Openfiler NAS/SAN Appliance Release Notes

Release 2.3

Welcome to Openfiler!

Openfiler is a Storage Management Operating System / NAS Appliance 
distribution. It is powered by the Linux 2.6 kernel and Open Source 
applications such as Apache, Samba, LVM2, ext3, Linux NFS and 
iSCSI Enterprise Target. Openfiler combines these ubiquitous technologies 
into a small, easy to manage solution fronted by a powerful web-based 
management interface. Openfiler allows you to build a Network Attached Storage 
(NAS) and/or Storage Area Network (SAN) appliance, using industry-standard 
hardware, in less than 10 minutes of installation time.

Openfiler is powered by rPath Linux a freely-available Linux
operating system distribution, built with the Conary distributed
software management system. rPath Linux contains high-quality, 
up-to-date software with a powerful revision management back-end for 
keeping your system up-to-date at all times.


New Features (2.3)
    - Support for global FTP settings
    - Support for per share Rsync settings
    - Support fro global Rsync settings
    - Finer grain control on SMB shares
    - Network ACL management for Homes shares
    - Access to homes shares across file-level protocl range
    - Advanced management of iSCSI exports
    - LUN Mapping for iSCSI snapshots
    - iSCSI volume resizing
    - Quota user/group filters
    - Homes path assignment for LDAP users
    - Homes share is now top-level share type
    

Bug Fixes (2.3)

      id,summary,owner,type,priority,component,version
    - 274,Long File Name Support for Windows Systems,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,high,shares,2.2
    - 424,German Groupnames and Usernames,rafiu.fakunle@xinit.com,defect,normal,accounts,2.2
    - 425,Physical Volume size is wrong...,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,normal,general,2.1
    - 461,Call rsync on deletion of ad-hoc snapshot,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,highest,volumes,2.2
    - 485,Add IPtables to default group,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,highest,distro,2.2
    - 549,"Physical Storage Mgmt." screen errors if disk has 1 free cylinder,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,lowest,general,2.2
    - 553,Home Directory's not created,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,high,accounts,2.2
    - 557,Anaconda AssertionError when install begins,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,normal,general,2.2
    - 569,openfiler iscsi iniziator session failed,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,high,general,2.2
    - 573,page not found on editing share properties,rafiu.fakunle@xinit.com,defect,low,shares,2.2
    - 577,Charset problem with shares (FTP & Samba),rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,normal,shares,2.2
    - 578,shutdown/reboot html page redirect,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,low,website,2.1
    - 579,WWID gets changed after you restart the filer for ISCSI,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,highest,iscsi,2.2
    - 583,ext3 failure to grow filesystem,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,normal,general,2.2
    - 585,hosts allow in smb.conf does not work with netmasks,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,high,general,2.2
    - 591,Set lax default iptables rules,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,highest,distro,
    - 594,OpenFiler 2.3 Alpha - Areca 1230 Drivers,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,highest,installer,2.3
    - 595,Build kernel 2.6.22.10 for 2.3 release,rafiu@openfiler.com,defect,highest,distro,2.3-Beta
    
Hardware Requirements

    x86: i686-class processor (i586 and earlier are not supported)
    x86_64: all AMD64 and EM64T processors are supported

    Hardware platform supported by the Linux kernel 2.6.22

    Installation from CD/DVD images requires 256 MB RAM on the
    x86 architecture, and 512 MB RAM on the x86_64 architecture.
    The graphical installation process will run faster with 512 MB.
    Run-time memory requirements depend entirely on the software
    being run.

    
    A full installation requires about 800MB of storage space.

Major Contents

    - Linux kernel 2.6.22
    - Glibc 2.3.6
    - LVM2
    - Samba 3.0.25
    - NFS v3/v4 (nfs-utils 1.0.10)
    - Apache 2.2.6
    - iSCSI Enterprise Target 0.4.16-pre
    - ATA-Over-Ethernet v38
    
Updates

    The "conary updateall" command will update all the software
    on your system managed by Conary.  The "conary update group-dist"
    command will update all the software on your system that was
    (or could have been) installed from the distribution media.

    Dynamic network updates are available on a subscription basis. 
    Please visit http://www.openfiler.com/subscribe or email info@openfiler.com
    to sign up for a support license. 

Contacting the Openfiler Project

    Please visit https://project.openfiler.com/tracker/newticket 
    to report bugs and request feature enhancements. 

    To speak with Openfiler developers, please visit #openfiler channel
    on the freenode IRC network (http://www.freenode.net/)

    Visit https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo for mailing lists.


Source Code

    As per the terms of the GPL all source code and patches for the
    software included in this Operating Systems is available to download
    from the Openfiler Project website at https://project.openfiler.com


Copyright 2001-2007 Openfiler.

rPath, rPath Linux, Conary, and rBuilder are trademarks of rPath, Inc.
Openfiler is a trademark of the Openfiler Project.