[Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b39 released.

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Hi all.

A new version of dump/restore, the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem
backup utilities, has been released today.

This release fixes a serious bug in 'restore -C' introduced by
the previous (0.4b38) version, bug which could lead to data 
modification on the filesystem being compared to the dump.

Some other minor fixes are included in this release, for full
details see the ChangeLog below.

The next version of dump/restore will feature EA/ACL support, and
there is already a beta patch implementing this. If you use EA/ACLs,
please do test this patch and report back (get the patch from dump's
homepage).

The dump/restore homepage is located at:
	http://dump.sourceforge.net

Stelian.

Changes between versions 0.4b38 and 0.4b39 (released January 21, 2005)
======================================================================

1.	The newly added dump_on_cd_3 example was buggy, replace it
	with an updated version from Andrew Basterfield
	<bo...@ce...>.

2.	Made restore to chdir() back into the initial directory when
	dumping core while aborting a comparision operation. The
	previous behaviour was to write the corefile at the root of
	the directory being compared, which could very well be 
	read only and preventing the corefile generation. Thanks
	to Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...> for the bug report.

3.	Silenced the failure to call fgetflags() when comparing an
	entry which has no ext2 attributes (as in lsattr()).

4.	Fix a brown paper bug in restore -C which broke restore and
	caused modifications on the filesystem being compared
	(directories containing a file with the same name as the
	directory get renamed to RSTTMP...). Thanks to Kenneth Porter
	<sh...@se...> for finding the bug and helping me
	reproduce it.

5.	Made restore -C force the -N flag (no writing allowed on
	the disk) in order to prevent more bugs like the above one.
-- 
Stelian Pop <st...@po...>