-Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6
-========================================
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.45 2000/03/01 10:16:05 stelian Exp $
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b14 and 0.4b15 (released ?????????????????)
+=======================================================================
+
+1. Added a prompt command in interactive restore mode. Thanks
+ to Andreas Dilger <adilger@home.com> for the patch.
+
+2. Fixed a buffer overflow problem in dump (caused by
+ not checking the size of the filesystem parameter).
+ Thanks to Kim Yong-jun <loveyou@hackerslab.org> for
+ reporting this on Bugtraq (and to several dump users
+ who forwarded me his mail).
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b13 and 0.4b14 (released February 10, 2000)
+=======================================================================
+
+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.
+
+2. Removed the requirement to build the RPM as root from the
+ spec file. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
+ <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for submitting this.
+
+3. Fixed a bug in dump related to the 'filetype' feature of ext2fs,
+ causing dump to block when dumping really huge filesystems.
+ Many thanks to Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> for
+ helping me find this bug.
+
+4. Fixed the treatment for an interrupt signal when dump access
+ the remote tape through RSH. Thanks to Christian Weisgerber
+ <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> for providing the patch.
+
+5. Fixed a bug which was causing dump/restore to display
+ garbage characters instead of the remote host name.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b11 and 0.4b12 (released January 8, 2000)
+=====================================================================
+
+1. Small fix in the dump man page. Thanks to Thorsten Kukuk
+ <kukuk@suse.de> for submitting the patch.
+
+2. Fix for the exit code when using the size estimate option of
+ dump. Thanks to Matti Taskinen <mkt@rni.helsinki.fi> for
+ submitting the patch.
+
+3. Handle EINTR in atomical reads/writes in dump, which was causing
+ dump to fail on some systems. Thanks to Eric Jergensen
+ <eric@dvns.com> for reporting the bug and submitting the patch.
+
+4. Handle more than 16 characters for the device names in dumpdates.
+ (up to 255 now). Thanks to Rainer Clasen <bj@ncc.cicely.de> for
+ tracking down the problem and proposing the solution.
+
+5. Fixed a bug in dump which prevented the creation of the
+ dumpdates file when doing a 0-level dump without already
+ having a dumpdates file. Thanks to Patrik Schindler
+ <poc@pocnet.net> for reporting the bug.
+
+6. Changed the way dump 'S' flag reports the size estimate
+ from number of blocks into bytes (making it compatible
+ with the Solaris version, and simplifying things for
+ amanda users). Thanks to Jason L Tibbitts III
+ <tibbs@math.uh.edu> for reporting the bug.
+
+7. Fixed a compatibility problem in linux/alpha dump tape format.
+ Now the linux/alpha dump are (again) compatible with the
+ other dump formats. But this breaks compatibility with
+ older dumps made on alpha. Thanks to Mike Tibor
+ <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu> for helping me in finding this bug.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b10 and 0.4b11 (released December 5, 1999)
+======================================================================
+
+1. Added a '--enable-kerberos' to configure.
+
+2. Added a 'S' option to dump which determines the amount of space
+ that is needed to perform the dump without actually doing it, similar
+ to the Sun's ufsdump 'S' option. Patch contributed by Rob Cermak
+ <cermak@ahab.rutgers.edu>.
+
+3. Added a 'M' multi-volume option to dump and restore which enables
+ dumping to multiple files (useful when dumping to an ext2
+ partition to make several dump files in order to bypass the 2GB
+ file size limitation). The 'f' argument is treated as a prefix and
+ the output files will be named <prefix>001, <prefix>002 etc. With
+ the 'M' flag, restore automatically selects the right file without
+ asking to enter a new tape each time.
+
+4. Fixed a memory leak which was causing dump to grow very big
+ (270MB when dumping a 10GB filesystem...). Thanks to Jason
+ Fearon <jasonf@netrider.org.au> for reporting the bug.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released November 21, 1999)
+======================================================================
+
+1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support
+ extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob
+ routines instead of system ones. Thanks to Bernhard Sadlowski
+ <sadlowsk@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for reporting the bug
+ and helping me resolve this and other minor libc5 compiling
+ glitches.
+
+2. Fix a problem when dumping a ext2fs with the 'filetype'
+ feature enabled. Thanks to Patrick J. LoPresti
+ <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> for reporting the bug and to
+ Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> for providing the patch.
