Release Notes

Area Description

Data Protection If the Antivirus feature was enabled, MAC OSX clients experienced higher

latency than Windows clients when accessing files.

Data Protection NDMP did not store files with alternate data streams (ADS) properly.

Data Protection Upon completion of NDMP backups, performance degradation sometimes

occurred when automatic snapshots that were created for the backup were

deleted.

Fixed Issues in FluidFS Version 5.0.200081

This following issues were fixed in FluidFS v5.0.200081.

Table 4. Fixed Issues in FluidFS Version 5.0.200081

Area Description

System Functionality Following a firmware update to v5.0.100128, intensive access to

access-based enumeration (ABE)-enabled shares was intermittent.

System Functionality Following a firmware update to v5.0.x, in rare cases, Windows Explorer

might display some files or directories as type symlink.

System Functionality Intensive browsing of directories containing a large number of files and

access-based enumeration (ABE- enabled) shares resulted in the

following event: The system has high memory consumption...

System Functionality In rare workload cases, the add-appliance procedure might have

caused slower response times.

System Functionality Configuring a default gateway on the Admin network triggered false no

connection to default gateway alerts.

System Functionality Users logging in to Dell Storage Manager using Active Directory

accounts saw java null pointer errors.

System Functionality For systems configured with an MTU of 1500, FluidFS falsely reported

jumbo packet loss on the client network.

System Functionality Updating the firmware from v5.0.002821 to v5.0.100128 using Dell

Storage Manager might have failed with Internal hard error if

users right-clicked on FluidFS cluster and then selected Look for

Software Upgrade.

System Functionality Dell Storage Manager incorrectly reported that the internal network was

unavailable when using FluidFS v5 iSCSI systems.

System Functionality Under heavy SMB login workload, local swap resources were exhausted,

and eventually caused one or more FluidFS controllers to reboot.

NAS Volumes, Shares, and

Exports

When using Dell Storage Manager, disabling permission inheritance on

SMB shares was not persistent. Users had to disable permission

inheritance again.

NAS Volumes, Shares, and

Exports

NFS v4 access control list (ACL) inheritance did not work properly on

subfolders created from the SMB protocol on UNIX volumes.

Data Protection NDMP backup procedure might have stalled if the files contained

alternative data streams (ADS).

Dell FluidFS Version 5.0 Release Notes