Release of ACL version 0.8.52

Hello,

I have released version 0.8.52 which fixes a user triggerable bug in the
error handling path of the ext3 acl patch. By default this may lead to a
forced e2fsck run after the next reboot. If you have modified the error
behavior of the file system the result may be more severe (the filesystem
may be remounted read-only automatically, or the kernel may panic).

Many thanks to Stephen C. Tweedie for reporting this bug.

(I am also aware of a performance improvement that I will address in the
following days.)

From the change log:

2002-20-16 Andreas Grünbacher <a.gruenbacher@computer.org>

	* Release of version 0.8.52.

	* Fix the error handling path in ext3_setattr(): Errors are
	  handled too rigidly in ext3_setattr(), so the kernel may
	  assume the file system contains errors. Depending on the
	  configurable error behavior this may cause an e2fsck at the
	  next boot, a read-only filesystem, or a kernel panic.
	* Clean up handling of mark_inode_dirty in ext[23]_new_inode.


RECOMMENDATION TO UPGRADE

Unless you are using non-default error behavior on ext3 filesystems or the
time to do an e2fsck is prohibitively long on your (huge) file systems
there is no urgent need to update. A new release addressing a performance
improvement is expected to follow soon, so that may be a better time.


Regards,
Andreas.

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 Andreas Gruenbacher, a.gruenbacher@computer.org
 Contact information: http://www.bestbits.at/~ag/

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