Release Information
- Gfarm File System
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- Gfarm file system version 2.7.0
- Gfarm2fs version 1.2.10
Gfarm 2.7.0 is a major version upgrade & includes the following new features.
- InfiniBand RDMA support
- Directory quota functionality
Support for InfiniBand RDMA enables faster access in environments utilizing InfiniBand networks. To enable InfiniBand RDMA, specify the –with-infiniband option during configuration. For details, refer to INSTALL.ja & doc/Gfarm-FAQ.ja. The directory quota feature is a quota function applied to a directory set consisting of one or more directories. For details, refer to doc/html/ja/user/dirquota.html.
Updating from Gfarm 2.6.X or earlier versions to Gfarm 2.7.0 requires running config-gfarm-update to update the Postgresql schema.
- % service gfarm-pgsql start
- % config-gfarm-update –update
- % service gfmd start
Update History
Release note for Gfarm 2.7.0 [2016.12.8]
- New feature
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- InfiniBand RDMA support
- Directory quota (see doc/html/en/user/dirquota.html for details)
- New command
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- gfdirquota – manage directory set for directory quota
- New configuration directive
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- ib_rdma – enables or disables InfiniBand RDMA data transfer. When configuring –with-infiniband, default is enable.
- rdma_device_name, rdma_port – optional directive to specify device name & port number, respectively, for RDMA data transfer
- rdma_min_size – minimum size for RDMA data transfer. Default is 65536 bytes
- rdma_mr_reg_mode – specifies memory registration mode. Default is static.
- rdma_mr_reg_static_min_size, rdma_mr_reg_static_max_size – minimum & maximum size for static RDMA buffer for each gfsd connection. Default is 1MiB & 16MiB, respectively
- directory_quota_count_per_user_limit – maximum number of directory sets for each user. Default is 100
- Updated feature
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- gfedquota, gfquota – -D & -d options for directory quota
Release note for Gfarm2fs 1.2.10 [2016.12.8]
- Updated feature
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- -o directory_quota_rename_error_exdev option – enables client-side directory move between different directory sets by copying & removing
