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

[Rob Ross]

Just for our own sanity, here's a list of outstanding known issues:
- brecv()/bsend() errors on IA64
- u2p doesn't deal with >2GB files well
- no workaround for RedHat 9 changing structures in the kernel
- symlink code mostly untested

Thanks for putting the release together Phil.

Rob

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Phil Carns wrote:

> 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