1) Only one tag with a particular name can be attached to a device
at a time. This significantly simplifies the library, and was needed
to allow the cache file to be re-read and changes integrated into the
in-core version of the data structure in a simpler fashion than earlier
versions of the library.
2) To accomodate this, the ext2/ext3 filesystems are now always tagged
as "ext2" type filesystems. Ext3 filesystems are tagged with a
SEC_TYPE tag with the value ext3.
3) The new blkid_read_cache() function checks the mod time of the
cache file, and if the file has been changed since the last time the
cache file was read into memory, it is re-read. This function is now
called before probing all of the devices in the system or searching
all devices in the cache for a specific tag value.
4) After probing all devices, blkid_flush_cache() is called to write
out the cache file. This assures that all of the hard work involved
in doing a blkid_probe_all() is saved to disk.
read.c (parse_tag): Do not return that blkid_tag when parsing
the blkid.tag file.
resolve.c (blkid_get_token, blkid_get_tagname_devname): Fold in
code from removed functions
tag.c (blkid_create_tag): Don't return the newly tag strcture
any more, as it's not needed.
(blkid_find_tag_cache, blkid_get_tag_cache,
blkid_token_to_tag, blkid_find_tv_tags): Remove these
functions, as they are either only used once or have
interfaces that should be deprecated.
(blkid_find_tag_dev, blkid_find_head_cache): Replace use
of blkid_tag with one or two const char * type/value
arguments.
(blkid_find_dev_with_tag): Fold in code from removed functions
probe.h, probe.c: Use a more sophisticated set of byte-swapping
routines which are more compact and efficient. Drop
calculation of bid_free, since it's unnecessary. Avoid
save.c (blkid_save_cache): Set the permissions on the blkid
cache file to 644.
large number of inodes, then reduce the number of blocks
per group until we find a workable set of filesystem
parameters.
ext2_err.et.in (EXT2_ET_TOO_MANY_INODES): Add new error code.
code accidentally had the INDEX_FL backwards compatibility code
removed. E2fsck will now fix HTREE corruptions in preen mode, and
mke2fs will not create filesystems with the dir_index flag set
by default. (The user has to specifically request it.)
unix_write_blk): Optimize routines so that we don't end up
searching the cache twice when a block isn't in the
cache. If reads are larger than READ_DIRECT_SIZE, don't
let them go through the cache.
blocks to be erroneously marked as dirty, so they would
get written back to the disk before they are evicted from
the cache. Harmless, but it slows down e2fsck
significantly.
Theodore Ts'o