2002-09-24
*reiserfsck
bitmap handling was improved: fix-fixable fixes not only those
blocks of bitmap which are wrongly marked as unused, but those
which are wrongly marked as used also.
2002-09-10
* reiserfsck
fix-fixable fixes item header formats, check complains about
wrong ones.
* reiserfsck
check/fix-fixable does not complain about/fix file sizes if
safe link exists.
2002-08-30
* reiserfsck
user recieves a warning if dma mode/speed is descreased - it
could happen due to hardware problems.
2002-08-20
* reiserfsprogs
Warning/error messages were changed to more user friendly form.
2002-08-15
* reiserfsck
Correction of nlinks on fix-fixable was disabled, because
fix-fixable zeroes nlinks on the first pass and wants to
increment them on semantic pass. But semantic pass is skipped
if there are fatal corruptions.
2002-08-11
* reiserfsck
exit codes were fixed
2002-08-08
* reiserfsck
a critical bug in journal replaying was fixed.
* reiserfsprogs
called 3.6.3.
2002-06-06
* reiserfsck
speedup for pass2: avoid checking whether a file body should
be rewritten every time we have another item to insert into it.
2002-05-30
* reiserfsck
speedup for pass2: avoid checking whether a file should be
relocated on every insertion of a new item into it. Check it
only for the first time.
2002-06-27
* reiserfsprogs
called 3.6.2
2002-05-20
* reiserfsck
speedup for pass2: do not check whether a file should be relocated
if the file body was previously deleted from the tree and is
inserted again.
2002-05-15
* reiserfsck
speedup for pass2: insertion by many pointers at once was
added
2002-05-10
* reiserfsck
fix-fixable is able to fix wrong nlinks.
check makes some check about nlinks also.
2002-04-30
* reiserfsck
delete direntries of old format in new format directories
2002-03-29
* reiserfsprogs
bad blocks support added.
2002-03-15
* reiserfsprogs
different blocksize support added.
2002-02-18
* debugreiserfs
new option -J, prints a journal header.
2002-02-10
* reiserfsprogs
a few speedups were added.
2002-02-05
* reiserfsprogs
optimization of the work with disk buffers.
2002-01-28
* mkreiserfs
zeroing the first block on the device if not SPARC
2002-01-26
* reiserfsck
a few speedups were added.
2002-01-20
* debugreiserfs
investigation of unused space added (-D -U options, hidden)
2002-01-16
* reiserfsprogs
support for UUID and LABEL was added
2002-01-15
* reiserfstune
creates a standard journal from a non-standard
2001-12-25
* reiserfsck
Handles safe links.
2001-12-03
* reiserfsck
Filenames output during tree scan is now nicely scrolled
left and right, when entire line does not fit the screen.
2001-11-20
* reiserfsck
Can rebuild superblock properly.
2001-11-03
* reiserfsck
Can now backup all data which get changed during fscking
and can rollback all changes.
2001-10-30
* reiserfsprogs
mkreiserfs/reiserfsck/reiserfstune/debugreiserfs work with
relocated journal
2001-09-30
* debugreiserfs
super block editor (-C -B 16)
2001-08-23
* reiserfsck
--fix-fixable becomes a mode, can fix everything what does
not need to rebuild a tree.
--fix-non-critical option moved to --ajust-file-size option,
work in --fix-fixable and --rebuild-tree modes.
