[Parted-commits] GNU Parted Official Repository: Changes to 'master'

[Jim Meyering]

 NEWS |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit 7dc9813c46fada4c1dd1aa401de6f461b7fc0399
Author: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed May 5 18:42:26 2010 +0200

    doc: update NEWS
    
    * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the ext2 2TiB FS-creation bug.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 77d893a..addfe2e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   allow using ped_device_cache_remove(dev) followed by a (later)
   ped_device_destroy() without corrupting the device cache.
 
+  when creating an ext2 file system[*], Parted no longer creates an
+  invalid one when its size is 2TiB or larger.
+  [*] Remember, now all FS-creation operations are deprecated in Parted.
+  This is not an indicator that we'll be supporting this code.
+  On the contrary, it is slated to be removed.
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
   libparted no longer issues an exception/warning about >512-byte