Spindown v0.4.0

05-04-2009

• Added a configuration option that allows you to run the spindown command every cycle, even when the disk is already inactive.
• Added functions to the init file that would take over the lsb functions when they are not available.
• Code cleanup.

04-04-2009

• Made a class to keep all the extra functions that used to be in main.
• Removed includes that weren't used any longer.

03-04-2009

• Fixed a security issue that allowed attackers to execute malicious commands as root when the configuration file wasn't properly secured.

02-04-2009

• Fixed a bug that let spindown display the stats of disks that were not present in the system when they were defined in the configuration file with there device name.
• Fixed another bug that could let spindown hang when SIGPIPE is send but the fifo is never opend.

24-03-2009

• Previous changelog was wrong: "The status file is now only updated when the daemon receives the SIGPOLL." Should have been "... daemon receives the SIGPIPE signal.
• Fixed  Issue 4 : Spindown status not showing 80% of time.

Happend when spindownd wasn't ready with writing to the status file when cat was already reading from it. Fixed by reverting back to the fifo.

• Added a directory to /var/run to keep the 2 files in spindown uses.

Spindown v0.3.0

13-02-2009

• The status file is now only updated when the daemon receives the SIGPOLL.

02-02-2009

• Removed unnecessary threads, spindown now runs in exactly one thread, no more, no less.
• Moved some code that didn't belong in the spindown object to main.cpp (signal handeling, commandline parameter parsing, daemon code and writting to files).
• Init script now follows LSB.

Spindown v0.2.2

07-09-2008

• When the spindown command fails, this will be logged.
• Synchronize writes before spindown.

06-09-2008

• The command configuration options now expects the whole command to execute and not just only the parameters. It still defaults to "sg_start --stop".

25-06-2008

• Added Gentoo init scripts (by Robin Neatherway)

19-06-2008

• Remove the fifo when shutting down the program.

Spindown v0.2.1

19-05-2008

• Logging of messages can now be turned off or on in the configuration file.
• Logging happens when disk is spundown, becomes back active and when the program is started or stopped.
• Updated config file.

18-05-2008

• Message are logged when starting and stopping spindown and when spinning down a disk.

14-05-2008

• Wrote basic definitions for the Log class. This class will make it possible for spindown to log messages using syslog.

09-05-2008

• Update example configuration file.
• Now DiskSet has its own header file.
• Everytime you ask the status using the init script the status gets updated.

Spindown v0.2

26-04-2008

• It is now possible to set the spindown time for every individual disk (by Thomas Brunko)
• Now you can reload the settings by sending SIGHUP to spindownd (by Thomas Brunko)

Spindown v0.1.3

03-04-2008

• Check for sg_start at startup.
• Output from init script now makes more sence when there is an error.
• Code cleanups + added documentation

02-04-2008

• Changed the way the array with disks is stored, this makes it easier for me.
• Disks check automatically for duplicates
• Now you can also add a disk by it's device name (only use this for non swappable disks).
• Various code cleanups.

01-04-2008

• Now it is impossible to have duplicate disks. When a duplicate is found both of them

are ignored.

• Fixed a fault in the init script

29-03-2008

• configure is not needed anymore, the spindown init script can now easly be used in debug mode. Just call it with DEBUG=1 ./spindown OPTION
• The way the daemon is launched and stopped has been changed.

Spindown v0.1.2

28-03-2008

• Configure didn't set the path to the conf file.
• spindown init script now checks if the lockfile is present.
• fixed very stupid bug, used == instead of =
• spindown now also support make dist

27-03-2008

• CONFPATH in spindown wasn't set with configure
• changed pkill with kill because I kill with the pid
• configure emptied the general.h
• Fixed a bug that made spindownd segfault when only -c or -f was given but no value.

25-03-2008

• The path to fifo and path to conf file can be set from the commandline.
• Added a function (relToAbs) to change relative paths ./file to absolute ones /path/to/file
• Change spindown init script so it works with the new configuration style
• configure doesn't generate the general.h file anymore, nothing about config there anylonger
• added help text to spindownd
• added version information to general.h
• spindownd now can print it's version
• Plus some code cleanups

Spindown v0.1.1

17-03-2008

• configure didn't configure the pid path
• Added GPLv3 in COPYING

16-03-2008

• Commands are now unsigned char, not string
• Configure generates init script for debuging
• Added pid file

15-03-2008

• Now using ifstream for reading from diskstats.
• Added compile and install information to readme.
• Optimized the spaces function in spindown.

14-03-2008

• Deamonized the program.

11-03-2008

• Added seperate thread that writes to a fifo to display the status

29-02-2008

• Added GPLv3
• Added TODO file

27-02-2008

• Added systemcall to sg_start

26-02-2008

• Created spindown class
• Included iniParser: stand-alone ini Parser library in ANSI C

25-02-2008

• Creation of changelog