2001-07-19
* mkreiserfs
can now create non-standard journal: journal size,
offset, device may now vary
* reiserfstune
initial release. Allows to change journal parameters for
existing filesystems
* reisrefsck
it now sets "consistency checked" flag after
--rebuild-tree and --check which did not find anything
broken
* man pages
updated
2001-06-25
* mkreiserfs
long options (--journal-device, --journal-size)
* library
reiserfs_create, reiserfs_create_journal
2001-06-20
* global changes
Jeff's patch (safe endianness) is merged (with changes)
mlock is used to estimate amount of memory available
2001-06-14
* reiserfsck
update journal header when transaction is replayed
2001-06-13
* reiserfsck
lost+found's mode is set to drwx------ after lost+found pass
2001-06-08
* library
functions to deal with journal
2001-06-05
* global change
Unified access via get_/set_ macroses is added for fields
of struct key, struct item_head, struct
reiserfs_journal_desc/commit, struct block_head, struct disk_child
2001-05-22
* global change
Access to super block's fields are unified vid get_sb_xxx
and set_sb_xxx macroses
2001-05-05
* called 3.x.0k-pre4
* reiserfsck
entries in lost+found are removed on pass 0
2001-05-03
* mkreiserfs
first 64k get zeroed now. This kills JFS if it was there
* reiserfsprogs.spec (Anthon van der Neut)
prereleases can be built by rpm now
link from /sbin/mkreiserfs to /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs
guess about reiserfs kernel support is added
2001-04-16
* reiserfsck
in --check mode it exits with 0 if there were no
corruptions found, 1 if there were only corruptions
fixable by --fix-fixable or 2 if --rebuild-tree is
required
man page updated, simple example of using reiserfsck is
added
2001-04-15
* mkreiserfs
bug in confirmation dialogs fixed
2001-04-13-Friday
* reiserfsck
--hash option makes reiserfsck to skip blocks having
directory entries created with other hash. It is useful
together with --scan-whole-partition
--background option allows to fork fsck end exit (useful
for running remotely)
2001-03-31
* reiserfsck
empty lost directories do not get linked into /lost+found
2001-03-28
* reiserfsck
--nolog option is added
2001-03-26
* called 3.x.0j
* reiserfsck
with -o it tries to fix "objectid sharing" problem
* reiserfsprogs.spec (Anthon van der Neut)
rpm can be built as non-root
link from reiserfsck to fsck.reiserfs
rpm -e reiserfsprogs should now work w/o rmdir of /
2001-03-13
* reiserfsck
--quiet option is added
--fix-bogus-files option is added to fix transprently
corrupted modes and to fix sizes which are longer that
real file size
directory item verifying changed
-u has been replaced with -b to pass reiserfsck the list
of block to build tree off
-c is added to have pass 0 to save bitmap fo leaves found
2001-03-10
* called 3.x.0h
* configure.in
RPM_OPT_FLASG is added to CFLAGS (Anthon van der Neut)
* reiserfsck
-u option is added. It should save time when repeating
--rebuild-tree
hash hits statistic is added on pass 0
2001-03-07
* reiserfsck
-V option to print version and exit added
--fix-fixable changed: directory's sd_size and st_blocks
corrections, removing of entries pointing to nowhere
* resize_reiserfs
man page is added
2001-03-05
* resize_reiserfs
Marcel Waldvogel <mwa@arlq.wustl.edu>'s user interface and
error messages improvements
2001-03-01
* mkreiserfs
-q option is added (Larry Auton <lda@winux.com>)
* reiserfsck
--fix-fixable changed: bitmap correction commented
out. Correction of broken slots of indirect items and
corrections of dir entry state added
2001-02-23
* called 3.x.0e
* reiserfsck
not tested on 2.2
is now able to work with regular file (2.4.x is needed for that)
lost+found fixed: it now first links directories then
files. Still not good as it can not pull out deep directory
2001-02-19
* called 3.x.0c
* reiserfsck
--fix-fixable option is added. So far it only repairs bitmaps
and free block count when they mismatch
* library
reiserfs_find/add_entry added
2001-02-05
* mkreiserfs
can make filesystem with 1 data block
3.6 format is now default
2001-01-20
* portability
Zam ran the reiserfsprogs on alpha
* resizer
Zam managed to resize few partitions.
* reiserfsck
pass0 deletes items which are out of order, tries to fix
items with zeroed k_objectid or k_dir_id and to throw
items which are transparently out of order and tries to
fix "." and ".." of directory items. Pass0 corrects also
corruptions in directory items
* man pages:
get included into dist when doing 'make dist'
* mkreisrefs
explains what is mininal size of reiserfs partition which
can be created
2001-01-12
* reiserfsck:
--interactive option is added
* debugreiserfs:
few bugs fixed
2001-01-07
* reiserfs library:
started with reiserfs_open, reiserfs_close, bitmap tools
* reiserfsck:
filesystem mounted read-only can be checked
number of options decreased
journal replay fixed
pass 0 added.
fsck can be stopped after the tree is built. (should safe time when debugging)
a lot of work still left
* debugreiserfs:
metadata packing changed
added a feature to intentionally corrupt filesystem (should be useful for fsck debugging)
* resizer:
not updated yet
* man pages:
updated for all three progs
