Support for partitioning has been added to the device driver. Support for old kernels (2.2.20) has been restored, and we are once again nearly level in the development kernel race (2.5.47). As usual, various minor bugs have been fixed - notably write ordering is now preserved very strictly, in order to cater to journaled file systems. The names of the module and daemons have also been changed to enbd* from nbd*, in order not to collide with the kernel nbd.
This release fixes a bug which had been causing the ENBD device to disable
itself for 5 seconds after a network brownout even when the (default)
operational mode was to hide networking errors internally and block until the
network returned. The result had been that an overlying RAID device would see
the fault if writes were in progress, which could fault the ENBD component
offline with no convenient way to recover. The behavior has been corrected so
that recovery is invisible to RAID by default.
Support for remote ioctls has been added, and the code has been brought up to date with the current kernel 2.4 release (tested with 2.4.18). Also, support for local write-caching, lost after the great VM rip-out in kernel 2.4.10, has hopefully now been restored. The usual number of minor bugs have been fixed, reintroduced, etc. The package also contains an experimental driver for kernels 2.5.x.
Driver corrections to allow compilation against kernels >= 2.4.10, in which the kernel VM changed completely. The upcoming next-release driver code has been dropped into the package as is, to fill the gap for people who need to use the ultra-new kernels. The package has been tested for back-compatibility against kernel 2.4.3.
