1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.51 2000/03/09 13:12:31 stelian Exp $
3 Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released ?????????????)
4 ===================================================================
6 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
9 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
10 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
11 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
12 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
13 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
14 character at the end).
16 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
17 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
18 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
20 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
21 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
22 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
23 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
26 Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
27 ===================================================================
29 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
30 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
32 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
33 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
34 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
35 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
36 who forwarded me his mail).
38 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
39 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
40 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
43 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
46 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
47 in both dump and restore.
49 Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
50 =======================================================================
52 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
53 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
54 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
55 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
56 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
57 bug and submitting the patch.
59 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
60 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
61 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
62 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
64 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
65 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
67 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
68 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
70 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
71 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
73 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
74 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
75 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
77 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
78 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
79 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
80 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
81 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
82 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
83 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
84 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
85 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
86 helping me test the fix.
88 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
89 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
90 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
91 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
93 Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
94 ======================================================================
96 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
97 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
99 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
100 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
101 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
103 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
104 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
105 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
106 helping me find this bug.
108 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
109 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
110 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
112 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
113 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
115 Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
116 =====================================================================
118 1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
119 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
121 2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
122 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
123 submitting the patch.
125 3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
126 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
127 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
129 4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
130 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
131 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
133 5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
134 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
135 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
136 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
138 6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
139 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
140 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
141 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
142 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
144 7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
145 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
146 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
147 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
148 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
150 Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
151 ======================================================================
153 1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
155 2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
156 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
157 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
158 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
160 3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
161 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
162 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
163 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
164 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
165 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
166 asking to enter a new tape each time.
168 4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
169 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
170 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
172 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
173 ======================================================================
175 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
176 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
177 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
178 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
179 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
182 2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
183 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
184 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
185 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
187 3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
188 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
191 4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
192 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
193 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
194 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
195 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
196 it is dumped (it should not).
198 5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
199 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
201 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
202 ====================================================================
204 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
205 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
206 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
207 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
208 this and providing the patch.
210 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
211 ====================================================================
213 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
214 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
216 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
217 easily verify the version he is using.
219 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
220 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
221 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
223 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
224 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
225 for submitting the bug report.
227 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
228 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
230 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
231 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
232 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
233 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
235 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
236 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
237 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
240 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
241 ===================================================================
243 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
246 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
247 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
249 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
250 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
251 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
252 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
253 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
255 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
256 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
258 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
259 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
260 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
262 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
264 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
265 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
268 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
269 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
270 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
271 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
272 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
273 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
275 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
276 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
279 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
280 included the current date/version in man pages.
282 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
283 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
284 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
285 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
286 the results canceled each other...
288 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
289 ===================================================================
291 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
293 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
295 - several fixes in the man pages.
296 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
297 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
299 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
300 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
301 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
302 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
304 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
305 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
307 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
309 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
310 routines (only if available).
312 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
313 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
315 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
316 ======================================================================
318 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
319 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
320 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
321 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
324 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
326 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
327 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
330 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
331 This works for me, needs further testing.
333 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
334 ====================================================================
336 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
337 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
339 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
340 ========================================
342 1. Use realpath() if available
346 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
347 ========================================
349 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
352 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
354 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
356 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
357 ======================================
359 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
361 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
363 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
365 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
366 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
368 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
369 distribution's one) to use autoconf
371 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
373 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
374 ======================================
376 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
378 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
380 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
381 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
383 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
386 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
388 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
389 correctly files ending by a hole.
391 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
392 ======================================
394 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
395 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
397 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
398 ======================================
400 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
402 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
404 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
405 ======================================
407 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
409 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
410 ======================================
412 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
414 2. Enabled optimization again.
416 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
417 =====================================
419 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
421 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
422 ====================================
424 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
425 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
426 use the mntent functions).
428 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
429 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
430 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
431 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
434 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
435 filesystems like the BSD version.
437 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
440 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
441 ====================================
443 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
445 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
447 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
450 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.