1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.106 2001/03/19 13:22:48 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) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
32 Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
33 ======================================================================
35 1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
36 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
37 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
39 2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
40 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
41 who reported this stupid error.
43 3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
44 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
45 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
47 4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
48 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
49 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
50 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
51 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
52 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
54 5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
55 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
58 6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
59 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
60 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
61 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
62 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
63 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
64 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
66 7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
67 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
68 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
69 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
70 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
71 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
72 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
75 8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
76 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
77 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
78 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
79 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
81 Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
82 =======================================================================
84 1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
85 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
86 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
87 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
88 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
91 2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
92 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
93 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
94 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
95 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
97 3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
98 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
99 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
100 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
102 4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
103 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
104 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
105 when multiple -e options are used.
107 5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
108 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
109 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
110 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
112 6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
113 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
115 7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
116 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
118 8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
119 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
120 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
122 9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
123 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
124 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
125 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
127 10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
128 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
129 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
130 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
132 11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
133 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
134 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
135 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
137 Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
138 =====================================================================
140 1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
141 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
142 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
144 2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
146 3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
147 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
148 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
149 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
151 4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
152 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
153 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
154 for reporting the bug.
156 5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
157 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
158 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
159 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
161 6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
162 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
163 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
164 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
167 7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
168 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
169 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
171 8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
172 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
173 library in order to compile the readline support.
175 9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
176 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
177 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
178 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
179 for providing the patch.
181 Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
182 ===================================================================
184 1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
185 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
188 2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
189 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
190 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
193 3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
194 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
195 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
196 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
197 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
200 4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
201 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
202 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
203 to make network backups should read first the man page
204 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
206 5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
207 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
208 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
209 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
211 Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
212 ====================================================================
214 1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
215 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
216 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
218 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
219 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
220 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
221 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
222 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
224 2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
225 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
228 3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
229 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
230 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
231 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
232 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
234 4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
236 5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
237 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
238 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
240 6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
241 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
242 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
245 7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
246 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
247 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
248 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
250 Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
251 ====================================================================
253 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
256 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
257 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
258 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
259 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
260 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
261 character at the end).
263 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
264 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
265 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
267 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
268 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
269 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
270 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
273 5. Added the device name and the current volume number
274 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
276 6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
277 broken it in 0.4b15).
279 Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
280 ===================================================================
282 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
283 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
285 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
286 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
287 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
288 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
289 who forwarded me his mail).
291 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
292 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
293 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
296 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
299 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
300 in both dump and restore.
302 Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
303 =======================================================================
305 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
306 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
307 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
308 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
309 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
310 bug and submitting the patch.
312 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
313 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
314 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
315 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
317 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
318 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
320 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
321 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
323 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
324 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
326 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
327 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
328 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
330 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
331 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
332 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
333 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
334 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
335 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
336 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
337 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
338 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
339 helping me test the fix.
341 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
342 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
343 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
344 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
346 Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
347 ======================================================================
349 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
350 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
352 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
353 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
354 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
356 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
357 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
358 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
359 helping me find this bug.
361 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
362 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
363 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
365 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
366 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
368 Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
369 =====================================================================
371 1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
372 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
374 2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
375 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
376 submitting the patch.
378 3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
379 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
380 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
382 4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
383 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
384 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
386 5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
387 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
388 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
389 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
391 6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
392 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
393 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
394 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
395 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
397 7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
398 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
399 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
400 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
401 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
403 Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
404 ======================================================================
406 1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
408 2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
409 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
410 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
411 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
413 3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
414 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
415 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
416 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
417 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
418 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
419 asking to enter a new tape each time.
421 4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
422 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
423 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
425 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
426 ======================================================================
428 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
429 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
430 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
431 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
432 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
435 2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
436 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
437 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
438 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
440 3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
441 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
444 4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
445 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
446 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
447 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
448 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
449 it is dumped (it should not).
451 5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
452 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
454 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
455 ====================================================================
457 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
458 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
459 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
460 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
461 this and providing the patch.
463 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
464 ====================================================================
466 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
467 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
469 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
470 easily verify the version he is using.
472 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
473 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
474 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
476 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
477 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
478 for submitting the bug report.
480 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
481 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
483 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
484 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
485 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
486 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
488 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
489 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
490 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
493 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
494 ===================================================================
496 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
499 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
500 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
502 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
503 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
504 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
505 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
506 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
508 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
509 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
511 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
512 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
513 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
515 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
517 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
518 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
521 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
522 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
523 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
524 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
525 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
526 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
528 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
529 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
532 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
533 included the current date/version in man pages.
535 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
536 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
537 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
538 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
539 the results canceled each other...
541 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
542 ===================================================================
544 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
546 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
548 - several fixes in the man pages.
549 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
550 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
552 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
553 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
554 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
555 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
557 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
558 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
560 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
562 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
563 routines (only if available).
565 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
566 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
568 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
569 ======================================================================
571 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
572 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
573 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
574 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
577 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
579 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
580 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
583 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
584 This works for me, needs further testing.
586 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
587 ====================================================================
589 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
590 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
592 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
593 ========================================
595 1. Use realpath() if available
599 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
600 ========================================
602 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
605 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
607 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
609 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
610 ======================================
612 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
614 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
616 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
618 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
619 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
621 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
622 distribution's one) to use autoconf
624 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
626 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
627 ======================================
629 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
631 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
633 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
634 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
636 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
639 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
641 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
642 correctly files ending by a hole.
644 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
645 ======================================
647 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
648 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
650 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
651 ======================================
653 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
655 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
657 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
658 ======================================
660 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
662 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
663 ======================================
665 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
667 2. Enabled optimization again.
669 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
670 =====================================
672 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
674 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
675 ====================================
677 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
678 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
679 use the mntent functions).
681 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
682 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
683 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
684 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
687 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
688 filesystems like the BSD version.
690 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
693 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
694 ====================================
696 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
698 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
700 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
703 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.