Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: update summaries in preparation for release 3.0.6

Alex Elder
2011-10-13T10:43:31Z

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:34 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:10:33PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > The following is a draft of summaries to be included in the next
> > release of xfsdump.
>
> The content looks good, but it's fairly different and much more verbose
> style than we traditionally did, which also generally focussed on user
> visible changes.

This is pretty reasonable feedback and I guess not a
surprise to me. I was sort of throwing these together
at the end of a long day and didn't really distill them
down before sending them out.

I'll take another pass at all of them and will re-post.
Thanks.

-Alex

> This is how I would have written the log in the "old" style:
>
> xfsdump-3.0.6 (5 October 2011)
> - unconditionally add checksums to various dump headers in
> xfsdump.
> - verify checksums if present in xfsrestore.
> - use the POSIX signal API instead of the legacy SysV API.
> - various internal cleanups and refactoring in xfsdump and
> xfsrestore.
> - lift the limit of options in dialogs from 8 to 99.
> - various build system fixes, thanks to Ted Ts'o.
>
> same applies to the other logs.