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1 | $Id: CHANGES,v 1.257 2004/08/16 09:39:45 stelian Exp $ | |
2 | ||
3 | Changes between versions 0.4b37 and 0.4b38 (released ????????????) | |
4 | ================================================================== | |
5 | ||
6 | 1. Fix a couple of troff syntax bugs in the man pages. | |
7 | Thanks to Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> for the patch. | |
8 | ||
9 | 2. Made restore use either libncurses or libtermcap, depending | |
10 | on which one is available at configure time. | |
11 | ||
12 | 3. Fixed restore negative size display bug when comparing a | |
13 | dump containing files over 2GB. Thanks to Steve Bonds | |
14 | <sbonds@users.sourceforge.net> for the bug report. | |
15 | ||
16 | Changes between versions 0.4b36 and 0.4b37 (released July 7, 2004) | |
17 | ================================================================== | |
18 | ||
19 | 1. Added the --enable-staticz configure option which enables | |
20 | dump and restore to be linked with static versions of | |
21 | libz and libbz2 (and dynamic versions of all other libraries). | |
22 | This will make Debian users happy, because libz and libbz2 | |
23 | were the only needed libraries living in /usr, all the | |
24 | others live in /lib. In case of system emergency, it is | |
25 | better not to have to rely on an extra filesystem. | |
26 | Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for the suggestion. | |
27 | ||
28 | 2. Fix compilation on (at least the Linux Debian port to) AMD64. | |
29 | (<ext2fs/ext2_types.h> defines some types (__s64 and __u64) | |
30 | that are also defined by <linux/types.h> (<asm/types.h>) and | |
31 | they conflict). | |
32 | ||
33 | 3. Make dump's reading of the dumpdates file a bit more robust, | |
34 | preventing dump from crashing when the dumpdates file has | |
35 | been modified by hand. | |
36 | ||
37 | 4. Fixed some offset calculations in dump code which could | |
38 | lead to "bread lseek errors" on large filesystems. Thanks | |
39 | to Bruce Lowekamp <lowekamp@users.sourceforge.net> for | |
40 | reporting this bug and debugging the issue. | |
41 | ||
42 | 5. Made dump use the blkid library when searching for devices | |
43 | by label or uuid instead of dump's own routines. | |
44 | ||
45 | 6. Corrected a bug in dump where a wrong LABEL=... line in | |
46 | /etc/fstab could prevent dump from dumping unrelated | |
47 | filesystems. Thanks to Bruce Lowekamp | |
48 | <lowekamp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug. | |
49 | ||
50 | Changes between versions 0.4b35 and 0.4b36 (released April 21, 2004) | |
51 | ==================================================================== | |
52 | ||
53 | 1. Fixed dump compilation with old gcc versions. Thanks to | |
54 | Mike Castle <dalgoda@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch. | |
55 | ||
56 | 2. Fixed some warnings (howmany, roundup, powerof2 redefined) | |
57 | when compiling against a recent glibc version. | |
58 | ||
59 | 3. Fixed a bug in restore preventing the read of a dump tape | |
60 | written with Solaris 7 ufsdump. Thanks to Patrick Higgins | |
61 | <phiggins@transzap.com> for reporting the bug and providing | |
62 | the test case. | |
63 | ||
64 | 4. Changed dump to enable the creation of volumes of different | |
65 | sizes in a single run (make -B accept a list of values). | |
66 | Patch contributed by Florian Zumbiehl <florz@gmx.de>. | |
67 | ||
68 | 5. Use the glibc provided minor() and major() macros instead | |
69 | of our own bitmask implementation. This should be safe for | |
70 | when the major/minor namespace will migrate to 32 bits. | |
71 | Thanks to Zhang Jun <zhangjun@nanjing-fnst.com> for reporting | |
72 | the bug. | |
73 | ||
74 | 6. Made explicit in the dump man page that dump will not create | |
75 | a remote file, it will only write to an already existing one. | |
76 | ||
77 | 7. Another try at making size estimates better again. | |
78 | ||
