Executive summary

• Faster deletion speeds

• Better integration of alarms service, easier configuration, and predefined alarms

• Multiple GIDs in kpwd

• Less clutter in GLUE 2 StorageShare

• Improved pool response during HSM request bursts

• Reduced latency on write

• Automatic throttling of SRM request rate when database request queue is full

• Decoupling of transfer managers from srm database

Incompatibilities

This section describes potential incompatibilities with previous versions of dCache.

Configuration properties

All properties marked forbidden or obsolete are now no longer recognised by dCache. All properties that were deprecated in 2.10 are now marked forbidden.

Release 2.11.51

Changes affecting multiple services

Fixed an issue with the dcache heap dump command when called with a simple file name as the output path. In this case the dump could in some cases be written to a different directory while the script claimed the dump had failed. The dcache dump heap command has a --force option for cases in which the JVM is unresponsive. This option was ignored for processes not running as root. This is fixed now.

cells

A bouncing message bug in System cell is fixed.

pool

Fix race condition in request scheduler.

Changelog 2.11.50..2.11.51

010e44f

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.51

a6949c5

dcache: fix heap dump to simple file names

8080ee3

script: Make dump heap –force work for non-root processes

c5a1f6d

billing: additional fixes to insert triggers

9dcb113

srm: Do not expose TURL before request is ready

0038371

pool: Fix race condition in request scheduler

44c2af1

system-test: update disposable-CA generated credentials

c4f72e7

cells: Avoid bouncing message on no-route errors in System cell

4e11bbe

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Release 2.11.50

many

When representing checksums in the admin interface and configuration files, checksums are now presented in an improved format.

Changelog 2.11.49..2.11.50

919e8dc

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a18e783

common: fix ChecksumType.toString()

d18016b

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Release 2.11.49

cells

LoginManager would occasionally generate error messages similar to “Discarding listening on $LOCATION 53684’ because its age of 18721640 ms exceeds its time to live of 4500 ms.”. This was due to erroneous reuse of old message envelopes in the internal messaging. This change fixes that problem.

This change addresses a potential problem in which messages sent between cells in the same domain could appear older than they are and thus would risk being discarded due to the time-to-live being expired.

srm

A Tier–1 site reported problems with a major WLCG VO’s read requests. Investigating the source of the problems showed that the srm_ifce library, used by the (outdated) GFAL v1 and the (supported) GFAL v2 SRM libraries, drastically limits the permitted lifetime of requests without providing admins any way to configure this.

For sites seeing errors related to desiredTotalRequestTime being exceeded, this change provides the new configuration option srm.request.maximum-client-assumed-bandwidth in srm.properties as a work-around.

Sites not observing such errors do not need to change anything with regard to this value.

Changelog 2.11.48..2.11.49

f526620

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1bdc3e9

srm: add short request lifetime work-around

5577ba2

chimera: Fix regression in inheriting ACLs on directory creation (HSQLDB)

0992e32

cells: Improve robustness of message time to live

b46ca1a

cells: Fix erroneous reuse of message envelope in location manager registration

60bef1d

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Release 2.11.48

pnfsmanager

Billing entries for SRM uploads recently lost the storage class part of the entry. This update fixes that issue.

poolmanager

This modification fixes a potential race condition in pool manager.

webdav

This modification corrects the error reporting under WebDAV. When attempting to delete a non-existing file, unauthenticated users receive a 401 Unauthorized response, while authenticated users receive a 404 Not Found response.

Changelog 2.11.47..2.11.48

c7fa199

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.48

489bbcb

pnfsmanager: Fix regression in SRM billing entries

db0f3f1

poolmanager: Fix race condition in pool selection unit

ba9df79

webdav: fix 404 error if attempting to delete a nonexistent file

ad5442d

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Release 2.11.47

pnfsmanager

With this release, PnfsManager adds safety checks rejecting invalid upload paths that SRM might erroneously supply. This release hardens an installation against possible bugs triggering data loss.

This release adds a check that detects failed or incomplete SRM uploads and prevents the file from being committed to its final path. Common symptoms of this bug were zero sized files that experiment catalogues registered as successfully uploaded.

srm

This release adds a check to detect broken uploads using SRM during the final stage of file transmission. While it causes transfers to take a little more time, resilience against upload failures is increased.

Changelog 2.11.46..2.11.47

56d90b3

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.47

271fa08

srm: Check for broken files during srmPutDone

33713a7

pnfsmanager: Check file size and upload completion when committing temporary upload paths

11931a0

pnfsmanager: Protect against erroneous upload paths

d9e2e57

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Release 2.11.46

Changes affecting multiple services

Several cases of slow performance were reported while deleting directory in Chimera. This is now fixed.

pool

When command execution to migrate files between pools (e.g. migration concurrency or migration copy) is interrupted due to the failure to find migration job the returned error message is considered as a bug. This is now fixed so that a new message is returned indicating that the job being requested does not exist.

srm

When file upload is cancelled the value of temporary upload path tracked by SRM could be a value different from a regular path, either because it was changed outside of dCache, or it contains entries from a very old version of dCache. This could result in data loss while canceling upload. The current release fixed a potential data loss scenario.

statistics

The statistics service creates static HTML pages that describe dCache usage over time as simple files that the webadmin service can serve. This includes information about pools and store-units. The problem is that the statistics webpages do not show information about any pool or store-unit that contains a / in the name. This is now fixed. A side-effect is that the history of any pool or store-unit containing a ^ in the name is lost.

Changelog 2.11.45..2.11.46

3a6fb84

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.46

311c77b

chimera: Alter statistics target for t_tags(itagid)

e180fa7

srm: Add safe-guard against invalid file ID in put requests

fecb34d

pool: Don’t consider failure to find migration job a bug

b1cde64

statistics: encode ‘/’ in filenames

ecdf23d

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Release 2.11.45

nfs

Pinning files is now a non-blocking operation. For files stored on tape, this should result in a more responsive system behaviour, avoiding NFS blocking in situations with many concurrent pin requests.

Changelog 2.11.44..2.11.45

9474044

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.45

8074557

adapt 3eab402754b814f681a14d296d808031b05f2737 to 2.11 branch code

9115ff4

nfs: use noitify instead of blocking sendAndWait when sending pin/unpin messages via touch “.(get)(<file_name>)(pin)” command

1970035

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Release 2.11.44

Changes affecting multiple services

Sometimes when a cell start up was interrupted an error message was logged as a bug. This is now fixed.

info-provider

The GLUE infomation provider supplies information about the dCache instance, which is important for the clients in WLCG area. Because in dCache different doors can have different roots, clients may need to adjust their path when accessing dCache through different doors. The info-provider is updated so that a new path root property is provided. This allows clients to modify paths, as necessary. Note that the SRM door already supports this translation when redirecting clients for transfers.

Changelog 2.11.43..2.11.44

9476747

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.44

6746bd6

info-provider: publish door root path

20e2d4d

cells: Suppress illegal state exception during initialization

a5c6109

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Release 2.11.43

pool

Revert Netty version back to v3.9.9. A previous release upgraded the version of Netty, but this appears to have introduced problems for some HTTP transfers where the pools run out of memory.

spacemanager

Spacemanager backs off when it encounters a problem writing to the database. Previously, if the problem was due to deadlocks then the two tasks involved are delayed by the same amount, which means it is possible that subsequent attempt will also deadlock. This release randomises the delay to reduce the likelihood of this problem occuring.

Changelog 2.11.42..2.11.43

ccf844b

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.43

3e6242d

pool: revert Netty back to v3.9.9

11b4e4b

spacemanager: Randomize backoff in case of transient errors

74e6bf0

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Release 2.11.42

xrootd

Fix dCache handling of open requests where uploads were considered downloads.

Changelog 2.11.41..2.11.42

5529bae

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.42

abc99ab

xrootd: Fix classification of uploads

51f0784

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Release 2.11.41

Changes affecting multiple services

Don’t log Error while reading from tunnel: java.nio.channels.AsynchronousCloseException when a domain shuts down.

Changelog 2.11.40..2.11.41

17822a3

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.41

f38624f

cells: Don’t log AsynchronousCloseException when tunnel closes

09ad53e

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Release 2.11.40

Changes affecting multiple services

Update the Spring, Milton, AspectJ, Jetty and DataNucleus-core libraries to latest version. All dCache services are affected.

pool

If a 3rd-party transfer fails then the pool may log and report incomplete information on why this happened. This release fixes this problem.

Changelog 2.11.39..2.11.40

94877da

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.40

9a50720

2.11: upgrade third party dependencies

e93efef

http–3rd-party: ensure IOException logged with toString

6267fa8

info: fix test to be less critical on timing

d60977f

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Release 2.11.39

nfs

Report EOF when client undertakes mixed read/write workload and attempts to read beyond currently written data.

poolmanager

Previous releases of dCache contained a bug where replicas generated by pool-to-pool copies failed to include the access latency and retention policy. While not directly affecting dCache operations, the result is that this information is no longer reliable.

spacemanager

Fix listing by PNFS-ID. Glob support is removed as it was non-functional.

Changelog 2.11.38..2.11.39

0f7347a

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e4aa4a2

poolmanager: Fix missing access latency and retention policy on pool to pool copy

8ddd796

spacemanager: Fix listing by pnfs id

4611bd1

nfs-proxy: keep track of written bytes

16445a0

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Release 2.11.38

Changes affecting multiple services

This release fixes a caching issue where changes to inode metadata (e.g., ownership or permissions) for / (the root directory of Chimera) are not visible until the service is restarted. This affects NFS doors and pnfsmanager service.

Changelog 2.11.37..2.11.38

310eb5d

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.38

447822a

chimera: Prevent filling of stat cache of root inode

c30f84c

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Release 2.11.37

Changes affecting multiple services

The chimera library, used by PnfsManager and NFS, contains possible race conditions that can lead to a NullPointerException. These are updated so that Chimera gives the correct error message under these circumstances.

The chimera library, used by the pnfsmanager and nfs services, contains a bug where two near-simultaneous attempts to delete a hitherto empty directory and write a file into the same directory will both succeed but leave an orphaned file: it exists in the t_dirs table but the parent does not exist in t_inodes table. This seems to be triggered when an ftp door fails with no write pool configured. This release fixes this problem.

pnfsmanager

Fix the error message (logged by the domain hosting pnfsmanager) if an attempt to finalise an SRM upload fails within pnfsmanager, or if an attempt to cancel an SRM upload fails within pnfsmanager.

webdav

Update to the latest version of milton.

xrootd

Update the alice-token plugin to allow the host name check to succeed on dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) machines.

Changelog 2.11.36..2.11.37

68608ee

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.37

77339bc

xrootd: Update alice token plugin to fix IPv6 compatibility

435f26c

chimera: Detect races in directory deletion

d2fdea0

chimera: Detect races during move

cf7c8c5

webdav: update to latest milton

ef188e5

PnfsManager: remove copy-n-paste error in error message

9c4315d

system-test: Fix grid-security settings

7b154e7

rpm: enforce SL5 compatibility when building RPM packages

5287e2b

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Release 2.11.36

Changes affecting multiple services

Eliminate race condition that can lead to a NullPointerException if a cell does not shut down cleanly.

The dcache script no longer checks whether the hostkey.pem file is in PKCS#8 format when dcache stop is invoked. Previously this could lead to orphaned dCache domains; for example, when upgrading dCache RPM.

admin

Fix potential IndexOutOfBoundsException should the response from the acm cell be malformed.

pnfsmanager

Contribution from Kurchatov: update the ChimeraCleaner to work-around the Java compiler’s inability to produce compatible Java 7 binaries when compiling with JDK 8. Note: sites using official dCache.org packages do NOT need to upgrade as a result of this change.

pool

Fix an intended pool-to-pool transfer optimisation: the receiving pool failed to reuse a delayed mover, should the pool-to-pool request timeout and be retried.

Fix pools so that they do not log NullPointerException if a pool receives a request to restore a file from an HSM to which it has no access.

Scripts

Fix how the writedata command in the chimera shell accepted data: the command-line argument was ignored if supplied and data was taken from stdin, if no argument was supplied then the command would fail with NullPointerException. Note: this command does NOT write data into dCache, but into Chimera.

srm

Fix the context information included when logging failures to write job information to the database.

Changelog 2.11.35..2.11.36

f00f303

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.36

9e1d0e2

srm-client, dcache: fixed passing incompatible arguments to functions

57e8e75

dcache: removed unecessary use of non-short-circuit logic

f311296

pool: Fix NPE when restoring file

8cf34a9

ChimeraCleaner: reallow to be compiled/run on different Java versions

ff3c1c9

scripts: do not check for PKCS#8 formatted hostkey.pem on shutdown

d56bf7a

chimera: Null value passed to non-null parameter in org.dcache.chimera.cli.Shell$WriteCommand.call()

cbe3e69

srm: Use correct logging context when saving jobs

23c82bb

cells: Fix NPE during shutdown

cfd0e9a

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Release 2.11.35

Changes affecting multiple services

When starting up, all doors (dcap, ftp, nfs, srm, webdav, xrootd) and pools advertise their presence to other dCache components before they are able to handle incoming requests. This can lead to subsequent queries timing out as the service finishes starting up. With this version of dCache, doors and pools only advertise their presence once they can handle incoming requests.

pool

This release updates how dCache configures the Berkeley DB when used for storing pool metadata. In addition, dCache will now no longer disable the pool when suffering a Berkeley DB-related problem if the Berkeley DB environment is still valid. Combined, these two changed should greatly reduce the occurances of pools disabling themselves when under heavy IO load.

