[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.37-rc1

2021-04-12 Thread Karel Zak
termann] - Import textutils man pages [Mario Blättermann] - Incorporate latest change in findmnt.8 [Mario Blättermann] - Incorporate latest changes in findmnt.8 [Karel Zak] - Incorporate latest changes in rfkill.8 and umount.8 [Mario Blättermann] - Re-add empty lines to man pages [Mar

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.36.2

2021-02-12 Thread Karel Zak
[Sami Loone] blkdiscard: - fix compiler warnings [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] [Karel Zak] build-sys: - do not build plymouth-ctrl.c w/ disabled plymouth [Pino Toscano] configure: - test -a|o is not POSIX [Issam E. Maghni] docs: - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] fsck.cramfs: - fix

[ANNOUNCE] stable util-linux v2.36.1

2020-11-16 Thread Karel Zak
] blockdev: - fix man page formatting [Jakub Wilk] build-sys: - exclude GPL from libcommon [Karel Zak] build-system: - stop looking for %ms and %as [Evgeny Vereshchagin] chrt: - use SCHED_FLAG_RESET_ON_FORK for sched_setattr() [Karel Zak] docs: - add hint about make install-strip and

Re: file metadata via fs API

2020-08-13 Thread Karel Zak
info() sucks, but it does not mean that /proc/self/mountinfo is something cool. Right? We have to dig deep grave for /proc/self/mountinfo ... Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: file metadata via fs API

2020-08-13 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 02:43:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 1:28 PM Karel Zak wrote: > > > The proposal is based on paths and open(), how do you plan to deal > > with mount IDs? David's fsinfo() allows to ask for mount info by mount > &

Re: file metadata via fs API

2020-08-12 Thread Karel Zak
would be helpful. > > Definitely. Will measure performance with the interface which Linus > proposed. The proposal is based on paths and open(), how do you plan to deal with mount IDs? David's fsinfo() allows to ask for mount info by mount ID and it works well with mount notif

Re: file metadata via fs API (was: [GIT PULL] Filesystem Information)

2020-08-12 Thread Karel Zak
(struct alt_metadata *) p; char *varname = alt->name; char *data = alt->data; int len = alt->len; sz -= len; p += len; } Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.36

2020-07-23 Thread Karel Zak
LES [Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)] - rename RETURN VALUES to RETURN VALUE [Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)] - reword su.1 description [Karel Zak] - runuser.1 Various wording and formatting fixes [Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)] - runuser.1, su.1 miscellaneous wording and formatting

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.36-rc2

2020-07-09 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.36-rc2 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.36 Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [GIT PULL] General notification queue and key notifications

2020-06-10 Thread Karel Zak
new syscall notifyfd()? (We have signalfd(), no O_SIGNAL_PIPE, etc.) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.36-rc1

2020-06-09 Thread Karel Zak
as [Yuri Chornoivan] - ussuported -> unsupported [Yuri Chornoivan] - ipcmk.1, ipcs.1, lsipc.1 explicitly mention "System V" [Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)] agetty: - (man) add "white" color name [Karel Zak] - (man) fix typo [Karel Zak] - extend --issue-file

Re: [PATCH util-linux] dmesg: adjust timestamps according to suspended time

2020-06-04 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:43:52PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > On 04/06/2020 12.30, Karel Zak wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:21:34PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > > Timestamps in kernel log comes from monotonic clocksource which does not > > >

Re: [PATCH util-linux] dmesg: adjust timestamps according to suspended time

2020-06-04 Thread Karel Zak
final solution is to have exact information about system suspends. It would be enough to maintain in kernel memory a simple log with and export this info by /proc/suspendlog, after that we can all re-count /dev/kmsg timestamps to something useful. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.35.2

2020-05-20 Thread Karel Zak
=== bash-completion: - umount explicitly needs gawk [Wolfram Sang] blkdiscard: - (man) offset and length must be sector aligned [Lukas Czerner] blkzone: - deny destructive ioctls on busy blockdev [Johannes Thumshirn] chsh: - (man) fix default behavior description [Karel Zak

Re: mount on tmpfs failing to parse context option

2019-10-08 Thread Karel Zak
ab, then a remount with unspeci‐ fied source is allowed. If you do not like this classic behavior than recent mount(8) versions provide --options-mode={ignore,append,prepend,replace} to keep it in your hands. Karel > > > > > Hugh > -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: New kernel interface for sys_tz and timewarp?

