Download/ploop/1.10/changes

Changes

Since version 1.9

New functionality

• Added check for and repair of sparse images
• ploop check: long options support
• ploop check: add --raw, --repair-sparse
• ploop-check: add -b BLOCKSIZE argument
• ploop-check: accept DiskDescriptor.xml argument
• ploop umount -d: allow to specify partition device (#2788)
• mount.ploop: implement -v and -f options, as per mount(8)
• umount.ploop: add -n option (ignored)
• mount.ploop: add -s (ignored) and -* (reported as error)
• Added ploop info -s
• ploop init: use v2 format by default

Fixes

• ploop_get_devs(): fix snprintf usage
• ploop_global_lock(): create lockdir if not exist (#2767)
• ploop_grow_delta_offline(): Fix uninitialized struct
• ploop_ioff_to_sec(): fix for v2
• lib/ploop.h: include sys/syscall.h (Debian bug #728173)
• umount.ploop: fixed (#2788)
• get_image_param(): added online (from sysfs) and offline (from image) cases
• make_fs(): turn off periodic fs checks (#2769)
• ploop_store_diskdescriptor(): check rename()
• ploop_store_diskdescriptor(): don't return -1
• resize_gpt_partition(): check fsync()
• ploop_balloon_change_size(): don't pass -1 to close()
• ploop_grow_image(): fix an error check
• Don't ignore chmod() failures
• print_output(): fix output truncation

Improvements

• do_lock(): open file in read/write mode (#2730)
• ploop_send: use ioctl_device for PLOOP_IOC_SYNC
• use access() not stat() where possible
• umount.ploop: improve mtab handling
• mount.ploop: use case in option parsing
• {mount,umount}.ploop: don't hardcore ploop path
• ploop-check.c: rename uppercased functions
• ploop snapshot-list usage: fit to 80 cols
• make_fs(): call tune4fs if available (#2812)
• fsck: use fsck.ext4 not e2fsck (#2812)
• check_size(): limit max ploop size to 16T
• ploop_resize_image(): fail if umount failed
• print_output(): improve output
• ploop_mount(): fix/improve error message
• dumpe2fs(): don't hardcode path to dumpe2fs
• print_output(): use our own default PATH
• do_umount(): refactor and improve

Documentation

• ploop(8): fix ploop umount -d description
• ploop(8): fix ploop mount -d description
• ploop usage: update ploop check synopsys

Build system

• Makefile.inc: add -Wformat-security
• Makefile.inc: proper LIBDIR for Debian case
• Makefile.inc: add CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS
• Makefile.inc: prepend, not append, debug CFLAGS
• setver.sh: introduce build id
• setver.sh: use getopt

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for ploop-1.10.

Thanks

OpenVZ project would like to thank the following people who contributed patches and/or provided bug reports for this ploop release (in no particular order):

• Ola Lundqvist
• Stefan Schlesinger
• Thorsten Schifferdecker
• Paparaciz
• Pavel Odintsov
• Aaron M. Ucko
• Blueicefield