Download/ploop/1.3/changes

Changes

Since 1.2:

New functionality

• ploop copy is working now
• added pcopy's send_process() and receive_process() to lib
• ploop mount: added -c <component_name> option
• ploop(8): added (still incomplete)
• ploop balloon discard: add --to-free and --min-block
• add Preallocated item to DiskDescriptor.xml
• add ploop_get_mnt_by_dev() to library

Bug fixes

• fixed offline snapshot creation
• fixed race between register/unregister_ploop_dev()
• create image: if fallocate is not supported, fail
• ploop init, ploop mount: fix -b option value validation
• ploop mount: fix usage, -d is optional
• ploop info: fix usage, DiskDescriptor.xml is required
• ploop.spec: make main package require -lib of the same version
• fixed a few ioctl-related error messages
• ploop_create_snapshot(): check for number of snapshots limit (127)
• ploop.spec: do not own _libdir
• fix SYSEXIT_PARAM value
• tools/ploop.c: do not use ploop_err()
• tools: fixed/improved usage for many commands
• tools: do not forget to print newlines
• make install: use /usr/lib64 LIBDIR for x86_64
• ploop_create_image(): free disk descriptor if fstype is NULL
• create_balloon_file(): fix file name in error message
• create_balloon_file(): umount and remove temp mnt point
• create_balloon_file(): fix error message and return code
• parse_xml(): add Blocksize validation

Improvements and cleanups

• ploop lib: add visibility=hidden for internal functions
• tools: use parse_size() and is_xml_name() where possible
• remove merge_top_only param of get_delta_info()
• ploop balloon: make it accept either -m or -d or both
• ploop convert: change -t to -f
• tools: unify parsing -f option
• various code and headers cleanups
• setver.sh: add -v, -b, -i

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for ploop-1.3.