79 | 8. Put back the inconditional running of the end-of-tape | |
80 | script which was changed in 0.434 to be run only when -M | |
81 | or multiple -f were NOT specified. Some users rely on this | |
82 | feature even when it is combined with -M/-f. | |
83 | ||
84 | 9. Fixed restore when restoring huge backups (where rstdir... | |
85 | temporary files are over 2GB). Thanks to | |
86 | Raphael Jaffey <rjaffey@artic.edu> for reporting this, | |
87 | debugging the issue and making the patch. | |
88 | ||
89 | 10. Made restore understand FreeBSD UFS2 tapes. Thanks to | |
90 | David <vrtin@users.sourceforge.net> for submitting the bug | |
91 | and providing a test case. | |
92 | ||
93 | 11. Made dump work with an arbitrary integer level (no more 10 | |
94 | levels only limitation). Thanks to Matthew | |
95 | <msvincen@midway.uchicago.edu> for the patch. | |
96 | ||
97 | Changes between versions 0.4b34 and 0.4b35 (released December 21, 2003) | |
98 | ======================================================================= | |
99 | ||
100 | 1. Added a note in the dump man page saying that the default | |
101 | blocksize can be 32 if -d is used with a high density argument. | |
102 | Thanks to Antonios Christofides <A.Christofides@itia.ntua.gr> | |
103 | for the patch. | |
104 | ||
105 | 2. Fixed configure to correctly understand CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, | |
106 | LDFLAGS environment variables. Thanks to Arcady Genkin | |
107 | <antipode@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug. | |
108 | ||
109 | 3. Made -e/-E options of dump accept an unlimited number of inodes | |
110 | to be excluded, rather than a hardcoded maximum. Thanks to | |
111 | Dietrich Rothe <d-rothe@users.sourceforge.net> for the patch. | |
112 | ||
113 | 4. Updated the autoconf system to 2.50. Forced the -D_BSD_SOURCE | |
114 | and -D_USE_BSD_SIGNAL defines in configure in order to solve | |
115 | 64bit build problems because quad_t is redifined with a | |
116 | different signature. Thanks to Mike Harris <mharris@redhat.com> | |
117 | for reporting this bug. | |
118 | ||
119 | 5. Made restore build on Solaris, making possible to | |
120 | restore Linux's "enhanced" tapes. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke | |
121 | <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch. | |
122 | ||
123 | 6. Made an extension in the dump tape format capable of saving | |
124 | MacOSX specific inode extensions. Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> | |
125 | wrote the extension and contributed the restore code back | |
126 | into this codebase. The same extension mechanism will be | |
127 | used in the future to save ACLs... | |
128 | ||
129 | 7. Made rmt work correctly with regard to QFA and local/remote | |
130 | files and tapes. The remote access will however work only | |
131 | when the dump provided rmt version is used. If you want to | |
132 | use another rmt server, please do not use the QFA feature. | |
133 | Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for the patch. | |
134 | ||
135 | Changes between versions 0.4b33 and 0.4b34 (released April 18, 2003) | |
136 | ==================================================================== | |
137 | ||
138 | 1. Fixed the INSTALL file to reflect the actual install paths. | |
139 | Thanks to David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca> for | |
140 | reporting the bug. | |
141 | ||
142 | 2. Fixed the configure script to only check for headers presence | |
143 | instead of trying to compile them. This should fix issues | |
144 | with old build environments. Thanks to Kari Lempiainen | |
145 | <kari@funky.pp.fi> for reporting the bug. | |
146 | ||
147 | 3. Fixed restore to correctly ignore sockets when comparing | |
148 | a dump (as socket cannot be properly restored anyway). Thanks | |
149 | to Gunther Reiszig <gunther@mit.edu> for reporting the bug. | |
150 | ||
151 | 4. Fixed restore to correctly access the archive file (-A argument) | |
152 | even when using a remote tape. Thanks to Fabrice Bellet | |