2019-08-19 Thread Karel Zak
Cannot we provide all necessary information for example on kernel command line, or/and as rtc module option? Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.34

2019-06-14 Thread Karel Zak
ls [Stanislav Brabec] - fix output of escaped characters [Christian Hesse] - fix portability issues [Samuel Thibault] bash-completion: - add fstrim --quiet [Karel Zak] - add hardlink completion [Sami Kerola] - umount support relative path and ~ as home shorthands [Sami Kerola] -

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.34-rc2

2019-05-30 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.34-rc2 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.34/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.34-rc1

2019-04-30 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.34-rc1 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.34/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > > Util-linux 2.34 Release

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.34-rc1

2019-04-30 Thread Karel Zak
n: - umount support relative path and ~ as home shorthands [Sami Kerola] blkid: - (man) cleanup return code section [Karel Zak] - fix usage() [Karel Zak] - make PART_ENTRY_* tags optional (add --no-part-details) [Karel Zak] blockdev: - make –-getbsz less confusing for end-users [Kar

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.33.2

2019-04-09 Thread Karel Zak
get_logname() [Stanislav Brabec] - Switch to 8-bit processing in get_logname() for UTF-8 terminals [Stanislav Brabec] bash-completion: - umount support relative path and ~ as home shorthands [Sami Kerola] blkid: - (man) cleanup return code section [Karel Zak] build-sys: - fix crypt

Re: [RFD] A mount api that notices previous mounts

2019-01-30 Thread Karel Zak
in userspace) when you think about the new API design. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [RFD] A mount api that notices previous mounts

2019-01-30 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 01:01:54PM +, David Howells wrote: > Karel Zak wrote: > > > It seems more elegant is to ask for Nth option as expected by fsinfo(). > > More elegant yes, but there's an issue with atomiticity[*]. I'm in the > process of switching

Re: [RFD] A mount api that notices previous mounts

2019-01-30 Thread Karel Zak
id's fsinfo() to work with FS instance and to return specifiers. And use fsconfig() rather than fsset(). Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.33.1

2019-01-09 Thread Karel Zak
util-linux 2.33.1 Release Notes === agetty: - Return old behavior with empty logname [Stanislav Brabec] - fix output of escaped characters [Christian Hesse] - fix portability issues [Samuel Thibault] build-sys: - do not require crypt() [Karel Zak

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.33

2018-11-06 Thread Karel Zak
s between v2.32 and v2.33 --- agetty: - Reload only if it is really needed [Stanislav Brabec] - Watch only protocol requested by issue escapes [Stanislav Brabec] - agetty.8 Avoid a warning about an unbreakable line [Bjarni Ingi Gislason] - cleanup code to copy to log strings

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.33-rc2

2018-10-19 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.33-rc2 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.33/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Future of dosfstools project (FAT)

2018-10-02 Thread Karel Zak
m the original maintainer. Sometimes fork open source project is a good thing. The another example is mutt -> mutt-kz -> neomutt ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.33-rc1

2018-09-25 Thread Karel Zak
s between v2.32 and v2.33 --- agetty: - agetty.8 Avoid a warning about an unbreakable line [Bjarni Ingi Gislason] - keep c_iflags unmodified on --autologin [Karel Zak] bash-completion: - add findmnt --real --pseudo [Karel Zak] - add swapon specifiers to completion

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.32.1

2018-07-16 Thread Karel Zak
[Karel Zak] blkid: - (man) add note about udev encoding [Karel Zak] blkzone: - fix whole device detection [Karel Zak] build-sys: - extend "Could not locate the pkg-config" error message [Karel Zak] - improve bison version detection [Karel Zak] cfdisk: - fix compiler warnin

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.32

2018-03-21 Thread Karel Zak
/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.31 and v2.32 --- agetty: - Fix a use of uninitialised memory in an agetty error path. [Steven Smith] - add support for /etc/issue.d [Karel Zak] - remove unused flag [Karel Zak] bash

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.32-rc2

2018-03-01 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.32-rc2 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.32-rc2 Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: 500 ms delay in time saved into RTC

2018-02-19 Thread Karel Zak
roblem with --delay, but it's tuning for advanced users and HW specific stuff. It would be nice to have something more portable. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2018-02-15 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:54:30PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2018 22:52:33 Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2017 13:13:01 Karel Zak wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 08:19:25PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > On Monday 20 No

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.32-rc1

2018-02-13 Thread Karel Zak
://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.31 and v2.32 --- agetty: - Fix a use of uninitialised memory in an agetty error path. [Steven Smith] - add support for /etc/issue.d [Karel Zak] - remove unused flag [Karel Zak] bash

