[Ssic-linux-announce] OpenSSI 1.2.1 released for Fedora Core 2 and Red Hat 9

[En C. L. <en...@in...>]

The OpenSSI 1.2.1 stable releases for Fedora Core 2 and Red Hat 9 are
now available from OpenSSI.org.

The release notes are below.

Enjoy!

En Chiang

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OpenSSI 1.2.1 is a stable release, suitable for production use. This
release has versions for Fedora Core 2 ("FC2"), Debian 3.1 (testing),
and Red Hat 9 ("RH9"). The OpenSSI 1.2.x series will be the last set
of releases for RH9, so you should only use RH9 if you're upgrading
from 1.0.0 or 1.1.x for RH9, and you're unable to do a fresh install
on FC2 or Debian.

The primary focus of OpenSSI 1.2.1 was minor feature enhancements
and bug fixes. A bug that prevented clusters larger than 32 nodes has
been fixed. Process migration has been enhanced to allow processes with
open /proc files to migrate between nodes.

Hostnames can now be used in /etc/cvip.conf to configure Linux Virtual
Server ("LVS"). Previously, only IP addresses could be used.

The OpenSSI enhanced portmap daemon (used by NFS) now allows the LVS
Cluster Virtual IP ("CVIP") address to be the same as the IP address
of a physical interface. This makes it easier to configure NFS, LVS,
and OpenSSI in certain networking environments.

The Cluster File System ("CFS") can now stack on a ramfs mount and
share it with the rest of cluster, just like it does for ordinary
physical filesystems such as ext2/3. You may need to add an entry for
ramfs to /cluster/lib/cfstab.

The Debian version of OpenSSI now validates IP and MAC addresses when
adding a new node. Also, some device creation rules for /etc/devfsd.conf
have been adapted from OpenSSI for Fedora Core 2.

The distribution-specific versions of README.nfs-server,
README.nfs-client, and README.ntp have been combined into a
distribution-neutral version of each document. This will make them
easier to maintain and less likely to diverge for the different
distributions supported by OpenSSI. Also, some errors and omissions
in README.ltsp have been corrected.

To learn more, please see the ChangeLog for this release. For even
more detail, you can browse the ssic-linux-checkins archive, which can
be found on OpenSSI.org.