[Pvfs2-users] PVFS Release: pvfs-2.6.0

[Sam Lang]

Announcing version 2.6.0 of PVFS
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This release includes new features and a number of bug fixes.  Some  
of the new features include:

* A new TROVE method that uses pthreads instead of AIO, and can  
provide significant performance improvements over the default trove  
method which uses AIO. To enable the alternate trove method, see the  
TroveMethod option in the documentation.

* New server config options that allow tuning of the flow buffers,  
provide root squash and read only capabilities.

A complete list of changes is included in the ChangeLog of the release.

Please note that this release also includes some important changes  
that users should be aware of:

*  Notice that we've changed the release name of PVFS slightly. This  
release is PVFS version 2.6.0.  What was previously referred to as  
PVFS2 1.x.x is now PVFS 2.x.x.

* As with 1.5.0 and 1.5.1, the storage format is different from the  
1.4.0 version and earlier. If you are upgrading to 2.6.0 directly  
from 1.4.0, you must migrate to the new format.

See the website for further information:  http://www.pvfs.org/

This release can be downloaded at:

ftp://ftp.parl.clemson.edu/pub/pvfs2/pvfs-2.6.0.tar.gz

The checksums for this release are:

md5sum:  028e90ab922cbd82588f722189c6780d
sha1sum: 2bdfc14a964ef65bc1d7d52cf0e4359d48d1728a

Enjoy!

- The PVFS v2 Team