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.31.1

2017-12-19 Thread Karel Zak
Locke] blkid: - Add support for LUKS2 and new LABEL attributes. [Milan Broz] blockdev: - be more explicit for BLKSSZ in blockdev.8 [Karel Zak] build-sys: - move rfkill to /usr/sbin [Karel Zak] column: - use \x for invalid multibyte seq. [Karel Zak] dmesg: - add note about -F

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-11-27 Thread Karel Zak
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 08:19:25PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Monday 20 November 2017 12:12:56 Karel Zak wrote: > > Go ahead and send patch :-) (also with LABEL_FATBOOT=) > > Ok, I prepared patches for util-linux including LABEL_FATBOOT: > https://github.com/karelzak/util-li

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-11-22 Thread Karel Zak
ram on linux (e.g. GParted) tells you that label is A and another > (e.g. KDE Partition Manager) that label is B. So I rather wait for final > decision. Maybe it's time to update all the GUI stuff to read LABELs and UUIDs (and another attributes) from udev db. Karel

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-11-20 Thread Karel Zak
be visible. But they are already not visible on > >MS-DOS or Windows machines, and also via mlabel (from mtools). > > > > 2) Behavior of blkid and fatlabel would be changed as both tools have > >different as proposed above, and based on tests they also differ each > >from other. > > > > Andreas, Karel, what do you think about it? > > Also for other people, do any have comments on my proposed solution? Go ahead and send patch :-) (also with LABEL_FATBOOT=) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-11-09 Thread Karel Zak
igh-level API follows LABEL only. Maybe it would be better to use LABEL_BOOT= or LABEL_FATBOOT= as name. The important thing is the default behavior of the LABEL, this is what use mount(8) and another tools. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-11-06 Thread Karel Zak
at 3:39 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: > > >> > On Tuesday 31 October 2017 10:35:48 Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > >> >> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Andreas Bombe > > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.31

2017-10-19 Thread Karel Zak
date howto-usage-function.txt [J William Piggott] - output rfkill type names from an array instead of a static string. [Darren Salt] agetty: - add --list-speeds option [Sami Kerola] - add compile time features to --version output [Sami Kerola] - fix --login-pause logic [Karel Zak]

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-10-12 Thread Karel Zak
ows) does not work as > expected? Then... I'm ready to do the changes to keep interoperability with the rest of the universe. It's the same situation as with UDF, you know... Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: Linux & FAT32 label

2017-10-12 Thread Karel Zak
so label >stored in boot sector is incorrect after any change done by >Windows XP. > >But due to compatibility with older dosfslabel, which stores >label only to boot sector, there is need for some fallback. Due >to point 1. the best seems to be

Re: [PATCH 06/14] VFS: Implement fsmount() to effect a pre-configured mount [ver #6]

2017-10-11 Thread Karel Zak
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Karel Zak wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:00:01AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > >> > + > >> > + if (flags & MS_RDONLY) > >&g

Re: [PATCH 06/14] VFS: Implement fsmount() to effect a pre-configured mount [ver #6]

2017-10-10 Thread Karel Zak
about two separated things -- VFS-flags and FS-flags (and for example /proc/#/mountinfo already uses two columns for the flags) than the question is why the API uses one variable? Would be better to use two variables everywhere? (mostly for the syscall). It would be nice to keep

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.31-rc2

2017-10-03 Thread Karel Zak
- update howto-usage-function.txt [J William Piggott] - output rfkill type names from an array instead of a static string. [Darren Salt] agetty: - add --list-speeds option [Sami Kerola] - add compile time features to --version output [Sami Kerola] - fix --login-pause logic [Karel

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.31-rc1

2017-09-22 Thread Karel Zak
- add compile time features to --version output [Sami Kerola] - fix --login-pause logic [Karel Zak] - fix invalid usage crash [Sami Kerola] - fix login name DEL/CTRL^U issue [Karel Zak] - keep returns in main() [Karel Zak] - print /etc/issue on --skip-login [Karel Zak] - remo

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.30.2

2017-09-21 Thread Karel Zak
[Karel Zak] cfdisk: - add missing 0x7F key mapping [Karel Zak] dmesg: - fix delimiter calculation [Karel Zak] docs: - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] fstab(5): - mention how tabs are escaped [Andreas Henriksson] lib/randutils: - improve getrandom() usage [Karel Zak] - reset lose

