[OpenAFS] OpenAFS Newsletter, Issue 3, July 2009

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:01:36 -0400


Here is the July 2009 issue of the OpenAFS Newsletter. An HTML version 
is available at http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/newsletter-2009-07-volume001-issue03.html

OpenAFS Newsletter, Issue 3, July 2009
    Welcome to the third issue of the OpenAFS newsletter. The newsletter
    summarizes what is happening in the OpenAFS community. The main thing to
    report in this issue is the conversion of CVS to git. Git is now ready
    for use in development. I suspect that many people were very busy or on
    vacation this month, because many of the subprojects did not reply to
    requests for project updates.

    As always, volunteers, patches, bug reports, or any other type of help
    is greatly appreciated.

    Feedback on this newsletter is welcome. The goal is to summarize the
    various development efforts and news of OpenAFS for the community.
    Please let Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> know what you would
    like to see out of this newsletter.

    The current and past issues of this newsletter are available at
    <http://www.openafs.org/newsletter/>

  General OpenAFS Progress
    Many thanks go to Simon Wilkinson for finishing the conversion from CVS
    to git and setting up gerrit. Gerrit has only been up for a week and
    there are already over 100 patches that have been merged!

    1.4.11 has been released, and it includes major bugfixes for Linux
    clients and fileservers. Some minor bugs were fixed on other platforms.
    The release notes are available at
    http://www.openafs.org/frameset/dl/openafs/1.4.11/RELNOTES-1.4.11

  Events
   AFS Hackathon
    The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh will be hosting
    an AFS Hackathon 22-24 September (immediately before the European AFS
    Conference). All OpenAFS developers are welcome to attend - please see
    the email to openafs-announce for details, and RSVP to sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk

   Annual Best Practices Workshop
    Plans are already underway for the seventh Workshop, to be held May
    24-28, 2010, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We hope
    to see you there.

  Projects
   Security Releases
    Security Officer:

    *   Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk>

    No security issues since 1.4.9, 1.4.10, and 1.5.59 were released in
    April 2009.

   Git
    Project Contact:

    *   Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk>

    During the week of 6th July, we completed our transition to the git
    version control system. Git, and gerrit (our code review tool) are now
    ready for use! See
    http://www.dementia.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/GitDevelopers for more
    details.

   Pthreaded Ubik
    Project Contact:

    *   Steven Jenkins <steven@endpoint.com>

    The pthreaded ubik's initial code delivery to provide for use of POSIX
    threads instead of LWPs was made in April 2008. After some production
    usage, some problems were found in initialization (on certain platforms)
    and lack of locking, leading to data corruption in some cases for the
    vlserver. As part of the analysis of these problems, some differences
    were identified between the private version of OpenAFS being used and
    the version in OpenAFS HEAD, several other longstanding issues with vos,
    vlclient, and the vlserver were identified, and some patches have been
    submitted:

    *   RT #124977 addresses mutex and condition variable initialization

    *   RT #125035 fixes a longstanding logging bug

    *   RT #125036 fixes a longstanding bug in vlclient command-line parsing

    Current work involves cleaning up and testing a patch to fix improper
    handling of multi-homed IP addresses in the VLDB. The patches to fix the
    logging are undergoing further testing and analysis (both code review
    and automated testing with Helgrind), and we hope to have those
    submitted soon as well.

    --Steven

   Google Summer of Code 2009
    OpenAFS received four slots for the 2009 Google Summer of Code.

    Go to <http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/openafs> for
    more information about the GSoC projects.

    Three of the projects are still active. Unfortunately, one student had
    to back out.

    The following projects did not give a status update:

    *   Implementing OpenAFS Features into RedHat's kafs Kernel Module

    *   OpenAFS Server Preference Based on Network Conditions

   OpenAFS Management Console on Windows
    Student Developer: Brant Gurganus <brant@gurganus.name>

    Mentor: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>

    Self-intro:
    <https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2009-April/016591.htm
    l>

    The Google Summer of Code program is at its half way point. With that,
    the management console has a complete user interface as well as
    deployment packages. Project downloads and source will be available at
    http://code.google.com/p/openafsclientmmc

   Projects with no progress or no update
    *   Binary Packaging

    *   Better Documentation - No significant updates.

