[PVFS-developers] 1.6.3 pre1 problems/solutions

[Rob Ross]

Hi Don,

Both of these patches have now been applied in CVS.  Thanks!

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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