Release 1.1 of the AFS Volume Balancer is avaliable from
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/balance-1.1.tar.Z
Balance is a utility which will manage disk utilization, volume
concentration, and volume accesses (with a source patch) over a set of
AFS fileservers. It is designed to be run on an automatic basis and
can be arbitarily extended to new balancing targets.
This release fixes all known bugs and incorporates several feature
requests. There is a major bugfix in dealing with partitions with over
100% usage - any site currently running the balancer at lower
revisions should upgrade. With the exception of the new "cell"
requirement in the config file, this version is drop-in compatible
with the previous releases.
dan lovinger
cmu computing services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changes from 1.0 to 1.1:
new -s flag to do the equivalent of -localauth for all operations
new -c flag to specify where vos comes from
bug in transaction handling code fixed whereby a pointer wasn't
being updated properly (cosmetic and core-generating error,
not "serious")
requires specification of cell FS are in - new "cell" keyword in
config - this allows us to balance cells other than the
cell of the machine running the balancer (assuming there
is proper authentication, of course).
properly discards locked volumes. previously, it could complain
many many times about a single locked volume because agents
weren't told to ignore it
bug in config parser - didn't do agents with no arguments correctly
(now properly requires the ";")
installed a sanity check on the weekuse agent to guard against
improperly initialized volume structures (MAXWEEKUSE)
fixed serious bug where partitions over 100% were being treated
as essentially infinite in size (signed/unsigned error)
