XFS for Linux Release 1.0.1 provides bug fixes and small improvements to XFS for Linux Release 1.0.
The installation procedure for Release 1.0.1 is the same as for Release 1.0. Step by step instructions are provided for the following installations:
XFS for Linux Release 1.0.1 differs from Release 1.0 in the following areas:
Some of the ACL library's functions have been changed to comply with the POSIX ACL (P1003.1e) withdrawn standard. These changes make it simpler for the Samba code to work with XFS. A bug was also fixed for chacl -d.
General code cleanup
Kernel packaged in 2.4.3 RPM based on updated RMP from Redhat
Fixes made to xfsdump/restore for remote tapes
Irix DMAPI bug fix merged
Unmount of dirty filesystem speeded up
inode fields pared down, shrinking inode by 60-70 bytes
Permission checking on full file fixed
Optimizations based on kernel profiling made
Changes made to help with compiler independence (but egcs-2.91.66 is still preferred & tested at SGI)
ATIME not updated for extended attribute or ACL changes
Default BIOSIZE changed to 4k to fix some db-related size issues
"Best" AG size changed from 1GB to 4GB when the filesystem exceeds 64GB
Pick up mount options parsed by the VFS layer (noatime, readonly)
LVM snapshotting capability added
vnode tracing and xfs debug removed from config options
Various memory handling improvements made
Fixes made for NFS server support, including fixes to prevent panics during mixed local and remote access
Filesystem initialization messages removed
Various changes and enhancements made to xfs test scripts
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Documentation updates added
userspace man pages moved to /usr/share/man for most systems
Looping bug in repquota under some glibc variants fixed