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-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.159 2002/01/31 10:25:55 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.172 2002/04/12 12:45:50 stelian Exp $

 
 

-Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released ???????????????)
-=====================================================================
+Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released April 12, 2002)
+====================================================================
+
+1.     Fixed a bug in the QFA feature which could have caused 
+       a bad tape positionning on restore (causing extra delays in
+       restore). Credits go to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
+
+2.     Added a small note in the dump man page specifying that
+       there should be no white space between the option letter and
+       the -j or -z parameter, thanks to Kenneth Porter <shiva@well.com>
+
+3.     Made restore work with older versions of the readline library,
+       by checking in configure for several extended symbols. Restore
+       can now be compiled with a readline as old as the 2.0 release
+       (though it may be a good idea to upgrade it to a more recent
+       version...). Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
+       reporting the build failures.
+
+4.     Fixed a performance problem with the QFA file creation in
+       dump, which made unnecessary seeks on the tape slowing down
+       the dump. Thanks to Andrew Donkin <ard@waikato.ac.nz> for
+       reporting this issue.
+
+5.     Removed the inclusion of some kernel headers in the dump
+       source, which prevented the compile in some kernel/glibc
+       headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee
+       <bdale@gag.com> for reporting the bug.
+
+6.     Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to
+       open the output file for writing. Thanks to Amith Varghese
+       <amithv@yahoo.com> for reporting this bug.
+
+7.     Made restore able to understand large Solaris ufsdump tapes 
+       (containing inodes bigger than 4194304). Sun have introduced
+       an "extension" to the dump tape format when dealing with
+       those inodes, which was uncorrectly handled by Linux restore.
+       Thanks to Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de> for reporting the bug and
+       providing a test case.
+
+8.     Added the -m parameter to dump which optimises the output for
+       inodes having been changed but not modified since the last dump
+       ('changed' and 'modified' have the meaning defined in stat(2)).
+       For those inodes, dump will save only the metadata, instead of
+       saving the entire inode contents. Inodes which are either 
+       directories or have been modified since the last dump are saved
+       in a regular way.  Uses of this flag must be consistent, meaning
+       that either every dump in an incremental dump set have the flag,
+       or no one has it.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
+=======================================================================

 
 1.     Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
        (SIGXFSZ treatment).
 
 1.     Fixed behaviour of dump when exceeding resource limits
        (SIGXFSZ treatment).


@@ -32,6 +81,18 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released ???????????????)
 7.     Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
        Solaris ufsdump tapes.
 
 7.     Small fix in restore making it able to read some (broken ?)
        Solaris ufsdump tapes.
 

+8.     Fixed dump to correctly recognise the root filesystem when using
+       ext2 disk labels (LABEL=/). Thanks to John Yu <jky@it.bu.edu>
+       for reporting this bug.
+
+9.     Added the -P <file> option to restore to create a
+       Quick File Access file from an already made dump. Patch 
+       contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
+
+10.    Made restore compile and run on Solaris, making it a 
+       possible replacement for the standard ufsrestore. Port was
+       contributed by Uwe Gohlke <uwe@ugsoft.de>.
+

 Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
 =====================================================================
 
 Changes between versions 0.4b25 and 0.4b26 (released January 7, 2002)
 =====================================================================