[Announce] ploop 1.10

[Kir Kolyshkin]

OpenVZ project has released a new ploop version. Read below for more 
information. Everybody is advised to upgrade.


Changes
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(since 1.9)

New functionality:
* Added check for and repair of sparse images
* ploop check: long options support
* ploop check: add --raw, --repair-sparse
* ploop-check: add -b BLOCKSIZE argument
* ploop-check: accept DiskDescriptor.xml argument
* ploop umount -d: allow to specify partition device (#2788)
* mount.ploop: implement -v and -f options, as per mount(8)
* umount.ploop: add -n option (ignored)
* mount.ploop: add -s (ignored) and -* (reported as error)
* Added ploop info -s
* ploop init: use v2 format by default
* ploop init: create ext4 by default

Fixes:
* ploop_get_devs(): fix snprintf usage
* ploop_global_lock(): create lockdir if not exist (#2767)
* ploop_grow_delta_offline(): Fix uninitialized struct
* ploop_ioff_to_sec(): fix for v2
* lib/ploop.h: include sys/syscall.h (Debian #728173)
* umount.ploop: fixed (#2788)
* get_image_param(): added online (from sysfs) and offline (from image) 
cases
* make_fs(): turn off periodic fs checks (#2769)
* ploop_store_diskdescriptor(): check rename()
* ploop_store_diskdescriptor(): don't return -1
* resize_gpt_partition(): check fsync()
* ploop_balloon_change_size(): don't pass -1 to close()
* ploop_grow_image(): fix an error check
* Don't ignore chmod() failures
* print_output(): fix output
* make_fs(): fix max_online_resize type overflow
* do_umount(): fix diagnostic lsof verbose level
* plooptool_stat(): close file descriptors
* ploop convert -f: do not return SYSEXIT_PLOOPFMT
* ploop check: fix exit codes
* make_fs(): create ext4 fs with 128M journal

Improvements:
* Support RHEL5/e4fsutils (tune4fs, dumpe4fs) (#2812)
* do_lock(): open file in read/write mode (#2730)
* ploop_send: use ioctl_device for PLOOP_IOC_SYNC
* use access() not stat() where possible
* umount.ploop: improve mtab handling
* mount.ploop: use case in option parsing
* {mount,umount}.ploop: don't hardcore ploop path
* ploop-check.c: rename uppercased functions
* ploop snapshot-list usage: fit to 80 cols
* fsck: use fsck.ext4 not e2fsck (#2812)
* check_size(): limit max ploop size to 16T
* ploop_resize_image(): fail if umount failed
* print_output(): improve output
* ploop_mount(): fix/improve error message
* dumpe2fs(): don't hardcode path to dumpe2fs
* print_output(): use our own default PATH
* do_umount(): refactor and improve
* do_umount(): eliminate extra 'lsof' call on EBUSY
* do_umount(): don't call lsof again if not found
* print_output(): check return from pclose()
* print_output(): return exit code from command
* Fix some wrongly used exit codes
* Remove unused exit codes

Documentation:
* ploop(8): document check, balloon discard, info, list, copy commands
* ploop(8): describe exit codes
* ploop(8): better resize description
* ploop(8): fix ploop umount -d description
* ploop(8): fix ploop mount -d description
* ploop(8): improve convert description
* ploop(8): add missing OPTIONS section
* ploop(8): make IMAGE FORMATS a subheader
* ploop(8): other small fixes and improvements
* ploop usage: improve
* ploop usage: update ploop check synopsys
* ploop init: fix/improve usage
* ploop usage: fix mount/umount/resize


See detailed changelog here:
http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop;a=shortlog;h=ploop-1.10


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/ploop/1.10


Thanks
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OpenVZ project would like to thank the following people who contributed 
patches
and/or provided bug reports for this ploop release (in no particular order):

* Ola Lundqvist
* Stefan Schlesinger
* Thorsten Schifferdecker
* Paparaciz
* Pavel Odintsov
* Aaron M. Ucko
* Blueicefield


Bug reporting
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Please report all bugs found to http://bugzilla.openvz.org/


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   OpenVZ team