CASTOR 218 219 upgrade feature highlights
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The highlights of 2.1.9:
- checksumming for Gridftp internal - gridftp internal using xroot - renamed all daemons coherently - replaced DLF protocol by syslog - B/W improvements, with admin users separated from end users - dynamic thread pool support - All code related to CASTOR1 has now been removed. RFIO_USE_CASTOR_V2 environment variable is thus obsolete - new test suite - DoS protection: rolling window for rhservers - stager_rm canceling Put/Get requests if they have not yet been scheduled
The highlights of 2.1.8 (everything is already in 2.1.8-7 unless specified)
- end to end file checksuming (RFIO/XROOT) : End users can preset checksums before transfering a file - xroot protocol with possibly non scheduled reads - draining tools - new monitoring - improved repack, able to stand major repacking exercises - most daemons not running as root anymore - improved stream policy API - replication on close - basic user space accounting - VDQM2, with ability to run concurrent servers - cross stager file consistency - support of OFFLINE libraries in vmgr - SLC5 support for diskservers - multiple stager support for multi files request (>= 2.1.8-13)
(based on infomation provided by Sebastien Ponce, 11/2/10)