Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#11702 closed enhancement (fixed)

libblockdev-2.21

Reported by: Bruce Dubbs Owned by: Bruce Dubbs
Priority: normal Milestone: 9.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

New minor version.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book to Bruce Dubbs
Status: newassigned

comment:2 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Notable changes

  • crypto
    • default key size for LUKS was changed to 512bit
  • tools
    • new simple cli tools that use libblockdev
    • first tool is lvm-cache-stats for displaying stats for LVM cache devices
    • use configure option --without-tools to disable building these

Full list of changes

  • Use libblkid to check swap status before swapon
  • Add error codes and Python exceptions for swapon fails
  • Add libblkid-devel as a build dependency for the swap plugin
  • Skip VDO grow physical test
  • crypto_test.py: Use blkid instead of lsblk to check luks label
  • Use major/minor macros from sys/sysmacros.h instead of linux/kdev_t.h
  • Add custom error message for wrong passphrase for open
  • Skip LUKS2+integrity test on systems without dm-integrity module
  • Use cryptsetup to check LUKS2 label
  • Fix LUKS2 resize password test
  • crypto: Do not try to use keyring on systems without keyring support
  • lvm-dbus: Do not pass extra arguments enclosed in a tuple
  • Enable cryptsetup debug messages when compiled using --enable-debug
  • vagrant: install 'autoconf-archive' on Ubuntu
  • vagrant: remove F27 and add F29
  • Add 'autoconf-archive' to build requires
  • tests: Remove some old/irrelevant skips
  • tests: Stop skipping some tests on Debian testing
  • Fix checking swap status on lvm/md
  • Discard messages from libdevmapper in the LVM plugins
  • Add a tool for getting cached LVM statistics
  • Make building tools optional
  • Document what the 'tools' directory contains
  • Add a new subpackage with the tool(s)
  • Use 512bit keys in LUKS by default

comment:3 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed at revision 21275.

comment:4 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Milestone: 8.59.0

Milestone renamed

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