1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.9 1999/10/30 22:55:45 tiniou Exp $
3 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????)
4 ===================================================================
6 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
7 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
9 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
10 easily verify the version he is using.
12 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
13 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
14 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
16 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
17 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
18 for submitting the bug report.
20 5. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
21 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
22 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
23 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
25 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
26 ===================================================================
28 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
31 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
32 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
34 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
35 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
36 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
37 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
38 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
40 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
41 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
43 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
44 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
45 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
47 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
49 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
50 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
53 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
54 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
55 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
56 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
57 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
58 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
60 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
61 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
64 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
65 included the current date/version in man pages.
67 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
68 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
69 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
70 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
71 the results canceled each other...
73 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
74 ===================================================================
76 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
78 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
80 - several fixes in the man pages.
81 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
82 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
84 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
85 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
86 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
87 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
89 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
90 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
92 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
94 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
95 routines (only if available).
97 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
98 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
100 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
101 ======================================================================
103 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
104 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
105 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
106 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
109 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
111 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
112 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
115 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
116 This works for me, needs further testing.
118 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
119 ====================================================================
121 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
122 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
124 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
125 ========================================
127 1. Use realpath() if available
131 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
132 ========================================
134 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
137 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
139 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
141 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
142 ======================================
144 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
146 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
148 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
150 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
151 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
153 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
154 distribution's one) to use autoconf
156 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
158 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
159 ======================================
161 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
163 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
165 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
166 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
168 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
171 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
173 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
174 correctly files ending by a hole.
176 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
177 ======================================
179 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
180 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
182 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
183 ======================================
185 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
187 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
189 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
190 ======================================
192 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
194 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
195 ======================================
197 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
199 2. Enabled optimization again.
201 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
202 =====================================
204 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
206 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
207 ====================================
209 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
210 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
211 use the mntent functions).
213 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
214 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
215 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
216 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
219 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
220 filesystems like the BSD version.
222 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
225 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
226 ====================================
228 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
230 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
232 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
235 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.