[PVFS-developers] 1.6.3 pre1 problems/solutions

[Rob Ross]

Thanks for the input Don!  We're focusing on PVFS2 at this moment, but 
we'll try to get this stuff in and get another prerelease out soon, 
perhaps next week.

Regards,

Rob

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Porter Don wrote:

> 
> Been testing out 1.6.3 and had to do a bit of housekeeping:
> 
> Built a migration utility to drop fsize.  I didn't bother with dropping
> fields from the .pvfsdir files because they will just be ignored if they
> exist.
> 
> There were several spots in the kpvfs kernel code that "didn't get the memo"
> about fsize being dropped.  Also, one place had the wrong version.
> 
> There was a broken and unused dmeta2fname hanging around in the manager code
> that referenced a deleted dmeta entry.  This has been dropped.
> 
> Patches are attached.  The kernel stuff effectively makes the snapshot
> unusable if you use kpvfsd.  I didn't try user-space pvfsd, since we don't
> use it here.  Things seem to be working now, but I will post anything else I
> catch.
> 
> Thanks,
> Don
> 
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