153 | <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug. | |
154 | ||
155 | 5. Fixed (again) handling of long (largefile) seeks in rmt. | |
156 | Thanks to Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting | |
157 | the bug. | |
158 | ||
159 | 6. Fixed restore corner case when dealing with large block sizes | |
160 | dump is able to write now (-b 1024). Thanks to Fabrice Bellet | |
161 | <fabrice@bellet.info> for reporting the bug. | |
162 | ||
163 | 7. Fixed a bug preventing dump to access a filesystem having | |
164 | a label exactly 16 bytes in length. Thanks to <minduni@ti-edu.ch> | |
165 | for reporting the bug. | |
166 | ||
167 | 8. Made dump store dump dates using explicit timezones, fixing a | |
168 | problem with incremental dumps if the timezone is modified | |
169 | between the dumps. Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for | |
170 | the bug report and the patch. | |
171 | ||
172 | 9. Fixed a bug encountered when dumping individual files (not full | |
173 | filesystems or directories) and dangling symbolic links happen | |
174 | to be in the list of files. For as far as dump is concerned, | |
175 | dangling symbolic links are allowed, and are dumped as is. | |
176 | Thanks to Jin-su Ahn <jsahn@ee.snu.ac.kr> for reporting the | |
177 | bug and providing the fix. | |
178 | ||
179 | 10. Fixed open and creation modes and permissions for QFA and | |
180 | table-of-contents files in dump and restore. Thanks to | |
181 | Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
182 | ||
183 | 11. Fixed the archive file descriptor handling enabling it to be 0. | |
184 | This can happen in some cases when shell redirections are used. | |
185 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
186 | ||
187 | 12. Delayed the opening of archive file until after suid had been | |
188 | dropped (fixing a possible security issue if dump is suid). | |
189 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
190 | ||
191 | 13. Fixed the 'S' command handling in the rmt client part. | |
192 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
193 | ||
194 | 14. Modified the end-of-tape script handling to print out statistics | |
195 | (and stop the timer) before launching the eot script. Also, the eot | |
196 | script does not get run anymore when using -M (which makes sense) or | |
197 | when multiple tapes are listed on the command line | |
198 | (-f tape0,tape1,tapen) (which also makes sense). | |
199 | Thanks to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for the patch. | |
200 | ||
201 | 15. Relicensed dump/restore under the 'revised' BSD license, as per | |
202 | ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change. | |
203 | ||
204 | 16. Added LZO compression to dump. This new compression method has | |
205 | the advantage of being super fast, thus not killing tape streaming | |
206 | on slow machines. Thanks to Helmut Jarausch | |
207 | <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> for the patch and to | |
208 | Markus Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> for giving special permission | |
209 | to include his miniLZO project (GPL licensed) in dump/restore. | |
210 | ||
211 | 17. Some small buffer overruns fixes in rmt. Thanks to Antonomasia | |
212 | <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> for reporting the bugs. | |
213 | ||
214 | 18. Added a special rmt version which can do encryption when writing | |
215 | to tape. Read examples/encrypted_rmt/README for details on | |
216 | how to enable and configure it. Thanks to Ken Lalonde | |
217 | <ken@globalremit.com> for the patch. | |
218 | ||
219 | 19. Made dump work with 2.5 kernel end of tape early warning semantics. | |
220 | Thanks to Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> for the patch. | |
221 | ||
222 | 20. Fixed a bug which caused dump -w|-W not to work anymore, because | |
223 | the fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/mtab are always set | |
