ChangesEdit
Since version 1.6
New functionality
- Large ploop image format support
- Now image size limit is 64 TB (was 2TB)
- Testing kernel >= 042stab078 is required
- Move ploop_grow* functions from tools to lib
- ploop grow: add DiskDescriptor.xml support
- ploop init, ploop_create_image(): add FS blocksize parameter
Improvements
- make_fs(): create ext4fs with lazy_itable_init
- 3x smaller size and 3x faster creation time for 20GB image
- lib/ploop.h: "unexport" some internal functions
- Use /proc/self/mountinfo to get mount point by device
- More clear errors on parsing DiskDescriptor.xml
- print_output(): generalize print_lsof(), improve
- add_delta(): print more diags if EBUSY
- extend_delta_array(): print errors, return SYSEXIT_*
- run_prg(): print error if execvp() failed
- lib/balloon.c: print file name in an error message
- Introduce and use p_memalign(), fix errno handling
- Improvements and fixes to ploop_grow_*() to be used from library
- ploop_read_disk_descr(): set *di to NULL in case of error
- ploop_find_dev(): always assume ploop cookie is supported
- resize_fs(): try harder to find resize2fs binary
- Makefile.inc: ability to add CFLAGS
Fixes
- lib/lock.c: create_file(): make sure dir exists (#2493, #2597)
- lib/fsutils.c: use ploop_execvp, drop absolute paths to binaries (#2595)
- ploop_log(): fix loglevel checking for file logging
- ploop_snapshot_switch_param: guids are const
- Recreate ploopXpY devices on ploop mount
- ploop_find_dev(): treat ENODEV as ENOENT on /sys reads
- use basename() to strip device from path
- ploop list: check for extra arguments
- ploop balloon: fix -f option processing
- Fixed lots of memory leaks, mostly on error paths
- open_delta(): simplify error handling
- Fixes for other issues big and small, reported by Coverity
For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for ploop-1.7.
ThanksEdit
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):
- Thomas Lucke
- Kalin Bogatzevski