-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.81 2000/09/01 14:26:23 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.128 2001/07/20 12:41:53 stelian Exp $
-Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released ???????????????)
-=====================================================================
+Changes between versions 0.4b22 and 0.4b23 (released July 20, 2001)
+===================================================================
+
+1. Fixed a buffer overflow in restore/tape.c. Patch provided by
+ Marcus Meissner (Caldera International Security Dept.).
+
+2. Implement the Sun rmt extended protocol. Patch submitted
+ by Ian Gordon <iangordon@users.sourceforge.net>.
+
+3. Check for the e2fsprogs header <ext2fs/ext2_fs.h> instead of
+ the linux kernel header. This ensures that dump always has the
+ latest version of this file. Patch submitted by
+ Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
+
+4. Report any filesystem present in either /etc/fstab with a
+ positive passno or /etc/dumpdates in dump -w output.
+ Patch submitted by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
+
+5. Fixed the looping problem in dump introduced in the
+ previous version.
+
+6. Changed the -B option of dump to limit the size of
+ _compressed_ output per volume if compression is on.
+ Patch contributed by Helmut Jarausch
+ <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>. Note however that, since
+ it is impossible to predict the size of the compressed
+ data before doing the compression, the -B limit is a bit
+ conservative.
+
+7. Fixed a bug in reading the operator typed file/tape path for
+ the next volume in restore.
+
+8. Implemented a "-F script" option to restore which permits the
+ user to specify a script which will be launched at the
+ beginning of each tape, useful for automatic programming of
+ tape changers for example. See the restore man page for the
+ script parameters and return codes.
+
+9. Small fix for the QFA routines provided by Uwe Gohlke
+ <uwe@ugsoft.de>, and some recommendations for QFA uses in
+ the man pages.
+
+10. Fixed the multivolume restoring where making a mistake
+ to the 'Mount next tape' prompt caused several blocks to
+ be lost.
+
+11. Enhanced the -e option of dump to take as a parameter a
+ comma separated list of inode numbers.
+
+12. Added the -E option to dump which specify a file containing
+ inode numbers to exclude from the dump.
+
+13. Fixed the compressed multi-volume dump + restore.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b21 and 0.4b22 (released May 12, 2001)
+==================================================================
+
+1. Made dump report the number of blocks dumped per volume.
+ Thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com> for the suggestion.
+
+2. Fix a bug in dump where waiting too much at the 'change volumes'
+ question caused the volume to be rewritten. Thanks to
+ Graham Reed <greed@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the
+ bug and providing a patch.
+
+3. Added a compression option to dump, contributed by Jerry
+ Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>.
+
+ WARNING: the compression works only on files/pipes and
+ drives supporting variable block size.
+
+ WARNING2: tapes created using the compression feature are
+ incompatible with the standard dump tape format, and a
+ version of restore >= 0.4b22 will be needed for extraction.
+
+4. Fixed some compilation problems for glibc 2.2.2 and 64 bit
+ architectures. Thanks to Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> for
+ the patch and to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for forwarding
+ it upstream.
+
+5. Many cleanups (CPP defines, const char warnings, check of
+ ext2fs COMPAT flags, time_t cleanups, added libext2 version
+ in dump usage text) by Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>.
+
+6. Made --prefix option work in configure. All the install path
+ are now based on the configure parameters.
+
+7. Added the Quick File Access mode in dump/restore, contributed
+ by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>. In this mode, dump stores in
+ a file tape position for each inode, and this file is used by
+ restore (if called with parameter Q and the filename)
+ to directly position the tape at the file restore is currently
+ working on. This saves hours when restoring single files from
+ large backups, saves the tapes and the drive's head. Use
+ --enable-qfa option of configure to compile in the QFA support.
+
+8. Added the possibility to dump several files and directories
+ in a single invocation of dump. Thanks to Uwe Gohlke
+ <uwe@ugsoft.de> for implementing this option.
+
+9. Fixed the dumping and restoring of files with holes
+ (files ending with holes didn't get dumped or restored
+ correctly).
