From:	 Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To:	 opengfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	 opengfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] OpenGFS 0.0.91 (first test release for 0.1)
Date:	 Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:45:28 +0100

The first prerelease of OpenGFS 0.1, codenamed "covenant" is now available.

This is mostly a bugfix release relative to GFS 4.1.1.  It fixes major
security problems and race conditions.  The supported kernel versions are:

	2.4.9, 2.4.10, 2.4.10-ac*, 2.4.12-ac*, 2.4.13-ac*

The recommend kernel version is 2.4.12-ac6.  Note that Linux 2.2 is no
longer supported, you have to upgrade to Linux 2.4.
Support for the new virtual memory subsystem / buffercache in the Linus
tree will be added as soon it stabilizes.

Some of the changes include:

  - patches for newer kernels are provided

  - a security audit has been performed, many items have been fixed,
    some are still outstanding for one of the next test releases.

  - the code has been made more robust against failing memory allocations.

  - some memory leaks have been fixed.

  - functionality provided by some of the GFS 4.1.1 kernel patches has
    been reimplemented using the exported kernel APIs.

  - multiple race conditions in kernel code have been removed.

  - reworked the codebase to remove dublicated code and user generic
    routines where available.

  - new build system that allows faster builds and uses less redundant
    Makefiles.  Some of these changes are still outstanding for the
    next test releases.

This test release is available as source tarball and source RPM at:

	ftp:/ftp.opengfs.org/pub/opengfs/0.0.91/opengfs-0.0.91.tar.gz
	ftp:/ftp.opengfs.org/pub/opengfs/0.0.91/opengfs-0.0.91-1.src.rpm

We also have a mirror at nl.linux.org (thanks Rik van Riel!):

	ftp://nl.linux.org/pub/opengfs/0.0.91/opengfs-0.0.91.tar.gz
	ftp://nl.linux.org/pub/opengfs/0.0.91/opengfs-0.0.91-1.src.rpm

Binary RPMs for OpenGFS and a patched kernel are planned for one of the
next test releases.

Please report bugs using the public bug tracker at:

	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=34688&atid=412037

We recommend that users of OpenGFS subscribe to the opengfs-users lists,
a web frontend is provided at:

	http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-users

For more information on OpenGFS, please visit the website at:

	http://www.opengfs.org

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