, the change should
314 have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for
315 reporting the bug.
316
3176. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling
318 with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree
319 <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this.
320
3217. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to
322 Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the
323 patch.
324
3258. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro
326 package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD
327 format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify.
328
329Changes between versions 0.4b28 and 0.4b29 (released June 8, 2002)
330==================================================================
331
3321. Fixed a problem in the rmt ioctl command, where ioctl's issued from
333 non Linux clients were misinterpreted. The description of the problem
334 (incompatible numbering in Linux mtio opcodes) is documented at
335 ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.mtio . Thanks to
336