224 | to 0 0. Thanks to Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> for | |
225 | reporting the bug. | |
226 | ||
227 | Changes between versions 0.4b32 and 0.4b33 (released February 10, 2003) | |
228 | ======================================================================= | |
229 | ||
230 | 1. Added a note in the restore man page clarifying the question | |
231 | 'set the permissions on the current directory ?' asked by | |
232 | restore at the end of treatment in -i and -x modes. | |
233 | ||
234 | 2. Fixed the endianess issues when reading compressed tapes. | |
235 | Thanks to Dark Force <daq4th@users.sourceforge.net> for | |
236 | reporting this bug and providing test cases. | |
237 | ||
238 | 3. Fixed the "ACL won't be dumped" warning message (which showed | |
239 | an extra, unrelated error message). Thanks to Dragan Krnic | |
240 | <dkrnic@lycos.com> for reporting this bug. | |
241 | ||
242 | 4. Made dump look first into /etc/mtab, then into /etc/fstab | |
243 | when searching for filesystem paths. Also fixed some problems | |
244 | caused by binding mounts or multiple block device mounts. | |
245 | Thanks to Matus Uhlar <uhlar@fantomas.sk>, Elliott Mitchell | |
246 | <ehem@m5p.com>, Greg Edwards <gedwards@users.sourceforge.net>, | |
247 | Brian Hoy <brian.hoy@opus.co.nz>. (fixes Debian bugs #147086 | |
248 | and #160305, Sourceforge bugs #618699 and #679832). | |
249 | ||
250 | 5. Made dump's -I option accept the value '0' meaning all the | |
251 | read errors will be ignored. This can be useful when running | |
252 | dump from unattended sessions (like cron jobs). Thanks to | |
253 | John I Wang <jiwang@users.sourceforge.net> for the suggestion. | |
254 | ||
255 | 6. Fixed the output of dump to indicate 'blocks' instead of | |
256 | 'tape blocks' in the various messages (blocks are always | |
257 | 1 Kilobyte, tape blocks are 1 BK * '-b' argument), and | |
258 | made it clearly print the current blocksize at the start of | |
259 | a dump. Thanks to Michal Szymanski <msz@astrouw.edu.pl> for | |
260 | the suggestions. | |
261 | ||
262 | 7. Made rmt understand long (largefiles) seeks. | |
263 | ||
264 | 8. Fixed build with very old versions of libext2fs, where | |
265 | EXT2_FT_* constants were undefined. | |
266 | ||
267 | 9. Made dump accept the dumpdates path on the command line | |
268 | (-D file option) instead of using only the hardcoded one. | |
269 | Thanks to Piete Brooks <pb22@users.sourceforge.net> for the | |
270 | suggestion. | |
271 | ||
272 | 10. Enabled rmt, LFS, readline, QFA options by default in | |
273 | ./configure. Updated the configure process (new versions | |
274 | of config.guess, config.sub etc). | |
275 | ||
276 | Changes between versions 0.4b31 and 0.4b32 (released November 15, 2002) | |
277 | ======================================================================= | |
278 | ||
279 | 1. Changed dump to use fcntl(F_SETLK) style locking instead | |
280 | of flock() when locking the dumpdates file. With the old | |
281 | locking scheme, a local user having read rights on the | |
282 | dumpdates file could be able to do a Denial of Service attack | |
283 | on dump. In order to lock the dumpdates file with the new | |
284 | scheme, the user would need to have write access on the file. | |
285 | Thanks to Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson3@ey.com> for | |
286 | reporting the bug (originally a bugtraq post). | |
287 | ||
288 | 2. Fixed interactive 'ls' which caused spurious errors warnings | |
289 | about 'undefined filetypes' detected. Thanks to Jorgen Ostling | |
290 | <jorgen_ostling@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this | |
291 | bug. | |
292 | ||
293 | 3. Fixed dump's estimate when dealing with sparse inodes. | |
294 | ||
295 | 4. Modified dump to allow setting a blocksize bigger than 32kB | |
296 | (raised the limit to 1024kB), because newer hardware needs | |
297 | this for proper operation. Thanks to Dirk Traenapp | |
298 | <dtraenapp@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this. | |
