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- From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 10
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.170625.28675@jussieu.fr>
- Sender: news@jussieu.fr (Le Facteur)
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- Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:06:25 GMT
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- The new release (alpha 10) of the extended file system programs (efsck
- and mkefs) is available for anonymous ftp from ftp-masi.ibp.fr [132.227.64.26]
- in the directory pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs. It should be available soon on
- tsx-11.mit.edu [18.172.1.2] in the directory pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.
-
- This version is available as :
- - efsprogs10.tar.Z : source and binary programs,
- - efsprogs10.src.tar.Z : source only programs,
- - efsprogs10.bin.tar.Z : binary only programs,
- - efsprogs.p10.Z : patch to upgrade from version alpha 9.
-
- Changes from the previous version are :
- - two man pages (efsck.8 and mkefs.8) are now included,
- - the Makefile supports an install target ('make install' copies
- efsck and mkefs to /bin and efsck.8 and mkefs.8 to /usr/man/man8),
- - efsck should now be able to REALLY correct bad directory entries
- (the correction code in version alpha 9 was not enough),
- - efsck now checks links to directories and detects cycles in a
- directory tree,
- - efsck now checks each inode mode.
-
- The changes to efsck should allow people with bad directories to
- recover them. Note that these changes have not been really tested because
- I didn't succeeded in reproducing the problem on my own machine. So, please
- use this new version with caution (i.e. first run efsck without the -r or -a
- option to know if it will try to fix something).
-
- During my work on efsck, I have also checked the ext fs code and I
- think that I have found a bug in the directory handling routines. This bug may
- be the cause of the bad directory entries. The patch (relative to linux
- 0.98 pl 5) is available for anonymous ftp on ftp-masi.ibp.fr in the file
- pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.p6.Z. Note that this patch will surely be included in
- the next linux release.
-
- Of course, feel free to contact me if you experiment problems with
- this new release or with the ext fs patch.
-
- Remy
- --
-
- Remy Card
- card@masi.ibp.fr
-