[PVFS-developers] pvfs and pvfs-kernel 1.6.1-pre1 snapshot

[Phil Carns]

There is a new snapshot up on the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.parl.clemson.edu/pub/pvfs/alpha/pvfs-1.6.1-pre1.tgz
ftp://ftp.parl.clemson.edu/pub/pvfs/alpha/pvfs-kernel-1.6.1-pre1-linux-2.4.tgz

Thanks go out to all of you who have been submitting patches; we tried
to integrate as many as we could.  Also thanks to Rob Ross for doing
all of the integration work!

thanks,
- PVFS development team

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