Changelog 2.11.34..2.11.35

a10d104

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.35

3b3ba40

pool: Refine Berkeley DB failure handling

1ed3b48

Don’t announce cells to other services until they have started

aa64225

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Release 2.11.34

Changes affecting multiple services

The ftp, webdav and xrootd doors will delete the target file if an upload was unsuccessful. The copy manager (part of the transfermanagers service) has a similar behaviour if an internal copy is unsuccessful. If this delete was unsuccessful (e.g., the client deleted the file itself) previous dCache versions would log this at ERROR level. With this dCache version, such occurrences are logged at DEBUG level.

nfs

Fix race condition that can occur when a pool is first accepting pNFS transfers if multiple requests are processed almost simultaneously.

webdav

The webdav door has separate configuration allowing the admin to configure the door-local path that contains site-local files and the URI prefix to access those files. Earlier versions of dCache mistakenly used the former for the latter, which this release fixes.

Changelog 2.11.33..2.11.34

96732e6

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.34

7472ae6

Revert “webdav: Add robots.txt”

ded846d

webdav: Respect webdav.static-content.uri property

f083d2f

doors: Do not log failure to delete absent files on upload failures:

8349731

nfs4: fix race in request processing

c61fb66

webdav: Add robots.txt

46c3745

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Release 2.11.33

Changes affecting multiple services

In earlier versions of dCache, the code-base would always establish a node’s FQDN through a DNS query on start-up. For some services and for dCache scripts (for example, the chimera script), this information is not used. With this release, dCache only makes the DNS query when it is necessary, so domains hosting services that do not need this information and scripts will start faster.

dcap

Doors describe their root path to SRM so it can calculate appropriate TURLs. Previous versions of dCache had dcap doors register incorrect paths, which this release fixes.

dCache configuration allows an admin to control if certain ciphers are allowed. In particular, this allows sites to remove support for problematic ciphers or hashing algorithms. This release fixes a problem where the GSI-dcap door failed to honour such settings.

pool

The replica-manager periodically requests a list of file replicas that a pool is hosting. In previous versions of dCache, if the pool finds a broken file then an error is returned to replica-manager. The replica-manager then considered the entire pool as being offline. With this version od dCache, such errors are logged on the pool. The replica-manager will not consider the pool as hosting that file’s data, but will otherwise consider the pool online.

The different HSM operations (flush, stage and remove) have internal timeouts after which the pool considers the request as failed. In previous versions of dCache, the default pool setup includes a four hour timeout for flush and stage but neglected to set a default for delete. This omission caused delete operations to time-out very quickly. With this release, delete operations also have a default of four hours.

Fix the Ruby implementation of the hsmcp script (hsmcp.rb) so it can parse new command-line arguments that include concurrency options.

The concurrency for active HSM operations is configurable and may be adjusted dynamically. In earlier versions of dCache, decreasing the concurrency only became effective when that operation started to idle. This has been fixed so the limits start to have an effect as operations complete.

Each movers can have one of three priority (LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH) and a selection discipline (FIFO or LIFO). The documented behaviour was for queue with names that start with - have LIFO discipline and those that start with any other character have FIFO discipline. Due to a bug, the order was wrong, with the priorities inverted and the two disciplines swapped, so LOW priority movers were started before MEDIUM level and MEDIUM were started before HIGH. This release fixes this so HIGH priority movers are selected preferentially over MEDIUM and, MEDIUM priority movers are chosen over LOW priority; however, it was decided to keep the disciplines as in previous versions and updated the documentation accordingly. There are several reasons for this: first, there is no difference between LIFO and FIFO when movers are not queued; second, neither discipline will help if the pool is persistently overloaded; third, LIFO discipline (although unfair) is documented as providing a better overall throughput during a time-limited overload; fourth, by default dCache has been running with LIFO discipline since v1.9.11 (released 2011–01–13) without any apparent problems.

HTTP third-party transfers report back if there was a problem verifying that the transfer was successful. One possible problem is that the remote server failed to supply checksum information. Reporting of such situations is now fixed.

webdav

In previous versions of dCache, should a user cancel a transfer shortly after a mover is created then there was a risk that the mover is abandoned. This is fixed with this release.

xrootd

In earlier versions of dCache, if the xrootd door times out for a write request while waiting for the mover to send the redirection information then the mover is abandoned. This is fixed with this release.

Changelog 2.11.32..2.11.33

3073f9f

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.33

194a072

hsmcp: update to match new HSM interface.

cbd0d90

(2.11) old replica manager: prevent pool being listed as offline when there are files with corrupt metadata

faf8dd4

webdav: Kill abandoned movers

bd8ed51

xrootd: Kill mover on aborted write

17aac10

pool: Fix transfer prioritization

719fe09

pool: Add nearline storage default timeouts

4c1fc64

pool: Let script nearline storage provider scale down when lowering limits

2af9726

dcap: Fix broken argument parsing

903ecd2

Fix build and startup regression

1a6ab63

dcap: Fix socket factory argument parsing

519ad35

pool: Fix error reporting in remote HTTP mover

d243819

prepare for next development iteration

Release 2.11.32

srm

Fix security vulnerability in srm EGI-SVG–2015–9495 (restricted).

Release 2.11.31

Changes affecting multiple services

In many cases, poolmanager would timeout after ten seconds when asked which pool to use for a transfer. This behaviour was not intended. The consequence of this bug is protocol specific: for some protocols, the door retries internally while other doors propagate this error to the client. Another consequence was the increased risk of the domain hosting poolmanager running out of memory, particularly when staging files. This release fixes the underlying problem. It is recommended that all doors be upgraded.

Fix a performance regression when deleting directories; the fix affects the pnfsmanager and nfs services.

spacemanager

Fix bug that can result in leaked entries in space-manager file management from failed uploads. The problem is most likely triggered when a client cancels an FTP upload at the same time as the correponding SRM upload request expires. The problem may also be triggered by communication failure with PnfsManager and the user deleting the failed upload before the pool retries.

srm

Fix support for credential delegation if the credential’s certificate is sent over multiple SSL frames. This most likely happens when the certificate exceeds the maximum frame size.

Changelog 2.11.30..2.11.31

8db6850

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.31

774e283

spacemanager: Fix race condition leading to leaked reservation entries

23cd4ac

chimera: Resolve performance regression in directory deletion

2667ae5

doors: Fix pool selection timeout handling

cc588cf

Fix timeout math to avoid overflow

1ea1a31

srm: Fix credential delegation

a1b6dd1

Preparing for next release cycle

Release 2.11.30

ftp

Fix security vulnerability in gsi and kerberos authenticated ftp.

Release 2.11.29

Changes affecting multiple services

The System cell of each domain contains a version command that allows discovery of which dCache version is running. This release fixes this command. Note: there is no problem with the dcache script’s version command.

nfs

The NFS protocol provides access to additional infomation through dot commands. This release fixes the nameof and pathof commands for non-ASCII filenames.

pnfsmanager

Fix that dCache respects the setgid bit on a parent directory when the user uploads a file via the SRM protocol. Important: the srm node should be updated at the same time.

srm

Enforce authorisation of requests to finalise or cancel an upload. When initiating an upload, the user’s uid and primary gid are taken as the request owner-uid and owner-gid respectively. Only users that have the same uid as the request’s owner-uid or are a member of the request’s owner-gid are allowed to cancel or finalise an upload. Important: the srm must be updated if the pnfsmanager is updated.

webadmin

This release fixes a bug with the periodic building of billing plots. Previously, if the billing service took too long to reply then there would be no further updates to the billing plots.

Changelog 2.11.28..2.11.29

5b60c47

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.29

e80fad6

rpm: remove “commented out” macros lines from spec file

c68d33d

chimera: fix nameof and pathof for paths containing unicode

ec9e87f

chimera: Let SRM respect setgid on upload

a784ba4

srm: Add authorization to put done and abort requests

daaacd0

module: cells

f37db11

(2.11) dcache-webadmin: add TimeoutCacheException to catch clause in billing service

22c54d3

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Release 2.11.28

Changes affecting multiple services

Specifying the DISABLE_BROKEN_DH flag in the dcache.authn.ciphers configuration property disables all Diffie-Hellman ciphers if Java 7 is used; if dCache is run with Java 8 then this flag has no effect. Disabling DH ciphers is necessary because Java 7 contains a broken implementation of Diffie-Hellman, which was fixed with the release of Java 7 update 51. This dCache release updates the behaviour of the DISABLE_BROKEN_DH flag to allow Diffie-Hellman ciphers if dCache is run within Java 7 update 51 or later.

The description of the DISABLE_EC and DISABLE_RC4 flags have been expanded and updated.

infoprovider

An earlier patch added support for publishing a single dCache instance with multiple SRM endpoints. This provided incompatible with sites that use a DNS alias for their official SRM endpoint, so that change is reverted with this release. Support for publishing multiple SRM endpoints is available with dCache v2.13.

nfs

Add support for the TEST_STATEID and FREE_STATEID RPC methods. These are used by the Linux kernel during recovery procedure. The previous lack of support for these methods can lead to the leaking of stateids, which can lead to NFS4ERR_RESOURCE : Too many states being logged.

pool

Improve the error message (logged by the pool and in billing) should the FTP mover fail to connect to the client.

This release updates the error the pool reports to an NFS client when the client attempts to read or write and the pool cannot find the mover. This situation is mostly likely caused by restarting the pool. When it receives the modified response, the client will fall back to using proxy-IO. This allows NFS clients that were reading a file to survive a pool restart.

Changelog 2.11.27..2.11.28

77e6e79

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.28

bdff7c7

Fix broken commit daeb9ed9

daeb9ed

pool: fix ftp mover to provide better logging when failing to connect

44f1d46

crypto: refine handling of broken ciphers

22a8c11

Revert “infoprovider: remove single SRM instance limitation”

a492eb4

libs: update to nfs4j–0.9.7

24c9981

pool: report IO error if we cant find NFS mover

f8b4dd5

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Release 2.11.27

Changes affecting multiple services

The event logger records when messages are received and sent by cells. Some cell messages send string commands; if so, the log entry contains that string. In previous releases, such string commands were mistakenly double-escaped. This is fixed with this release.

ftp

Fix debug output to include the flavour of GSS implementation; for example, GssFtpDoorV1::secure_reply: going to authorize using k5

pnfsmanager

When a user attempts to delete a symbolic link using a non-NFS door, previous versions of dCache would resolve the symbolic link to determine whether the user is allowed to delete the symblic link: only if the user is allowed to delete the symblic link’s target would the symbolic link be removed. With this release, the check verifies if the user is allowed to delete the symbolic link instead.

pool

This release updates the JVM command-line to make it explicit that compressed object references are in use. This allows the Berkeley DB library to calculate a more accurate cache size, potentially improving pool performance.

In previuos releases, any attempt is made to query a pool’s info (e.g., via the admin interface) while the pool is initialising will block until the initialisation has completed. This has a knock-on effect of blocking all subsequent messages. With this release, requesting information about a pool will not block during initialisation.

Fix high memory usage during pool initialisation if pool has any precious files.

xrootd

Earlier releases will record a stack-trace if xrootd recieves a malformed request. This is now fixed.

Changelog 2.11.26..2.11.27

8642172

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.27

d517382

cell: Don’t quote string command in event logger

c671209

pool: Explicitly enable compressed oops to calculate correct cache size

d1b465e

pool: Fix locking bug causing high memory usage during pool initialization

f0cdbb4

chimera: Fix path resolution on delete

312606d

xrootd: Fix ‘xrootd logs stack-trace on malformed request’

d6cb4fc

move execution of the superclass method before any concrete class initializations

f6042b8

pool: do not list a repository during initialization

dc93f7e

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Release 2.11.26

pool

The Berkeley DB based metadata storage can sometimes fail. Should this happen, the pool must be restarted. In previously releases, such problems were logged with an unclear message and a stack-trace; the pool would continue to operate but would fail all subsequent transfers; nothing made it clear the pool must be restarted. With this release, such Berkeley DB problems will be logged with a concise error message and the pool will be disable, making the restart requirement explicit.

Fix regression in the migration module that could caused more replicas to be created than was desired and could cause replication to fail with a No targets error message.

srm

In previous versions of dCache, the ls operation in SRM occationally returned incomplete or inconsistent results. This is now fixed.