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.30.1

2017-07-20 Thread Karel Zak
[Karel Zak] cfdisk: - simplify ncurses includes [Karel Zak] column: - fix compilation when libc lacks wide-character support [Carlos Santos] dmesg: - print only 2 hex digits for each hex-escaped byte [Ivan Delalande] docs: - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] fdformat: - clear

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.30

2017-06-02 Thread Karel Zak
ps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29.1-ReleaseNotes https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.29 and v2.30 --- agetty: - fix a memory leak when parsing \S in issue files [Matthias Gerstner] -

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.30-rc2

2017-05-23 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.30-rc2 is available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.30-rc1

2017-05-12 Thread Karel Zak
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 02:03:10PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > The util-linux release v2.30-rc1 is available at > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30-rc1 Ah, the correct URL is: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/ Karel -- Karel Za

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.30-rc1

2017-05-12 Thread Karel Zak
when parsing \S in issue files [Matthias Gerstner] - fix characters reorder in login prompt [Karel Zak] - fix ifdef typo [Ruediger Meier] - fix login-options desc in man page [Karel Zak] - fix typo [Karel Zak] - make --remote to forward --nohostname as -H to login [Sami Kerola]

Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

2017-05-10 Thread Karel Zak
e,ro this is supported by mount(8), but it's implemented by three independent mount(2) calls - 1st mounts /dev/sda1 with MS_RDONLY - 2nd sets MS_PRIVATE flag - 3rd sets MS_UNBINDABLE flag. it would be nice set all the VFS flags and then as atomic operation attach the context to the tree. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [PATCH 4/9] Implement fsopen() to prepare for a mount

2017-05-04 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:06:51PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Karel Zak wrote: > > The very basic mount(2) problem is that you have to parse > > /proc/self/mountinfo to get information about the mounted filesystem. > > It seems that your read() is also one way communicat

Re: [PATCH 4/9] Implement fsopen() to prepare for a mount

2017-05-04 Thread Karel Zak
t ID, etc. It would be nice to have something like fsmount(mfd, AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0); write(mfd, "o"); read(mfd, ); // read mount options write(mdf, "i"); read(mfd, ); // read mount ID but it seems ugly. Maybe introduce another function like fsinfo(mdf, "o", buf, bufsz) to get mount options (etc.) and to avoid separate write & read. > Netlink is not used because it is optional. +1 Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29.2

2017-02-22 Thread Karel Zak
which were already running. build-sys: - fix --disable-all-programs --enable-schedutils [Karel Zak] - improve detection of the "isnan" function in uClibc [Carlos Santos] - simplify UL_ENABLE_ALIAS() semantic [Karel Zak] cfdisk: - support UI refresh on ^L [Karel

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29.1

2017-01-20 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.29.1 is available at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29 Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel util-linux 2.29.1 Release Notes === build-sys: - cleanup UL_NCURSES_CHECK [Karel Zak

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29

2016-11-08 Thread Karel Zak
--- agetty: - call uname() only when necessary [Karel Zak] - don't modify argv[] when parse speeds [Karel Zak] - fix \S usage [Karel Zak] - move unreachable code to pre-processor #else segment [oclint] [Sami Kerola] blkdev: - guard against mi

Re: [RFD] Common userspace tool for fscypto

2016-10-24 Thread Karel Zak
> control > fscrypto? We (David and I) would volunteer. I have nothing against this plan (add to util-linux) if ext4, f2fs and ubifs guys agree too. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29-rc2

2016-10-19 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.29-rc1 is available at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [PATCH] partitions/efi: Ignore errors when alternate GPT is not at the end of disk

2016-10-18 Thread Karel Zak
t place for the header? Let's imagine your primary header is broken and alternate_lba is unreliable (or zero, etc.), where is the backup header? Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.29-rc1

2016-09-30 Thread Karel Zak
v2.28 and v2.29 --- agetty: - call uname() only when necessary [Karel Zak] - don't modify argv[] when parse speeds [Karel Zak] - fix \S usage [Karel Zak] - move unreachable code to pre-processor #else segment [oclint] [Sami Kerola] blkdev: -

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux stable v2.28.2

2016-09-07 Thread Karel Zak
FreeBSD 11 [Franco Fichtner] build-sys: - add parisc to define ARCH_ [Karel Zak] docs: - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] lib/loopdev: - Set errno in is_loopdev on error [Tobias Stoeckmann] libblkid: - Avoid OOB access on illegal ZFS superblocks [Tobias Stoeckmann] - Check that cluster

