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1 $Id: CHANGES,v 1.101 2001/02/16 10:40:47 stelian Exp $
2
3 Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released ????????????????)
4 ======================================================================
5
6 1. Let dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
7 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
8
9 Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
10 ======================================================================
11
12 1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
13 the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
14 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
15
16 2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
17 headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
18 who reported this stupid error.
19
20 3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
21 _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
22 <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
23
24 4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
25 the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
26 report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
27 strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
28 Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
29 bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
30
31 5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
32 messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
33 for the patch.
34
35 6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
36 robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
37 bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
38 <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
39 the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
40 fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
41 anything, he is to blame for :-)).
42
43 7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
44 containing large files, generate a large file on output and
45 restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
46 default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
47 it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
48 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
49 and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
50 useful thoughts.
51
52 8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
53 the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
54 assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
55 behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
56 Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
57
58 Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
59 =======================================================================
60
61 1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
62 in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
63 glibc 2.0 / libc5. Thanks to Gunther Schlegel
64 <schlegel@riege.de> for reporting the bug and to
65 Dave Platt <dplatt@snulbug.mtview.ca.us> for suggesting
66 a fix.
67
68 2. Modified the label and uuid analysis in order to be
69 self-contained (independant of kernel/libc headers). This
70 should fix the compile with older kernel/libc headers and
71 will preserve the functionality. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
72 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
73
74 3. The 'exclude inode' option, if applied to a directory
75 inode, excludes now correctly all the leaves of this
76 directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
77 <gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
78
79 4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
80 to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
81 be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
82 when multiple -e options are used.
83
84 5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
85 which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
86 (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
87 <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
88
89 6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
90 dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
91
92 7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
93 RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
94
95 8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
96 of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
97 Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
98
99 9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
100 present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
101 the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
102 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
103
104 10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
105 default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
106 override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
107 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
108
109 11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
110 Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
111 will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
112 <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
113
114 Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
115 =====================================================================
116
117 1. Fixed the signal handling in dump (which I broke in 0.4b17)
118 which was causing several strange dump failures (dump
119 hanged or segmentation faults etc).
120
121 2. Specified the default blocksize in the dump man page.
122
123 3. Changed two info messages of restore to be written on stdout
124 instead of stderr in order to leave stderr only for errors
125 or warnings. Thanks to Stephen Atwell
126 <satwell@urbana.css.mot.com> for the suggestion.
127
128 4. Corrected an off by one calculation which prevented
129 dumping a directory having a 1 character name length.
130 Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de>
131 for reporting the bug.
132
133 5. Reinforce dump in order to allow only level 0 and no
134 -u option when dumping a subdirectory, and document
135 this in the man page. Thanks to Bernhard Erdmann
136 <bernhard.erdmann@gmx.de> for reporting the bug.
137
138 6. Fixed a small harmless bug in restore which caused
139 in some conditions hard links to be restored several
140 times (therefore generation some warning messages).
141 Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for
142 reporting the bug.
143
144 7. Updated the RPM spec file to the latest RedHat version,
145 providing FHS packaging and other cosmetic changes.
146 You will need RPM version >= 3.0.5 in order to build the RPM.
147
148 8. Updated the configure script to check for libtermcap
149 before checking for libreadline, because we need this
150 library in order to compile the readline support.
151
152 9. Made dump understand the LABEL= and UUID= notation
153 both in /etc/fstab and on the command line. Note that
154 you will need the /proc filesystem in order to use
155 these notations. Thanks to Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
156 for providing the patch.
157
158 Changes between versions 0.4b17 and 0.4b18 (released June 30, 2000)
159 ===================================================================
160
161 1. Fixed a potential buffer overflow in restore. Thanks
162 to Stan Bubrouski <satan@fastdial.net> for reporting
163 the bug.
164
165 2. Fixed a readline-related bug which prevented
166 'cat DUMPFILE | restore -i -f -' from working. Thanks
167 to Charles Karney <karney@users.sourceforge.net>
168 for the bug report.
169
170 3. Changed a few "panic" into "exit", causing restore to
171 be more stable against some attacks (like the last one
172 reported on Bugtraq, although the last version of restore
173 was not vulnerable - just dumped core). Thanks to
174 Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br> for reporting
175 the bugs to me.
176
177 4. Removed the suid-root bit on dump and restore in the
178 default build (and generated RPMs). It should be safer
179 now. Users who need the suid-root capabilities in order
180 to make network backups should read first the man page
181 of dump and enable the suid bit manually.
182
183 5. Added -ltermcap to the compile parameters for restore
184 when using readline support, in order to make the compile
185 process work on some systems (SuSE ?). Thanks to
186 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
187
188 Changes between versions 0.4b16 and 0.4b17 (released June 1st, 2000)
189 ====================================================================
190
191 1. The -F script is called now *only* at the end of a tape,
192 not at the end of the dump. Thanks to Christian Haul
193 <haul@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> for the bug report.
194
195 Normally, the device name and the current volume number
196 are passed on the command line of the script. However,
197 if you want the old style script (with no arguments
198 passed on the command line), you can enable it in
199 configure with the --enable-oldstylefscript.
