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This s390-tools 1.16.0 contains enhancements and bug-fixes; it replaces s390-tools-1.15.0.
2011-11-30 s390-tools 1.16.0 ("Development stream")
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s390-tools is a package with a set of user space utilities to be used with the Linux on System z distributions.
s390-tools-1.16.0.tar.bz2 / MD5 recommended (2011-11-30)
New tools
- dasdstat:
Configure and format the debugfs based DASD statistics data.
Bug fixes
- General - build process: Do not use subshells from recursive build.
- chem:
- Fix handling of memory holes.
- cmsfs-fuse:
- Fix file size for files larger than 2GB.
- Fix block allocation for large disks with 512 byte block size.
- Prevent EIO on big write requests on variable record files.
- Fix contiguous writes on fixed record files.
- Fix end-of-file detection for fixed record files.
- Keep file state consistent if writes fails with ENOSPC.
- Add support for FBA-512 disks
- cpuplugd:
- Fix typos and wording in man page
- Fix config file parsing
- dasdfmt:
- Fix dummy bootstrap records for LDL DASD devices.
- dasdview:
- Fix printing of random characters after bus-ID.
- dbginfo.sh:
- Adjust for kernel 3.x.
- Return "1" in case of invalid options.
- dumpconf:
- Do not use DELAY_MINUTES for restart.
- Allow up to eight vmcmd commands.
- fdasd:
- Fix generation of disk label for option "auto" and "config".
- hsnc:
- Exit with "0" for "--help" and "--version".
- lscss:
- Exit with "0" for "--help" and "--version".
- Suppress error messages when working on unsettled sysfs tree.
- lsdasd:
- Improve tool performance for systems with many DASDs.
- Show correct block size when used without root rights.
- Suppress error messages when working on unsettled sysfs tree.
- lsluns:
- Fix "--help" option.
- Add check for required SCSI generic (sg) functionality.
- lsmem:
- Fix handling of memory holes.
- lsqeth:
- Use ethtool instead of checksumming sysfs attribute for kernel 3.x.
- Exit with "0" for "--help" and "--version".
- qetharp:
- Fix buffer overflow.
- qethconf:
- Exit with "0" for "--help" and "--version".
- zfcpdbf:
- Add "--version" option to help text.
- Fix messages for "--include" and "--exclude" options.
- Fix "--timediff" option.
- zipl:
- Fix SCSI dump on LPAR.
- Fix error caused by localized script output.
- Prevent unsupported parmfile address.
- Improve man page description for the "--mvdump" option.