Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the release of

* Gfarm file system version 2.6.9
* Gfarm2fs version 1.2.9.9

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gfarm/

This release includes multiple spool directory support and improvement
of file scheduling for file creation, and several bug fixes.

We recommend for all users to upgrade to this version.

Release note for Gfarm 2.6.9
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[2016.4.3]

New configuration directive
* spool_server_back_channel_rcvbuf_limit and
metadb_server_back_channel_sndbuf_limit – limits outstanding
requests between gfsd and gfmd to reduce risk of the disconnection.
Default is 4096 bytes.

Updated feature
* gfsd – support multiple spool directories
* most available disk space is selected when creating files
* gfwhere – -m option to select files having the specified number or
less number of replicas
* gfwhere – -h option to select files that stored on the specified
host
* gfstatus – -m option to change the configuration parameter in gfmd
with -M option. Currently, ‘digest’, ‘write_verify’,
‘write_verify_interval’, ‘write_verify_retry_interval’ can be
changed. Note that write_verify is enabled only after gfsd is
restarted.
* write_verify process of gfsd terminates and dumps file information
to be verified by TERM signal
* gfspoolpath – -I option to specify inode number and generation
number instead of a filename

Bug fix
* updated files during the connection between gfsd and gfmd is
disconnected cannot be accessed
* master gfmd may crash when connecting from an expired slave gfmd
[sf.net ticket #947]
* delete metadata when a copy cannot be created due to no space error
* mtime of gfs_pio_stat() and gfs_stat() is inconsistent, which may
cause failure to extract symbolic links from tar files

Release note for Gfarm2fs 1.2.9.9
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[2016.4.3]

Updated feature
* readlink – cache previous result to improve ‘ls -l’ performance