gfarm-announce

[Osamu T. <ta...@cs...>]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the release of

 * Gfarm file system version 2.5.8.7
 * Gfarm2fs version 1.2.9.6

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

This release includes some bug fixes and several useful updated
features.  We recommend for all users to upgrade to this version.

Release note for Gfarm 2.5.8.7
==============================

[2014.4.27]

New configuration directive
* direct_local_access - disables direct local access when accessing
  the local files
* gfsd_connection_timeout - specify timeout to connect gfsd.  The
  default is 30 seconds.

Updated feature
* gfspoolmd5 - -n option to add checksum for files whose checksum is
  not calculated yet.
* set checksum when the gfmd failover happens
* gfs_fstat_cksum_set() - only gfarmroot can set the checksum

Bug fix
* gfspoolmd5 - skip incomplete replicas
* authentication faild error may be incorrectly displayed when using
  two and more authentication method

Release note for Gfarm2fs 1.2.9.6
=================================

[2014.4.27]

Updated feature
* mount.hpci - --user, --group, --home, --root options to specify the
  mount directory in Gfarm
* mount.hpci - create a symlink to a shared directory in the same
  group

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Osamu Tatebe
Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058577 Japan