Release Information
- Gfarm File System
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- Gfarm file system version 2.6.5
This version includes the following new features in addition to bug fixes. We recommend updating to this version.
- Automatic redundant copy deletion
- Parallel copy functionality to HPSS
Update History
Release note for Gfarm 2.6.5 [2015.6.25]
- New feature
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- automatic removal of excessive number of file replicas
- gfrepcheck – remove & reduce_log commands to control automatic replica removal & log summary output features
- gfpcopy – HPSS support
- gfprep, gfpcopy – -z & -Z options to specify the minimum & maximum file size to copy, respectively
- New configuration directive
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- replica_check_remove – disables automatic replica removal feature
- replica_check_reduced_log – disables log summary output feature in replica check
- metadb_replica_remover_by_host_sleep_time
- metadb_replica_remover_by_host_inode_step
- Updated feature
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- file replicas can be removed only when available number of replicas is greater than required [sf.net ticket #857]
- gfexport – accept multiple input files [sf.net ticket #853]
- gfspooldigest – show statistics at the end
- libgfarm – do not connect to servers when client certificate is expired
- gfhost -d removes file replicas stored on the deleted host [sf.net ticket #860]
- gfjournal -m – performance improvement
- gfmd – SIGHUP is not needed to reload CA certificate & CRL
- slave gfmd – do not exit when journal receive queue overflows
- Bug fix
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- gfmd may crash in GSI [sf.net ticket #854]
- gfmd – replica check does not create required replicas when gfsd is up [sf.net ticket #856]
- client may block when GSI authentication fails
- client may crash when connection problem happens [sf.net ticket #852]
- slave gfmd may exit when connection problem happens [sf.net ticket #851]
- gfmkdir – fix invalid memory reference in error case
Release note for Gfarm 2.6.4.1 [2015.4.30]
- Updated feature
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- gfspooldigest – -M option to select files modified older than the specified days ago
- make progress of replica check
- Bug fix
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- gfspooldigest – segfault when gfmd failover happens [sf.net ticket #848]
