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EXODUS Storage Manager Version 3.0
FTP Instructions and Release Notes
This directory contains:
README: (this file)
a release/ directory containing 3.0
source and "binary" releases for SPARCstations, DECstations,
and HP 7xx.
a doc/ directory containing postscript copies of the documents,
including instructions for getting and installing a release.
a release.old/ directory containing 2.2
source and "binary" releases for SPARCstations, DECstations
a doc.old/ directory containing postscript copies of the documents
for the 2.2 release
a contrib/ directory for user-contributed, unsupported software
If you just want to get the documents, get the contents of the doc/
directory. (If you get the source release, the documents will
come along with it.)
If you want to see what's new with Version 3.0 (in detail, with
pointers to the user guide), just get the postscript document
sm3docdiff.ps from doc/.
If you want to get a Storage Manager, get the following:
doc/install.ps (postscript) or doc/install.ascii (ascii version)
and
release/sm.src.3.0.tar.Z (source release)
release/sm.<machine>.3.0.tar.Z ("binary" release)
where <machine> is one of {dec,sparc,hp}. The
The install.{ps,ascii} contains all the instructions for
getting and installing a release.
The source release includes sources, test programs, and documentation.
If you want to get a Storage Manager, you have a choice: build from
scratch or build from a "binary" release. We recommend the latter.
Even if you choose to build from the "binary" release, you
have to get the source release. The Storage Manager has to be
configured for your site before some of the executables are
built. The "binary" releases contain those executables that
are not subject to the configuration process, and the libraries
needed to build the rest of the executables. The release
cannot be installed with GNU Make.
If you have questions, please send mail to Mike Zwilling
(zwilling@cs.wisc.edu) or Nancy Hall (nhall@cs.wisc.edu).
**********************************************************************
Known Bugs
* If the machine name is misspelled when specifying a client.mount
option in an option configuration file, the client may segmentation
fault without an error message.
* Deletion of bytes from large objects may not be properly
undone (when a transaction is aborted) or recovered after a crash.
Source fixes for these bugs are available in
release/sm.src.patch.3.0.1.tar.Z. "Untar" this file in the src/
directory of the release and it will replace the necessary files. You
can then recompile the SM following the directions in the installation
manual.
**********************************************************************
Future Plans for the Storage Manager
3.0 is our last planned major release. Bugs will be fixed with
minor releases. The SHORE (Scalable Heterogeneous Object REpository)
server will be the successor to the Storage Manager. Plans for SHORE
include an emulator for the Storage Manager.