5.6.4 HP StoreAll Storage Release Notes (AW549-96075, June 2013)

5.6.1 release
Enhancements
The 5.6.1 release provides the following enhancements:
• Support for DL380 G7 servers on 9300 and 9320 systems.
• Support for BL460c G7 servers on X9720 systems.
• Support for HP P2000 G3 MSA Array System on 9300 and 9320 systems.
• Support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (64 bit) operating system.
• Support for HP Insight Remote Support.
Fixes
File systems
• The ibrix_fsck command needed an option to focus consistency checking on specific segments.
• A modification to the lost+found directory could cause corruption, with the error
ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory.
• A race condition caused an error when ibrix_fsck checked the lost+found directory.
• Running ibrix_fsck in phase 2 caused the file system to be read-only for StoreAll clients.
• Under certain conditions, mounting a file system could cause a server to terminate unexpectedly.
• The mtime of a file changed when the file was migrated, rebalanced, or evacuated to another
segment.
• A segment did not activate for a file system, causing an exception in JmsResource.
CIFS/SMB
• Applications connecting to StoreAll CIFS/SMB shares experienced file read delays when oplocks
were enabled.
• A CIFS/SMB share could not be deleted.
• Performance improvements were needed for CIFS/SMB and StoreAll Windows clients.
• A segmentation fault occurred after the CIFS/SMB service was restarted.
• If the guest account did not have a password, it was disabled when the CIFS/SMB service was
restarted.
• A race condition caused intermittent CIFS/SMB outages.
• A condition in the CIFS/SMB implementation could cause an lsassd failure and segmentation
fault.
• The CIFS/SMB implementation did not support command chaining.
• A condition in the CIFS/SMB implementation could cause CIFS/SMB disconnects and lsassd
failures.
• When extremely large numbers of files were opened, CIFS/SMB users lost access to the CIFS/SMB
share.
• A condition in the CIFS/SMB implementation caused a backup application to fail to write a file.
• The CIFS/SMB implementation failed with lwiod segfault in IbfsSyncLockState().
8 5.6.1 release