Changelog 2.11.25..2.11.26

e3f3d89

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.26

e5c0b9a

pool: Fix race condition in migration module

51b771e

srm: fix race condition in ls response

cb125c4

pool: Disable pool on meta data failures

9839cee

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Release 2.11.25

Changes affecting multiple services

In previous releases, dCache required a layout file be present, even if that file was empty. This has two negative impacts: the dcache stop (typically invoked automatically when updating a package) would not work, nodes where only scripts (e.g., info-provider) are used would require unecessary configuration. With this release, a missing file generates a warning but does not prevent the dcache stop command or scripts from working. This warning may be suppressed by setting dcache.layout.uri to an empty string.

httpd

The tape related queues (flush and restore) have no maximum limit, yet both the old web information and new webadmin show a dummy maximum value for these queues. This meaningless maximum value is no longer shown.

info

The info service collects information about, amongst other things, the interface(s) a door listens on. This is made available in different formats. The URL-formatted version, used by info-provider, always used an IP address even when a name was known. This is now fixed.

infoprovider

It is possible to run multiple SRM endpoints in dCache, provided certain restrictions are upheld. With this release, the info-provider publishes multiple SRM endpoints correctly.

nfs

Some shells, when attempt to overwrite a tag’s content using NFS, do so in a way that Chimera previously failed to support. This failure was reported back to the user as a remote I/O error. This release fixes this problem.

pool

Reduce latency when a pool processes a request to start a read mover. This improves dCache responsiveness when a client opens a file for reading.

The NFS mover uses the file’s size when processing read and write requests. For read operations, the file size cannot change. This release takes advantage of this to reduce the load on the underlying filesystem.

poolmanager

Poolmanager may attempt to create additional copies of a file, only to discover such attempts fail because of other constraints. This leads to the log file containing entries like P2P denied: already too many copies and P2P denied: No pool candidates available/configured/left for p2p or file already everywhere. With this release, such entries are logged at info level: they no longer appear in the log file, but are available via the poolmanager’s pinboard.

webdav

Fix proxied uploads when the client does not send the file size, either directly or via SRM; in particular, this fixes compatibility with ARC.

Changelog 2.11.24..2.11.25

917be16

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.25

94e4959

systemtest: fix install command in credentials command

9448a43

infoprovider: remove single SRM instance limitation

cbd26fe

info: fix url-name to publish hostname

1b9a8fb

chimera: throw FileExistChimeraException if tag already exists

67b1fac

(2.11) webadmin: do not display numerical value for max restores or stores

8efb237

boot: Don’t fail on missing layout file

56a092c

httpd: Do now show maximum for restore and flush queues

83942e5

poolmanager: Reduce log level of p2p denial

d02a1c9

webdav: Fix proxied upload with chunked encoding

5f856dd

pool: simplify duplicate request handling

90255bc

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f0a1de3

pool: reduce load on back-end file system

Release 2.11.24

Changes affecting multiple services

A new security configuration option allows the dCache admin to ban all SSL/TLS ciphers that use the RC4 cipher. RFC–7465 states services MUST NOT accept an RC4-based cipher suite. Adding the DISABLE_RC4 option to the dcache.authn.ciphers makes dCache compliant with RFC–7465. This option is not enabled by default to avoid possible regression with clients that require the RC4 cipher. This property affects dcap (with GSI), ftp (with GSI), srm, webadmin, webdav (with SSL/TLS), xrootd (GSI plugin) services.

pnfsmanager

Fixed ACL inheritance when uploading data through SRM. In earlier versions of dCache, a file uploaded through SRM failed to inherit any inheritable ACEs from the parent directory.

This release brings some modest performance improvements when creating upload directories. This improvement is available automatically only to sites that have not yet upgraded to 2.10 (or later). Sites already running 2.10 or later can enjoy the same improvements by deleting the upload directory (/upload by default) to allow dCache to recreate it. Important: deleting the upload directory will fail any current SRM uploads; it is recommended to do this during down-time.

pool

The pool’s migration module may be invoked with different pool selection modes: the -select option. The random selection option (-select=random) excludes pools that are full, but mistakenly considers replicas that could be deleted (i.e., non-sticky cached replicas) as part of the used space; this treats a pool as full even when the pool has removable files. With this release, pools that are full but contain some cached files are potential targets for random pool selection.

In earlier releases of dCache, the save command failed to record the stage, flush and remove timeouts for nearline storage (rh set timeout, st set timeout, rm set timeout respectively). This is now fixed.

This release introduces the pool.mover.nfs.port.min and pool.mover.nfs.port.max configuration properties. Previously, pools listened on a random port between dcache.net.lan.port.min and dcache.net.lan.port.max; the two new configuration properties take the two dcache... configuration properties as default values. Once the pool is listening on a particular port, it will try to listen on the same port after restarting. If this proves impossible, another port is selected and will be used subsequently. Important: using the same port is important as the pool listening on another TCP port can trigger high load on the client machine.

Scripts

Fix JAR selection when a short-lived java process is started. This is typically done when using one of the scripts.

spacemanager

Fix writing into a reservation when using a protocol that does not provide a username or FQAN; for example, when writing into dCache using NFS and with the WriteToken directory tag set. Previously writing would fail with a Message processing failed: null group message.

srm

The srm service can generate RemoteException stack traces when dCache is behaving correctly. These are now logged at debug level and without a stack trace.

Changelog 2.11.23..2.11.24

0b576ed

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.24

35c3355

chimera: Fix merge conflict and Java 7 compatibility

404da75

pool: introduce unique port number for nfs mover

81722be

pool: dedicated port range for nfs

54c3c4f

pool: Store nearline storage timeouts to pool setup file

3f52cb3

pnfsmanager: Create base upload directories without tags and acls

d8062ec

pnfsmanager: Inherit ACLs on upload with SRM

178ad45

chimera: Add ACL insert triggers for HSQLDB

f3cbbb7

Fix limited class path generation

bbea900

pool: Let random pool selection select pools with removable files

64fe463

crypto: allow banning of RC4 cipher suites

71c7042

spacemanager: Allow unowned files in reservations

f760652

srm: Don’t log erroneous stack trace

0704371

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Release 2.11.23

Changes affecting multiple services

This release upgrades the BouncyCastle version from v1.45 to v1.46. The main motivation is to improve concurrency, so obtaining better performance on multi-core machines. The update affects the xacml and voms plugins to gPlazma and any door configured to use (or that always uses) GSI authentication: dcap, ftp and srm. There is no cross-dependency; domains hosting these service may be updated independently.

pnfsmanager

Fix possible leaked upload directory if PnfsManager takes too long to create the upload directory.

scripts

The chimera script provides both an interactive shell and the ability to run a Chimera operation as a single command-line invocation. This release fixes an problem where the single Chimera operation fails to provide the output if it is too short.

srm

If a client releases a reservation using the SRM protocol while another SRM client is querying for information about that reservation then there is a risk that the reservation will appear to exist for some 30 seconds, despite the reservation being successfully released. This release fixes this problem.

Changelog 2.11.22..2.11.23

4722ed6

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.23

ebe7b56

srm: Fix cache invalidation of space meta data

151cba5

libs: Update to voms-api-java 2.0.10.1

7e1ba45

libs: use bouncycastle–1.46

a9cf314

libs: update jglobus to 2.0.6.9d

b9de736

chimera: Fix single command invocation of chimera utility

37a32aa

pnfsmanager: Resolve upload directory leak caused by missing reply flag

7f76d76

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Release 2.11.22

Changes affecting multiple services

dCache uses a standard format to monitor the performance of various components: in the srm door to record how quickly SRM requests are processed (print srm counters command), in the nfs door and pool to monitor NFS performance (stats and nfs stats commands, respectively), the generic cell message monitoring (monitoring info command), and pnfsmanager service (the “Statistics” section in info). This release fixes a rounding error that prevents these statistics from including long-lived requests.

pinmanager

The pinmanager service has the ls command that allows the admin to limit the results to a specific pin or all pins against some PNFS-ID. This release fixes listing by pin id.

pnfsmanager

With this release, the path of automatically generated upload directories has changed slightly to improve SRM upload performance. Previously, these generated paths had the form <upload>/<unique-ID>, where <upload> is the value of the dcache.upload-directory configuration property (/upload by default) and <unique-ID> is some unique value (a UUID). With this release, these directories have the form <upload>/<processor-ID>/<unique-ID>, where <processor-ID> is some small integer value. Standard-conforming clients are unaffect by this change and no action are needed by the admin from this change.

Update pnfsmanager to avoid creating temporary directories if the srm has already discarded the request. This helps dCache recover more quickly when it is overloaded from SRM uploads.

pool

Fixed pool’s erroneous interpretation of the HSM timeout (4 hours, by default) as being from when a staging request was initially received, rather than from when it started processing the request (by starting the HSM script or via the new plug-in mechanism).

This release fixes how a pool’s invokates the HSM script. Previously, the pool mistakely omitted the additional arguments that an admin may configure the pool to include.

replicamanager

This release fixes the Can't clear the tables error reported when starting replicamanager service with certain PosgreSQL versions.

spacemanager

Fix the update space admin command so it can remove any ownership from a reservation. The reservation’s owner is allowed to release the reservation via the SRM protocol. If the reservation has no owner, it may only be released through the admin interface.

srm

The info admin command provides details about the srm service, including information specifically about SRM activity that can be processed synchronously or asynchronously: get, put, reserve-space, ls, and bring-onling. This information describes how many requests are in each of the possible states, one of which is Waiting for CPU. This release fixes the output of the info command to show the correct Waiting for CPU values.

This release drastically improve srm service performance when there are a large number (e.g., thousands) of queued requests; for example, this brings considerable improve for bulk bring-online requests.

This release also brings improved performance when the SRM has only a few queued requests; more specifically, when the number of queued requests is less than or equal the number of currently unoccupied max-inprogress slots. For example, if dCache is not processing any GET requests then the first srm.request.get.max-inprogress GET requests are processed more quickly.

Fix the srm service switching from synchronous to asynchronous processing when processing a bulk-requests with many files; in earlier releases, such large requests could prevent a request from falling back to asynchronous processing.

This release fixes the srm service so it cancels corresponding pinmanager requests when an SRM client aborts a bring-online request.

Changelog 2.11.21..2.11.22

4c59d41

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.22

9c39979

(2.11) replica manager: fix table truncation

e4c93a1

common: Fix division by zero regression in gauges

330e50c

common: Fix rounding error in request gauge

1f7c373

pnfsmanager: Discard upload path creation request on TTL expiration

f563128

pnfsmanager: Use per-thread upload directory to reduce lock contention

7f0e94d

srm: Optimize scheduler performance

1fddcc2

srm: Further optimize SRM scheduler

00bf725

srm: Abort pinning when cancelling bring-online requests

cdb1c45

system-test: Enable MVCC and logging for HSQLDB

6a9e497

srm: Fix sync to async mode timeout

294677c

pinmanager: Fix listing by id

81e5207

pool: Add HSM options to hsm script remove callout

db48f74

srm: Fix queue size reporting

bbda848

pool: Fix timeout behavior of HSM requests

7c20abd

spacemanager: Allow spaces to become unowned

5974ee0

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Release 2.11.21

alarms

Update output of the predefined ls admin command.

nfs

There was an error in how ACLs were interpreted by the nfs door where multiple ACEs for the same user were compacted ignoring the flags. With this release, ACEs against the same user but with different flags are honoured.

Changelog 2.11.20..2.11.21

6b70d06

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.21

64dd236

cli: remove stray separator in predefined alarms printout

092e99d

libs: update to nfs4j–0.9.6

fc05e23

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Release 2.11.20

Changes affecting multiple services

This release fixes an NFS problem triggered when a second process opens a file that is already opened by another process on the same computer. The NFS specification allows the second open to reuse the “layout” (== mover) from the first open. With this release, the door will detect this and reuse the existing mover; the mover is updated to allow this. The nfs door and all pools accessible via the NFS protocol must be updated to this release or newer.

dcap

No longer log a stack-trace when transfering a file if the client is expected to connect to the pool (the “active client mode” option; the -A in the dccp command) and the pool is shutdown before the client connects.

srm

Some SRM requests support bulk requests, where multiple SURLs are processed in the same fashion. The assumption was that the SURLs in a bulk request are distinct. Bulkd requests have been observed that violate this assumption: a request with a SURL appears more than once. This causes problems when staging files from tape. With this release, a SURL that appears multiple times in a request is processed exactly once.

Changelog 2.11.19..2.11.20

ad3b0c0

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.20

85217e0

dcap: fix stack-trace when shutting down pool waiting for connection

4186cfd

system-test: add regenerated host and user credentials

d321114

srm: Remove duplicate SURLs in bringonline and get requests

40d4d2a

system-test: add missing dCache disposible CA certificate

5631940

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dbd0fb4

nfs: share mover for the same client

ae78db5

nfs: use NFSv4MoverHandler instead of Map in embedded NFS server

Release 2.11.19

Changes affecting multiple services

In previous versions of dCache deleting a directory with the last reference to a tag did not remove that tag. With the introduction of upload directories this problem became acute, as many such directories are created and deleted. With this release, deleting the directory with a tag’s last reference is very likely (but not guaranteed) to remove that tag’s inode. Further information about this will be made available via user-forum. The update affects both the nfs door and pnfsmanager; however, most sites will see the most benefit from updating pnfsmanager. Important #1 an updated nfs door will wait for database changes that updating pnfsmanager will enact. Important #2 the database changes enacted by pnfsmanager can take awhile (an hour or so for large dCache instances) as the change adds an index to the t_inodes database table.

