Monthly GlusterFS 3.5 release, fixing two bugs

Packages for Fedora 21 are available in updates-testing, RPMs and .debs can be found on the main Gluster download site.

This is a bugfix release. The Release Notes for 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4 and 3.5.5 contain a listing of all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.5 stable release.

Bugs Fixed:

• 1244118: unix domain sockets on Gluster/NFS are created as fifo/pipe
• 1244147: Many build warnings when compiling glusterfs-3.5 with recent gcc

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).