299 | ||
300 | 5. Fixed a bug causing Dump to stop and report an error if an | |
301 | inode number in the exclude file was followed by some amount | |
302 | of whitespace. Thanks to Jeffrey Sofferin | |
303 | <sofferin@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting this bug. | |
304 | ||
305 | 6. Fixed a bug which caused restore, in some particular cases, | |
306 | to ask some 'scary' questions and leave a bunch of RSTTMP | |
307 | directories behind when restoring incremental tapes. Thanks | |
308 | to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for reporting this bug and | |
309 | providing the test cases. | |
310 | ||
311 | 7. Changed the wording when inodes are excluded from dump: | |
312 | replaced 'Added inode 7 to exclude list' with | |
313 | 'Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump', as suggested | |
314 | by Elliott Mitchell <ehem@m5p.com> in a Debian bug report. | |
315 | ||
316 | Changes between versions 0.4b30 and 0.4b31 (released July 30, 2002) | |
317 | =================================================================== | |
318 | ||
319 | 1. Fixed rmt open flags transmission (GNU's symbolic syntax over | |
320 | rmt) which I broke in 0.4b29. Thanks to Eros Albertazzi | |
321 | <eros@lamel.bo.cnr.it> for reporting the bug. | |
322 | ||
323 | Changes between versions 0.4b29 and 0.4b30 (released July 25, 2002) | |
324 | =================================================================== | |
325 | ||
326 | 1. Made dump print out the ext2 logical block number in case of a read | |
327 | error, which can be given as an argument to debugfs' ncheck command, | |
328 | in order to find out the affected inode. Added note about this | |
329 | usage in dump's man page. | |
330 | ||
331 | 2. Fixed a problem in restore when reading tapes written on big | |
332 | endian machines with very old versions of dump. The patch was | |
333 | contributed by George Helffrich <george@geology.bristol.ac.uk>. | |
334 | ||
335 | 3. Fixed the tape length calculation when using large tapes | |
336 | and compression. Thanks to Georg Lippold | |
337 | <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug. | |
338 | ||
339 | 4. Added a new set of examples in dump_on_cd_2 directory, based | |
340 | on dump_on_cd examples but somewhat enhanced, supporting DVD | |
341 | media, and localized in english and german. Thanks to | |
342 | Georg Lippold <g_lippold@sourceforge.net> for the new scripts. | |
343 | ||
344 | 5. Made dump save 32 bit UID/GID. Internally, this was achieved | |
345 | by switching from the old BSD inode format to the new BSD | |
346 | inode format, which means that the tape format was changed. | |
347 | However, since all restore versions out there should | |
348 | transparently support both inode formats, the change should | |
349 | have no side effects. Thanks to John Yu <jky@cs.bu.edu> for | |
350 | reporting the bug. | |
351 | ||
352 | 6. Fixed a lot of warnings in the code shown when compiling | |
353 | with 'gcc -W'. Thanks to Matthias Andree | |
354 | <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> for reporting this. | |
355 | ||
356 | 7. Fixed a small markup bug in the dump man page. Thanks to | |
357 | Eric S. Raymond <esr@minx.thyrsus.com> for submitting the | |
358 | patch. | |
359 | ||
360 | 8. Rewrote entirely the man pages using the tmac.an macro | |
361 | package (Linux man page format) instead of the original BSD | |
362 | format. They should be now cleaner and easier to modify. | |
363 | ||
364 | Changes between versions 0.4b28 and 0.4b29 (released June 8, 2002) | |
365 | ================================================================== | |
366 | ||
367 | 1. Fixed a problem in the rmt ioctl command, where ioctl's issued from | |
368 | non Linux clients were misinterpreted. The description of the problem | |
369 | (incompatible numbering in Linux mtio opcodes) is documented at | |
370 | ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.mtio . Thanks to | |
371 |