Changes from 1.4.0:
All systems:
- Several race conditions in the host tracking and handling in the fileserver
which could cause inconsistent behavior and crashes have been fixed.
- A fileserver bug where a reference to a volume could be leaked and later
cause a deadlock as a result of a bulk status call
- Reference counting of fileserver objects in unsigned 32 bit integers
instead of signed 16 bit integers.
- Avoid type mismatches when handling time values (betweemn 32 bit and 64 bit
variables).
- Fix a memory leak during multilevel packet queue handling.
- Audit log output had been updated to include FIDs for newly created files.
- asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
administrators.
- A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics was
added.
- man pages are now generated.
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie
Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by
Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a
client-server architecture for file sharing, providing
location independence, scalability and transparent migration
capabilities for data. IBM branched the source of the AFS
product, and made a copy of the source available for community
development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS.
