Compatibility between dumps made on little endian machines vs. big endian machines...

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-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.35 2000/01/17 16:32:44 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.42 2000/02/10 09:42:32 stelian Exp $
 
-Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released ???????????????)
-=====================================================================
+Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released ????????????????)
+======================================================================
+
+1.     Fixed a bug in dump which may have caused invalid deleted 
+       directories to be dumped out if they were deleted after the
+       mapping pass. This could occure on active filesystem and lead
+       to heap corruption (causing dump malfunction in many possible ways).
+       Thanks to Jan Sanislo <oystr@cs.washington.edu> for finding this
+       bug and submitting the patch.
+
+2.     Fixed the handling of the filesystem parameter in dump. A
+       '/mnt/disk' parameter caused the disk contents to be dumped,
+       but a '/mnt/disk/' parameter caused the mountpoint directory
+       to be dumped (generally an empty directory).
+
+3.     Improved the output of dump in order to tell which directory
+       it is currently dumping (when dumping a subtree).
+
+4.     Added the '-e' exclude inode option to dump. Thanks to
+       Isaac Chuang <ike@isl.stanford.edu> for contributing with the patch.
+
+5.     Added a REPORTING-BUGS file in order to provide a guide
+       on how to correctly report a bug in dump/restore.
+
+6.     Fixed a restore problem when restoring a hard link to an inode
+       having the immutable or append-only attribute set. Thanks to
+       Ambrose Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> for submitting the patch.
+
+7.     Fixed a compatibility problem between dumps made on little
+       endian machines (the format was correct) and big endian 
+       machines (the format was incorrect). This fix break the
+       compatibility with the older dumps made on big endian 
+       machines (sparc, m86k, ppc etc). For the first time in
+       linux dump's history (I believe), the dumps made by *BSD, 
+       Linux/alpha, Linux/sparc and Linux/x86 are compatible, 
+       so interchangeable. Thanks to Rob Cermak
+       <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu> for submitting the bug and
+       helping me test the fix.
+
+8.     Fixed the way dump reports the remaining percent/time, if
+       the number of blocks actually dumped exceeds the estimated
+       number of blocks. Thanks to Jean-Paul van der Jagt 
+       <jeanpaul@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> for reporting the bug.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b12 and 0.4b13 (released January 21, 2000)
+======================================================================
 
 1.     Small Y2K fix in the man pages :). Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
        <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug.