util-linux-ng-2.17.2/docs/v2.17.1-ReleaseNotes

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/


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 König]
   - 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]