1st beta of GlusterFS 3.5.4 is available for testing

You can download the packages (tarball and RPMs) for glusterfs-3.5.4beta1 from download.gluster.org.

23 bugs have been fixed. Once the fixes have been confirmed, we will do a real 3.5.4 (non-beta) release and update the packages in Fedora 20/21.

Release Notes for GlusterFS 3.5.4beta1

This is a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.5 stable release.

Bugs Fixed:

• 1092037: Issues reported by Cppcheck static analysis tool
• 1101138: meta-data split-brain prevents entry/data self-heal of dir/file respectively
• 1115197: Directory quota does not apply on it's sub-directories
• 1159968: glusterfs.spec.in: deprecate *.logrotate files in dist-git in favor of the upstream logrotate files
• 1160711: libgfapi: use versioned symbols in libgfapi.so for compatibility
• 1161102: self heal info logs are filled up with messages reporting split-brain
• 1162150: AFR gives EROFS when fop fails on all subvolumes when client-quorum is enabled
• 1162226: bulk remove xattr should not fail if removexattr fails with ENOATTR/ENODATA
• 1162230: quota xattrs are exposed in lookup and getxattr
• 1162767: DHT: Rebalance- Rebalance process crash after remove-brick
• 1166275: Directory fd leaks in index translator
• 1168173: Regression tests fail in quota-anon-fs-nfs.t
• 1173515: [HC] - mount.glusterfs fails to check return of mount command.
• 1174250: Glusterfs outputs a lot of warnings and errors when quota is enabled
• 1177339: entry self-heal in 3.5 and 3.6 are not compatible
• 1177928: Directories not visible anymore after add-brick, new brick dirs not part of old bricks
• 1184528: Some newly created folders have root ownership although created by unprivileged user
• 1186121: tar on a gluster directory gives message "file changed as we read it" even though no updates to file in progress
• 1190633: self-heal-algorithm with option "full" doesn't heal sparse files correctly
• 1191006: Building argp-standalone breaks nightly builds on Fedora Rawhide
• 1192832: log files get flooded when removexattr() can't find a specified key or value
• 1200764: [AFR] Core dump and crash observed during disk replacement case
• 1202675: Perf: readdirp in replicated volumes causes performance degrade

Known Issues:

• The following configuration changes are necessary for 'qemu' and 'samba vfs plugin' integration with libgfapi to work seamlessly:
  
  1. gluster volume set <volname> server.allow-insecure on
  2. restarting the volume is necessary
     
     gluster volume stop <volname>
gluster volume start <volname>
  3. Edit /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol to contain this line:
     
     option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on
  4. restarting glusterd is necessary
     
     service glusterd restart
  More details are also documented in the Gluster Wiki on the Libgfapi with qemu libvirt page.
  
• For Block Device translator based volumes open-behind translator at the client side needs to be disabled.
  
  gluster volume set <volname> performance.open-behind disabled
• libgfapi clients calling glfs_fini before a successful glfs_init will cause the client to hang as reported here. The workaround is NOT to call glfs_fini for error cases encountered before a successful glfs_init. This is being tracked in Bug 1134050 for glusterfs-3.5 and Bug 1093594 for mainline.
• If the /var/run/gluster directory does not exist enabling quota will likely fail (Bug 1117888).