[Flaim-users] New FLAIM libraries are available

[Andrew H. <AHo...@no...>]

A new build of FLAIM has been posted to the Bandit site:
 
http://www.bandit-project.org/index.php/FLAIM_Development_Download.  
 
This version of the FLAIM takes advantage of the improvements recently
introduced in the cross-platform toolkit (FTK).  Specifically, the
following improvements were made:
 
* Enhancement: New checksum routines were written in SPARC assembly for
Linux and Solaris .  This results in 5 - 8 times faster block and RFL
packet checksum calculations.
 
* Enhancement: New checksum routines for GCC-built x86 targets (Linux)
were added.  This results in up to 40 times faster block and RFL packet
checksums by leveraging the parallel add and xor MMX instructions.
 
* Enhancement: Native atomic operations for PowerPC Linux were added.
 
* Enhancement: Added support for super fast file extend operations on
platforms and file systems that support fast file extends (such as
Win32+NTFS, HP-UX+Veritas, and Solaris+UFS)
 
* Enhancement: Added a new block cache allocator to guarantee that
block buffers are aligned on page and/or sector boundaries.  This allows
disk drivers to read directly into the block cache buffers when using
direct I/O, thus eliminating a large memcpy on each read operation.  The
new allocator also reduces cache overhead from 7.5% to 1.5% (resulting
in more items being cached).
 
* Enhancement: FLAIM is now built as a v8plus binary on SPARC
platforms.  This allows fast atomic operations to be used.
 
* Enhancement: Reduced the overhead of growing and shrinking
roll-forward and roll-back log files.
 
* Enhancement: Changed most I/O operations to use aligned buffers.

* Enhancement:  Added support for running a database sweep within an
update transaction.

* Bug Fix: The Ubuntu/SPARC version of FLAIM now builds correctly
 
* Bug Fix: AIX platform support has been updated, including limited
support for direct and async I/O
 
* Bug Fix: HP-UX (PA-RISC) platform support has been updated
 
* Bug Fix: The RFL was being truncated smaller than the minimum file
extend size. This was resulting in a lot of overhead because we would
subsequently extend the RFL file when writing.
 
* Utilities: Fixed a memory leak and crash in checkdb utility.

* Utilities: Added the gigatest utility for performance testing. 

* Build: libtool versioning information was updated and documentation
describing how and when libtool versioning should be changed was added. 
Also changed libtool library version to be 3.0.0.
 
* Documentation:  Query retrieval functions were grouped incorrectly
for doxygen.  This has been fixed.
 
* Documentation: Event functions were grouped incorrectly for doxygen. 
This has been fixed.
 
Thanks.