From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Release of e2fsprogs 1.07
Date: 15 Mar 1997 19:07:32 GMT
Organization: none
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution,
the Glibc-ready<tm> release.  All users of e2fsprogs are urged to
upgrade to the 1.07 version as soon as possible.

This release has the shared libraries linked appropriately so that ld.so
1.9.0 can appropriately determine whether the ext2 shared libraries
should be used with libc5 and libc6, as recommended by David Engel.
This allows for a smooth transition to libc6.  E2fsprogs 1.07 has also
be tested to compile correctly under glibc 2.01, although the binary
releases are still all based on libc 5.3.12.

The largest functional enhancement of this release is to radically
change how e2fsck handles bad blocks found in the inode table.
Previously, e2fsck would try to relocate the entire part of inode
table for that block group.  Unfortunately, there would frequently not
be enough space for the relocation to succeed, which caused e2fsck to
fail.  In 1.07, e2fsck merely treats the inodes in the bad block of
the filesystem as being out of service, and marks them as used so that
the kernel won't attempt to allocate inodes that would be stored in
the bad block.  This makes recovery from bad blocks in the inode table
much more robust.

E2fsck is now also much more intelligent about handling problems
caused by corrupted superblocks or group descriptors.  It will not
automatically try to use the backup superblocks, instead of requiring
that the user rerun e2fsck with the -b 8193 argument.

E2fsck has also been made to be more efficient on really huge
filesystems.  It now requires much less memory, and pass 3 should be
much faster on systems with a very large number of inodes.  The binary
distribution of e2fsprogs 1.06 was also compiled with a version of
libc that incorrectly implemented llseek, which caused the precompiled
e2fsck to fail on filesystems larger than 2 gigabytes.  The 1.07
binary distribution does not have this problem.

This release also has a number of more minor enhancements and bug
fixes; for more details, see the release notes.

This release is available in source form, as well precompiled i386
Linux/ELF binaries, and as RPM source and binary packages.  It may be
obtained via ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu, in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
Alternatively, you may fetch it from the web:

	http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/e2fsprogs.html

						- Ted

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Title:          EXT2 Filesystem utilities
Version:        1.07
Entered-date:   14Mar97
Description:    The filesystem utilities for the EXT2 filesystem, including 
		e2fsck, mke2fs, dumpe2fs, fsck, and others.
Keywords:       utilities, fsck, filesystem, Ext2fs
Author:         tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)
Maintained-by:  tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Tso)
Primary-site:   tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs
		620kB e2fsprogs-1.07.tar.gz
		222kB e2fsprogs-1.07-elfbin.tar.gz
		199kB e2fsprogs-1.07-0.i386.rpm
		68kB  e2fsprogs-devel-1.07-0.i386.rpm
		622kB e2fsprogs-1.07-0.src.rpm
                1kB   e2fsprogs-1.07.lsm
Alternate-site: 
Platforms:	linux 1.2.x/1.3.x/2.0.x/2.1.x
Copying-policy: GPL
End

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