Reposting the email to the Gluster Users and Developers mailinglists.
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.
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