PATCHSET OVERVIEW:
As of 31 March 2017 RHEL / CentOS 5 reached the end of their support
[1][2]. Therefore remove code which supports them. This makes RHEL /
CentOS 6 the oldest supported distribution. So the minimum required
versions of glibmm and gtkmm can be increased dropping some autoconf
checks and conditional code supporting older versions of these
libraries. This will undo the bulk of these these previous bug fixes:
* GParted 0.21.0
Bug 738706 - Add support for ext4 on RHEL/CentOS 5.x
* GParted 0.16.1
Bug 695279 - Fix GParted doesn't compile on RHEL / CentOS 5.9
[1] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates
[2] Subject: CentOS Linux 5 EOL
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-April/022350.html
THIS PATCH:
Remove checks for e4fsprogs commands, removing support for ext4 on
RHEL / CentOS 5.x. This is reverting earlier commit:
f672f68863
Check for e4fsprogs commands for ext4 support on RHEL/CentOS 5.x (#738706)
Mkfs_cmd member variable is being kept as a convenience so that it is
created once rather than on each use. Also note that as it is a
Glib::ustring type object, it's constructor will be called which will
initialise it to the empty string so it doesn't need initialising to the
empty string in the initialiser list of the ext2() constructor itself.
Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
There are too many different types of things named "filesystem" in the
GParted code with the potential to cause confusion. Namely:
std::vector<FS> FILESYSTEMS
Vector of file system capabilities.
class FileSystem Base class interfacing to file system
specific executables for querying and
modification.
enum FILESYSTEM Symbolic constants representing each file
system type.
Many recent written or re-written functions already used a variable
named fstype. Rename enum FILESYSTEM to enum FSType to clearly
distinguish it from the other things with very similar names. Only
changing the name of the enumeration, not the name of variables of that
type too because that is a lot more lines of code and those can be
changed when the relevant code is re-written.
FileSystem::resize() (and derived) is only ever called from a single
location and always with the fill_partition argument supplied [1].
Therefore providing a default for the argument is unnecessary. So
remove it.
[1] Since these two commits from 2006-06-17, before GParted 0.3.0, which
added resize_filesystem() and maximize_filesystem() methods to wrap
calls to p_filesystem->resize() into a single location:
08245cd08c
cleanups in the core and the fs'es (resize)
2d7fb5700b
more cleanups in the core and the fs'es (these changelogs are getting
It made the code look a little messy, is easily resolved in the build
system and made the dependencies more complicated than needed. Each
GParted header was tracked via multiple different names (different
numbers of "../include/" prefixes). For example just looking at how
DialogFeatures.o depends on Utils.h:
$ cd src
$ make DialogFeatures.o
$ egrep ' [^ ]*Utils.h' .deps/DialogFeatures.Po
../include/DialogFeatures.h ../include/../include/Utils.h \
../include/../include/../include/../include/../include/../include/Utils.h \
../include/../include/../include/Utils.h \
After removing "../include/" from the GParted header #includes, just
need to add "-I../include" to the compile command via the AM_CPPFLAGS in
src/Makefile.am. Now the dependencies on GParted header files are
tracked under a single name (with a single "../include/" prefix). Now
DialogFeatures.o only depends on a single name to Utils.h:
$ make DialogFeatures.o
$ egrep ' [^ ]*Utils.h' .deps/DialogFeatures.Po
../include/DialogFeatures.h ../include/Utils.h ../include/i18n.h \
Using e2image to copy a file system looks like this. (Intermediate
progress lines which are constantly overwritten are indicated with ">").
# e2image -ra -p /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdb5
e2image 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Scanning inodes...
> Copying 0 / 276510 blocks (0%)
> Copying 8845 / 276510 blocks (3%)
> Copying 48433 / 276510 blocks (18%)
> Copying 77135 / 276510 blocks (28%)
> Copying 111311 / 276510 blocks (40%)
> Copying 137039 / 276510 blocks (50%)
> Copying 166189 / 276510 blocks (60%) 00:00:03 remaining at 108.20 MB/s
> Copying 190285 / 276510 blocks (69%) 00:00:03 remaining at 106.19 MB/s
> Copying 209675 / 276510 blocks (76%) 00:00:02 remaining at 102.38 MB/s
> Copying 238219 / 276510 blocks (86%) 00:00:01 remaining at 103.39 MB/s
> Copying 256692 / 276510 blocks (93%) 00:00:00 remaining at 100.27 MB/s
Copied 276510 / 276510 blocks (100%) in 00:00:10 at 108.01 MB/s
Note that the copying figures are reported in file system block size
units and the progress information is written to stderr, hence needing
these two previous commits:
Record file system block size where known (#760709)
Call any FS specific progress trackers for stderr updates too (#760709)
Add progress tracking function for e2image command. Also tracks when
the text progress indicator has passed in the output so that the
progress bar can be stopped as well as started when needed.
Bug 760709 - Add progress bars to XFS and EXT2/3/4 file system specific
copy methods
Adapt the ext2 resize progress tracker to the new ProgressBar class.
