| Util-linux-ng 2.17.1 Release Notes |
| ================================== |
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| Release highlights |
| ------------------ |
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| fdisk: |
| - supports new command line option "-c" to disable DOS-compatible mode from |
| command line. |
| |
| The DOS-compatible mode is DEPRECATED and will be disabled by default |
| in the next major release. Currently, the DOS mode is enabled by default |
| for backward compatibility only. |
| |
| The cylinders as display units are DEPRECATED. It's recommended to use |
| "-u" command line option or "u" fdisk command and use sectors as display |
| units. |
| |
| Note that the new support for 4K-sector disks is useless in DOS-compatible |
| mode. The fdisk command prints warning(s) when startup in DOS mode. |
| |
| |
| Changes since v2.17 |
| ------------------- |
| |
| For more details see ChangeLog files at: |
| ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.17/ |
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| |
| blkid: |
| - add newline when only one value is printed [Karel Zak] |
| - fix #ifdef HAVE_TERMIO[S]_H [Karel Zak] |
| - probe for PT, don't probe for FS on small whole-disks [Karel Zak] |
| - report open() errors in low-level probing [Karel Zak] |
| build-sys: |
| - add missing tests for libuuid and libblkid [Karel Zak] |
| - release++ (v2.17.1-rc1) [Karel Zak] |
| - remove duplicate #includes [Karel Zak] |
| cal: |
| - fix first day of the week calculation on BE systems [Karel Zak] |
| cfdisk: |
| - set '[New]' as default item on menu for non allocated space instead of '[Help]'. [Francesco Cosoleto] |
| - set '[Quit]' as default menu item on first run instead of '[Bootable]'. [Francesco Cosoleto] |
| docs: |
| - add v2.17.1 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] |
| - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] |
| fdisk: |
| - add -c option (switch off DOS mode) [Karel Zak] |
| - cleanup alignment, default to 1MiB offset [Karel Zak] |
| - cleanup help, add -h option [Karel Zak] |
| - cleanup warnings [Karel Zak] |
| - don't check alignment_offset against geometry [Karel Zak] |
| - don't include scsi.h [Karel Zak] |
| - don't use 1MiB grain on small devices [Karel Zak] |
| - fallback for topology values [Karel Zak] |
| - fix ALIGN_UP [Karel Zak] |
| - fix check_alignment() [Karel Zak] |
| - fix default first sector [Karel Zak] |
| - swap VTOC values for warning messages [Karel Zak] |
| - use "optimal I/O size" in warnings [Karel Zak] |
| - use 1MiB offset and grain always when possible [Karel Zak] |
| - use more elegant way to count and check alignment [Karel Zak] |
| - use optimal_io_size [Karel Zak] |
| include: |
| - add min/max macros [Karel Zak] |
| libblkid: |
| - add minimal sizes for OCFS and GFS [Karel Zak] |
| - add sanity checks for FAT to DOS PT parser [Karel Zak] |
| - call read() per FAT root dir entry [Karel Zak] |
| - disable read-ahead when probing device files [Linus Torvalds] |
| - don't call read() per FAT dir-entry on large disks [Karel Zak] |
| - don't probe for GPT and Unixware PT on floppies [Karel Zak] |
| - don't return error on empty files [Karel Zak] |
| - fix ZSF detection [Andreas Dilger] |
| - fix segfault in drdb [Matthias Kรถnig] |
| - more robust minix probing [Karel Zak] |
| - read whole SB buffer (69kB) on large disks [Karel Zak] |
| - read() optimization for small devices [Karel Zak] |
| - restrict RAID/FS proving for small devices (1.4MiB) [Karel Zak] |
| - rewrite blkid_probe_get_buffer() [Karel Zak] |
| - set minimal size for jfs, reiser, swap and zfs [Karel Zak] |
| login: |
| - check that after tty reopen we still work with a terminal [Karel Zak] |
| - don't link PAMed version with libcrypt [Karel Zak] |
| - use fd instead of pathname for update tty's owner and permissions [Yann Droneaud] |
| mount: |
| - advise users to use "modprobe", not "insmod" [Karel Zak] |
| - update documentation about barrier mount options [Jan Kara] |
| - warn users that mtab is read-only [Karel Zak] |
| namei: |
| - fix man page formatting [Vladimir Brednikov] |
| po: |
| - merge changes [Karel Zak] |
| - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar] |
| - update eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti Uranga] |
| - update id.po (from translationproject.org) [Arif E. Nugroho] |
| - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] |
| - update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall] |
| sfdisk: |
| - make sure writes make it to disk in write_partitions() [Bryn M. Reeves] |
| swapon: |
| - fix swapsize calculation [Karel Zak] |
| tests: |
| - add fdisk alignment tests [Karel Zak] |
| - fix RAIDs tests [Karel Zak] |
| - fix and update old fdisk tests [Karel Zak] |
| - update FS test images [Karel Zak] |
| - update fdisk tests [Karel Zak] |
| - update fdisk tests (add whitespaces) [Karel Zak] |
| wipefs: |
| - ignore devices with partition table [Karel Zak] |