The “standard” Linux flag to mark an ACE as inherit-only is i, yet previous versions of dCache accepted only ‘o’ as the inherit-only flag. With this release, both o and i are accepted. The chimera shell, pnfsmanager and nfs door are affected; nodes hosting these services and scripts may be updated independently.

admin

Restore compatibility with loginbroker information for pcells; in particular, the problem affected information provided by the srm door.

dcap

Previously the dcap door provided the dcap client with the wrong errno (error number) should the client attempt to operate on a nonexisting file or directory: EIO was returned instead of ENOENT. This is now fixed.

pool

The file integrety checking (single file, entire pool one-off check and background checking) produced ambiguous output; for example, not being able to scan a file because it is still being uploaded counted towards an “error” count, but no corresponding log message is included. With this release, the output is less ambiguous and distinguishes between corruption, temporary and more permanent problems.

replicamanager

Added an admin command to query pool-manager for an updated list of pools that are a member of the resilient pool group. This allows adjustments to the set of pools participating in replication without restarting the replicamanager service.

Changelog 2.11.18..2.11.19

65145d6

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.19

0613e1f

replicamanager: add an admin command to re-fetch resilient pool group

855206c

acl: fix compatibility with linux ace

4969347

chimera: Delete unreferences tag inodes

d620902

admin: Restore pcells compatibility with loginrbroker

533655e

pool: update scrubber messages to be less ambigous

ea03937

dcap: fileAttributesNotAvailable must set pass ENOENT to the client

6604756

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Release 2.11.18

Changes affecting multiple services

In prior versions of dCache, the path field that billing logs for transfers contained the actual transfer path; i.e., for SRM-initiated uploads this was the auto-generated path from the TURL and not the user-supplied path from the SURL. This proved confusing so, with this release, the path field now has the user-supplied path (i.e., from the SURL). An additional field (transferPath) has the transfer path. While this is not logged by default, billing configuration (the billing.text.format.mover-info-message and similar properties) may be updated to include it. All doors used by srm clients and the billing service should be updated.

dcap

This version of dCache uses the connected socket when discovering the IP address of the client for “channel binding”, rather than a constant value. This is important for dual-stack machines (with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses) that host dcap doors with either gsi- or kerberos-based authentication.

pool

Fix parsing of certain HSM-related error messages that would previously have failed with an index out of bounds error.

spacemanager

In earlier versions of dCache, if a file is deleted while being uploaded the space-manager will consider the transfer as successful (and so using some of the reservation’s capacity) whereas the pool would delete the file immediately after the upload is complete. Such “leaks” results in a reservation being reported as having more used capacity and less free capacity than it should.

srm

The srm service maintains a counter of the number of requests for each different type. With earlier versions of dCache, if the srm encounters jobs that have timed out while the service was no running, these counters became inaccurate. This is now fixed.

When an srm request times out, dCache may need to take some action to “clean up”; for example, removing the upload directory. If srm is configured to discard all requests on start-up these cleanup operations did not happen. This is fixed with this release. As a consequence, startup times will be longer.

If srm.persistence.enable.store-transient-state is set to false (the default value) then transfer requests do not survive an srm service restart if the limit on concurrent transfers prevented handing out the TURLs. With this release, such requests survive an srm restart.

Previously, if srm.persistence.enable.store-transient-state is set to false (as is the default) then information needed to clean up a job might not be stored in the database. If, after restarting the srm, the job times out or is aborted then there is insufficient information to clean up, resulting in upload directories not being cleaned, pins (for bring-online requests) not being cleared, copy requests not being cancelled and lifetime extensions being lost. These problems are fixed with this release.

Changelog 2.11.16..2.11.18

e9f5d41

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.18

f702e5f

all: Fix several NPEs when submitting billing messages

4afd8db

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

8ae5f7b

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.17

0b38d78

srm: Fix scheduler counter initialization on restart

d9f7517

doors: Log real path in billing

0dc26ff

srm: Allow the SRM to take action upon cleaned requests

9439e9a

srm: Force save jobs when adding information needed for cancellation

89be30a

srm: Force save when job becomes RQUEUED

4cca91b

pools: fix parsing error in HsmRunSystem

9d643e2

javatunnel: use connected socket to discover local inet address

47d1a4b

spacemanager: Fix race condition leading to leaked files

87c1c6c

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Release 2.11.16

Changes affecting multiple services

When dCache suffers a sufficiently high inrush of requests that a cell’s request queue is exhausted, new requests to that cell are rejected. While overall dCache handles this situation correctly (degrading gracefully), the internal message counting and event logging were not updated correctly. This is now fixed.

Fix a bug that triggers a NullPointerException in webadmin. Although the problem is logged in webadmin, the cause is in the doors supplying the information. Therefore, the dcap and ftp doors are to be updated.

When publishing an IPv6 interface, do not include the zone information. Zone information is an extension to IPv6, which appends a ‘%’ plus some opaque identifier to the regular address. Not all clients understand this extension and reject the address as invalid. As zone information is not useful anyway, with this release zones are no longer published. This update is for all doors.

Fix possible NullPointerException in httpd and admin services.

In most cases dCache will publish door URLs with a hostname; if the address cannot be resolved then the address is used instead. Previously IPv6 addresses were written incorrectly: without the square brackets. This is now fixed if the info service and the info-provider scripts are updated.

admin

Fix division-by-zero error when the SSH client reports zero width or height. This happens forcing allocation of a pseudo TTY without having a real TTY (see the -t option to OpenSSH client).

pinmanager

Fix pinmanager so it does not log a stack-trace if it failed to fetch fresh pool status information from poolmanager while unpinning a file.

pool

Previously, the metadata reconstruction for files where the upload was not completed and written without the client specifying a retention policy would trigger a stack-trace java.lang.IllegalStateException: Attribute is not defined: RETENTION_POLICY. This is now fixed.

spacemanager

A number of sites have reported problems with the database resolving deadlocks. While such reports are expected and dCache behaves correctly when they happen, this release should reduce the likelihood of them appearing.

Changelog 2.11.15..2.11.16

6f73669

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.16

d25d430

info/info-provider: publish valid IPv6 addresses

38f902c

loginbroker: strip off zone off published interface name

23c8f0f

admin: Avoid division by zero when the client reports a zero sized terminal

9cbe06f

spacemanager: Optimize space record deletion

23c4fe0

dcache: Make cell communication use the correct timeout

c5416a2

httpd,admin: Fix NPE in transfer collectors

f01e67c

doors: Fix race condition that causes NPE in webadmin

7b9f5f0

cells: Fix event queue counting bug

21d1f04

pinmanager: Don’t log stack trace when unable to fetch pool monitor

c9360d0

pool: Fix meta data reconstruction

b000b90

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Release 2.11.15

Changes affecting multiple services

Avoid potential message loop when both sender and receipient domains are restarted while the message is in-flight.

admin

pcells distinguishes between a failure to send a message to a cell and that cell taking too long to respond. Support for that distinction was lost with 2.10; with this release, it is restored.

The tab-completion feature of admin parses the help-hint to discover what expansions are available. This has been updated to support more commands.

httpd

Fix compatibility with pcells. This requires a corresponding update to pcells.

Changelog 2.11.14..2.11.15

5ed59c4

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.15

19d31f6

admin: Fix command completion

6046451

admin: Propagate NoRouteToCellException to pcells

a549cd7

cells: Restore CellExceptionMessage encoding

90c9976

httpd: Fix pcells compatibility

c975871

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Release 2.11.14

admin

Restore support for pcells to gracefully handle timeouts.

Restore compatibility for pcells when querying space-manager.

cleaner

Fix bug reported as java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.String;.

nfs

Provide a better cache of the FsStat information. Amongst other things, this improves the responsiveness of the df command.

pool

Fix pool reconstruction. If, on startup, the pool detects it is in an inconsistent state it will attempt to recover from that. With this release, this should work.

srm

Update SRM default property values. From various reports, it is clear that the current default values are not ideal for many sites. The following properties are adjusted:

• srm.limits.jetty-connector.backlog increased to support bursts of activity; a larger value may be appropriate but not available due to default Linux configuration.

• srm.request.threads reduced as processing is asynchronous.

• srm.request.ls.threads change default to be srm.request.ls.max-in-progress as ls requests are blocking.

• srm.request.max-requests increased to satisfy user-demand; needed as clients typically request more concurrent TURLs that they make concurrent requests.

• srm.request.max-transfers increased to same value as srm.request.max-requests. This way (by default) dCache never blocks requests pending a client returning a TURL.

• srm.persistence.remove-expired-period increased to 10 minutes to reduce stress on the database.

• srm.service.pnfsmanager.timeout decrease to two minutes as PnfsManager should respond within that time and clients will likely disconnect if they don’t hear a response within that time.

• srm.service.spacemanager.timeout decrease to 30 seconds as the service should respond quickly.

• srm.protocols.disallowed.get and srm.protocols.disallowed.put now include file protocol by default.

• srm.protocols.loginbroker.timeout decrease to 20 seconds as this is a very light-weight service.

Support catching and logging some bugs that previously would be silently ignored.

Fix a ConcurrentModificationException caused when SRM processes two requests close tegether.

Changelog 2.11.13..2.11.14

fed09f8

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.14

877a5ae

admin: Restore pcells compatibility

3624857

srm: log more SRM bugs

d16a878

admin: Restore timeout semantics for pcells compatibility

d6d5d46

cleaner: Fix class cast exception

3b9b54b

srm: Use more sensible default values

0177d04

srm: Fix ConcurrentModificationException in Axis

9469e73

pool: Fix pool entry reconstruction

cf51c39

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a03e827

chimera: do not maintain time-based cached value of FsStat

Release 2.11.13

Changes affecting multiple services

This release improves the quality of information recorded when logging problems and fixing synchronization of lease time. This affects the nfs door and pools.

pool

When a client reads a file, the pool reads blocks of data from the local filesystem. When reading such a block, the pool could receive fewer bytes than requested. Previously, the pool assumed that this only happens when the end-of-file is reached; however, this is not guaranteed. Should this assumption be violated then the data sent to the client will be corrupt. In practise, the pool’s assumption is true for Linux and local filesystems; however, the code has been updated to remove this theoretical cause of corruption.

Fix a problem where a door can trigger the pool to post-process a file many times. Each trigger starts a new thread, resulting in very large system load.

Fix that, during startup, the pool would fail when recovering a broken file that has access-latency and retention-policy determined by spacemanager.

Extend the nearline SPI so it provides plugins with the file’s path and provides an easier way of report errors.

spacemanager

Improve the logging and handling of transitory errors.

Changelog 2.11.12..2.11.13

fe10021

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.13

a43d7a0

pool: Fix and align pool meta data recovery with current pnfs manager

53aecd7

pool: ignore duplicated mover kill requests

f6f4ae3

spacemanager: Making logging and handling of transient errors more robust

879fd51

pool: Fix read corruption in HTTP mover

842977f

pool: Extend nearline storage SPI with path and custom error codes

e0a10bd

libs: update to nfs4j–0.9.5

3564478

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Release 2.11.12

Changes affecting multiple services

If a bug is found in dCache then it should be logged. For the older admin commands, an uninformative message was logged.

The LocationManager service is started automatically in the broker domain (typically dCacheDomain). This answers requests from other domains with instructions on how to connect to the dCache cluster (typically a star topology, other domains connecting to the dCacheDomain). With this release, the FQDN is sent rather than the hostname name. The node hosting the broker domain should be updated.

Previously, if a client attempts to write a file with Access Latency and Retention Policy that conflicts with the selected reservation a stack-trace was logged. This is now fixed: both the FTP door and spacemanager should be updated.

Previously, if a bug was discovered when starting up a service dCache would abort starting up with a non-informative log message. Now, the stack-trace is logged.

dcap

Fix a typo that resulted in the GSI-based and auth-based dcaps listening on the wrong port by default.

nfs

Log abandoned movers with the corresponding stateid.

pnfsmanager

When writing into dCache with SRM, the Access Latency (AL) and Retential Policy (RP) may be specified or omitted. Additionally, the client may specify a space reservation into which the file should be written. If the client specifies both, they must match.

In dCache, there are three mechanisms to support a client that specifies neither AL/RP nor space reservation: the directory can have AccessLatency and RetentialPolicy tags, the directory can have the WriteToken tag, there are a system-wide default AL/RP values.

Previously, dCache would reject uploads where the user-supplied AL/RP information does not match the AccessLatency/RetentialPolicy tags, despite the latter being intended as default values.

With this release, if the client specifies neither space token, AL or RP then the directory tags will be used. If a directory specifies both WriteToken and AccessLatency/RetentionPolicy tags, then these have to be consistent. If the directory conains a WriteToken tag and the client specifies AL/RP, then the client specified values have to be consistent with the WriteToken tag.

pool

When attempting to upgrade non-precious and non-cached files (e.g. a file marked broken), the receiving end of the migration module would answer twice: first (correctly) with a failure and then (incorrectly) with a success. This is now fixed.

spacemanager

With RDBMs, transactional deadlock rollbacks are normal behaviour, which happen when the database must choose between two conflicting and concurrent changes. Previously, spacemanager would aggressively retry when this happens. This has been observed to trigger performance degradation. This release includes several strategies to minimise the impact of this.

