[PVFS2-users] PVFS2 release: pvfs2-0.6.4

[neillm at mcs.anl.gov]

Announcing version 0.6.4 of PVFS2
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Earlier today, the PVFS2 source tree was tagged as pvfs2-0-6-4.

This is primarily a bug fix release.  Feel free to give it a try and
report your experience!


This release can be downloaded at:

ftp://ftp.parl.clemson.edu/pub/pvfs2/pvfs2-0.6.4.tar.gz

The md5sum for this release is c205839d4ff4506008ed8495e7095d77.

Changes from the previous release include the following:

pvfs2-0.6.4
===========
- added a pvfs2-config tool to help when compiling against pvfs2
- new PAV option (COMPUTENODES_LAST) that controls whether compute
  nodes are chosen first or last out of the total set of nodes
  available
- fix locking bug introduced in 0.6.3 that shows up when trove is used
  without aio callbacks
- explicitly name invalid msg tag value (0)
- modified pvfs2-ls to show the mtime (rather than atime) in long
  listings
- updated set-info test program to update mtime (rather than atime)
- fixed possible flow mutex memory leak
- changed PVFS_time from an int64_t to a uint64_t
- fixed a pvfs2-fsck compile time warning
- fixed bug in sys-remove that erroneously tried to back out of the
  remove even on error codes that are acceptable to return
- moved to fully 64 bit unsigned gossip masks (for some more possible
  debugging levels)
- fixed bug in shared-state-machine getattr method that could allow
  attributes to come out of the acache with incorrect types/fields
- fixed bug in crdirent msgpair setups for create/mkdir/symlink (used
  incorrect handles in mappings)
- modified mgmt setparam call to take uint64_t parameters instead of
  int64_t
- kernel changes:
  - fixed bug that allowed a file removed on one client to still
    appear on another with bad attributes
  - fixed dentry revalidation to never return that a dentry is valid
    if's negative
  - fixed directory inode's mtime and ctime changes on updates
  - fixed directory link counts for some changes
  - simplify atime/mtime/ctime conversion to sys_attr (and vice versa)
    to and from inode's time fields


Enjoy!

-PVFS2 Development Team

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