NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of jfsutils New in 1.1.11 - 2006-06-05 * Fix infinite loop when mkfs.jfs is invoked with -c * avoid infinite loop in xTree_binsrch_page * Fix buffer overflow * Fix segfault on s390 * Fix segfault in markImap * Add compiler flags to generate useful warnings * Code cleanup New in 1.1.10 - 2005-10-19 * More stdio cleanup * fsck was not recognizing the root filesystem as jfs New in 1.1.9 - 2005-10-04 * Add support for Dragonfly BSD. I/O to block devices must be done through aligned buffers. Change to use stream I/O to avoid problems. * Reduce memory usage in fsck by removing structure members and code relating to OS/2 DASD limits. * Fix stack buffer overflow in Is_Device_Mounted New in 1.1.8 - 2005-05-03 * fsck should not bail out if reserved (but unused) inode 1 is bad * code cleanup - remove unused variables, eliminate compiler warnings * Added blocks parameter to specify file system size * Ensure that data gets flushed to disk * Fix bug in replaying journal that corrupted inodes * Update directory index table when moving directory entries * Use O_DIRECT when checking for bad blocks (jfs_mkfs -c) New in 1.1.7 - 2004-07-22 * --replay_journal_only shouldn't clear FM_DIRTY * Ensure changes to disk occur in proper order * Message corrections * Directory Index Table corrections for big-endian systems New in 1.1.6 - 2004-04-28 * Verify Directory Index Table and reset if necessary New in 1.1.5 - 2004-03-04 * Fix problem creating entries in lost+found * Fix buffer overflow * Fix replaying symlink journal records * Improve performance of duplicate block checking * Fix segfault printing errant message * Done open volume with O_EXCL unless it's necessary * Support sharing of journal between multiple volumes - Requires 2.6.4-rc2 or later kernel New in 1.1.4 - 2003-10-30 * Work around gcc 2.95 bug * Handle log full without crashing * Message format fix New in 1.1.3 - 2003-09-05 * jfs_fsck can now find external journal on evms release 2 volumes * code cleanup: fsck messaging is much cleaner * Don't right-justify when printing volume label * jfs_fsck should return zero when replaying the journal is successful * jfs_fsck should not require that the device is opened with O_EXCL - A recent change to the 2.6.0 kernel makes O_EXCL fail when the volume is mounted, even if read-only New in 1.1.2 - 2003-03-25 * fix undefined reference to errno (G. D. Haraldsson) * allow jfs_mkfs to run on regular file * fix for-loop going past last element of vopen array * sanity checking on variable this_ag * s_label displayed incorrectly when 16 chars long New in 1.1.1 - 2002-12-17 * fix segmentation fault in mkfs.jfs when given bad block device * fix jfs_debugfs to display directory index with directory entries New in 1.1.0 - 2002-11-20 * rename jfs utilities as follows: fsck.jfs -> jfs_fsck, is hard linked to fsck.jfs upon install mkfs.jfs -> jfs_mkfs, is hard linked to mkfs.jfs upon install jfs_tune remains the same logdump -> jfs_logdump xchklog, xchkdmp combined -> jfs_fscklog xpeek -> jfs_debugfs logredo removed, function added to jfs_fsck via --replay_journal_only option * update man pages appropriately for name changes * change jfs_fsck option -o to --omit_journal_replay * fix log replay errors * fix off-by-one error, minor formatting error in jfs_fsck * keep jfs_fsck from complaining during specific tree restructuring * fix jfs_debugfs to recognize all inode types * code cleanup New in 1.0.24 - 2002-10-18 * byte-swapping fixes for big-endian hardware * code cleanup New in 1.0.23 - 2002-09-27 * print fsck.jfs start timestamp correctly in fsck.jfs log * allow xchklog to run on a JFS file system with an external journal * initialize program name in logdump properly * code cleanup New in 1.0.22 - 2002-09-09 * add jfs_tune utility (see jfs_tune man page for details) jfs_tune allows users to: attach a JFS external journal to a JFS file system set/change volume label, UUID of JFS file system and external log devices view superblock information of JFS file system and external log devices * add option '-J journal_device' to mkfs.jfs to create an external journal only and optionally set its volume label (see mkfs.jfs man page) * add option '-J device=' to mkfs.jfs to attach an existing JFS external journal to the JFS file system that will be created (see mkfs.jfs man page) * fix mkfs.jfs to store 16 character volume labels properly * code cleaup * add extend support to JFS FSIM for EVMS - see http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ New in 1.0.21 - 2002-08-12 * add external log support to xpeek * fix fsck.jfs to update log device number in superblock after logredo with external log. * fix typo in mkfs.jfs Emergency help. (Bas) * do not build currently unused defrag, extendfs utilities * eliminate uuid redefinition compiler warnings * add logsuper functions to libfs * fix printf format specifiers. (Christoph Hellwig) * code cleanup (all) * update JFS FSIM for EVMS - see http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ New in 1.0.20 - 2002-06-21 * don't display heartbeat during log format if output is redirected (eliminates strange characters in redirected output from mkfs.jfs with external log, fsck.jfs Phase 9) * fix mkfs.jfs to set version in JFS superblock properly if external log is used (enables JFS external log compatibility with EVMS 1.1-pre2 or greater) * enhance jfsutils to support