+
+3. Made the nodump flag work on directories. A directory which
+ has the nodump flag gets never dumped, regardless of its
+ contents.
+
+4. Integrate a patch from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
+ which allows dump on an active ext3 filesystem. However, this
+ is a "quick and dirty" patch which enables backup of an ext3
+ filesystem through the ext2 compatibility (by ignoring the
+ NEEDS_RECOVERY bit). The journal file is not recognized and
+ it is dumped (it should not).
+
+5. Test the superblock compatibility flags when dumping, in order
+ to be sure that we know how to deal with specific features.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999)
+====================================================================
+
+1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem
+ when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this
+ to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files).
+ Thanks to Chris Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> for detecting
+ this and providing the patch.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999)
+====================================================================
+
+1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so
+ one can use 'ident' on binary files.
+
+2. Added the dump/restore version in the usage text so one can
+ easily verify the version he is using.
+
+3. Small patch from Nuno Oliveira <nuno@eq.uc.pt> which fixes
+ a va_start/va_end problem on linux-ppc (always call va_start
+ va_end in pairs each time we use a vararg function).
+
+4. Added again the DT_* constants because old libc does not
+ contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe <virnet@nat.fr>
+ for submitting the bug report.
+
+5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs
+ this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems.
+
+6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to
+ use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and
+ bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote
+ backups without being root (or making dump setuid root).
+
+7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps,
+ we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option.
+ Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> for his ideas on how
+ this should work.
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999)
+===================================================================
+
+1. Removed the 'k' flag from the restore 'about' text if kerberos
+ was not compiled in.
+
+2. Prototyped (f)setflags from e2fsprogs and corrected the calls
+ to them (fsetflags takes a char*, setflags an open fd!).
+
+3. (f)setflags is called only if the flags aren't empty. If the
+ file is a special file, a warning is printed, because changing
+ flags implies opening the device. Normally, a special file
+ should not have any flag... (Debian bug #29775, patch provided
+ by Abhijit Dasgupta <abhijit@ans.net>).
+
+4. Made possible to dump a file system not mentioned in /etc/fstab.
+ (Debian bug #11904, patch provided by Eirik Fuller <eirik@netcom.com>).
+
+5. Changed the default behaviour to not create dumpdates
+ unless 'u' option is specified. Removed the old "debian-patch"
+ which provided the same thing. (Debian bug #38136, #33818).
+
+6. Removed all those dump*announce, since they were getting old...
+
+7. Added warning messages if dumpdates does not exist and
+ when an inferior level dump does not exist (except for a level 0
+ dump).
+
+8. Debugged the glob calls in interactive mode: restore used a
+ dirent struct which was different from the /usr/include/dirent.h
+ one (this used to work, is it a glibc2 change?), so none of the
+ compat glob (which used /usr/include/dirent.h) or the system glob
+ worked. Restore use now the system dirent (and the system
+ DT_* constants), which are compatible with BSD ones.
+
+9. Added a configure flag (--with-dumpdatespath) to specify
+ the location of dumpdates file. By default, it is
+ /etc/dumpdates.
+
+10. Added the "AUTHOR" and "AVAILABILITY" sections and
+ included the current date/version in man pages.
+
+11. Corrected the estimation of remaining time when
+ the operator doesn't change the tapes quickly enough. This
+ was an old bug, I thought I corrected it, and discovered
+ that in fact it was corrected in two different places, so
+ the results canceled each other...
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6 (released October 1, 1999)
+===================================================================
1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
- workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
- wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
-2. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
+2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
+ made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
+
+3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
-3. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
+4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
routines (only if available).
-Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5
-========================================
+5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
+ by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
+
+Changes between versions 0.4b4 and 0.4b5 (released September 22, 1999)
+======================================================================
1. Integrated the changes from FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE
(mostly bug fixes, buffer overruns, dump has now an "automatic
4. Corrected the long standing bug when dumping multiple tapes.
This works for me, needs further testing.
-Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4
-========================================
+Changes between versions 0.4b3 and 0.4b4 (released January 17, 1997)
+====================================================================
1. Dump now runs correctly on kernels 2.1.x
Fix made by Gerald Peters <gapeters@worldnet.att.net>
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