    *   BSD support

    *   Disconnected AFS support

    *   Extended Callback Information

    *   Kerberos v5 and Multiple Encryption Types

    *   Rx OSD integration & Raw Vicep Access in Clients

  Resolved Tickets
    Since Gerrit is now the preferred method of accepting patches instead of
    RT, it's likely that fewer RT tickets will be filed.

    Here is a list of tickets that have been resolved since June 1, 2009:

      ticket # state     created       title
         3210: resolved  Feb 03, 2004  multiprobealternateaddress doesn't remove bad interfaces for this uuid
        18596: resolved  May 06, 2005  [Patch] add module license macro to Linux kernel module
        60275: resolved  Apr 25, 2007  'make dest' fails to create man dir + manpages
       101309: resolved  Jun 02, 2008  DAFS: error creating volumes on 1.5.38 with demand attach
       124492: resolved  Mar 17, 2009  DAFS: new volumes always require salvaging
       124709: resolved  Apr 28, 2009  linux26 issue with pagsh.krb and Pag location in group list
       124763: resolved  May 11, 2009  Windows Vista 64 bit would not reboot cleanly after running 64-bit 1.5.59 installer
       124891: resolved  Jun 01, 2009  CellServDB parsing subject to buffer overflows
       124893: resolved  Jun 02, 2009  ptserver debug flag correction
       124894: resolved  Jun 02, 2009  ptprocs vicelog newlines and loglevels
       124898: resolved  Jun 03, 2009  src/aklog/klog.c uninitialized variable tofree
       124910: resolved  Jun 08, 2009  Windows: cm_cell_t lists not properly protected by cm_cellLock
       124923: resolved  Jun 12, 2009  opensolaris 'struct conn' conflict
       124924: resolved  Jun 12, 2009  Re: OpenAFS and OpenSolaris
       124933: resolved  Jun 15, 2009  Problems to access to the read only volume.
       124938: resolved  Jun 16, 2009  ubik "allbetter" log levels
       124939: resolved  Jun 16, 2009  src/config/Makefile.version missing in OpenAFS 1.4.11 RC1
       124942: resolved  Jun 16, 2009  Linux: cache files: use i_op->setattr if defined
       124946: resolved  Jun 17, 2009  call gethostbyname() from cellconfig.c afsconf_GetCellInfo()
       124952: resolved  Jun 18, 2009  2 small things to make 1.4.11pre1 build on FreeBSD 6.1
       124976: resolved  Jun 23, 2009  fix for tests-generate-dirpath-in-makefile
       124986: resolved  Jun 24, 2009  Linux: try to deal with unexported rcu_read_{un}lock
       124991: resolved  Jun 25, 2009  1.4.11pre2 on suse
       124996: resolved  Jun 26, 2009  Linux: fix rcu patch fallout for 1.5/head
       125001: resolved  Jun 26, 2009  Linux: conditionally compile search for key_type_keyring
       125015: resolved  Jun 29, 2009  What Are Pheromones? -- Let's Finnd Out
       125018: resolved  Jun 29, 2009  Windows: lost FetchData error codes in cm_GetBuffer?
       125020: resolved  Jun 29, 2009  Incorrect ubik_client reinitialization in CallPreamble
       125064: resolved  Jul 07, 2009  vos doesn't display vnode accesses unless updateDate is set
       125079: resolved  Jul 09, 2009  OpenAFS 1.5.59 crash dump
       125089: resolved  Jul 12, 2009  Symbol find_task_by_vpid no longer available to modules as of Linux 2.6.31
       125093: resolved  Jul 13, 2009  afsd_servivce.exe at 45% cpu and explorer hangs.
       125111: resolved  Jul 16, 2009  vos listvol -format shows incorrect volume name when busy