[Dump-announce] Dump/restore 0.4b43 released

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

Hi everybody,

I've just published the 0.4b43 release of dump/restore on
sourceforge, incorporating all the changes that have been accumulating
in CVS since the last release (almost one year).

Once again, there are lots of changes in this new version, mainly
bug fixes and improvements for corner usage cases.

Full changelog appended below.

Enjoy !

Stelian.

Changes between versions 0.4b42 and 0.4b43 (released June 11, 2010)
===================================================================

1.	Fix a bug in dump making impossible to handle large toc files
	(> 2 GB). Thanks to X DUGi <xd...@us...> for
	reporting the bug (Sourceforge bug #2820629)

2.	Fix 'restore -x' in multi-volume mode, which caused files being
	spanned on the first and second volumes to be incorrectly extracted.
	Thanks to Adam Tkac <at...@re...> for reporting the bug.
	(there may be several bug reports about this issue, including
	Sourceforge bug #2117008, RedHat bugs #232415 and #444958).

3.	Remove -lselinux -lsepol from the standard libraries list,
	they shouldn't be needed if selinux is not enabled in dump
	(this also fixes a build failure when selinux libraries are
	not installed).

4.	Fix restoration of extended attributes of fifos and device nodes.
	Thanks to Igor Zhbanov <iz...@gm...> for the bug report.

5.	Don't attempt to set extended attributes on files that were not
	extracted in 'restore -N' mode. Thanks to Jan Görig
	<jg...@us...> for the patch.

6.	Make the dump man page explicit about ext4 support.

7.	Fix a bug in dump which caused EA entries to be unrecognizable by
	restore in some corner cases. Add a workaround to restore making
	it able to properly deal with those corrupted EA entries. Thanks
	to John Austin <jau...@us...> for reporting
	the bug.

8.	Fix some issues when restoring a dump which was generated using
	exclusion patterns (either via -e or via the nodump attribute)
	(see the Debian bug #574667 for details. Thanks to Frédéric
	Brière <fb...@fb...> for the bug report and the associated
	patch.

9.	Fix progress/estimated blocks display in dump when doing really
	huge backups. Thanks to Steve Bonds <sb...@us...>
	for the bug report and tests. (Sourceforge bug #2987758)

10.	Improve level 1 dump speed by rearanging the "mapdirs" code.
	Thanks to Andreas Kies <and...@t-...> for finding the
	bottleneck and sending a patch (Sourceforge bug #2998119).

11.	Use only ctime in order to compare newness instead of both
	ctime and mtime. This should both speed up dumping time and
	correct some side-effect bugs (like dumping files with an mtime
	in the future in every incremental backup). Thanks to
	Kieran Clancy <cod...@us...> for reporting the
	bug (Sourceforge bug #2999207).

12.	Extract dumped UNIX sockets instead of ignoring them.
	(Sourceforge bug #3007216).

13.	Compiler warning fixes (mainly warn_unused_result ones).

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