Release Notes v7.2.4

The BeeGFS 7.2.4 release includes small bugfixes and QoL improvements and makes BeeGFS compatible with the newest distribution releases and kernels.

General Changes/Improvements

  • Direct I/O re-enabled in native cache mode (had been disabled in 7.2)

  • Storage targets can now also be bound to the underlying filesystems’ UUID (see release notes for 7.2.3 for more information)

  • The InfluxDB driver for beegfs-mon now supports basic authentication

  • BeeHive updates:

    • Only root user can now create or update an index and create a tree-summary table

    • Creating and updating the index can now also create a tree-summary table.

    • All beehive commands were renamed

  • Documentation updates

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with changes in 7.2.3 that made failing resyncs (“Modification resync failed”) more likely under certain workloads

  • Fixed a potential meta service lockup caused by issues with cleaning up worker queues when a resync is aborted

  • Multiple fixes for native mode direct I/O

  • Fixed a possible memory leak caused by failed RDMA connections

Known Issues and Limitations

  • The Metadata daemon does not work reliably on RHEL/CentOS 8 due to a problem in the libc version of RHEL/CentOS 8. The problem was fixed in RHEL/CentOS 8.1.

  • The client module might hang if the IBV device(s) used are taken offline during operation.

  • The client module does not compile on SLES 15.2 with Mellanox OFED 5.2

Supported Linux Distributions and Kernels

Packages are provided for the x86_64 architecture and the following distributions:

  • RHEL 7 and 8

  • SLES 15

  • Debian 9 and 10

  • Ubuntu 18

  • Ubuntu 20

  • Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux 8.4 (pre-release for testing in separate repositories, will likely be merged with RHEL 8 repositories at a later point in time)

The following Mellanox OFED driver versions are supported: 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.9

The full integration test suite was run on CentOS 8.3, RHEL 7.9 and 8.3, SLES 15.1 and SLES 15.2 and Debian 9.11 and 10.7.

Client build testing:

  • RHEL 7.9: no OFED, OFED 4.9, 5.0, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  • RHEL 8.3: no OFED, OFED 4.9, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  • AlmaLinux 8.4: no OFED, OFED 5.3, 5.4

  • Rocky Linux 8.4: no OFED, OFED 5.3, 5.4

  • SLES 15.1: no OFED, OFED 5.0

  • SLES 15.2: no OFED, OFED 5.1, 5.4

  • SLES 15.3: no OFED, OFED 5.4

  • Debian 9: no OFED, 5.4

  • Debian 10: no OFED, OFED 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  • Ubuntu 20: no OFED, 5.4

Version Interoperability

BeeGFS v7.2.4 is compatible with BeeGFS v7.2.x.

Upgrading from Older Versions

To upgrade from an older version, please refer to the Upgrade Guide.