2015.3.27Release
Gfarm 2.6.2 Release

Release Information

Gfarm File System
  • Gfarm file system version 2.6.2
  • Gfarm zabbix plugin version 2.1.0

This version includes useful updates & bug fixes. We recommend updating to this version. Please note that the gfarm-announce-ja mailing list will be moved. If there are no issues with the language, it is planned to be hosted at sourceforge.net.

Update History

Release note for Gfarm 2.6.2 [2015.3.27]

Updated feature
  • unconfig scripts are generated by config-gfarm & config-gfsd to undo the configuration process [sf.net ticket #819]
Bug fix
  • mtime becomes Jan 1, 1970 when client_digest_check is enabled, which was introduced by Gfarm 2.6.1 [sf.net ticket #832]
  • missing checksum check during automatic replication when a file is created [sf.net ticket #835]
  • fix lost update problem that happens concurrent read & write cases
  • gfreg – leaves an empty file incorrectly when a diskfull host is specified by -h option [sf.net ticket #842]
  • config-gfarm, config-gfsd – fix permission of configuration file of systemd [sf.net ticket #830]
  • fix infinite loop of replica check due to file size or checksum mismatch

Release note for Gfarm Zabbix plugin 2.1.0 [2015.3.25]

Updated feature
  • improve the failover script
    • it gives up promotion of a slave metadata server when it may cause inconsistency of metadata among the servers [sf.net ticket #825], [sf.net ticket #837]
    • it retries to execute "gfjournal -m" on a metadata server via SSH. [sf.net ticket #834]
  • the failover script supports CentOS 7 [sf.net ticket #826]
  • add a trigger to the template "Templete_Gfarm represent_client_nodep", which alerts administrators to multiple master metadata servers running [sf.net ticket #778]
  • do not alert administrators to successive triggers [sf.net ticket #781], [sf.net ticket #823], [sf.net ticket #825],
Documentation
  • explain firewall setting of gfarm-zabbix [sf.net ticket #840]
  • explain how to install gfarm-zabbix on CentOS 7 [sf.net ticket #791]
  • explain how the failover script chooses new master metadata server
Bug fix
  • whitespaces in "gfarm_gfmd_failover.conf" are not preserved correctly [sf.net ticket #833]
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