This recommended update provides version 4.3.1 for btrfsprogs:
* fixes
* device delete: recognize 'missing' again
* mkfs: long names are not trimmed when doing ssd check
* support partitioned loop devices
* other
* replace several mallocs with on-stack variables
* more memory allocation failure handling
* add tests for bugs fixed
* cmd-device: switch to new message printing helpers
* minor code cleanups
- update to 4.3
* mkfs
* mixed mode is not forced for filesystems smaller than 1GiB
* mixed mode broken with mismatching sectorsize and nodesize, fixed
* print version info earlier
* print devices sorted by id
* do not truncate target image with --rootsize
* fi usage:
* don't print global block reserve
* print device id
* minor output tuning
* other cleanups
* calc-size:
* div-by-zero fix on an empty filesystem
* fix crash
* bugfixes:
* more superblock sanity checks
* consistently round size of all devices down to sectorsize
* misc leak fixes
* convert: don't try to rollback with a half-deleted ext2_saved subvolume
* other:
* check: add progress indicator
* scrub: enahced error message
* show-super: read superblock from a given offset
* add README
* docs: update manual page for mkfs.btrfs, btrfstune, balance, convert and inspect-internal
* build: optional build with more warnings (W=...)
* build: better support for static checkers
* build: html output of documentation
* pretty-print: last_snapshot for root_item
* pretty-print: stripe dev uuid
* error reporting wrappers, introduced and example use
* refactor open_file_or_dir
* other docs and help updates
* testing:
* test for nodes crossing stripes
* test for broken 'subvolume sync'
* basic tests for mkfs, raid option combinations
* basic tests for fuzzed images (check)
* command intrumentation (eg valgrind)
* print commands if requested
* add README for tests
- update to 4.2.3
- subvol sync: make it actually work again
- scanning: do not scan already discovered filesystems (minor optimization)
- convert: better error message in case the filesystem is not finalized
- restore: off-by-one symlink path check fix
- update to 4.2.2
- fi label: use fallback if the label ioctl is not available
- convert: check nodesize constraints against commandline features (-O)
- scrub: report status 'running' until all devices are finished
- device scanning might crash in some scenarios
- fi usage: print summary for non-root users
- update to 4.2.1
- fix an off-by-one error in cross-stripe boundary check
- convert: don't write uninitialized data to image
- image: don't loop with option -t0
- image: don't create threads if compression is not requested
- version 4.2
* enhancements:
* mkfs: do not create extra single chunks on multiple devices
* resize: try to guess the minimal size, 'inspect min-dev-size'
* qgroup assign: add option to schedule rescan
* chunk-recover: be more verbose about the scanning process
* fixes:
* check:
* find stripes crossing stripe boundary -- created by convert
* print correct range for file hole when there are no extents
and learn how to fix it
* replace: more sanity checks
* convert: concurrency fixes related to reporting progress
* find-root: option -a will not skip the current root anymore
* subvol list: fix occasional crash
* do not create stripes crossing stripe boundary
* build:
* fixes for musl libc
* preliminary support for android (not working yet, more code changes needed)
* new EXTRA_CFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS
* other:
* lots of cleanups
* tests: lots of updates, new tests, framework improvements
* documentation updates
* debugging: print-tree shows stripe length
- version 4.1.2
- mkfs: bugfix, previous version does not create entierly correct
filesystem (has to be recreated) (bsc#938017)
- version 4.1.1
* bugfixes
- defrag: threshold overflow fix
- fsck:
- check if items fit into the leaf space
- fix wrong nbytes
- mkfs:
- create only desired block groups for single device
- preparatory work for fix on multiple devices
* enhancements
- new alias for 'device delete': 'device remove'
* other
- fix compilation on old gcc (4.3)
- documentation updates
- debug-tree: print nbytes
- test: image for corrupted nbytes
- corupt-block: let it kill nbytes
- version 4.1
* bugfixes
- fsck.btrfs: no bash-isms
- bugzilla 97171: invalid memory access (with tests)
- receive:
- cloning works with --chroot
- capabilities not lost
- mkfs: do not try to register bare file images
- option --help accepted by the standalone utilities
* enhancements
- corrupt block: ability to remove csums
- mkfs:
- warn if metadata redundancy is lower than for data
- options to make the output quiet (only errors)
- mixed case names of raid profiles accepted
- rework the output:
- more comprehensive, 'key: value' format
- subvol:
- show:
- print received uuid
- update the output
- new options to specify size units
- sync:
- grab all deleted ids and print them as they're removed,
previous implementation only checked if there are any
to be deleted - change in command semantics
- scrub: print timestamps in days HMS format
- receive:
- can specify mount point, do not rely on /proc
- can work inside subvolumes
- send:
- new option to send stream without data (NO_FILE_DATA)
- convert:
- specify incompat features on the new fs
- qgroup:
- show: distinguish no limits and 0 limit value
- limit: ability to clear the limit
- help for 'btrfs' is shorter, 1st level command overview
- debug tree: print key names according to their C name
* new
- rescure zero-log
- btrfsune:
- rewrite uuid on a filesystem image
- new option to turn on NO_HOLES incompat feature
* deprecated
- standalone btrfs-zero-log
* other
- testing framework updates
- uuid rewrite test
- btrfstune feature setting test
- zero-log tests
- more testing image formats
- manual page updates
- ioctl.h synced with current kernel uapi version
- convert: preparatory works for more filesystems (reiserfs pending)
- use static buffers for path handling where possible
- add new helpers for send uilts that check memory allocations,
switch all users, deprecate old helpers
- Makefile: fix build dependency generation
- map-logical: make it work again