From 050034b0e577a4e7d53b92bb8284c6e8d8d276b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Derrick Brashear Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 06:22:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] STABLE12-add-relnotes-for-122-20011013 1.2.2 release notes --- doc/txt/RELNOTES-1.2.2 | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/txt/RELNOTES-1.2.2 diff --git a/doc/txt/RELNOTES-1.2.2 b/doc/txt/RELNOTES-1.2.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1c838a7bc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/txt/RELNOTES-1.2.2 @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ + OpenAFS Release Notes - Version 1.2.2 + _________________________________________________________________ +Linux clients: Major bugfix +All other systems: Minor updates + _________________________________________________________________ + +All systems: +- com_err patch included in 1.2.1 was missing a macro in generated + headers from .et source files. compile_et is now fixed. +- source cleanup has been undertaken to remove unused variables. This work + is part of an ongoing effort. +- fileserver will now correctly reap deleted clients. A bug previously + could preclude a client from being reaped if the client was marked + deleted and became active again before the 5 minute check LWP cleaned + it up. +- fileserver now supports InlineBulk RPC to cut down round trips on + directories including unreadable files +- fileserver is careful to avoid null pointer dereference if a callback + entry in the chain has been invalidated (possibly related to problem + fixed with reaping clients) +- bosserver logs process exit statuses +- vos can now encrypt volume dumps +- vos now has a setfields option +- vos restore now supports the -offline option to not bring volumes online + after restoring +- vos restore now supports the -readonly option to mark a restored volume + readonly. This cannot be done if a readwrite volume already exists. +- upclient cleans up after failures instead of leaving files in /tmp +- rxdebug now has a -long option to increase verbosity +- cache manager is careful to not dereference null pointers when reordering + server preferences +- bos problem where potential false errors on salvage could be reported is + fixed +- namei fileserver will attach appropriately named directories if they + contain a file named AlwaysAttach exists in them + +All UNIX systems: +- dynamic root (/afs) support has been added. Invoke afsd with the -dynroot + switch. +- fix a minor vcache leak in the cache manager when a dangling mount point + is evaluated + +IRIX: +- Rx now computes MTU correctly. +- Use bcopy/bzero/bcmp for kernel modules since memset/memcmp/memcpy is + not supported + +Solaris: +- Solaris 9 is now supported. +- Rx now computes MTU correctly. + +Linux: +- All Linux versions have a bug fixed where the kernel dentry cache would + interfere with AFS vcache entries from being deleted could lead to + an oops suggesting a VLRU cycle. +- Rx now computes MTU correctly. +- Linux 2.4 on Alpha should now build correctly +- Previously added umount_begin support has been removed as it could + cause problems for hosts where processes were still using AFS when the + cache manager was shut down. +- RC file has been cleaned up + +Windows NT/2000: +- Freelance (dynamic AFS root) and AFSDB support are included + +Documentation: +- NEWS file updated -- 2.39.5