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1$Id: CHANGES,v 1.237 2004/01/27 10:15:36 stelian Exp $
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3Changes between versions 0.4b35 and 0.4b36 (released ?????????????????)
4=======================================================================
5
61. Fixed dump compilation with old gcc versions. Thanks to
7 Mike Castle <dalgoda@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch.
8
92. Fixed some warnings (howmany, roundup, powerof2 redefined)
10 when compiling against a recent glibc version.
11
12Changes between versions 0.4b34 and 0.4b35 (released December 21, 2003)
13=======================================================================
14
151. Added a note in the dump man page saying that the default
16 blocksize can be 32 if -d is used with a high density argument.
17 Thanks to Antonios Christofides <A.Christofides@itia.ntua.gr>
18 for the patch.
19
202. Fixed configure to correctly understand CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS,
21 LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Arcady Genkin
22 <antipode@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
23
243. Made -e/-E options of dump accept an unlimited number of inodes
25 to be excluded, rather than a hardcoded maximum. Thanks to
26 Dietrich Rothe <d-rothe@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch.
27
284. Updated the autoconf system to 2.50. Forced the -D_BSD_SOURCE
29 and -D_USE_BSD_SIGNAL defines in configure in order to solve
30 64bit build problems because quad_t is redifined with a
31 different signature. Thanks to Mike Harris <mharris@redhat.com>
32 for reporting this bug.
33
345. Made restore build on Solaris, making possible to
35 restore Linux's "enhanced" tapes. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
36 <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch.
37
386. Made an extension in the dump tape format capable of saving
39 MacOSX specific inode extensions. Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>
40 wrote the extension and contributed the restore code back
41 into this codebase. The same extension mechanism will be
42 used in the future to save ACLs...
43
447. Made rmt work correctly with regard to QFA and local/remote
45 files and tapes. The remote access will however work only
46 when the dump provided rmt version is used. If you want to
47 use another rmt server, please do not use the QFA feature.
48 Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch.
49
50Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released April 18, 2003)
51====================================================================
52
531. Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths.
54 Thanks to David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for
55 reporting the bug.
56
572. Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence
58 instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues
59 with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen
60 <kari@funky.pp.fi> for reporting the bug.
61
623. Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing
63 a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks
64 to Gunther Reiszig <gunther@mit.edu> for reporting the bug.
65
664. Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument)
67 even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
68 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
69
705. Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt.
71 Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting
72 the bug.
73
746. Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes
75 dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet
76 <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug.
77
787. Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having
79 a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <minduni@ti-edu.ch>
80 for reporting the bug.
81
828. Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a
83 problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified
84 between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for
85 the bug report and the patch.
86
879. Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full
88 filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen
89 to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned,
90 dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is.
91 Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr> for reporting the
92 bug and providing the fix.
93
9410. Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and
95 table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to
96 Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
97
9811. Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0.
99 This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used.
100 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
101
10212. Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been
103 dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid).
104 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
105
10613. Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part.
107 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
108
10914. Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics
110 (and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot
111 script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or
112 when multiple tapes are listed on the command line
113 (-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense).
114 Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch.
115
11615. Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per
117 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change.
118
11916. Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has
120 the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming
121 on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch
122 <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> for the patch and to
123 Markus Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> for giving special permission
124 to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore.
125
12617. Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia
127 <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> for reporting the bugs.
128
12918. Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing
130 to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on
131 how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde
132 <ken@globalremit.com> for the patch.
133
13419. Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics.
135 Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> for the patch.
136
13720. Fixed a bug which caused dump -w|-W not to work anymore, because
138 the fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/mtab are always set
139 to 0 0. Thanks to Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> for
140 reporting the bug.
141
142Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003)
143=======================================================================
144
1451. Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question
146 'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by
147 restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes.
148
1492. Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes.
150 Thanks to Dark Force <daq4th@users.sourceforge.net> for
151 reporting this bug and providing test cases.
152
1533. Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed
154 an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic
155 <dkrnic@lycos.com> for reporting this bug.
156
1574. Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab
158 when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems
159 caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts.
160 Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uhlar@fantomas.sk>, Elliott Mitchell
161 <ehem@m5p.com>, Greg Edwards <gedwards@users.sourceforge.net>,
162 Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@opus.co.nz>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086
163 and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832).
164
1655. Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the
166 read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running
167 dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to
168 John I Wang <jiwang@users.sourceforge.net> for the suggestion.
169
1706. Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of
171 'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always
172 1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and
173 made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of
174 a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> for
175 the suggestions.
176
1777. Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks.
178
1798. Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where
180 EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined.
181
1829. Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line
183 (-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one.
184 Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb22@users.sourceforge.net> for the
185 suggestion.
186
18710. Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in
188 ./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions
189 of config.guess, config.sub etc).
190
191Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002)
192=======================================================================
193
1941. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead
195 of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old
196 locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the
197 dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack
198 on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new
199 scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file.
200 Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for
201 reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post).
202
2032. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings
204 about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling
205 <jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this
206 bug.
207
2083. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes.
209
2104. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB
211 (raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs
212 this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp
213 <dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this.
214
2155. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an
216 inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount
217 of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin
218 <sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug.
219
2206. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases,
221 to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP
222 directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks
223 to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and
224 providing the test cases.
225
2267. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump:
227 replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with
228 'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested
229 by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report.
230
231Changes between versions 0.4b30 and 0.4b31 (released July 30, 2002)
232===================================================================
233
2341. Fixed rmt open flags transmission (GNU's symbolic syntax over
235 rmt) which I broke in 0.4b29. Thanks to Eros Albertazzi
236 <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting the bug.
237
238Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002)
239===================================================================
240
2411. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read
242 error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command,
243 in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this
244 usage in dump's man page.
245
2462. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big
247 endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was
248 contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>.
249
2503. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes
251 and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold
252 <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
253
2544. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based
255 on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD
256 media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to
257 Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts.
258
2595. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved
260 by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD
261 inode format, which means that the tape format was changed.
262 However, since all restore versions out there should
263 transparently support both inode formats, the change should
264 have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for
265 reporting the bug.
266
2676. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling
268 with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree
269 <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this.
270
2717. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to
272 Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the
273 patch.
274
2758. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro
276 package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD
277 format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify.
278
279Changes between versions 0.4b28 and 0.4b29 (released June 8, 2002)
280==================================================================
281
2821. Fixed a problem in the rmt ioctl command, where ioctl's issued from
283 non Linux clients were misinterpreted. The description of the problem
284 (incompatible numbering in Linux mtio opcodes) is documented at
285 ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.mtio . Thanks to
286