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.28.1

2016-08-11 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.28.1 is available at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28 Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel util-linux 2.28.1 Release Notes === agetty: - call uname() only when necessary [Karel Zak

Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive

2016-04-27 Thread Karel Zak
oblem. The current solution is to force user to do anything. It would be nice to have support for this issue in userspace and switch for example to single user mode, or so... I'm also have doubts that printk() is the best way how to report this issue to userspace if we want to trigger any

Re: [PATCH 2/2] mountinfo: implement show_path for kernfs and cgroup

2016-04-26 Thread Karel Zak
is no mountinfo file, but /proc/self/mountinfo// directory with individual files, so every subsystem and filesystem has absolute freedom to store there all relevant information. The result will be also lucky kernel that does not have to always generate entire huge mountinfo file for all mountpoins... etc. :-) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive

2016-04-26 Thread Karel Zak
the alternative header is specified with-in primary header (pgpt->alternate_lba). The header at the end of the device (as used for "force_gpt") is a fallback solution only. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.28

2016-04-12 Thread Karel Zak
.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.27 and v2.28 --- agetty: - add support for \e in issue file to print \033 [Karel Zak] - don't igno

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.28-rc2

2016-03-29 Thread Karel Zak
1 2015] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.27 and v2.28 --- agetty: - add support for \e in issue file to print \033 [Karel Zak]

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.28-rc1

2016-03-14 Thread Karel Zak
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 09:32:24PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > sigset_t is not a structure on Hurd. Applications are not supposed to > assume what it is, and the first thing that sulogin.c does on it is > sigemptyset already anyway OK, fixed. Karel -- Karel Za

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.28-rc1

2016-03-11 Thread Karel Zak
1 2015] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.27 and v2.28 --- agetty: - add support for \e in issue file to print \033 [Karel Zak]

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.27.1

2015-11-02 Thread Karel Zak
Kuleshov] docs: - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] fdisk: - fix -N internal return code [Karel Zak] - to recognize Intel Rapid Start hibernation partition [Jörg Jenderek] - to recognize partition type 0xEA (Rufus) [Jörg Jenderek] include/pt-mbr-partnames: - remove '|&

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.27

2015-09-07 Thread Karel Zak
2.26.2-ChangeLog Changes between v2.26 and v2.27 --- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/ agetty: - Reprompt once the network addresses change if address displayed [Stef Walter] - cleanup plymouth usage [coverity scan] [Karel Z

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.27-rc2

2015-08-24 Thread Karel Zak
The util-linux release v2.27-rc2 is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.27-rc1

2015-07-31 Thread Karel Zak
ngeLog Changes between v2.26 and v2.27 --- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/ agetty: - Reprompt once the network addresses change if address displayed [Stef Walter] - make sure that reload file exists [Karel Zak] - r

Re: Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount

2015-07-15 Thread Karel Zak
's userspace mount(8) option and you can use it in your fstab. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: NILFS2: double uuid

2015-06-09 Thread Karel Zak
does not update the size in the superblock? It seems like nilfs-resize bug. > It seems that we don't have to drop the primary super block > even if s_dev_size doesn't fit to the partition size. Yes, fixed. I have also enabled the s_dev_size check for whole-disk devices only to minim

Re: NILFS2: double uuid

2015-06-09 Thread Karel Zak
git/commit/?id=00817742ce360119e079a33e12cf84118ff7c63e Note that workaround is to not use nilfs2 on the last partition or have a tiny gap (1 sector is enough) between last partition and the end of the whole-disk. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: what's cooking in zram for 4.1

2015-05-18 Thread Karel Zak
nux git tree supports mm_stat file now. It's able to fallback to the original /sys/block/zram/ if mm_stat does not exist. The change will be available in v2.27 (~Aug 2015). I have also added support for MEM-LIMIT, MEM-USED and MIGRATED columns. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blo

Re: what's cooking in zram for 4.1

2015-05-11 Thread Karel Zak
orig_data_size > compr_data_size > mem_used_total > mem_limit > mem_used_max > zero_pages > num_migrated Why do you need all in one file? ... to provide consistent statistics? Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.26.2

2015-04-30 Thread Karel Zak
[Karel Zak] build-sys: - add new compiler warnings [Karel Zak] - define cfdisk dependence on open_memstream [Karel Zak] - ncurses is optional, don't fail when missing [Karel Zak] - python is optional, don't fail when missing [Karel Zak] dmesg: - fix shadow declarat

d_path() and overlay fs

2015-03-20 Thread Karel Zak
partition 8191996 258308 -1 /image file10200 -2 Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordo

