[Ocfs2-announce] OCFS2 1.6 release

[Sunil Mushran]

All,

We are pleased to announce the release of OCFS2 1.6.

The file system is bundled with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel that is
available for Oracle Linux 5.

The user's guide for this release is available at the following link.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/v1.6/ocfs2-1_6-usersguide.pdf

NEW FEATURES

This release contains many new features. REFLINKs, indexed directories,
metadata checksums, extended attributes, POSIX ACLs, JBD2 support,
allocation reservations, user and group quotas and discontiguous block
groups. Refer to the user's guide for the complete description of all
the features.

UPGRADE

Users wishing to upgrade to the new release must logon to the Unbreakable
Linux Network (ULN) and subscribe to the "Oracle Linux 5 Latest" channel.

         # up2date kernel
         # up2date oracle-linux
         # up2date ocfs2-tools ocfs2console

Unlike in previous releases, the kernel component of the file system is
bundled with the kernel rpm itself. The user only needs to upgrade the
kernel and the ocfs2-tools (and if needed, ocfs2console) to get started.
Use "modinfo ocfs2" to check the version of the file system.

COMPATIBILITY

This file system is fully compatible with OCFS2 Release 1.4. One can
upgrade nodes running release 1.4 to release 1.6 in a rolling manner.

FEEDBACK

For any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to email us at
the ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com mailing list.

The OCFS2 Team

OCFS2: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
TOOLS: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
DOCS : http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/documentation