200
201 2. Use posix signal handling to preserve dump functionality
202 with libc5. Thanks to Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> for
203 the patch.
204
205 3. Made the exit code of restore in case of a 'C'ompare
206 command reflect the result of the compare. An exit status
207 of 0 means the dump archive is correct, 1 means tape errors,
208 2 means that some files were modified. Thanks to Kenneth Porter
209 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
210
211 4. Made (finally) quotes work in interactive restore.
212
213 5. Small fixes in order to allow dump to compile with a
214 really old e2fsprogs version. Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
215 <itz@speakeasy.org> for the bug report.
216
217 6. Add GNU readline capabilities to interactive restore.
218 Use configure's --enable-readline flag to enable this feature.
219 Thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for the
220 suggestion.
221
222 7. Do the compare on the fly in restore 'C' mode (this will
223 allow not to exhaust the available /tmp space when
224 ccmparing large files). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
225 <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
226
227 Changes between versions 0.4b15 and 0.4b16 (released March 11, 2000)
228 ====================================================================
229
230 1. Fixed some several duplicate 'DUMP: DUMP:' in the
231 output of dump.
232
233 2. Corrected the estimation of blocks to dump. Note that
234 this is still wrong for large directory inodes, due
235 to the size of a BSD directory entry on the tape
236 (estimation is based on the size of the ext2 directory,
237 which is smaller because it doesn't contain the null
238 character at the end).
239
240 3. Made dump report the total number of MB written to
241 tape at the end of run. Thanks to W. Reilly Cooley
242 <wcooley@nakedape.cc> for the patch.
243
244 4. Added the -X option to restore giving the possibility
245 to read the names of the files to be extracted/listed
246 from a text file (in addition of the command line).
247 Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan@quant-x.com> for the
248 patch.
249
250 5. Added the device name and the current volume number
251 as arguments to the end of tape script (dump -F option).
252
253 6. Made the multi-volume dump work again (after having
254 broken it in 0.4b15).
255
256 Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released March 2, 2000)
257 ===================================================================
258
259 1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
260 to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
261
262 2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
263 not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
264 Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
265 reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
266 who forwarded me his mail).
267
268 3. Added the '-F script' option to dump in order to
269 launch a script at the end of each tape (to be used
270 with a tape changer, or to notify the sysadmin by
271 pager etc.).
272
273 4. Fixed a bug in restore compare code caused by the changes
274 I made in 0.4b14.
275
276 5. Fixed the treatment of options using the old BSD syntax
277 in both dump and restore.
278
279 Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
280 =======================================================================
281
282 1. Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted
283 directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
284 mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
285 to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
286 Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
287 bug and submitting the patch.
288
289 2. Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
290 '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
291 but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
292 to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
293
294 3. Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
295 it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
296
297 4. Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
298 Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
299
300 5. Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
301 on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
302
303 6. Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
304 having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
305 Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
306
307 7. Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
308 endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian
309 machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
310 compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian
311 machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
312 linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD,
313 Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible,
314 so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
315 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
316 helping me test the fix.
317
318 8. Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
319 the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
320 number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt
321 <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
322
323 Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
324 ======================================================================
325
326 1. Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
327 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.
328
329 2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
330 spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
331 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
332
333 3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
334 causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
335 Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
336 helping me find this bug.
337
338 4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
339 the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
340 <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
341
342 5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
343 garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
344
345 Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
346 =====================================================================
347
348 1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
349 <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
350
351 2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
352 dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
353 submitting the patch.
354
355 3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
356 dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
357 <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
358
359 4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
360 (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
361 tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
362
363 5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
364 dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
365 having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
366 <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
367
368 6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
369 from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
370 with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
371 amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
372 <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
373
374 7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
375 Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
376 other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
377 older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
378 <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
379
380 Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
381 ======================================================================
382
383 1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
384
385 2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
386 that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
387 to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
388 <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
389
390 3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
391 dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
392 partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
393 file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
394 the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
395 the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
396 asking to enter a new tape each time.
397
398 4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
399 (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
400 Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
401
402 Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
403 ======================================================================
404
405 1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
406 extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
407 routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
408 <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
409 and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
410 glitches.
411
412 2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
413 feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
414 <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
415 Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
416
417 3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
418 has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
419 contents.
420
421 4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
422 which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
423 is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
424 filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
425 NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
426 it is dumped (it should not).
427
428 5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
429 to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
430
431 Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
432 ====================================================================
433
434 1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
435 when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
436 to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
437 Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
438 this and providing the patch.
439
440 Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
441 ====================================================================
442
443 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
444 one can use 'ident' on binary files.
445
446 2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
447 easily verify the version he is using.
448
449 3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
450 a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
451 va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
452
453 4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
454 contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
455 for submitting the bug report.
456
457 5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
458 this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
459
460 6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
461 use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
462 bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
463 backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
464
465 7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
466 we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
467 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
468 this should work.
469
470 Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
471 ===================================================================
472
473 1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
474 was not compiled in.