enormous disks like 8TB+ (Peter C.) * remove unused variables (Christoph Hellwig) New in 1.0.19 - 2002-06-07 * fix jfsutils packaging/build error from 1.0.18 New in 1.0.18 - 2002-05-24 * add support for external log * endian code cleanup * fix typo in fsck.jfs help * fix fsck.jfs bug on big endian machines New in 1.0.17 - 2002-04-02 * more rigorous dtree validation in fsck.jfs * fix fsck.jfs to write to the fsck.jfs log properly on big endian machines * fix xchklog to read the fsck.jfs log properly on big endian machines * fix xpeek to display/modify PXD information properly on big endian machines * replace fsck.jfs heartbeat with alarm() based heartbeat (Christoph Hellwig) * improve mkfs.jfs and fsck.jfs parameter parsing and usage alerts * messaging code cleanup, logredo code cleanup, general code cleanup (all) New in 1.0.16 - 2002-03-11 * make fsck.jfs exit codes conform to fsck (see updated fsck.jfs man page) * display/log fsck.jfs exit code in debug exit msg * fix xchkdmp to print logredo messages * make xchkdmp print message text instead of message number * use PBSIZE for physical block size instead of BLKSSZGET ioctl (eliminates MD error msg "used obsolete MD ioctl", fixes S/390 mkfs.jfs) * remove libfs open/close wrappers (Christoph Hellwig) * messaging code cleanup, general code cleanup (all) New in 1.0.15 - 2002-02-15 * eliminate invalid fsck.jfs internal error 10 * update xpeek and fsck.jfs man pages * better error message if device to be fsck.jfs'ed is not jfs * add support for 4.4 BSD-style getmntinfo (Christoph Hellwig) * include sys/types.h for BSD (Hiten Pandya) * use defacto standard autoconf macro for large file support (Christoph Hellwig) * general jfsutils code cleanup (all) New in 1.0.14 - 2002-01-28 * fix typecast problem causing fsck.jfs 'corrupt superblock' error message * remove old types PVOID, UCHAR, USHORT, ULONG (code cleanup) New in 1.0.13 - 2002-01-25 * update xchklog and xchkdump parameters and man pages * reduce/eliminate instances of 'access beyond end of device' error message * compatibility fix for different versions of automake * fix typo in spec file * defines cleanup (Christoph Hellwig) * unicode cleanup (Christoph Hellwig) * endian portability fix (Christoph Hellwig) * convert types uxx, uintxx, sxx, intxx to C99 types (code cleanup) New in 1.0.12 - 2002-01-08 * autoheader must precede automake or config.h doesn't make the tarball * use current date as release date in jfs utils (Christoph Hellwig) * fix fsck to update maps at auto check time (fixes file system corruption). * fix file system utilities to be more portable (Christoph Hellwig) New in 1.0.11 - 2001-12-17 * convert JFS utilities to use autoconf/automake (Christoph Hellwig) * display correct error messages for disk not accessible * have all utilities print version number New in 1.0.10 - 2001-11-28 * fsck shouldn't endian swap dtree struct twice New in 1.0.9 - 2001-11-09 * don't print heartbeat if fsck.jfs output is redirected * make mkfs.jfs options conform to mkfs, clean up parse code * fix typo in mkfs.jfs man_html page * allow xpeek to show us directory xtrees * fix fsck.jfs infinite loop on big endian hardware (jitterbug 182) * fix infinite loop when endian swapping bad directory tree page New in 1.0.8 - 2001-10-17 * install prefix support for jfsutils * cleanup option handling make -y behave (jitterbug 177), -f override -p * Add more informative error message when running fsck.jfs RO, (jitterbug 173) * clean up remove carriage return after new line in messaging * print mkfs.jfs version correctly New in 1.0.7 - 2001-10-10 * improve fsck's 'mounted' detection. * improve utils' checking for fs type jfs * replace __uX with uintX_t * change fsck.jfs options to be similar to e2fsck * set fsck.jfs default to automatically fix the file system New in 1.0.6 - 2001-09-28 * If fsck rebuilds root directory, reset di_next_index to 2 * fsck needs to process, validate inodes with size=0 New in 1.0.5 - 2001-09-14 * Fixed jfsprogs.spec to handle utilities not being in the file system source tree * Cleaned up include files * Fixed inconsistencies in mkfs man, html pages New in 1.0.4 - 2001-08-31 * Fixed typecast problem causing intermittent fsck failures on 64 bit hardware (jitterbug 159) * Fixed pointer calculation problem causing intermittent fsck failures on 64bit hardware * Fixed compiler warnings on s/390 and IA64 * Fixed structure size mismatch between file system and utilities causing fsck problems when large numbers of inodes are used * Fixed seg fault in fsck when logging path lengths greater than 512 characters * Fixed fsck printf format errors New in 1.0.3 - 2001-08-20 * Fixed compiler warnings on 64 bit systems * Created jfsutils package New in 1.0.2 - 2001-08-03 * Fixed mkfs to display the correct error message if device name is not valid or missing * gzip the man pages and place /usr/share/man/man8 * Fixed mkfs to properly setup buf_ai * Fixed fsck to display path correctly New in 1.0.1 - 2001-07-10 * Updated jfsprogs.spec file make it work on more distros * Add force option to mkfs so the confirmation message isn't displayed * Fixed fsck to handle index table on the root directory. * Fixed error message displayed when partition was just created and haven't rebooted (jitterbug 130) * Correctly place the built utilities in /sbin vs. /usr/sbin when using the make install option. New in 1.0.0 - 2001-06-28 * Fixed small logredo problem