Ext2 Filesystems Utilities

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.41.8

Notes:
E2fsprogs 1.41.8 (July 11, 2009)
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Fix resize2fs's online resizing, fixing a regression which in
e2fpsrogs 1.41.7.   (Addresses Debian Bug: #535452)

Fix potential filesystem corruptions caused by using resize2fs to
shrinking ext4 filesystems with extents enabled.  (Addresses Red Hat
Bug: #510379)

Optimize uuid_generate() to avoid running uuidd if it is not setuid or
setgid and the currently running program doesn't have write access to
the uuidd work directory.

Add safety checks (for non-Linux systems) so that uuidd isn't run with
file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 closed; and if they are closed, uuidd
will be careful not to close the file descriptor for its unix domain
socket when it detaches itself from the controlling tty.  Also add
safety checks so that if the unix domain socket between the uuid
library and uuidd program is closed for any reason, both the library
and the uuidd will return an appropriate error code instead of looping
in an infinite loop.

The e2croncheck script, which creates an LVM snapshot and then checks
the ext3/4 filesystem via the LVM snapshot, has been added to the
contrib directory.

Fix filefrag program for files that have more than 144 extents.

Update French, Polish, Czech, Indonsian, and Sweedish translation from
the Translation Project.

Fixed various Debian packaging issues --- see debian/changelog for
details.  (Addresses Debian Bug #535530)

Update/clarify man pages.

Programmer's Notes
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Fix compilation problem when configured with --disable-uuid.

Don't build uuidgen if configured with --disable-uuid.

Add the new library function ext2fs_test_inode_bitmap_range(), and
optimized ext2fs_test_block_bitmap_range(), which will be needed for
future optimizations for e2fsck.

Fix makefile dependencies for libcom_err so that the Makefiles work
well on non-GNU make program.  (Addresses Sourceforge Patches: #2813809)

Enhance the build system so that the full set of commands executed by
the Makefiles are displayed, instead of the Linux kernel summary
output, if the build was configured with --enable-verbose-makecmds, or
if GNU make is in use and the V variable is non-null, i.e., via "make
V=1".



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