[Gluster-users] glusterfs-3.5.1beta released

[Niels de Vos]

On Sat, 24 May, 2014 at 11:34:36PM -0700, Gluster Build System wrote:
> 
> SRC: http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-3.5.1beta.tar.gz

This beta release is intended to verify the changes that should resolve 
the bugs listed below. We appreciate tests done by anyone. Please leave 
a comment in the respective bugreport with a short description of the 
success or failure. Visiting one of the bugreports is as easy as opening 
the bugzilla.redhat.com/$BUG URL, for the first in the list, this 
results in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/765202 .

Bugs expected to be fixed (31 in total since 3.5.0):

 #765202 - lgetxattr called with invalid keys on the bricks
 #833586 - inodelk hang from marker_rename_release_newp_lock
 #859581 - self-heal process can sometimes create directories instead of symlinks for the root gfid file in .glusterfs
 #986429 - Backupvolfile server option should work internal to GlusterFS framework
#1039544 - [FEAT] "gluster volume heal info" should list the entries that actually required to be healed.
#1046624 - Unable to heal symbolic Links
#1046853 - AFR : For every file self-heal there are warning messages reported in glustershd.log file
#1063190 - [RHEV-RHS] Volume was not accessible after server side quorum was met
#1064096 - The old Python Translator code (not Glupy) should be removed
#1066996 - Using sanlock on a gluster mount with replica 3 (quorum-type auto) leads to a split-brain
#1071191 - [3.5.1] Sporadic SIGBUS with mmap() on a sparse file created with open(), seek(), write()
#1078061 - Need ability to heal mismatching user extended attributes without any changelogs
#1078365 - New xlators are linked as versioned .so files, creating <xlator>.so.0.0.0
#1086748 - Add documentation for the Feature: AFR CLI enhancements
#1086750 - Add documentation for the Feature: File Snapshots in GlusterFS
#1086752 - Add documentation for the Feature: On-Wire Compression/Decompression
#1086756 - Add documentation for the Feature: zerofill API for GlusterFS
#1086758 - Add documentation for the Feature: Changelog based parallel geo-replication
#1086760 - Add documentation for the Feature: Write Once Read Many (WORM) volume
#1086762 - Add documentation for the Feature: BD Xlator - Block Device translator
#1088848 - Spelling errors in rpc/rpc-transport/rdma/src/rdma.c
#1089054 - gf-error-codes.h is missing from source tarball
#1089470 - SMB: Crash on brick process during compile kernel.
#1089934 - list dir with more than N files results in Input/output error
#1091340 - Doc: Add glfs_fini known issue to release notes 3.5
#1091392 - glusterfs.spec.in: minor/nit changes to sync with Fedora spec
#1095775 - Add support in libgfapi to fetch volume info from glusterd.
#1095971 - Stopping/Starting a Gluster volume resets ownership
#1096040 - AFR : self-heal-daemon not clearing the change-logs of all the sources after self-heal
#1096425 - i/o error when one user tries to access RHS volume over NFS with 100+ GIDs
#1099878 - Need support for handle based Ops to fetch/modify extended attributes of a file


Before a final glusterfs-3.5.1 release is made, we hope to have all the 
blocker bugs fixed. There are currently 13 bugs marked that still need 
some work done:

#1081016 - glusterd needs xfsprogs and e2fsprogs packages
#1086743 - Add documentation for the Feature: RDMA-connection manager (RDMA-CM)
#1086749 - Add documentation for the Feature: Exposing Volume Capabilities
#1086751 - Add documentation for the Feature: gfid-access
#1086754 - Add documentation for the Feature: Quota Scalability
#1086755 - Add documentation for the Feature: readdir-ahead
#1086759 - Add documentation for the Feature: Improved block device translator
#1086766 - Add documentation for the Feature: Libgfapi
#1086774 - Add documentation for the Feature: Access Control List - Version 3 support for Gluster NFS
#1086781 - Add documentation for the Feature: Eager locking
#1086782 - Add documentation for the Feature: glusterfs and  oVirt integration
#1086783 - Add documentation for the Feature: qemu 1.3 - libgfapi integration
#1095595 - Stick to IANA standard while allocating brick ports

A more detailed overview of the status of each of these bugs is here:
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.5.1

Cheers,
Niels