Previously, the default number of space-manager threads was the same as the number of database connections. This does not take into account that there is background activity that also needs access to the database. With this release, the number of threads has been lowered; having a large number of threads also increases the likelihood of seeing transactional deadlock rollbacks.

Fix the shutdown sequence of spacemanager. Previously, shutting down a busy spacemanager could lead to attempts to modify the database after all database connections were closed; such failures were logged.

Reduce logging on various DB errors; generic transient errors are now warnings and transactional deadlock rollbacks are logged at debug level.

Changelog 2.11.11..2.11.12

331b934

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.12

3985c5e

LocationManager: Use fqdn instead of hostname

42dcac4

spacemanager: Controlled shutdown

82a24d3

spacemanager: Make request processing more robust

d68115b

spacemanager: Reduce log level on various transient DB errors

f820942

spacemanager: Minor simplification to link group updates

1275b07

spacemanager: Don’t log stack-trace on AL/RP/Reservation conflict

21bc585

spacemanager: Lower default for number of threads

324caca

nfs4: log abandoned movers with WARN

825f790

dcap: Fix typo that causes GSI and auth dcap to use the wrong port

9206f80

cells: log bugs found by CellShell

41f1e23

cells: fix how bugs are reported from ac_ command.

3231098

pool: Fix bug in migration module upgrade logic

44c4727

pnfsmanager: Fix upload to space token that conflicts with AL and RP tags

21703ff

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Release 2.11.11

Changes affecting multiple services

Various scripts, including the dcache command, invoke the java command with a list of directories in which Java should look for support libraries. Previously, the current working directory was (mistakenly) included in that list. This could lead to odd behaviour; one particular example is running a dcache database command from the /etc/dcache directory. This release fixes this problem by excluding the current directory.

Normally, if running an admin command in some cell triggers a bug then the log file of the domain hosting that cell will contain a stack-trace. Previously, for certain admin commands (spacemanager and sweeper ls in the pool) this did not happen. This is fixed with this release of dCache.

When there is some problem in the communication between domains and error message is logged. Previously the explanation for the problem was logged as “null”. With this release, a more descriptive explanation is provided.

The help text within the chimera CLI and for the pool’s migration commands was badly formatted; this release fixes this.

spacemanager

By default, when logging messages some contextual information is included (in square brackets). This typically includes the cell name and the kind of activity that triggered the log message. Previously, some messages omitted all contextual information, which is fixed with this release of dCache.

Fixed the ls spaces and ls files commands so they do not fail if there is a reservation without an owner.

All space-reservations may have an owner: a username or an VOMS group; ownership may be further restricted by VOMS role. When created through the admin interface, a reservation’s ownership is optional. With previous versions of dCache, if a space-reservation has no owner then anyone can release it. With this release of dCache, a reservation without an owner may only be released through the admin interface.

Changelog 2.11.10..2.11.11

3502237

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.11

d6663cc

spacemanager: Change release authorization for unowned reservations

6907a8c

Fix valueSpec help parser

d55e512

spacemanager: Fix NPE in listing space reservations

4b3f32c

Maintain CDC of threads in decorated thread pool

717520d

spacemanager: Log unexpected exceptions

6d566d6

tunnel: use toString if IOException#getMessage returns null

f1a8a4b

Exclude cwd from classpath

8470f23

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Release 2.11.10

Changes affecting multiple services

Fix potential database connection leak for nfs door and pnfsmanager service. This was triggered when attempting to create an already existing non-zero level via the .(access) or .(use) dot commands.

This patch fixes a race condition in Chimera that affects the nfs door and the pnfsmanager service. The effect is that, if two clients attempt to delete the same target (a file, link or directory) at the same time then the nlink count for the parent directory is decreased twice. “At the same time” means within the time taken to process the deletion; this is instance-specific but should be much less than 1 ms for well-configured systems. Sites can repare any incorrect nlinks with the following SQL:

UPDATE t_inodes SET inlink = (
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t_dirs  WHERE t_inodes.ipnfsid = t_dirs.iparent
) WHERE itype = 16384;

This is safe to run on a running production instance, but may take some time and will affect dCache’s responsiveness while running.

gplazma

The description for how to migrate away from using the forbidden useGPlazmaAuthorizationModule and useGPlazmaAuthorizationCell properties had caused confusion. The description has now been updated to be more explicit.

httpd

Fix filtering boxes and sorting on Pool Admin, Pool Usage, Poolgroups, Space Tokens and Tape Transfer Queue.

pnfsmanager

When a user uploads a file via SRM, a directory is created under the update directory (/upload by default). Should this fail, the upload will fail; however, this was not logged. With this release, pnfsmanager now logs why such failures happened.

pool

Previously, the NFS mover stopped when the client disconnected. This had two problems: a client that never connects to the pool leaves a mover that never dies and file transfers are not robust against transitory networking problems, despite the client attempting to reconnect. The latter problem is particularly bad when writing data as falling back to the door is not supported and such failures are not handled well by the Linux kernel.

With this release of dCache, if the client is not connected then the mover queries the door every 7.5 minutes to check it is still needed. The mover dies only when the client closes the file, the door declares the client is lost or the nfs door is stopped or restarted.

IMPORTANT Any pool upgraded to this version of dCache that is used for NFS transfers requires all NFS doors to be upgraded to this version or newer.

Currently, if there is a problem while a file is being uploaded using HTTP chunked transfer encoding then dCache will contain an incomplete file with no error mentioned in any log. With this release, such partially uploaded files will still exist (due to the partial upload semantics of pools) but the problem is logged on the pool and with billing.

spacemanager

Add a -blocking option to the update link groups admin command to ensure all subsequent commands will use the updated information.

srm

When uploading files, the client may choose not to specify an access latency, a retention policy or a space reservation for these files. Likewise, when reserving space, the client may choose not to specify an access latency for the reservation. Previously, the detailed view of the admin ls command showed null for these fields if the client did not specify them. With this release, those fields are omitted if they have no useful data.

Uploading a file with SRM involves three steps: preparing for the upload (srmPrepareToPut), uploading the file, marking the upload finished (srmPutDone). The third step can fail but previously the response from dCache is always Upload failed.. With this release, a meaningful error message is returned.

Changelog 2.11.9..2.11.10

958f95d

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.10

2e2af56

pool: Propagate HTTP mover failures to pool

1038b1d

chimera: fix potential transaction leak on error path§

ff87157

gplazma: update error message for forbidden properties

d214784

spacemanager: add blocking option to update link groups command

6b13868

srm: don’t list absent information in ls

8a2a289

pnfsmanager: log problems when creating upload directory

4d06447

(2.11) webadmin: make jquery selector specific to individual tables

25c16bb

(2.11) webadmin: restore missing components to respect jquery script options

c1fbc7f

srm: include the reason why upload failed

f879dc8

chimera: fix race condition on remove

25d6021

webadmin: ensure unique id attributes for all (currently) tested UI elements

a14c10b

pool: update NFS transfer service to validate inactive movers

8433507

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Release 2.11.9

ftp

Fix default value for ftp.authz.readonly for plain (unencrypted) doors. This restores the default value to the dCache v2.6 default value of true.

Add the DN of a user in the access log file for “Grid FTP” access.

The response from the plain (unencrypted) ftp door if the user specifies the wrong password is badly formed. Althogh it is possible that some clients are robust against such incorrect responses, with this release the ftp door responds correctly.

nfs

Prevent leaking memory if a client’s data transfer is proxied (i.e., no use of pNFS) and there is a communication error between the pool and the nfs door.

webdav

Fixes a bug where, if a double-slash is present, all parts of the path leading up to the double-slash are ignored; for example, with the bug, a path like /a/b//c/d is handled as if /c/d was specified. With this release, double-slashes are treated like single slashes; the above example is handled as if /a/b/c/d was specified.

Fix the NullPointerException triggered if client attempts to upload a file as a child of some existing file.

Changelog 2.11.8..2.11.9

03ae138

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.9

425e3a1

ftp: fix response if user fails to authenticate to weak FTP door

aefbf0a

nfs-proxy: remove proxy adapter on IO errors

ce99f22

ftp.authz.readonly is by default set to the string

781b1f5

webdav: fix double-slash bug by upgrading to patched milton

abcdb54

webdav: fix NullPointerException when PUT as a child of a file

e2431a8

ftp: add user to access log

3c4f8cf

srm-client: reduce default logging for srmfs

5efe3cc

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Release 2.11.8

httpd

Fix two minor issues when authenticating with the webadmin interface: “unauthorised access” and being redirected to the home page. The unauthorised access error can occur when selecting “Login” under the bird logo (top right corner); this is now fixed. The redirection problem occurs when selecting a tab that requires administrative privileges while not logged in; this redirects the browser to the login page. Previously, after a successful login, the browser was redirected to the home page. Now the browser is redirected to the selected tab.

info-provider

The previous bug-fix release of dCache included a regression in the info-provider. The SRM endpoint URL (which starts httpg://) omitted the port number. This is now fixed.

nfs

dCache v2.11.4 introduced support for different levels of write stability. Unfortunately, this exposed a bug in the Linux kernel, which is fixed with Linux v3.16. As a work-around, this release removes different-write-stability support.

pool

Fix logging that the HTTP mover returned an error so that a generic message (“An unexpected server error has occurred.”) is logged if no more concrete message is available, rather than “null”.

srm

The info command in the srm service shows the current number of requests in each state for each request-type, along with the maximum allowed. Previously, the total failed to include requests in READY state.

webdav

A previous bug-fix release fixed how dCache responds when the client attempts to DELETE a non-existent file. Unfortunately, this triggered a different problem where such activity results in a stack-trace that starts java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to javax.security.auth.Subject. This second problem is now fixed.

Changelog 2.11.7..2.11.8

93d9550

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.8

3b88eed

Revert “info-provider: fix publishing SRM port number”

44fd387

pool: Fix logging in HTTP mover

8f9628c

srm: Fix calculation of total number of requests

d43ff04

webdav: Alternative to fixing return code of DELETE of absent file

a5ff2cc

nfs: always reply FILE_SYNC4 on write

97dc4fc

(2.11) webadmin: fix login redirect bug

3fb9619

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Release 2.11.7

Changes affecting multiple services

The webdav and srm doors log SSL handshake failures as “General SSLEngine problem”. With this release, a more meaningful error is reported.

Reduce memory usage by avoiding multiple instances of common strings. Although this improves many services, pools are most affected.

Previous dCache releases included some of the code necessary for pcells, even though dCache made no use of this code. As part of on-going consolidation effort, this code has now been removed from regular dCache releases.

The cell.name is a core property within dCache. Its omission (most easily, by forgetting to specify pool.name) prevents the dcache script for working. The script is now robust against such errors.

If the dcache check-config command discovers that a deprecated property is being configured, it looks for the alternative property that should be used instead. In earlier releases, under certain circumstances, the wrong alternative property is selected. This is now fixed.

It is possible that a sudden burst of activity from many clients exceeds dCache capacity to queue such requests. Although dCache is designed to degrade gracefully under such circumstances, there existed the possibility of certain requests becoming stuck or memory leaking. This is now fixed.

info-provider

In previous releases, the info-provider assumed the broker domain is dCacheDomain. This assumption has been removed.

nfs

Upgrade to nfs4j v0.9.4, which brings several improvements to the door: adds the pnfs and nopnfs export options to allow or disallow PNFS. Fix export parsing if a host is mentioned multiple times; note that localhost must now have an explicit entry in the exports file. Fix a potential deadlock when closing a file on a busy door.

Allow an nfs door to avoid being published to loginbroker. Not being published in loginbroker means the door is unavailable to SRM and is not published by info-provider.

This release adds the kill client command, which tells the door to simulate being restarted to a specific client while leaving the other clients unaffected. This is useful when resetting a confused NFS client. This command should not be necessary. If useful, using this command points to a bug elsewhere. Therefore, such uses should be reported to the dCache developers.

pinmanager

If the maximum concurrency (pinmanager.cell.threads.max) exceeds the number of database connections (‘pinmanager.db.connections.max’) then there is a risk of pinmanager becoming deadlocked under heavy load. This release reduces the default maximum concurrency to avoid this.

pnfsmanager

Fix NullPointerException when a file is stored in a directory with an empty tag.

pool

Upon reloading the pool configuration an error is produced when an nearline storage was already defined in the existing configuration. This is now fixed.

A recent release fixed a bug that caused pool.mover.ftp.allow-incoming-connections to be ignored. Fixing that bug revealed another that caused the property to have the opposite effect. This is now fixed.

dCache pool configuration allows passing (fixed) arguments to the HSM script. In earlier releases, these arguments were supplied to the script in an arbitrary order. While HSM scripts should not depend on the order, they might; so, with this release, the order is preserved.

webdav

Although dCache behaves correctly if the client interrupts a proxied transfer; however, this is logged as a bug. This is now fixed.

Make HTTP third-party copy feedback and detecting when client disconnects more robust against internal dCache problems.

