1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.107 2001/03/20 09:14:57 stelian Exp $
3 Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released ????????????????)
4 ======================================================================
6 1. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
7 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
9 2. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
10 question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
11 Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
12 bug and providing a patch.
14 3. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
15 Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
17 WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
18 drives supporting variable block size.
20 WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
21 incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
22 version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
24 4. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
25 architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
26 the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
29 5. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
30 ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
31 in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
33 Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
34 ======================================================================
36 1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
37 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
38 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
40 2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
41 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
42 who reported this stupid error.
44 3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
45 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
46 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
48 4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
49 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
50 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
51 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
52 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
53 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
55 5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
56 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
59 6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
60 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
61 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
62 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
63 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
64 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
65 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
67 7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
68 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
69 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
70 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
71 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
72 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
73 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
76 8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
77 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
78 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
79 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
80 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
82 Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
83 =======================================================================
85 1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
86 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
87 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
88 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
89 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
92 2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
93 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
94 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
95 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
96 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
98 3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
99 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
100 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
101 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
103 4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
104 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
105 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
106 when multiple -e options are used.
108 5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
109 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
110 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
111 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
113 6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
114 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
116 7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
117 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
119 8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
120 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
121 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
123 9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
124 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
125 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
126 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
128 10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
129 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
130 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
131 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
133 11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
134 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
135 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
136 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
138 Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
139 =====================================================================
141 1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
142 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
143 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
145 2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
147 3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
148 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
149 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
150 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
152 4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
153 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
154 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
155 for reporting the bug.
157 5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
158 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
159 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
160 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
162 6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
163 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
164 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
165 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
168 7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
169 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
170 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
172 8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
173 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
174 library in order to compile the readline support.
176 9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
177 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
178 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
179 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
180 for providing the patch.
182 Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
183 ===================================================================
185 1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
186 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
189 2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
190 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
191 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
194 3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
195 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
196 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
197 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
198 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
201 4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
202 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
203 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
204 to make network backups should read first the man page
205 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
207 5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
208 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
209 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
210 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
212 Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
213 ====================================================================
215 1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
216 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
217 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
219 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
220 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
221 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
222 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
223 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
225 2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
226 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
229 3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
230 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
231 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
232 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
233 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
235 4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
237 5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
238 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
239 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
241 6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
242 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
243 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
246 7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
247 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
248 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
249 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
251 Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
252 ====================================================================
254 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
257 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
258 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
259 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
260 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
261 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
262 character at the end).
264 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
265 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
266 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
268 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
269 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
270 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
271 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
274 5. Added the device name and the current volume number
275 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
277 6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
278 broken it in 0.4b15).
280 Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
281 ===================================================================
283 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
284 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
286 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
287 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
288 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
289 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
290 who forwarded me his mail).
292 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
293 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
294 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
297 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
300 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
301 in both dump and restore.
303 Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
304 =======================================================================
306 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
307 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
308 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
309 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
310 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
311 bug and submitting the patch.
313 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
314 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
315 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
316 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
318 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
319 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
321 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
322 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
324 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
325 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
327 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
328 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
329 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
331 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
332 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
333 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
334 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
335 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
336 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
337 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
338 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
339 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
340 helping me test the fix.
342 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
343 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
344 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
345 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
347 Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
348 ======================================================================
350 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
351 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
353 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
354 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
355 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
357 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
358 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
359 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
360 helping me find this bug.
362 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
363 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
364 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
366 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
367 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
369 Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
370 =====================================================================
372 1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
373 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
375 2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
376 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
377 submitting the patch.
379 3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
380 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
381 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
383 4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
384 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
385 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
387 5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
388 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
389 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
390 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
392 6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
393 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
394 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
395 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
396 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
398 7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
399 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
400 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
401 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
402 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
404 Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
405 ======================================================================
407 1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
409 2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
410 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
411 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
412 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
414 3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
415 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
416 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
417 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
418 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
419 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
420 asking to enter a new tape each time.
422 4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
423 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
424 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
426 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
427 ======================================================================
429 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
430 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
431 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
432 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
433 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
436 2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
437 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
438 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
439 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
441 3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
442 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
445 4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
446 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
447 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
448 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
449 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
450 it is dumped (it should not).
452 5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
453 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
455 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
456 ====================================================================
458 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
459 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
460 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
461 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
462 this and providing the patch.
464 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
465 ====================================================================
467 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
468 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
470 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
471 easily verify the version he is using.
473 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
474 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
475 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
477 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
478 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
479 for submitting the bug report.
481 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
482 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
484 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
485 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
486 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
487 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
489 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
490 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
491 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
494 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
495 ===================================================================
497 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
500 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
501 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
503 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
504 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
505 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
506 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
507 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
509 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
510 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
512 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
513 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
514 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
516 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
518 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
519 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
522 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
523 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
524 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
525 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
526 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
527 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
529 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
530 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
533 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
534 included the current date/version in man pages.
536 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
537 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
538 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
539 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
540 the results canceled each other...
542 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
543 ===================================================================
545 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
547 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
549 - several fixes in the man pages.
550 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
551 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
553 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
554 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
555 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
556 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
558 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
559 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
561 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
563 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
564 routines (only if available).
566 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
567 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
569 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
570 ======================================================================
572 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
573 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
574 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
575 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
578 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
580 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
581 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
584 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
585 This works for me, needs further testing.
587 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
588 ====================================================================
590 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
591 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
593 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
594 ========================================
596 1. Use realpath() if available
600 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
601 ========================================
603 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
606 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
608 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
610 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
611 ======================================
613 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
615 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
617 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
619 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
620 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
622 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
623 distribution's one) to use autoconf
625 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
627 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
628 ======================================
630 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
632 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
634 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
635 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
637 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
640 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
642 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
643 correctly files ending by a hole.
645 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
646 ======================================
648 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
649 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
651 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
652 ======================================
654 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
656 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
658 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
659 ======================================
661 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
663 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
664 ======================================
666 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
668 2. Enabled optimization again.
670 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
671 =====================================
673 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
675 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
676 ====================================
678 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
679 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
680 use the mntent functions).
682 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
683 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
684 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
685 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
688 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
689 filesystems like the BSD version.
691 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
694 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
695 ====================================
697 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
699 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
701 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
704 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.