+
+10. Fixed a socket descriptor leak in dump, which leaved opened
+ 3 file descriptors per dump process (and there is one dump
+ process per tape).
+
+11. Fixed dump large file system support, by explicit use of
+ open64/lseek64/etc functions (explicit use needed because
+ e2fsprogs libraries don't behave well when compiled with
+ FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64).
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b20 and 0.4b21 (released January 13, 2001)
+======================================================================
+
+1. Fixed some bugs in the dump -w|-W logic introduced by
+ the previous version. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
+ <adilger@turbolinux.com> for his help on this one.
+
+2. Fixed again a compilation problem when using old e2fs
+ headers (filesystem label related). Thanks to many users
+ who reported this stupid error.
+
+3. Fixed a build problem on old lib5 based systems dealing with
+ _PATH_MNTTAB being undefined. Thanks to John Adams
+ <johna@onevista.com> for reporting the bug.
+
+4. Improved the error detection in restore when creating
+ the temporary files in TMPDIR. Now restore will corectly
+ report a 'no space left on device' error instead of
+ strange errors which could imply an archive corruption.
+ Thanks to Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cs.colostate.edu> and
+ bgjenero <bgjenero@sympatico.ca> for reporting the bug.
+
+5. Added the throughput information in dump's progression
+ messages. Thanks to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
+ for the patch.
+
+6. Use libext2fs's inode scanning routines, which are particularly
+ robust when dealing with errors (especially when having some
+ bad blocks on the filesystem). Many thanks to Colin
+ <colin@horizon.com> for reporting the bug, investigating
+ the issues, finding a workaround, writing the patch and
+ fully testing it... (of course, if this patch will break
+ anything, he is to blame for :-)).
+
+7. Made dump and restore LFS aware. Dump can dump a filesystem
+ containing large files, generate a large file on output and
+ restore can restore them. This feature is not enabled by
+ default, use --enable-largefile option of configure to enable
+ it (you need to have a LFS aware glibc though). Thanks to
+ Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> for submitting the patch,
+ and to Theodore T'so <tytso@valinux.com> for his always
+ useful thoughts.
+
+8. Made dump ask upon a tape write error if it should rewrite
+ the current volume (assume this is a bad tape) or if it should
+ assume an end-of-tape condition (useful for tape drives which
+ behaves badly at the end of the tape). Thanks to Andreas
+ Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the suggestion.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b19 and 0.4b20 (released November 10, 2000)
+=======================================================================
1. Fixed a small compilation problem due to a change
in the definintion of the struct sigaction in
directory. Thanks to John R. Dennison
<gerdesas@users.sourceforge.net> for reporting the bug.
+4. Fixed the '-e' option to disable the possibility
+ to exclude the root inode (which causes the dumps to
+ be unreadable by restore). Prevented array overflow
+ when multiple -e options are used.
+
+5. Fixed dump to correctly interpret a filesystem argument
+ which is a mountpoint and it is not an absolute path
+ (as specified in the fstab). Thanks to Bernhard R. Erdmann
+ <be@berdmann.de> for reporting the bug.
+
+6. Made dump able to backup files larger than 2 GB. Note that
+ dump still doesn't cope with files larger than 4 GB.
+
+7. Restore the real uid and gid before invoking an external
+ RSH program (big hole when dump or restore is suid root!).
+
+8. Get the values for the default tape device and the location
+ of fstab file from the system headers. Thanks to
+ Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
+
+9. Made dump -w|-W report all recognized filesystems
+ present in either /etc/fstab or /etc/dumpdates, and present
+ the list in the same order as in fstab file. Thanks
+ to Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
+
+10. Made dump's -a (automatic end of tape detection) the
+ default. Specifying one of -B, -c, -d or -s options will
+ override the EOM detection. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
+ <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
+
+11. Save the ext2 filesystem label into the dump volume label.
+ Specifying a volume label on the command line (-L option)
+ will override this feature. Thanks to Andreas Dilger
+ <adilger@turbolinux.com> for the patch.
+
Changes between versions 0.4b18 and 0.4b19 (released August 20, 2000)
=====================================================================
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