All releases of Parallel Virtual File System

2.8.4

06 Apr 2011 10:24

Release Notes: This is a bugfix release

2.7.1

02 Jul 2008 23:14

Release Notes: Additional support for the latest Linux kernel versions. Improved performance for a number of metadata-intensive workloads, and improved support for multithreaded use of the system interfaces. A security layer has been implemented. This includes validation with credentials, conditional compilation for RSA, DSA, and no encryption, and private key loading and capability signatures. A deadlock bug has been fixed. file_aio_write_iovec has been implemented. There is code cleanup and minor bugfixes.

2.7.0

26 Mar 2008 12:41

Release Notes: Additional support for a number of high-performance networks, namely Myricom MX and Cray Portals. Improvements to the Infiniband networking layer, a new two-dimensional distribution for TCP networks, immutable file support, and better support for user-specified layout of data over storage objects. Linux kernel support has been extended to include 2.6.22 and 2.6.23.

1.6.3

28 Dec 2004 11:27

Release Notes: Ported to Linux 2.4.20. Checks for missing header files. Cleanup of structures and messages. Support for GCC 3.4.0 and PCG's C compiler. Support for 64-bit i86 architectures. Support for shared libraries. Extensive bugfixes to many components.

1.5.2/0.9.2

21 Nov 2001 16:58

Release Notes: Fixes in Linux VFS support to improve stability.

1.5.0

30 Jan 2001 06:13

Release Notes: Numerous bugfixes, and when combined with PVFS-kernel 0.9.0, PVFS file systems can be mounted on Linux 2.2 and 2.4 systems for transparent access.