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.26.1

2015-03-13 Thread Karel Zak
[Karel Zak] - reload issue on --autologin --login-pause too [Karel Zak] - support /usr/lib/os-release too [Karel Zak] build-sys: - add --disable-colors-default [Karel Zak] cal: - care about setuprterm() result [Karel Zak] colors: - cleanup man pages, add hint to usage() [Karel

Re: [PATCH 0/2] make automatic device_id generation possible

2015-03-05 Thread Karel Zak
sume upcoming user id. yeah, automaic id will start > from 0 so it's very rare to reach 1000 but who knows? Why 1000? The UID_MIN and UID_MAX is nothing strictly defined, it's just option in /etc/login.defs. I guess it's nothing unusually to have system where UID_MIN

Re: [PATCH 0/2] make automatic device_id generation possible

2015-03-05 Thread Karel Zak
s easy to add a new feature, but you don't have to do it right now :) Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.26

2015-02-19 Thread Karel Zak
v2.26 --- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/ agetty: - Reprompt and reprint /etc/issue when asked [Stef Walter] - don't ignore TERM [Karel Zak] - fix typo [Karel Zak] - fixing FTBFS on !linu

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.26-rc2

2015-02-04 Thread Karel Zak
- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/ agetty: - Reprompt and reprint /etc/issue when asked [Stef Walter] - don't ignore TERM [Karel Zak] - fix typo [Karel Zak] - fixing FTBFS on !linux (Debian uti

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.26-rc1

2015-01-14 Thread Karel Zak
ails see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/ agetty: - Reprompt and reprint /etc/issue when asked [Stef Walter] - don't ignore TERM [Karel Zak] - fix typo [Karel Zak] - fixing FTBFS on !linux (Debian util-linux 2.20.1-1.2) [Christoph

Re: [PATCH 5/5] brd: Add getgeo to block ops for fdisk

2014-11-10 Thread Karel Zak
8-8158 not > 40-8158. I was not sure if you noticed from your explanation above. Yes, I understand, fixed in util-linux master branch. https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/4a4616b22e21f3c05030dc05d98016fcb15a2ee9 Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsu

Re: [PATCH 5/5] brd: Add getgeo to block ops for fdisk

2014-11-10 Thread Karel Zak
(minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Is there a reason for brd to behave differently? Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: [PATCH 5/5] brd: Add getgeo to block ops for fdisk

2014-11-07 Thread Karel Zak
crazy alignment offset). Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH 4/5] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment

2014-11-07 Thread Karel Zak
values in dialogs are always aligned. All misaligned partitions are always reported (by warning messages). Boaz, it would be nice to have any example (copy & past fdisk output). Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.25.2

2014-10-24 Thread Karel Zak
util-linux 2.20.1-1.2) [Christoph Egger] blkdiscard: - fix err->errx() [Karel Zak] - fix underflow when offset is greater than device size [Raphael S. Carvalho] blkid: - remove extra trailing spaces in output [Karel Zak] build-sys: - build libmount everywhere [Andreas Henriks

Re: [PATCH] x86: new topology for multi-NUMA-node CPUs

2014-09-22 Thread Karel Zak
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:15:05AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 09/19/2014 04:45 AM, Karel Zak wrote: > > hmm... it would be also nice to test it with lscpu(1) from > > util-linux (but it uses maps rather than lists from cpu*/topology/). > > Here's the output with a

Re: [PATCH] x86: new topology for multi-NUMA-node CPUs

2014-09-19 Thread Karel Zak
18-35 hmm... it would be also nice to test it with lscpu(1) from util-linux (but it uses maps rather than lists from cpu*/topology/). Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH 4/4] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment

2014-08-07 Thread Karel Zak
limits? It would be also nice to set minimal and optimal io size, zero values in this case means (for userspace) that the device does not provide any I/O information to system. It's normal for old hw disks and then we use some built-in defaults, but I don't see a reason to do the sam

Re: [PATCH 4/4] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment

2014-08-07 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 03:17:23PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > > Is there an error case that this patch fixes? I've had page alignment > > > checks > > > in my PRD direct_access code for

Re: [PATCH 4/4] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment

2014-08-07 Thread Karel Zak
with 4K devices. All you need is to provide all necessary information by /sys (or ioctls). > to miss-align my partitions. Depending on size maybe not the very first one > but the > consecutive ones easily. it would be nice to have usable bug report... Karel -- Karel Zak http://kar

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