Dear NILFS users, We have released nilfs-2.0.9 and nilfs-2.0.10 with corresponding utility packages.
Nilfs-2.0.9 fixed an endian bug in super block; the former versions missed an endian conversion and turned out to have architecture dependency in the disk format. I fixed the problem in this release to avoid future confusion, but this once breaks disk format compatibilty on big endian machines. Fortunately little endian machines (e.g. x86 archs) are not affected, and even for big endian machines the problem can be fixed by once mounting with nilfs-2.0.9. That is why I released this version. Nilfs-utils-2.0.9 is the companion package of nilfs-2.0.9. But, its main change is not the above fix but that of cleanerd bug which has caused incorrect removal of checkpoints within protection period. Nilfs-2.0.10 and nilfs-utils-2.0.10 will add secondary super block in tail of the nilfs partition, and this improves reliability of the nilfs file system against corruption of the super block. Former versions didn't have extra super blocks, and had a possiblity to become unmountable if the primary super block is destroyed. Incidentally, this extension is achieved without losing disk format compatibility. The updated package can be found at: http://www.nilfs.org/en/download.html Thanks, -- Ryusuke Konishi NILFS team NTT _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://www.nilfs.org/mailman/listinfo/users
