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.