Changelog 2.11.5..2.11.7

7681aec

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.7

61546fa

info-provider: fix publishing SRM port number

1900b32

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

a80959d

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.6

3966630

webdav: don’t log a stack-track when proxy transfer is interrupted

b27b555

info-provider: remove dCacheDomain assumption.

1aa9550

fix broken commit

1a9e691

webdav: make progress markers more robust

61ba9d1

Fix compilation with Java 7

2ba017b

pool: Fix regression preventing configuration to be reloaded

fc42087

cells: Fix message timeout in case of thread pool overflows

6e59e20

chimera: handle NULL field of directory tags

5ddeb26

pinmanager: Adjust pinmanager defaults

231e5cf

Internalize common strings in StorageInfo

27a8c05

bootloader: Don’t fail on missing cell name

603334c

check-config: fix warning for deprecated properties

e75afd3

(2.11) gitignore additions for IntelliJ

71ef741

libs: move to nfs4j–0.9.4

e1d6930

nfs4: add command to kill client by server short hand id

fb78d4e

webdav,srm: provide useful log messages for SSL handshake failures.

3f879f2

pool: Fix regression causing FTP movers to default to proxy mode

ad66c99

nfs: Allow not to publish to loginbroker

be0d7cc

pool: Preserve HSM option ordering

8187d37

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

3210727

cells: Delete pcells related classes

Release 2.11.5

Changes affecting multiple services

Although dCache system configuration property names do not contain spaces, it is possible to define such properties. Previously, doing so breaks the dcache command. This is now fixed.

Update for the nfs door and the pools that allows faster restart. The door is also updated to be more responsive to namespace operations when suffering large number of proxy reads.

If the number of concurrent connections is set to -1 then the ftp and dcap doors will leak memory, eventually triggering an out-of-memory error that will restart the domain. This is now fixed.

admin

Fix erronous reporting of bugs when the user supplies incorrect arguments to an admin command.

alarms

Fix issues from the alarms service when it shares a domain with other dCache services. This could lead to errors when shutting down dCache.

Fix resource leaks and shutdown problems with the alarm service.

dcap

Fix the permissions check for bring-online with plain dcap and a NFSv3 mounted dCache.

Fix regression against v2.6 and earlier dCache in how gsidcap doors are known to SRM and how they are published in BDII/GLUE.

ftp

The ftp door supports the HELP command as some clients use this commands output to discover if certain optional functionality is available. This release fixes the output from this command.

The ftp door’s access log records some responses without the corresponding command-line from the client; subsequent responses (if the response is multiple-lined) and all responses due to STOR and RETR commands were affected. This is now fixed.

nfs

The info command now lists the proxy adaptors. A proxy adaptor is created when the client rejects the pool and falls back to reading data from the door.

Improve shutdown of nfs door when the embedded portmapper is used.

pool

Improve which interface the ftp mover selects when the client is redirected to the pool. In particular, the door will only redirect the client if the IP protocol matches (IPv4 vs IPv6); for example, if a client connects with IPv6 and the pool has no IPv6 address then the door will now proxy the data connection.

The pool.mover.ftp.allow-incoming-connections property had no effect. This is now fixed.

Add the IoMode (whether the mover is accepting new data, or supplying existing data) to the status line describing the mover.

Improve shutdown of nearline storage subsystem; now dCache will attempt to cancel all ongoing activity before shutting down the pool. The previous asynchronous approach could lead to IllegalStateException being logged if the pool was busy at that time.

spacemanager

Adjust spacemanager schema migration to be aware of earlier dCache bugs and to work-around site-local indexes that clash with new indexes that dCache needs.

In previous versions of dCache, both spacemanager and pnfsmanager had default access-latency and retention-policy settings. The spacemanager default retention-policy is only used if the admin doesn’t specify a value when creating a reservation through the admin interface. The spacemanager default access-latency is also used as a default for the admin command; additionally, it is used when processing an SRM reserveSpace request that omits the (optional) access-latency information — the retention-policy is mandatory in such SRM requests.

With this release, the spacemanager no longer has default access-latency or retention-policy properties. Creating a space-reservation in the admin interface now requires specifying both the access-latency and retention-policy. When processing an SRM reserve space request without an access-latency, the spacemanager will check from which linkgroups the user is authorised to reserve space. It will choose an access-latency based on the request’s retention-policy. If the user is authorised to reserve space from link-groups such that both access-latency options (ONLINE and NEARLINE) are possible, space-manager will prefer to reserve ONLINE if the retention-policy is REPLICA and NEARLINE if the retention-policy is CUSTODIAL.

srm

Previously, if the SRM client requests listing a directory, specifies a non-zero offset and does not limit the response size then dCache would fail this request with an IllegalArgumentException. This is now fixed.

webdav

With the recent upgrade of the Milton library some new behaviour was introduced. One example is that, under certain circumstances (and to support certain clients) the Milton library returns a 401 (not authorised) when attempting to delete a non-existing file. Unfortunately, this change then broke ATLAS clients. This patch updates dCache so it returns 404 (not found) under these circumstances.

Fix the response when a client requests a byte-range beyond the end of a file. This is necessary for compatibly with ARC clients.

Changelog 2.11.4 to 2.11.5

78f8332

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.5

fd0d631

webdav: Fix reported content length for partial GETs

5f077e8

ftp: ensure client command line is available in access log

7d5f276

webdav: Fix return code on DELETE of absent file

7e25854

srm: fix semi-infinite ls range with non-zero offset

c2df681

pool: Partially fix interface selection for FTP mover

aac1473

pool: Fix typo that breaks pool.mover.ftp.allow-incoming-connections

97fbb48

shell: fix shell oracle for configuration keys with a space

12f2cfe

nfs: show current proxy-io transfers in the door

7bc26c6

chimera-cli: fix chown

ecbaf18

dcap: Fix regression in published protocol family

7990ab6

ftp: fix help output

efe526e

loginmanager: Fix leak caused by absent child limit

3fa5684

spacemanager: Fix null constraints and other schema migration issues

1e00567

alarms: Fix several resource leak and shutdown problems

41a525c

alarms: Detach alarms appender on shutdown

abcc92e

dcap: check for url in some commands

9fc7213

pool: Fix shutdown of nearline storage subsystem

5d33937

admin: Fix error reporting

ecbc33a

pool: add Io mode into mover’s status line

7062f68

spacemanager: Get rid of access latency and retention policy defaults

49ecc70

nfs: stop embedded portmap on shutdown

88daa03

libs: update to nfs4j–0.9.3

ae567ab

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

70349c7

dcap: refactor PnfsSessionHandler to unify permission check and url handling

Release 2.11.4

Changes affecting multiple services

With this release, the srm, webdav and httpd doors will log SSL handshake failures.

ftp

Relax requirements for the EPSV and EPRT commands. Previous versions of dCache would reject all RFC 2428 commands from an IPv4 client. This has been relaxed with this release. Now, IPv4 clients can use EPRT. IPv4 clients can also use EPSV if delayed passive is enabled.

info

Info service includes a safety feature that prevents it from bombarding the rest of dCache with too many messages. With this release, the safety limit is reduced allowing info to send messages more often.

Reduce the delay between subsequent messages of the same type. This allows the info service to recover information more quickly after being restarted.

pool

The NFS specification allows the server to specify multiple addresses when telling the client where to connect; for example, specifying both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, or both addresses for multi-homed machines. This requires the client to choose the appropriate interface. For Scientific Linux 6, the kernel client will always use the first supplied address in the list and fail if it cannot access the pool with that address. With this release, pools will order the list, using heuristics to select which IPv4 address is “correct” and list it first.

Prior to flushing a file to tape, the pool checks if the name-space entry still exists and deletes the replica (rather than flushing) if not. Version 2.10.7 introduced a regression where, if this happens, there is a IllegalStateException stack-trace. This is fixed with this release.

The NFS protocol includes support for syncing when writing data, either as an explicit command or as a flag within a write request. After sync-ing, queries against the namespace (e.g., the file’s size) are expected to reflect the file’s state when sync-ed. This release introduces support in dCache for this feature.

Allow NFS client to detect when the pool is restarted, so has lost any pending (i.e., not committed) writes. NFS-compliant clients will handle this situation without data loss.

poolmanager

With previous dCache versions, the WAAS selection algorithm had a bug where it could (mistakenly) consider pools full if all pools had very fresh files. This is fixed with this release.

spacemanager

Fix various issues to improve the robustness of spacemanager: handle failed uploads correctly, handle files deleted during upload correctly, increase robustness against dCache loosing (internal) messages.

webdav

Upgrade to Milton v2.6. This fixes the buffering problem where a proxied vector read request results in the entire file being written to a tmp directory and not deleted. With this release, requests for 100 kiB or less data result in no data being written to disk; requests for more than 100 kiB are still written to disk, but only the data needed to satisfy the request is stored and the file is deleted once the response has been sent. Some issues persist: data isn’t deleted if there is a failure sending it to the client and the whole file is requested from the pool.

Changelog 2.11.3 to 2.11.4

1256cc0

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.4

f703858

ftp: Relax requirements for EPSV and EPRT

ccbf4ad

nfs: return correct verifier on WRITE and COMMIT

8682625

nfs: set file size in namespace on stable_how is FILE_SYNC4

fe8e4b8

poolmanager: Fix full pool detection for WASS

4411aaa

srm,webdav,httpd: Log SSL handshake failures

ee165e7

ftp: Relax requirements for EPSV and EPRT

a510d81

Upgrade to Milton 2.6

7b58ae1

info: Reduce safety limit to 50 ms

b779e2f

pool: reorder ip addresses returned to NFS client

6ec9e9f

pool: Fix ISE when flushing deleted file

0254527

info: Reduce delay between messages

fa57fa3

spacemanager: Fix various error recovery scenarios

bacdb02

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

Release 2.11.3

Changes affecting multiple services

Restarting a domain within an active dCache instance can lead to a domain receiving messages for a cell as it is starting. Strict control is require to avoid the cell attempting to process messages before it is ready. This release fixes one place where this control was missed, which could lead to a NullPointerException. While this problem can affect any core dCache service, it was noticed with the spacemanager service.

httpd

dCache versions including and after 2.11.0, 2.10.9, 2.9.12, 2.8.16, 2.7.21 and 2.6.36 required sites to delete existing RRD files when upgrading; i.e., run the command rm -f /var/lib/dcache/plots/*.rrd when the domain hosting the httpd service is stopped. This release reverts that change, but requires sites that have already upgraded to repeat the rm command. Sites upgrading from an earlier dCache version do not need to delete anything.

Fix a potential NullPointerException in poolCollector.

nfs

Protect against a NullPointerException if the client attempts to read the contents of a file’s level where that level exists in the database but contains a Nil value. This does not happen under normal circumstances.

pool

Previously, any problems found when the xrootd client is writing to a pool were silently ignored: neither the pool, the client, or billing appreciated there was a problem. With this release, problems are logged in billing, reported back to the client. The client is also disconnected.

The Berkeley DB, which may be used to store file metadata on the pool, does not like being interrupted. The pool tries hard to avoid interrupting reading or writing; this release fixes one place that slipped through.

Fix regression in the output from the info command: it did not include statistics about the number of HSM requests and HSM timeouts. Also fixes how active HSM jobs are counted: cancelled jobs are still active until the underlying job as ended.

Improve the error message reported back to the xrootd client should its request have an invalid or missing UUID.

Changelog 2.11.2 to 2.11.3

74ce914

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.3

0d23d50

imera: protect against NPE in FsSqlDriver#read

46816f0

xrootd: Propagate mover errors to dCache

5372282

pool: Restore flush and stage stats in info

2c87025

pool: Improve xrootd error message on missing UUID

a22ecc5

Fix NPE in cell initialization

393cf34

Fix NPE in httpd service

1768254

pool: Avoid interrupting Berkeley DB in migration module server

d1cfc7b

dcache-webadmin: revert rrd data source names

2342757

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

Release 2.11.2

Changes affecting multiple services

dCache will discard queued internal messages where the sender is no longer expecting a reply (due to internal time out); this helps an overloaded system recover quickly. Such discarded messages are logged. This release provides better logging when this happens: string commands are logged correctly and both the time-to-live and the age have been added.

The xrootd door and, on the pool, the HTTP and xrootd movers logging included incorrect context information, always showing the first connection. This has been fixed.

httpd

On startup, httpd logs a warning has uncovered http methods for path: /. This has been fixed.

Changelog from 2.11.1 to 2.11.2

4334f9a

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.2

edde62f

cells: Refine TTL discard message

12f082e

xrootd,pool: Fix xrootd and http logging context

a1fde31

jetty: update webdefault.xml to adhere to new specification

8862efd

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

c8ff984

(2.11) dcache-webadmin: change Jetty setting so .war is not unpacked

Release 2.11.1

Changes affecting multiple services

Doors report to billing when a file is deleted. Previously, many doors neglect to include the PNFS-ID and sent only the path. This can be ambiguous so, with this release, all doors send the PNFS-ID in addition to the path. Some doors also failed to send the file size (if known) and client IP address. These, too, have been fixed. In summary: * dcap additionally sends: PNFS-ID, file-size and client address. * ftp additionally sends: PNFS-ID * srm additionally sends: client address. * webdav additionally sends: PNFS-ID and file size * xrootd additionally sends: PNFS-ID.

gplazma

Update ldap plugin to support both RFC 2307 and RFC 2307bis LDAP schema types. Additionally, the memory footprint of this plugin has been reduced and its performance improved.

nfs

Update nfs4j to v0.9.2. This brings some small performance benefits when listing a directory and for reading data through NFS v3.

