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OpenAFS Release Notes - Version 1.4.8
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File servers: Major bugfixes.
All systems: Minor bugfixes.
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* Bugfixes:
AIX:
- AIX 6.1 is now supported.
- Unpin kernel memory references after free. (99456)
FreeBSD:
- FreeBSD 7 is now supported.
Linux:
- Avoid deadlock when writing back pages in an mmap()ed file larger than
the cache. (120491)
- Update process tree walking for PAG garbage collection to avoid oopses.
(116603)
- fakestat mode now correctly avoids spurious ENOTDIR errors.
- Use kernel build system for all platforms.
- Remove openafs directory from proc in correct order. (112910)
- Handle renames across directories correctly in the linux dcache. (74672)
- Probe syscall table when possible. (105457)
- Mount point parsing is now updated to handle only well-formed mount
points rather than similarly-formed symlinks. (113558, 100836)
- ucontext-style LWP is now anbled for glibc versions newer than 2.3.
MacOS:
- Update available space shown. (112910)
NetBSD:
- Work around broken SIGWAIT. (111404)
Solaris:
- Solaris 10 now defaults to namei fileservers.
- NFS translator issues fixed.
- Changes to address Solaris updates. (105495)
All client systems:
- udebug correctly displays the last "yes" host.
- Allow more vldb lookups to be cached in the client.
- Fix aklog to not be excessively verbose when not requested.
- Add support for timing out accesses which are not completing in a timely
manner.
- Properly flag backup volumes being added to the vldb by vos syncvldb.
All server systems:
- fileserver "large" setting now implies 128 threads instead of 12.
- fileserver check for duplicate uuids is now applied correctly.
- Newer xbsa APIs are supported for TSM integration in butc.
- salvager avoids corrupting length of directory objects. (111585, 107767)
- volserver avoids a race during volume release so a volume will not
appear to be offline. (107258)
- Add support for returning errors when accesses are not completing
in a timely manner.
- Avoid potential race in the volserver when creating transactions. (121263)
- Return sensible error when a release or restore exhausts server
resources. (121040)
- volserver now returns EXDEV if a new replica would duplicate one which
already existed elsewhere on the server.
- Disable jumbograms by default.
- volserver updates a volume's updateDate on volume creation. (110943)
- Partitions over 2tb are now supported. (88811)
All systems:
- Re-enable Rx client keepalives. (20727)
- Support autoconf 2.62. (118058)
- Update Rx to avoid leaking packets.
- vos supports the -noresolve options to avoid issues with 127.0.0.1 being
named in /etc/hosts.
- Additional documentation. (104110)