475
476 2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
477 to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
478
479 3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
480 file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
481 flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
482 should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
483 by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
484
485 4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
486 (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
487
488 5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
489 unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
490 which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
491
492 6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
493
494 7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
495 when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
496 dump).
497
498 8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
499 dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
500 one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
501 compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
502 worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
503 DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
504
505 9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
506 the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
507 /etc/dumpdates.
508
509 10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
510 included the current date/version in man pages.
511
512 11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
513 the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
514 was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
515 that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
516 the results canceled each other...
517
518 Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
519 ===================================================================
520
521 1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
522
523 - tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u' option
524 isn't specified.
525 - several fixes in the man pages.
526 - update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
527 - many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
528 - buffer overruns.
529 - use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
530 - use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
531 - workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
532 - wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
533
534 2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
535 made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
536
537 3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
538
539 4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
540 routines (only if available).
541
542 5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
543 by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
544
545 Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
546 ======================================================================
547
548 1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
549 (mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
550 tape length calculation" flag, dump/restore can use kerberos now
551 (this is NOT tested), use environment variables for TAPE and
552 RMT etc.).
553
554 2. Integrated three RedHat patches ("glibc", "kernel" and "bread" patches)
555
556 3. Corrected a bug in restore when using 'C' option with multi-volumes
557 tapes (files splited accros two tapes give "size changed" errors
558 when comparing).
559
560 4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
561 This works for me, needs further testing.
562
563 Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
564 ====================================================================
565
566 1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
567 Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
568
569 Changes between versions 0.4b2 and 0.4b3
570 ========================================
571
572 1. Use realpath() if available
573
574 2. Report statistics
575
576 Changes between versions 0.4b1 and 0.4b2
577 ========================================
578
579 1. Fixed the bug fix from Greg Lutz (I had made a mistake when integrating
580 the patch)
581
582 2. Fixed restore to make it able to read FreeBSD 2.x dumps again
583
584 3. Fixed configure.in to correctly handle --enable-rmt
585
586 Changes between versions 0.3 and 0.4b1
587 ======================================
588
589 1. Integrated the changes from 4.4BSD-Lite2
590
591 2. Integrated the patches from Debian and Red Hat
592
593 3. Portability changes: use the __u32, __u16, __s32, and __s16 types
594
595 4. Changed dump to use the Ext2fs library to get block addresses. This
596 should solve the endianness problem on SparcLinux.
597
598 5. Created a configure.in file (shamelessly stolen from the e2fsprogs
599 distribution's one) to use autoconf
600
601 6. Fixed a few minor bugs
602
603 Changes between versions 0.2e and 0.2f
604 ======================================
605
606 1. Added the creation of named pipes (fifos) in restore.
607
608 2. Added the -N flag in the restore manual page.
609
610 3. Added the file kernel.patch which contains the llseek() optimization
611 patch for 1.2.x kernels.
612
613 4. Fixed a bug in the restoration of symbolic links: owner and group were
614 not restored.
615
616 5. Integrated some changes from FreeBSD 2.2.
617
618 6. Added a call to ftruncate() after restoring each file to restore
619 correctly files ending by a hole.
620
621 Changes between versions 0.2d and 0.2e
622 ======================================
623
624 1. Fixed a bug in the "set owner/mode" process. Every file was restored
625 with owner = root (0) and group = root/wheel/whatever (0).
626
627 Changes between versions 0.2c and 0.2d
628 ======================================
629
630 1. Dump is now able to backup 2GB+ filesystems.
631
632 2. Dump and restore can now be linked as static binaries.
633
634 Changes between versions 0.2b and 0.2c
635 ======================================
636
637 1. Fixed a bug when dumping ``slow'' (i.e. normal) symbolic links.
638
639 Changes between versions 0.2a and 0.2b
640 ======================================
641
642 1. Really fixed the bug that I should have corrected in 0.2a.
643
644 2. Enabled optimization again.
645
646 Changes between versions 0.2 and 0.2a
647 =====================================
648
649 1. Disabled the optimization during compilation.
650
651 Changes between versions 0.1 and 0.2
652 ====================================
653
654 1. Fixed a bug in fstab.c which caused a null pointer to be stored in
655 the fs_type field (actually, I modified the file fstab.c to make it
656 use the mntent functions).
657
658 2. Dump and restore now use a 4.3 BSD compatible dump format. Backups
659 made by dump should be readable by the BSD restore and backups made
660 by the BSD dump should be readable by restore. Unfortunately, this
661 means that the dump format has changed between version 0.1 and version
662 0.2 :-(
663
664 3. Dump is now able to backup a subtree, it is no longer limited to whole
665 filesystems like the BSD version.
666
667 4. Dump now uses ext2_llseek() so it is able to backup filesystems bigger
668 than 2 GB.
669
670 Changes between versions 0.0 and 0.1
671 ====================================
672
673 1. Now create links rdump and rrestore during the `make install' step.
674
675 2. Linux port specific bugs added to the manual pages
676
677 3. Incorrect estimation of the number of tapes blocks fixed when doing
678 incremental backups.
679
680 4. Better ls-like format in restore in interactive mode.