Release notes from nilfs-utils

nilfs-utils 2.2.12

2025-09-22T11:09:00Z

You can download the source package here.

nilfs-utils-2.2.12 Mon Sep 22, 2025 JST

Apply a bug fix for a report that the chcp command could crash with exit code 139 if given malformed arguments:
- Fix a chcp segfault issue. #23
- Fix a build warning in Autoconf 2.72 or later

For more details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.

nilfs-utils 2.2.11

2024-04-03T16:19:06Z

You can download the source package here.

nilfs-utils-2.2.11 Wed Apr 3, 2024 JST

Fix two bugs related to mount table parsing. One of these is an important one that fixes an issue where lscp and other tools would cause an error if the mount point path name contains characters such as spaces:
- Fix nilfs_open failure for mount points with escaped characters. #22 -- commit 58087e8294bb
- Fix potentially problematic asymmetry in mount table open/close function calls in the libcleaner library.

For more details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.

nilfs-utils 2.2.10

2024-03-04T20:26:31Z

You can download the source package here.

nilfs-utils-2.2.10 Mon Mar 4, 2024 JST

Resolve an issue where empty segments caused by data sync recovery could not be reclaimed by cleanerd, which also prevents file system shrinking using nilfs-resize command -- commit 26dbfb2d3b2c
Fix several issues in nilfs-resize command:
- Fix an issue where resizing (shrinking) a nearly empty file system could fail -- commit 24c45c4235c0
- Fix an issue where device sizes that were not in sector size units were truncated to an abnormal size -- commit 7d62327dbeff
- Fix some abnormalities in message output and improve the discrepancies between the progress bar display and the actual progress.
Fix an issue where the libmount-based mount program would lose the cleanerd PID after remounting, causing unmount to fail due to file system busy error. -- commit 1a289a7a0ad1
Improve the mount checks for disk image file mount via loop device -- commits 73ce8fccf854, 564193254f1a
Fix super block read failure from a disk image file -- commit 53271cb967f5
Fix an exit code error, a missing option in the help message, and other minor bugs in nilfs-tune command.
Fix perl errors of checkpatch script.
Fix multiple issues in option error output of bin and sbin commands, including duplicate or missing option error output.
Update the bundled uapi header files and make their installation optional ("--enable-uapi-header-install" option is added to the configure script for older systems that don't have them) -- commit e36c61d82547
Do not generate obsolete .nilfs file with mkfs.nilfs2. #21
Cleanup some early definitions from nilfs.h that are undesirable as being in a shared file.
etc.

For more details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.

nilfs-utils 2.2.9

2022-06-20T10:46:46Z

nilfs-utils-2.2.9 Mon Jun 20, 2022 JST

Fix build warnings in Autoconf 2.70 and later
Fix gcc-8 -Wstringop-truncation warnings
Use libmount by default
Update README file

For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.

nilfs-utils 2.2.8

2019-08-20T16:37:28Z

nilfs-utils-2.2.8 Tue Aug 20, 2019 JST

Fix some build issues
Fix bugs in mkfs.nilfs2; This fixes underflow in calculation of minimum number of segments and wrong suggestion of minimum device size
update maintainer's email address

For details, please see ChangeLog file or commit logs.

nilfs-utils 2.2.7

2017-11-05T14:38:31Z

nilfs-utils-2.2.7 Sun Nov 5, 2017 JST

Fix conflicting data buffer error; this fixes a cleanerd crash issue in some high loads that leads the file system to a disk full.

v2.2.6

2016-10-10T14:14:41Z

nilfs-utils 2.2.6 release

v2.2.5

2016-09-04T01:30:18Z

nilfs-utils 2.2.5 release

v2.2.4

2016-04-27T04:12:26Z

nilfs-utils 2.2.4 release

v2.2.3

2015-02-15T12:44:44Z

nilfs-utils 2.2.3 release