[Announce] ploop 1.11

[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 1.10)

New functionality and important changes
* support for 4K sector size (including GPT conversion)
* ploop replace
* temp snapshots support (ploop tsnapshot, 
ploop_create_temporary_snapshot())
* ploop copy: implement fdatasync before freeze (improves CT frozen time)
* New DiskDescriptor.xml read API (ploop_*_dd())
* Obsolete *_diskdescriptor() calls
* Obsolete ploop_get_base_delta_uuid()
* ploop_log(): implement subsecond timestamps (with verbosity >= 4)
* add ploop_is_mounted()
* ploop snapshot-list: add snapshot mode (-s)
* ploop check dd.xml: add -u UUID option
* ploop mount: remove -u base feature
* ploop tool: add -v option to set verbosity

Fixes
* skip max fs size check on snapshot delta creation
* ploop_resize_image: resize up to end of device
* ploop_delete_top_delta(): fix wrt top_guid
* ploop_read_diskdescriptor(): fix get_basedir() len argument
* check_and_repair_sparse: handle EOF properly (#2897)
* ploop_resize_image: add missing gpt size sync
* ploop snapshot-merge/delete: deny snapshot deleting if mounted (#2887)
* grow_lower_delta(): fix a memory leak
* ploop check: fix -b option parsing
* get_partition_device_name(): fix chmod argument
* fix alignment on GPT partition resize
* fix GPT partition alignment on ploop init

Improvements
* ploop_resize_image: enhanced inflate balloon to max size logic
* tools: add {} to specified UUID if necessary
* check_and_repair_sparse(): log filefrag output
* print_sys_block_ploop(): speed up
* ploop check: try to repair non-top deltas if they can be opened r/w
* e2fsck: return fsck exit code to caller
* make_fs(): add -i to mkfs
* fsync_safe(): use SYSEXIT_FSYNC
* Fix uuid strings size, use define

Documentation
* ploop snapshot-list: fix and update usage
* ploop copy: fix usage
* ploop(8): document snapshot-list -s option
* ploop(8): document ploop replace

Build system
* Makefile.inc: fix dpkg-architecture handling (#2877)
* Makefile: add ability to add local rules
* gensym.sh: better usage and error diag
* gensym.sh: add run mode


See detailed changelog here:
http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop;a=shortlog;h=ploop-1.11


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/ploop/1.11


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):

* Andrei Vinogradov
* Mike Fedyk
* Pavel Odintsov


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


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   OpenVZ team