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1*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerE2fsprogs 1.44.0 (March 7, 2018)
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3*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
4*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerUpdates/Fixes since v1.43.9:
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6*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerUI and Features
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9*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerE2fsprogs now supports the large_dir (INCOMPAT_LARGEDIR) feature.  This
10*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfeature allows larger directories to be created, both with directory
11*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workersizes over 2GB and and a maximum htree depth of 3 instead of the
12*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workercurrent limit of 2.  These features are needed in order to exceed
13*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerthe currently limit of approximately 10M entries in a single
14*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerdirectory for 4KB blocksize (~100k for 1KB).
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16*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerE2fsprogs now supports the ea_inode (INCOMPAT_EA_INODE) feature, which
17*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerstores large extended attributes in an external inode instead of a
18*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workersingle data block.  This is backwards compatible with a Lustre file
19*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workersystem feature, but it has been extended to support deduplicating
20*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerextended attribute values which are used in multiple inodes.
21*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
22*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThe metadata_csum feature (RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM) is now enabled by
23*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerdefault by mke2fs.
24*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
25*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThe resize2fs program will no longer complain about resizing bigalloc
26*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfile systems as being dangerous when doing an on-line resize (since this
27*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workeris purely a kernel feature).
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29*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerDebugfs's ls command will now print the high bits of the inode's mode
30*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerbits.
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32*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFixes
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35*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFixed some potential buffer overrun bugs in the blkid library and in the
36*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfsck program.
37*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
38*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThere were some corner cases which tune2fs wouldn't correctly handle
39*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerwhen operating on a file system which was not cleanly mounted and thus
40*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerrequired running the journal because it could be modified.  Tune2fs will
41*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workernow run the journal before trying to change the superblock, and if the
42*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfile system needs to be checked after the journal has been replayed, it
43*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerwill require it before proceeding.  Also if the file system is busy (for
44*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerexample, because it is in use by Lustre), but is not present in the
45*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker/proc/mounts or /etc/mtab, tune2fs will not try to replay the journal,
46*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workersince this could do real damage if it the file system is being actively
47*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workermodified by the kernel.
48*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
49*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThe libss library (used by debugfs) now supports the version 7 of the
50*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerlibreadline shared library.
51*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
52*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThe e2freefrag program will use the GETFSMAP ioctl if it is available
53*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerand the file system is mounted, so that the free space statistics will
54*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerbe more accurate.
55*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
56*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerThe consistency checks for symlinks (especially for encrypted and inline
57*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerdata file sytems) in e2fsck are now much more careful/stringent.  Also
58*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfixed a bug where creating a symlink using ext2fs_symlink() which was
59*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerexactly 60 bytes long when inline data was enabled would result in a
60*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workermissing system.data xattr.
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63*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerPerformance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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65*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
66*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerMke2fs now uses io_channel_flush() instead of sync() for the sync_kludge
67*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerfeature.
68*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
69*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerE2fsprogs now uses i_size as the primary way of determining whether a
70*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workersymlink is a fast symlink.
71*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
72*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerFix various compiler and UBSAN warnings.
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74*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerLong running test are now skipped with "make check" and only run when
75*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker"make fullcheck".  The test runner will warn when potentially long
76*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerrunning tests are being run via "make check".
77*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Worker
78*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard WorkerE2fsck is now much faster for bigalloc file systems when scanning
79*6a54128fSAndroid Build Coastguard Workerextents for bigalloc file systems.  (Addresses Google Bug #36886699)
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