[Ocfs2-announce] OCFS2 1.2 released

[Sunil Mushran]

We are announcing the release of OCFS2 1.2. This release
has two new features:

1. It is endian-safe. With this, one can mount the same volume
concurrently on x86, x86-64, ia64 and big endian architectures,
ppc64 and s390x.

2. It supports read-only mounts. With this, one can mount volumes
in read-only mode on read-write and read-only devices. The file system
internally uses this feature to auto remount read-only on encountering
an on-disk corruption.

OCFS2 1.2 is on-disk and network compatible with OCFS2 1.0. One does
not need to re-make (reformat) the volume. However, one does need to
upgrade the tools. OCFS2 1.2 will not work with ocfs2-tools 1.0.

For more, refer to the "What's New in 1.2" section in the FAQ.

For information on upgrading from OCFS2 1.0 to OCFS2 1.2, refer
to the "Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.2" section in the FAQ.

Links:
OCFS2: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/
TOOLS: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/
FAQ: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.txt

The OCFS2 Team