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diff --git a/fs/ext2/CHANGES b/fs/ext2/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..aa5aaf0e5911 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/ext2/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +Changes from version 0.5a to version 0.5b +========================================= + - Now that we have sysctl(), the immutable flag cannot be changed when + the system is running at security level > 0. + - Some cleanups in the code. + - More consistency checks on directories. + - The ext2.diff patch from Tom May <ftom@netcom.com> has been + integrated. This patch replaces expensive "/" and "%" with + cheap ">>" and "&" where possible. + +Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a +======================================== + - Zero the partial block following the end of the file when a file + is truncated. + - Dates updated in the copyright. + - More checks when the filesystem is mounted: the count of blocks, + fragments, and inodes per group is checked against the block size. + - The buffers used by the error routines are now static variables, to + avoid using space on the kernel stack, as requested by Linus. + - Some cleanups in the error messages (some versions of syslog contain + a bug which truncates an error message if it contains '\n'). + - Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit. + - The famous readdir() bug has been fixed by Stephen Tweedie. + - Added a revision level in the superblock. + - Full support for O_SYNC flag of the open system call. + - New mount options: `resuid=#uid' and `resgid=#gid'. `resuid' causes + ext2fs to consider user #uid like root for the reserved blocks. + `resgid' acts the same way with group #gid. New fields in the + superblock contain default values for resuid and resgid and can + be modified by tune2fs. + Idea comes from Rene Cougnenc <cougnenc@renux.frmug.fr.net>. + - New mount options: `bsddf' and `minixdf'. `bsddf' causes ext2fs + to remove the blocks used for FS structures from the total block + count in statfs. With `minixdf', ext2fs mimics Minix behavior + in statfs (i.e. it returns the total number of blocks on the + partition). This is intended to make bde happy :-) + - New file attributes: + - Immutable files cannot be modified. Data cannot be written to + these files. They cannot be removed, renamed and new links cannot + be created. Even root cannot modify the files. He has to remove + the immutable attribute first. + - Append-only files: can only be written in append-mode when writing. + They cannot be removed, renamed and new links cannot be created. + Note: files may only be added to an append-only directory. + - No-dump files: the attribute is not used by the kernel. My port + of dump uses it to avoid backing up files which are not important. + - New check in ext2_check_dir_entry: the inode number is checked. + - Support for big file systems: the copy of the FS descriptor is now + dynamically allocated (previous versions used a fixed size array). + This allows to mount 2GB+ FS. + - Reorganization of the ext2_inode structure to allow other operating + systems to create specific fields if they use ext2fs as their native + file system. Currently, ext2fs is only implemented in Linux but + will soon be part of Gnu Hurd and of Masix. + +Changes from version 0.4b to version 0.5 +======================================== + - New superblock fields: s_lastcheck and s_checkinterval added + by Uwe Ohse <uwe@tirka.gun.de> to implement timedependent checks + of the file system + - Real random numbers for secure rm added by Pierre del Perugia + <delperug@gla.ecoledoc.ibp.fr> + - The mount warnings related to the state of a fs are not printed + if the fs is mounted read-only, idea by Nick Holloway + <alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> + +Changes from version 0.4a to version 0.4b +========================================= + - Copyrights changed to include the name of my laboratory. + - Clean up of balloc.c and ialloc.c. + - More consistency checks. + - Block preallocation added by Stephen Tweedie. + - Direct reads of directories disallowed. + - Readahead implemented in readdir by Stephen Tweedie. + - Bugs in block and inodes allocation fixed. + - Readahead implemented in ext2_find_entry by Chip Salzenberg. + - New mount options: + `check=none|normal|strict' + `debug' + `errors=continue|remount-ro|panic' + `grpid', `bsdgroups' + `nocheck' + `nogrpid', `sysvgroups' + - truncate() now tries to deallocate contiguous blocks in a single call + to ext2_free_blocks(). + - lots of cosmetic changes. + +Changes from version 0.4 to version 0.4a +======================================== + - the `sync' option support is now complete. Version 0.4 was not + supporting it when truncating a file. I have tested the synchronous + writes and they work but they make the system very slow :-( I have + to work again on this to make it faster. + - when detecting an error on a mounted filesystem, version 0.4 used + to try to write a flag in the super block even if the filesystem had + been mounted read-only. This is fixed. + - the `sb=#' option now causes the kernel code to use the filesystem + descriptors located at block #+1. Version 0.4 used the superblock + backup located at block # but used the main copy of the descriptors. + - a new file attribute `S' is supported. This attribute causes + synchronous writes but is applied to a file not to the entire file + system (thanks to Michael Kraehe <kraehe@bakunin.north.de> for + suggesting it). + - the directory cache is inhibited by default. The cache management + code seems to be buggy and I have to look at it carefully before + using it again. + - deleting a file with the `s' attribute (secure deletion) causes its + blocks to be overwritten with random values not with zeros (thanks to + Michael A. Griffith <grif@cs.ucr.edu> for suggesting it). + - lots of cosmetic changes have been made. + +Changes from version 0.3 to version 0.4 +======================================= + - Three new mount options are supported: `check', `sync' and `sb=#'. + `check' tells the kernel code to make more consistency checks + when the file system is mounted. Currently, the kernel code checks + that the blocks and inodes bitmaps are consistent with the free + blocks and inodes counts. More checks will be added in future + releases. + `sync' tells the kernel code to use synchronous writes when updating + an inode, a bitmap, a directory entry or an indirect block. This + can make the file system much slower but can be a big win for files + recovery in case of a crash (and we can now say to the BSD folks + that Linux also supports synchronous updates :-). + `sb=#' tells the kernel code to use an alternate super block instead + of its master copy. `#' is the number of the block (counted in + 1024 bytes blocks) which contains the alternate super block. + An ext2 file system typically contains backups of the super block + at blocks 8193, 16385, and so on. + - I have change the meaning of the valid flag used by e2fsck. it + now contains the state of the file system. If the kernel code + detects an inconsistency while the file system is mounted, it flags + it as erroneous and e2fsck will detect that on next run. + - The super block now contains a mount counter. This counter is + incremented each time the file system is mounted read/write. When + this counter becomes bigger than a maximal mount counts (also stored + in the super block), e2fsck checks the file system, even if it had + been unmounted cleanly, and resets this counter to 0. + - File attributes are now supported. One can associate a set of + attributes to a file. Three attributes are defined: + `c': the file is marked for automatic compression, + `s': the file is marked for secure deletion: when the file is + deleted, its blocks are zeroed and written back to the disk, + `u': the file is marked for undeletion: when the file is deleted, + its contents are saved to allow a future undeletion. + Currently, only the `s' attribute is implemented in the kernel + code. Support for the other attributes will be added in a future + release. + - a few bugs related to times updates have been fixed by Bruce + Evans and me. + - a bug related to the links count of deleted inodes has been fixed. + Previous versions used to keep the links count set to 1 when a file + was deleted. The new version now sets links_count to 0 when deleting + the last link. + - a race condition when deallocating an inode has been fixed by + Stephen Tweedie. + |
