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Zach Brown 82d2be2e4a v1.3 Release
Finish the release notes for the 1.3 release.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@versity.com>
2022-04-07 10:42:14 -07:00

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Versity ScoutFS Release Notes
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v1.3
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*Apr 7, 2022*
* **Fix rare server instability under heavy load**
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Fixed a case of server instability under heavy load due to concurrent
work fully exhausting metadata block allocation pools reserved for a
single server transaction. This would cause brief interruption as the
server shutdown and the next server started up and made progress as
pending work was retried.
* **Fix slow fencing preventing server startup**
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If a server had to process many fence requests with a slow fencing
mechanism it could be interrupted before it finished. The server
now makes sure heartbeat messages are sent while it is making progress
on fencing requests so that other quorum members don't interrupt the
process.
* **Performance improvement in getxattr and setxattr**
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Kernel allocation patterns in the getxattr and setxattr
implementations were causing significant contention between CPUs. Their
allocation strategy was changed so that concurrent tasks can call these
xattr methods without degrading performance.
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v1.2
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*Mar 14, 2022*
* **Fix deadlock between fallocate() and read() system calls**
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Fixed a lock inversion that could cause two tasks to deadlock if they
performed fallocate() and read() on a file at the same time. The
deadlock was uninterruptible so the machine needed to be rebooted. This
was relatively rare as fallocate() is usually used to prepare files
before they're used.
* **Fix instability from heavy file deletion workloads**
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Fixed rare circumstances under which background file deletion cleanup
tasks could try to delete a file while it is being deleted by another
task. Heavy load across multiple nodes, either many files being deleted
or large files being deleted, increased the chances of this happening.
Heavy staging could cause this problem because staging can create many
internal temporary files that need to be deleted.
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v1.1
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*Feb 4, 2022*
* **Add scoutfs(1) change-quorum-config command**
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Add a change-quorum-config command to scoutfs(1) to change the quorum
configuration stored in the metadata device while the file system is
unmounted. This can be used to change the mounts that will
participate in quorum and the IP addresses they use.
* **Fix Rare Risk of Item Cache Corruption**
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Code review found a rare potential source of item cache corruption.
If this happened it would look as though deleted parts of the filesystem
returned, but only at the time they were deleted. Old deleted items are
not affected. This problem only affected the item cache, never
persistent storage. Unmounting and remounting would drop the bad item
cache and resync it with the correct persistent data.
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v1.0
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*Nov 8, 2021*
* **Initial Release**
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Version 1.0 marks the first GA release.