Coda now works on 64-bit systems. The client and
server were
successfully built and used on a machine with
em64t extensions with
a 64-bit Linux kernel. The new RVM-1.14 and
RPC2-2.5 releases also
incorporate some essential 64-bit fixes. Another
welcome change is that
venus now tries to keep cached access rights
available for users even
across system reboots or client restarts, which
should improve life for
people who frequently shut down or dual boot their
machines.
This is the first public release where Coda clients no longer use connected mode operation. All modifications are logged locally and sent back to the servers in the background.
The program no longer aborts repair when some replicas cannot be found. Lots of duplicate code was removed dealing with vnode lists in the servers. Build fixes were made for gcc 3.2, and configure.in was updated to autoconf 2.5. The vnode bitmaps on the server are kept small. The servers would crash when more than 30000 files are created in a single volume; now the limit is about 240000. Corrections were made to Linux's devfs aliases in the modules.conf file, and fixes for an occasional memory leak and bad free in venus were done.
