From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 01:50:37 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add NEWS entry for recent ubik changes
X-Git-Tag: upstream/1.8.0_pre2^3~12
X-Git-Url: https://git.michaelhowe.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=57d32c29146167ff54d3221ed761a5973776ae93;p=packages%2Fo%2Fopenafs.git

Add NEWS entry for recent ubik changes

Of the ubik-fix-write-after-recovery topic, this seems like the most
noteworthy portion, with the other bits wrapped up in the preface.

Change-Id: Icc1afb9f851ef2d7ade49c2382cc023997f1bf26
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.openafs.org/12679
Tested-by: BuildBot <buildbot@rampaginggeek.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a944a8fce..a9b6ca417 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ OpenAFS 1.8.0pre2
 
     * Ubik servers using pthreads are now available and are used by default
 
+    * As part of improving Ubik reliability in certain edge cases, an extra
+      election cycle (about 60 seconds) may be needed before writes are
+      permitted.  This is a conservative change that may be removed in
+      the future.
+
     * Remove periodic background fsync by the fileserver (ihandle fsync thread).
 
     * Fix potential file handle leak in the file server ihandle caching layer.