From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Subject: efsprogs version 7 Date: 28 Aug 1992 11:00:36 GMT
The new version (alpha 7) of the ext fs programs (efsck and mkefs) is
available from ftp-masi.ibp.fr:pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs. I have uploaded them
to tsx-11.mit.edu and they should appear soon in pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs. The
files to get are :
- efsprogs7.tar.Z : source and binaries,
- efsprogs7.bin.tar.Z : binary programs only,
- efsprogs7.src.tar.Z : source programs only.
This version contains the following changes :
- the Makefile now supports a dep target to create dependencies for
object files,
- the computation of the maximal size of a file was broken in mkefs,
it is now fixed (note that this was not a big problem since the
ext file system never uses this value),
- some bugs causing efsck to dump core when the free lists were
corrupted are fixed,
- when salvaging the free lists or correcting the free inodes/blocks
counts, efsck did not write the changes to the disk. Now, it does.
- Wayne Davison has implemented a conversion from the old .badblocks
file to a reserved inode in efsck. After conversion, the bad blocks
do not appear in a file any more so there is no risk to delete or
backup them.