[PVFS-developers] pvfs and pvfs-kernel 1.6.1 released

[Phil Carns]

The latest PVFS release is now available.  Please visit the "files" area
of our website for download information:

http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/files.html

This release includes quite a few feature patches submitted by the
community, as well as some bug fixes.  See the changelog below for
details.

Symlink support has not been tested that heavily yet, and should
probably be considered experimental for now.

As always, thanks for your support, and let us know if you have any
feedback!

thanks,
-PVFS Development Team

Changes since 1.6.1-pre1:
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- better configure test for sendfile, fixes to sendfile usage in LFS
  environments
- added -Wall to default cflags (pvfs tree), fixed various compile time
  warnings
- better configure time check for LFS support, and fixed large
  file support when libpvfs is used to access unix files
- applied patch from Murali Vilayannur to speed up the return of iod
  info to clients at create time, including some sockio fixes
- applied patch from Don Porter to fix metadata time stamps
- more verbose kernel module error messages

Changes since 1.6.0:
===============================
- boosted socket backlog count from 64 to 256
- applied sticky bit patches from Murali Vilayannur
- applied patch from Don Porter to speed up stat times, must be turned
  on with --enable-fast-stats configure option
- applied patch from Jim Schutt for trusted ports and restricted IP
  ranges
- fix for FD leaks reported by Don Porter
- applied patches for permission checking on several operations from Don
  Porter
- applied aligned write patches developed by Manoj Pillai and Mario
  Lauria
- added symlink support, developed by Murali Vilayannur
- mkmgrconf workarounds for Redhat 9 perl interpreter
- added enable_sendfile config file option to iod.conf
- applied patch from Murali Vilayannur for improved signal handling in
  kernel
- applied patch from Alan Rainey to help with kernel revalidation
  problems
- applied patches from Murali Vilayannur to fix some ia64 issues in
  pvfs-kernel