What's new

This update of the top level BDII enables support for OpenLDAP 2.4 and addresses the degradation problems seen in production.

The main problem addressed in this release is the fix for the performance degradation problem seen in production by some sites. For more details about this fix please see the relevant bug report. In order to fix this issue, OpenLDAP 2.4 is required and this release contains the necessary changes that enable this version to be used. Another performance improvement is the option to use a RAM disk for the database files.

Please note that if you set BDII_RAM_DISK=yes it is advisable to have at least 4GB of RAM in the machine, because a lot of space can be taken by the transaction log files of the LDAP DB (depending on the log level).

Bugs fixed and new features

• Please make symlinks within python-dpm relative (bug #73077)
• servers crash when client passes too many FQANs in the proxy (bug #72382)
• possibility to set an environment variable RFIO_TRACEFILE
• possibility to set the log level when starting rfiod (option -L)
• new method rfio_rcp (third party rfcp)
• banning of users and groups (bug #43710)
• use finger to determine home directory only when starting service (bug #69716)
• remove bashisms in LFC/DPM init scripts (bug #68430)

Bugs fixed and new features

• Please make symlinks within python-dpm relative (bug #73077)
• servers crash when client passes too many FQANs in the proxy (bug #72382)
• possibility to set an environment variable RFIO_TRACEFILE
• possibility to set the log level when starting rfiod (option -L)
• new method rfio_rcp (third party rfcp)
• banning of users and groups (bug #43710)
• use finger to determine home directory only when starting service (bug #69716)
• remove bashisms in LFC/DPM init scripts (bug #68430)
• fix memory leak in the SRM server due to a VOMS library problem (bug #71041)
• xrootd plugin v2.2 - https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/DpmXrootAccess22