Download/ploop/1.10

ploop is a tool and a library to control ploop block devices.

Warning: this is an old version of ploop. For the latest version, see Download/ploop/1.15.

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
• ploop init: create ext4 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
• make_fs(): fix max_online_resize type overflow
• do_umount(): fix diagnostic lsof verbose level
• plooptool_stat(): close file descriptors
• ploop convert -f: do not return SYSEXIT_PLOOPFMT
• ploop check: fix exit codes
• make_fs(): create ext4 fs with 128M journal

Improvements

• Support RHEL5/e4fsutils (tune4fs, dumpe4fs) (#2812)
• 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
• 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
• do_umount(): eliminate extra 'lsof' call on EBUSY
• do_umount(): don't call lsof again if not found
• print_output(): check return from pclose()
• print_output(): return exit code from command
• Fix some wrongly used exit codes
• Remove unused exit codes

Documentation

• ploop(8): document check, balloon discard, info, list, copy commands
• ploop(8): describe exit codes
• ploop(8): better resize description
• ploop(8): fix ploop umount -d description
• ploop(8): fix ploop mount -d description
• ploop(8): improve convert description
• ploop(8): add missing OPTIONS section
• ploop(8): make IMAGE FORMATS a subheader
• ploop(8): other small fixes and improvements
• ploop usage: improve
• ploop usage: update ploop check synopsys
• ploop init: fix/improve usage
• ploop usage: fix mount/umount/resize

Build system

• ploop.spec: require -lib of the same release
• ploop.spec: require lsof and findutils
• 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
• tools/Makefile: simplify SOURCES define
• setver.sh: introduce build id
• setver.sh: use getopt
• Remove stand-alone binaries: ploop-check, ploop-grow, ploop-merge, ploop-stat, ploop-copy
• Makefile: add Coverity generation logic

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

Download

RPMS

x86 (i686, IA32)

File	Date	Size
ploop-1.10-1.i386.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	46 Kb
ploop-devel-1.10-1.i386.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	137 Kb
ploop-lib-1.10-1.i386.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	105 Kb

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

File	Date	Size
ploop-1.10-1.x86_64.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	47 Kb
ploop-devel-1.10-1.x86_64.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	131 Kb
ploop-lib-1.10-1.x86_64.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	132 Kb

Binaries

x86 (i686, IA32)

File	Date	Size
ploop-1.10-1.i386.tar.gz	2013-12-16 21:59:52	30 Kb
ploop-1.10-1.i386.tar.gz.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b
ploop-devel-1.10-1.i386.tar.gz	2013-12-16 21:59:52	120 Kb
ploop-devel-1.10-1.i386.tar.gz.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b
ploop-lib-1.10-1.i386.tar.gz	2013-12-16 21:59:52	90 Kb
ploop-lib-1.10-1.i386.tar.gz.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b

x86_64 (AMD64, EM64T)

File	Date	Size
ploop-1.10-1.x86_64.tar.gz	2013-12-16 21:59:52	40 Kb
ploop-1.10-1.x86_64.tar.gz.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b
ploop-devel-1.10-1.x86_64.tar.gz	2013-12-16 21:59:52	120 Kb
ploop-devel-1.10-1.x86_64.tar.gz.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b
ploop-lib-1.10-1.x86_64.tar.gz	2013-12-16 21:59:53	120 Kb
ploop-lib-1.10-1.x86_64.tar.gz.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b

Sources

File	Date	Size
ploop-1.10-1.src.rpm	2013-12-16 21:59:53	122 Kb
ploop-1.10.tar.bz2	2013-12-16 21:59:53	98 Kb
ploop-1.10.tar.bz2.asc	2013-12-16 21:59:53	189 b
ploop.spec	2013-12-16 21:59:53	17 Kb

Archives

For other ploop releases, see download/ploop/Archives.

For other tools, see download/utils.

Tools
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Versions of ploop
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