Also update the progress function to track when text progress bars have
completely passed in the output so that the progress bar can be stopped
as well as started when needed.
Bug 760709 - Add progress bars to XFS and EXT2/3/4 file system specific
copy methods
Lots of files which use the Partition class relied on the declaration
being included via other header files. This is bad practice.
Add #include "Partition.h" into every file which uses the Partition
class which doesn't already include it. Header file #include guards are
specifically to allow this.
Capture and parse the progress reports of ntfsresize and resize2fs and
update the dialog progress bar.
Bug 467925 - gparted: add progress bar during operation
RHEL / CentOS 5.6 and later officially support ext4 file system [1].
From RHEL / CentOS 5.3 ext4 file system was included as a technology
preview. Ext4 file system tools are in a separate package e4fsprogs,
using uniquely named commands. The standard e2fsprogs commands only
support ext2 and ext3 file systems.
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb3
# tune2fs -l /dev/sdb3
tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
tune2fs: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) while trying to open /dev/sdb3
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
# echo $?
1
# tune4fs -l /dev/sdb3
tune4fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: ba4a9d58-7728-4b47-8a90-80e772615637
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
...
For ext4 only, search for the e4fsprogs specific commands first and the
standard e2fsprogs commands second.
[1] RHEL 5.6 Release Notes, 5. Filesystems and Storage
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.6_Release_Notes/ar01s05.html
Bug #738706 - GParted doesn't support ext4 on RHEL/CentOS 5.x
Use e2image features added in e2fsprogs 1.42.9 to move/copy
an ext[234] file system more efficiently by skipping unused blocks.
Fall back to the internal copy algorithm if e2image is not found
or does not support move/copy.
Bug #721516 - Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] filesystems
This is part of parent bug:
Bug #721455 - Obsolete info in license text on multiple modules
and GNOME Goal:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/Proposals
* verify all source files to make sure they have a license and a
copyright, and that both are up-to-date
Bug #721565 - License text contains obsolete FSF postal address
Include guards need to be unique within GParted code and all included
library header files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include_guard#Difficulties
Use this model for all include guards:
#ifndef GPARTED_FILE_NAME_H
#define GPARTED_FILE_NAME_H
...
#endif /* GPARTED_FILE_NAME_H */
Closes Bug #539297 - Make include guards unique
Many filesystems do not implement some of their methods, but had to provide
dummy implementations. Remove all of the dummy implementations and instead
just provide one in the base FileSystem class.
There were separate modules for ext3 and ext4 even though there
were virtually no differences with ext2. Remove the duplicate
modules and patch ext2 to serve as a common reference for all
three sub types.
This commit only adds a remove() method to every file system and an
optional call to it in the relevant operations. All remove() methods
are no operations and not enabled.
The remove() method provides explicit controlled removal of a file
system before the partition is deleted or overwritten by being formatted
or pasted into. When implemented, it appears as an extra step in the
relevant operation. The file system specific remove() method is
explicitly allowed to fail and stop the operations currently being
applied.
This is different to the existing erase_filesystem_signatures() which
wipes any previous file system signatures immediately before a new file
system is written to ensure there is no possibility of the partition
containing two or more different file system signatures. It never fails
or reports anything to the user.
NOTE:
Most file systems should NOT implement a remove() method as it will
prevent recovery from accidental partition deletion.
Bug #670171 - Add LVM PV read-write support
Add the ability to set a new random UUID on file systems that provide
the appropriate tools to perform this action.
Update the help manual to include this new functionality. Also add
reference links to "setting a partition label" and "changing a
partition UUID" in the "copying and pasting a partition" section.
This patch does not include setting the UUID on an NTFS file system.
Bug #667278 - Add support for setting UUID
Bug #608308 - fix documentation - Copying and Pasting a Partition
Restore copyright entries by original author to those of his last
known repository commit titled "released gparted-0.3.4 on
LarryT's request." on Feb 25, 2007.
Add my own copyright entries for files in which I changed source
code. Files in which I only made spelling changes do not have my
copyright entry added.
* added support for reading volumelabels. Atm we only read ext2/3, but
the infrastructure for adding the other filesystems is in place.
It's simply a matter of finding the right commands and parsing the
output. (see #338528 for more info)
* added detailed progressfeedback. It still needs some polishing, but
is already far better then the old situation. And what's more, it's
finally threadsafe :p
* The Filesystemclasses: Changed 'bool Create( const Glib::ustring & device_path, const Partition & new_partition )'
to 'bool Create( const Partition & new_partition )'. Since i now use external tools for all filesystems, the partitionpath will suffice.
* Again way too many chances to create a detailed entry (i'm glad i'm the only dev atm :P ).
Resizing of ext2/3 works perfect now. I've even tested it on the partition holding my SG seasons =)
Implemented checking of filesystems (only internally used atm).
Done some overall tweaking, finetuning etc.. release 0.0.7 is getting shape.
* Rewrote a large part of gparteds internal code. Filesystemssupport is now much more separated from the rest of gparted and
adding support for other filesystems should be a piece of cake now (hope that's true :P)
It still needs a lot of love, but the foundations are laid =)
Mike Fleetwood