Fix bug where, when a client read or write activity is proxied, the corresponding dcap mover wasn’t removed if client didn’t wait for the queued mover to start. Previously, such movers would accumulate on the pool.

srm

Do not download a DTD file from java.sun.com when starting up.

webadmin

Display the command’s output in the cell admin page to use a monospace font.

Remove a javascript error due to missing clojure dependency.

Sending commands in cell admin page is fixed.

xrootd

Improve the xrootd logging plugin to provide additional information.

Changelog from 2.11.0 to 2.11.1

7a3f37a

[maven-release-plugin] prepare release 2.11.1

f744732

doors: Add pnfs ID to billing remove entries

19faee9

webadmin: Fix ClassCastException in cell admin

6d40f30

Fix compilation for Java 7

362801a

webadmin: remove redundant head element in alarms panel html

5173d34

dcache-webadmin: change output field of cell admin page to monospace font

302f675

srm-server: add servlet webapp–2.3.dtd file

f44f137

(2.11) dcache-webadmin: eliminate clojure dependency

5f3fc62

libs: update to nfs4j–0.9.2

68b551b

dcache-xrootd: Extend and improve xrootd access log plugin

d18b88c

gplazma-ldap: pull only required attribute

d581502

Revert “(2.11) dcache-webadmin: change Jetty setting so .war is not unpacked”

a589e13

gplazma-ldap: support uniqueMember based group membership query

07935f7

(2.11) dcache-webadmin: change Jetty setting so .war is not unpacked

a11f5a9

nfs-proxy: kill mover on close

0f5ec5a

[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration

Release 2.11.0

Changes affecting several services

Short session strings

FTP, WebDAV and NFS doors now use BASE–64 encoding for the session counter. For such doors, sessions have the form door:<cell>@<domain>:<counter>. The <counter> part used to be base–10 encoded (i.e., a normal integer number). With dCache v2.11, this part is now a base–64 number. The result is shorter log lines and billing entries.

Improved shutdown

When a dCache domain shuts down, it asks each cell in turn to stop. As a backup procedure, dCache will wait up to one second for all threads associated with that cell to terminate before explicitly interrupting any of that cell’s remaining threads. The dcache stop command, which triggers the domain shutdown, will wait up to ten seconds for the domain to finish shutting down. After this, it kills the java process outright. Therefore domain shutdown must finish before this deadline to achieve a clean shutdown.

With dCache v2.11, the shutdown procedure of several services (billing, httpd, loginbroker, pool, poolmanager, replica) have been improved by explicitly stopping background activity. Previous versions of dCache relied on dCache’s backup procedure for terminating left-over activity. By explicity stopping background activity, shutting down each of these services can now take less than one second.

Shutting down the pnfsmanager service has also improved. It is now faster, cleaner and safer. Previously, pnfsmanager also relied on the backup procedure to terminate on-going activity; this was unfortunate not only because it slowed down the shutdown but also that such activity could attempt to use the database after the database connection pool was stopped. This could result in errors being logged and risked partial processing of requests. With dCache v2.11, this has been fixed.

When shutting down services that use a thread-pool for processing messages (gplazma, pinmanager, pool, srm), the shutdown sequence now ensures all threads have stopped before closing resources. As with pnfsmanager, previous versions of dCache risked concurrent activity continuing after database connections have been stopped. This is now fixed.

Improved HTTP services

Jetty is the web-server framework used by the webdav, httpd and srm services. In HTTP 1.1, a network connection is kept open unless the client explicitly requests it be closed. To the user, subsequent requests appear to be processed faster as there is no overhead from establishing a new TCP connection and SSL/TLS/GSI context.

In previous versions of dCache, each HTTP connection occupies a thread, even when waiting for the client to send the next request. Such occupied threads, cannot process requests from other clients. This made tuning dCache for optimum performance difficult: many clients connected but not issuing requests will result in high memory usage, but reducing this number can impact on the server’s ability to handle concurrent requests. Safe configurations will likely lead to dCache under performing under high load. With v2.11, dCache will free up the thread while waiting for the client’s next request, making it easier to obtain optimum performance.

A separate improvement is that dCache reacts better when faced with many clients attempting to connect at (nearly) the same time.

In HTTP 1.1, if the client decides to keep the connection open, the server may still close it later on. In dCache, the policy is to close any connection that remains idle for too long. Idle means no traffic flowing in either direction; either dCache is waiting for the next client request or the client is waiting for dCache’s response.

By default, srm service will close connections after one minute of inactivity; the webdav service will close idle connections after five minutes of inactivity; and, for httpd service, connections are closed after 30 seconds of inactivity. These idle timeouts may be adjusted through dCache configuration properties.

Jetty also has the concept of being low on resources. This is triggered when all request processing threads are active and there are more clients waiting to connect; for example, when many clients attempting to connect at (more or less) the same time.

When Jetty detects it is low on resources, it can react by reducing the timeout for idle connections. By more aggressively closing idle connections, the service can “degrade gracefully” when faced with a sudden inrush of client connections; the users experience only a slight delay in receiving replies as the necessary resources are quickly freed. The srm and webdav services reduce idle connection to 20 seconds and 30 seconds respectively, whereas httpd does not react.

In previous versions of dCache, when low on resources, the more aggressive idle-disconnection policy would affect only new connections; the existing idle connections would enjoy longer timeouts. With dCache v2.11, all SRM or WebDAV connections experience the reduced idle-connection threshold.

Improved deletion speed

The database updates needed to delete a file has been reduced, making deletions faster. The effect is most pronounced if the file contained many non-empty levels. This affects the pnfsmanager and nfs services.

Libraries

Many of dCache third-party library dependencies have been upgraded with this release. Please refer to the library project’s documentation for full details on the resulting improvements:

• AspectJ: 1.8.2
• BerkeleyDB: 6.1.5
• DataNucleus: core 4.0.1, plugin 4.0.0-release
• GSON: 2.3
• HikariCP: 2.0.1
• Jetty: 9.2.2.v20140723
• netty: 3.9.4.Final
• PostgreSQL: 9.3–1102-jdbc41
• Scala: 2.11.2
• SLF4j: 1.7.7
• Spring: 4.0.6
• Xerces: 2.11.0

Changes to services

The following section describes changes that affect a specific service.

alarms

With this release, the alarms service has received substantial improvements. These are described below.

A domain may now host both the alarm service and other services. As a consequence, the alarm-specific logback-server.xml file (located in the /var/lib/dcache/alarms/ directory for RPM packages) has been removed. As log messages generated by the alarm service are handled in the same fashion as other services, the service.log file has also been removed.

With dCache v2.11, alarm definitions are now either predefined or custom. Predefined alarms are automatically generated within dCache without requiring a match against some regular expression; these are the alerts defined by the dCache developers. Custom alarms are those that are must match some regular expressions; these are defined by the admin and are comparable to the alarms defined in earlier dCache releases.

All predefined alarms are sent at the ERROR level, so it is not necessary to set dcache.log.level.remote to below this level for the alarm service to receive all predefined alarms. It may still be necessary to adjust this property if custom alarms match against messages logged at a lower threshold. While this is supported, the same performance caveats exist as with earlier releases.

It is no longer necessary to mirror the alarms-custom-definitions.xml file between the alarms and httpd services. However, when using XML storage, the requirement to provide some shared storage between the nodes hosting alarm and httpd services continues.

The structure of the custom alarm definition or filter has been simplified. It now consists only of the following elements:

1. type name
2. keyWords
3. regex
4. regexFlags
5. matchException
6. depth

Note that the predefined Severity level, along with logger and thread ids, have been removed as filter attributes.

When an alarm fires, it is assigned one of four priorities (these replace the severity concept in earlier versions). In decending order, these are critical, high, moderate and low. By default, all alarms have critical priority. This default priority may be altered in the admin interface and individual alarms may be assigned a lower priority through the priority map.

The priority map is stored in the alarms-priority.properties file, which is located in the /var/lib/dcache/alarms directory in RPM packages. The priority map may be adjusted either by editing this file directly (and requesting dCache reloading it) or via the admin interface.

Note that, while there is still a Severity column in the database, it is no longer used.

The previous dCache shell commands to add, modify, remove and send alerts are still present. Their options have been modified slightly to reflect changes in this release. There is a new dcache alarm list command. This lists all predefined alarms.

The alarm service is now a well-known cell by default.

The alerts admin commands have been extended to allow creating custom alerts and assigning priority to alerts. The commands predefined ls and send have also been added to the admin interface; these behave as the similarly named dcache shell commands.

The optional alarm cleaner daemon now runs as part of the alarms service, not in the httpd service. The default values for its properties have been moved from httpd.properties to alarms.properties and renamed accordingly.

There are a number of new and modified alarms properties which are documented in the alarms.properties defaults file. Most significant of these are those for enabling email notification, which no longer requires direct editing of logback configuration files.

The alarms web page is basically the same, except that the “Severity” label has been replaced by “Priority”. That filter choice affects only alarms and not unmarked logging events. Since this is not a schema attribute, it is not reflected in the actual table, but alarms will be sorted there by priority first.

billing

The billing service no longer logs a warning on shutdown.

The billing log format has been extended to allow InfoMessage log entries to include the session identifier. This is particularly useful when understanding which SRM session is responsible for billing entries. The default format is not altered, so sites must adjust their configuration to include session information.

gplazma

Update gPlazma Login result printer to use a human-friendly label rather than a dot-separated-number for the SHA–512-with-RSA algorithm.

The kpwd plugin, which supports the proprietary kpwd-format files, has been updated to support multiple gids. Users with multiple gids have a comma-separated list of gids instead of the single gid value, with the primary gid the first gid in the list. A comma-separated list of gids is valid for both login and password lines.

info

The info-provider groups together pools that GLUE can report together for storage accounting. Such groups are called Normalized Access Storages (NASes). Previously, info tried to group pools as much as possible, which leads to confusion over the names. Now, a NAS represents all the pools accessible by the same set of links.

nfs

The NFS door and mover now shows correct units, nanoseconds (ns), when showing performance statistics for the different NFS operations.

The database query used to gather information for df command on an NFS mount has been improved. However, this remains an expensive operation.

The NFS door and mover are updated to nfs4j v0.9.1. This brings the following improvements:

• Support for the all_root export option. This treats all requests from the specified client machines as having come from the root user. Created files and directories have the same ownership as the parent directory.

• We ensure that file attributes (e.g., file size) are always up-to-date. Previously, zero file size was reported for a short period after closing a file written through NFS.

• Some performance boosts when checking filenames.

• Make deletes through NFS v3 faster.

pool

Some pool error messages have been expanded slightly to give some contextual information and to distinguish between otherwise identical errors.

The migration module is idempotent, which means running the same command twice has the same affect as running it once, assuming no pool has gone offline between running the command. While being idempotent is a useful feature, sometimes one might want multiple copies of a file, which simply running the migration module command multiple times does not achieve.

With dCache v2.11, the migration module commands now support the -replicas option. This allows the admin to specify the desired number of replicas. The pool will then create that number of replicas sequentially.

Previously, the HSM interface processed all HSM requests sequentially: one at a time, using a single core. This is particularly bad for staging requests as preparing the pool for the staged file may require IO. With 2.11, the HSM now processes requests concurrently, which allows CPU and IO activity to overlap and spreads this load over multiple cores.

The output from admin commands rh ls, st ls and rm ls are now sorted by creation time.

Previously, just before a pool starts accepting a new file, it will request the expected checksum from pnfsmanager. In the majority of cases there is no checksum, so this slows down dCache. In 2.11, this step is skipped; uploads are now (slightly) faster. A client may still supply the file’s checksum prior to upload (using FTP) and dCache will verify the checksum once the upload has completed.

pnfsmanager

As part of the general shutdown improvements, during shutdown the pnfsmanager service will reject all queued requests and return a “No Route To Cell” error. Requests that pnfsmanager has started processing are given 500 ms to complete before being forcefully terminated.

replica

Replica manager now correctly shuts down the database connection pool when dCache is shutting down the domain.

srm

With dCache v2.11, the srm service now includes a self-throttling behaviour when clients make more requests that the database can cope with. Previously, when overloaded, all database updates were dropped and a message like Persistence of request <request> skipped, queue is too long is logged. The result is that the database could hold incomplete or inaccurate information about SRM activity.

Such inaccuracy was acceptable as the database was used for debugging information. However, with the adoption of a separate upload directory and some support for recovering user activity after a restart, this is no longer true. Moreover, such debugging information is likely very useful when understanding any unexpected behaviour during an overload situation, so needs to have some accuracy in particular under such conditions.

SRM database updates naturally fall into two types: major and minor. Major updates record new requests and transitions to a final state (SUCCESS, FAILURE, CANCELLED); minor updates record changes to some non-final state. In an overload situation, minor updates may be dropped but major updates will always be processed. If necessary, processing the SRM request will be delayed so that major updates are stored. This has a secondary effect of creating a back-pressure on clients, slowing them down and allowing the srm service to recover.

