[Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b42 released

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

[Actually I did the release last Thursday, but fergot to announce it here...]

Hi everybody,

I finally got the time to release a new version of dump/restore,
incorporating all the changes that have been accumulating in CVS
for 3.5 years !

There are lots of changes in this new version (mainly bug fixes and
small improvements). I've even included a patch from Gertjan van Wingerde
which should add ext4 support (I have not personnaly tested this, so be
careful !).

Full changelog appended below.

Enjoy !

Stelian.

Changes between versions 0.4b41 and 0.4b42 (released June 18, 2009)
===================================================================

1.	Fix printout of the 'Connection to' message in dump/restore.
	Thanks to Dale Wiles <dw...@us...> for the
	bug report and its fix.

2.	Fix dump -w/-W output for filesystems having the last backup
	level equal to 0. Thanks to Pascal Bouchareine
	<ka...@us...> for reporting the bug.

3.	Enable restore to handle restoring onto a different SELinux
	policy from the dump. Thanks to Tony Nelson 
	<ton...@us...> for the patch.
	(see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189845
	for details)

4.	Fix EA set failures when restoring immutable files. Thanks
	to Andrew Kroeger for the patch.

5.	Fix "mode file too large" errors when restoring huge backups.
	Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...> for the bug
	report.

6.	Add the ability to link against libtinfo library if present,
	instead of libtermcap or libncurses libraries. Thanks to
	Adam Tkac <at...@re...> for the patch.

7.	When comparing a backup, do not consider to be an error the fact
	that we encounter files created while dump was in progress.
	Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...> for the bug
	report.

8.	Force '-a' to be the default value when running 'restore -C'.
	Thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...> for the bug
	report.

9.	Many improvements to the 'cron_dump_to_disk' example.
	Thanks to Aaron S. Hawley <ash...@us...> for
	the patch.

10.	Fix the QFA generation when extended attributes are backuped
	along with the inodes. Prior to this fix, the entries for
	some inodes may get corrupted (duplicated entries or incorrect
	ones), making the QFA file unusable for repositionning in
	restore. Many thanks to Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...>
	for the bug report and the testing of the fix.

11.	Fix EA restoration in debug mode (Sourceforge bug #1986216).

12.	Stefan Auracher <st...@on...> noticed that the Tower
	of Hanoi backup strategy documented in the man page wasn't
	actually based on the Tower of Hanoi algorithm. The man page
	was updated accordingly.

13.	Fix missing level information from dump output when using
	the default level (RedHat bug #493635). Thanks to Adam Tkac
	<at...@re...> for the patch.

14.	Fix the dump man page to reflect the fact that the default
	dump level is 0 not 9 (RedHat bug #356121). Thanks to Adam Tkac
	<at...@re...> for the patch.

15.	Fixed a few spelling errors in the man pages (RedHat bug #489853).
	Thanks to Adam Tkac <at...@re...> for the patch.

16.	Fixed restore man page and program usage which incorrectly stated
	that -P and -A were both allowed in the same invocation (RedHat
	bug #490627). Thanks to Adam Tkac <at...@re...> for the patch.

17.	Use sys_clone under Linux to share I/O contexts between dump
	processes, thus drastically increasing the performance of dump
	under CFQ (which is the default I/O scheduler used in a number of
	distributions). Thanks to Jeff Moyer <jm...@re...> for the
	patch.

18.	Add (preliminary) ext4 support - thanks to libext2fs which does
	all the job for us. Thanks to Gertjan van Wingerde
	<gwi...@gm...> for the patch.

-- 
Stelian Pop <st...@po...>