The admin command ls and ls completed have been refactored. There is now a single command ls that accepts the option -completed=<n> to limit the number of completed operations.

Closing SRM connections

With the adoption of Jetty v9, the GSI implementation has been rewritten to use Java’s built-in SSL support in a more direct fashion. The most immediate effect of this is that, by default, the shutdown sequence of SSL and GSI connections has changed. Before, the server would simply close its end of the network connection; now, the server issues a CLOSE alert that notifies the client of the impending close before closing its end of the connection.

Sending a CLOSE alert is part of the SSL v3 and subsequent TLS protocol specifications. Previous versions of dCache were in error by not sending such alerts.

Although most SSL/TLS clients expect the CLOSE alert, the dCache SRM clients (prior to v2.10.7) considers any alert as an indicator that the operation has failed. Depending on the client configuration, it might or might not retry the operation several times if this happens. In either case, the return code and output will reflect a failed operation, whereas the operation may have succeeded.

This has been fixed with SRM-client release v2.10.7: this version accepts the CLOSE alert but does not require it. It is compatible with dCache v2.11 and earlier versions.

To allow a smooth transition, dCache includes the srm.enable.legacy-close configuration property. When set to true (the default) the srm service will close connections without first issuing the CLOSE alert, in keeping with previous dCache behaviour.

Future versions of dCache will change the default and eventually remove this option. Therefore sites are invited to upgrade their clients.

transfermanagers

TransferManager now generates IDs based on the current time rather than by taking the next SRM request ID. This means the transfermanagers service no longer needs access to the SRM database.

Scripts

The startup time for the different dcache billing commands has been reduced.

Changelog from 2.10 to 2.11.0

15d83f6

webdav: correct error message for incorrect Credential header value

e414a4c

srm-client: delegate by default for https 3rd-party transfers

65d7504

chimera: Add messages to JdbcFs#move exceptions

111e553

poolmanager: Warn when spacecostfactor is too big

bb8c9f5

srm-client: add srmfs to RPM manifest

b9b1ecd

poolmanager: Warn when spacecostfactor is too big

11e88a6

doors: Base64 session counter

84c8587

pnfsmanager: Check file type before overwrite

b459316

srm-client: Report srmPutDone failure

6885adc

chimera: Refine IOException to ChimeraFsException

f455fdc

check-config: Produce error when using scoped properties

d16ccfb

srm-client: Add interactive SRM shell

10d005e

poolmanager: Kill watchdog on shutdown

d934502

pool: Kill sweeper thread on shutdown

4a0c600

httpd: Kill transfer observer threads on shutdown

7626a41

loginbroker: Kill worker threads on shutdown

6919e26

pnfsmanager: Controlled shutdown of processing threads

d6754d5

loginmanager: Associate ScheduledExecutor with the cell’s thread group

423fe0d

cells: Orderly shutdown of multi-threaded cells

6939d2e

mark internal <service>.db.xyz properties as immutable

fa10ecd

nfs: mark unused nfs.db.host property as forbidden

9fd5d7a

pom: update to nfs4j–0.9.1

0990a8d

chimera: Avoid coupling to hikari and alarms in JdbcFs

fad06a4

replica: Shut down message processing thread on cell shutdown

219bc9c

replica: Proper shutdown of database and avoid database singleton

50421f4

billing: Improve shutdown for db backend

c6073a5

Minor adjustment to NoRouteToCell error in LoginBrokerHandler

e9595f5

poolmanager: Shut down request container thread pool during shutdown

04fcb12

chimera: fix unit tests

b721145

pool: Fix pool size health check in case of asynchronous release of space

31dfdba

spacemanager: Suppress transient deadlock resolution errors

dbd6b70

pool: Fix race leading to false positices in pool size health checks

c91e195

pool: Fix ISE in CacheEntryImpl#toString

f743599

pool: Fix ISE in ‘rep ls’

904336c

webadmin: make pool queue data enum Java 8 compatible

b315fc0

webadmin: fix exit login in billing refresh loop

336ce07

pool: Make migration task cancellation more robust

272bfe8

cell: Log exceptions within the correct cell context

55de0de

pool: Fix pool selection bugs in migration module

201685d

admin: Propopage NPE to user

86f6f6b

chimera: query for inode generation on readdir

c84b19c

pool: ensure that mover error message always set

55eb29f

nfs4: shutdown state handler on destroy

bc0e891

billing: Fix date handling for json and yaml output

ef3d069

billing: Add file size to request records

ea8b501

billing: Improve error message on failur to parse date arguments

6c409d3

billing: Reduce startup time of dcache billing command

bdd5989

billing: Add billing format for PoolHitInfoMessage

d050876

webadmin: minor improvements to rrd4j-based pool-queue plots

2976ef1

pnfsmanager,doors: Add user relative upload directories

a85ef3c

billing: Expose session identifier

1da82a4

rpm: include logrotate config file

23cfdc5

pool: Fix interpretation of eager option of migration module

d88a98b

srm-client: Output file level errors for sync requests

f7fc29d

pool: Respect LAN port range for internal srmcp transfers

05e5f62

srm: Fix listing of failed, done and cancelled jobs

8378b5e

cell: Prevent interpreter stack overflow from killing the domain

a85817f

cell: Declassify eval failure as a bug

eefea09

system-test: add ‘start’ profile

1af1d75

spacemanager: fix forbidden property message

1321d431

ftp: Fix root path validation for upload directory

6651bb2

xrootd: Upgrade to xrootd4j 1.3.5

96e8a94

pool: Fix minor errors in migration module documentation

4dfca00

pool: Add JavaDoc to migration JobDefinition

47b65f6

pool: Allow multiple replicas for migration jobs

32505e9

pool: Decouple migration task from migration job

be91838

pool: Prevent interruption of replica deletion during HSM flush

8bb52a8

pool: Fix HSM cancellation

cde169e

dcache: Let login cache propagate IllegalArgumentException

43ecb8c

dcache: Do not cache gPlazma timeouts

e837405

test: Upgrade to mockito 1.10.4

b456232

dcache: Use Mockito for CacheLoginStrategy unit tests

32c877f

dcache,nfs,dcap,srm: Drop duplicate LoginStrategy cache

788b56c

cells: fix IAE in ‘show pinboard’

b234566

commons: remove period based gauges

204a953

commons: update RequestExecutionTimeGauges to accept units

26bb60f

commons: add TimeUtils#unitStringOf()

ae63e2e

commons: fix TimeUtils nanos to duration string conversion

1306124

hsm: Increase concurrency in nearline storage interface

d5a20b0

srm: Fall back to synchronous saving in case of overload

2558d56

info: Generate NAS by links rather than access

92b3668

pool: Fix xrootd vector read limits

8287987

chimera: fix NPE on ‘.(parent)()’ for root inode

25335b0

alarms version 2: move database cleanup from webadmin to service

2f92190

chimera: squash usedFiles() and usedSize() into a single query

22230c4

dcap: fix interaction with Spacemanager

d045b3c

srm-client: Fix logback configuration

98f2115

srm: Fix asynchroneous job storage leak

3fdcf9f

unittests: increase timeouts and fix race in DiskSpaceAllocatorTest

57df557

srm: Minor refactoring of ls command

1ab18b9

srm: Log common misconfiguration preventing upload

469b75b

srm: Fix return code and logging on “login errors”

3a11e20

alarms (common, dcache, dcache-webadmin, skel): version 2.

7175bf0

common: Fix race condition in AtomicCounter unit test

0dfc80e

srm: Fix deadlock like bug

7680a01

billing plots: use ‘transferred’ rather than ‘size’ for bytes

9f26723

configuration: adjust references to forbidden properties

14d493e

httpd: Use service specific property for list of login brokers

73c2601

xrootd: allow empty xrootd.authz.read-paths and xrootd.authz.write-paths

fed4abd

scripts: fix java invocation

d325d16

chimera: protect list initialization from FS inconsistencies

3273e4a

srm: Fix reporting of infinite space lifetime

70d414e

chimera: Fix creation time flag in ls command

3c6b4fa

Fix CacheException references in error messages

8ea811d

Mark deprecated properties as forbidden

a792239

Update to Jetty 9

650413c

dcache-common: change NetworkUtil getCanonicalHostname to prefer DNS name

626463c

srm: Make dcache-core independent of srm-server

c23ab8c

dcache-srm: Move AuthorizationRecord and related classes to dcache-srm

bdf4048

chimera: do not explicitly remove enties in t_level_x

c179f3d

srm: Align SRM info output with recent changes to scheduler configuration

f139c2e

webdav: remove unused import

38f4c2c

gplazma2: detect sha512 with RSA in LoginResultPrinter

72ac7f1

nfs4: add NFS file handle into NfsTransfer class

437191c

nfs4: invalidate vfs cache on successful write

7c8c18b

Revert “libs: update sshd to 0.11.0”

18c188c

Revert “libs: switch to jglobus–2.1.0-SNAPSHOT and bcpkix–1.50”

9d056fc

libs: update sshd to 0.11.0

e061819

libs: use nfs 0.9.0

bd94107

libs: switch to jglobus–2.1.0-SNAPSHOT and bcpkix–1.50

60d5765

Update netty and berkeley DB to latest version

d5b5f78

srm: Fix incomplete restore of “ready queued” jobs

00d2534

cells: Improve pinboard

a86a976

Avoid thread-unsafe use of SimpleDateFormatter

f5ae71a

dcache-spacemanager: Move space manager to its own Maven module

83a4fea

Update billing indexer to avoid deprecated Guava API

db28dc0

srm: Remove dead null check

1c14947

srm: Fix credential store registration

b3e9b74

srm: Fix restore of bring-online requests on restart

3c9e3fb

srm: Fix set max ready get command

5121943

pool,ftp: do not query for checksum on write

7d5cb72

libs: update to jglobus–2.0.6-rc7.d

95a193a

libs: update to nfs4j–0.8.1

e1cc820

chimera: Move new CLI to chimera and delete old CLI

507c3fc

build: Update to findbugs 3

9f8822e

dcache-info: Move info service to its own Maven module

f9957a9

dcache-srm: Move SRM specific dCache code to new module

1fb9ca4

chimera: mark as-run if i_dirs_ipnfsid exists

15d2a0a

solaris: fix solaris package script and add work-around for pkgmk bug

f2e9ded

acl: add heuristic to detect acl format

17e6de1

gplazma: make plugin creation caching optional

1db22cf

chimera: create missing index i_dirs_iparent

467ad69

pool: Resolve high memory usage and other issues in sweeper

53cfdd4

Update third party libraries

14797dd

info: Fix HashMap ordering assumption in unit test

d06ed79

Make JDK byte code verification bug workaround Java 8 compatible

c0a68c5

gplazma: Fix JVM implementation dependency in unit test

1adf0d0

poolmanager: Suppress stack trace in case of unmatch units

3425431

xrootd: Add billing entry on delete

f89706c

bugfix: fix reverseMap not throwing NoSuchPrincipalExceptions

f21d639

kpwd: add support for multiple GIDs

76f3812

Clean up Spring instantiation of database connection pools

61d7402

cells: Fix deadlock during startup

4b10fe5

Fix several issues in recent alarms changes

e547954

srm: generate SRM v2.2 Axis-generated code as part of build process

e013bb7

build: add work-around for JDK bug and PowerMock

b89cd06

pool: Fix concurrency settings for script nearline storage

38e3ac3

poolmanager: Fix ‘request clumping limit reached’ failures

abdb8d4

poolmanager: Avoid request leak

f4584c7

pool: Order nearline requests

8d1ce53

srm: Fix race condition in srmPrepareToGet

deb5996

webdav: Fix certificate handling for HTTP third-party copy

f9f9ccd

poolmanager: Fix excessive p2p and stage alive checks

c99aa7b

srm: Restore estimated wait time update

d2129e3

srm: srm,dcap: Use configured vomsdir and capath

06cf581

webdav: Kill mover in case transfer times out

797b966

webdav: Make threading and TCP connection limits configurable

c272c48

pool: Fix several minor issues in nearline storage subsystem

7f39db9

srm,dcap: Use configured vomsdir and capath

d207324

Upgrade to DataNucleus 4

ce76104

Don’t use legacy properties

658ff68

alarms: eliminate httpd.alarms.db.xml.path – missing deletion of batch check

4a66f6c

alarms: eliminate httpd.alarms.db.xml.path

325948d

alarms: convert definitions into marked alarms

759484d

poolmanager: remotve unused variable

c3acc43

src: move VspArgs into dcache-dcap module

ff5e042

alarms: decorate data source to capture connector errors as alarms

1ba6f6c

network utils: add constant for canonical host name

d386a4d

alarms: add fuller support for Markers

805b27c

srm: fix deserialise of TExtraInfo

852ea99

srm: fix NPE when checking delegated credential

00d2f1a

srm: fix NPE when checking delegated credential

5e46143

srm: fix deserialise of TExtraInfo

ed288b0

srm: fix IllegalStateTransition for COPY requests

dc34d0f

releases: update dCache version to v2.11