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finally found the time to update the Subversion support for the RedayNAS (Sparc) to 1.6.11. As this is a minor update it just contains bug fixes from previous releases but no new features.

Along with the update for the Subversion add-on I also upgraded the WebSVN add-on to its current version 2.3.1. This release also includes the patch to allow for creating repositories from within WebSVN.

Along with the update for the Subversion add-on I also upgraded the WebSVN add-on to its current version 2.3.1. This release also includes the patch to allow for creating repositories from within WebSVN.

I finally found the time to update the Subversion support for the RedayNAS (Intel) to 1.6.11. As this is a minor update it just contains bug fixes from previous releases but no new features.

This version fixes a problem where the files could end up on the normal, space limited root drive instead of the larger NAS volume.

It is strongly recommended to upgrade to this release if you are running an older version.

This release contains a bunch of changes and bug fixes for the Bacula backup system. In addition the sample config files now come with a -sample extension, preventing the already existing files from getting overwritten on updates.

Bacula is a set of Open Source, enterprise ready, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

Setting up Bacula is no easy job. So be sure to read the manual or at least the quick run-through in the Wiki.

From the Changelog:

Lars Ellenberg
  o improve IETs procfs support to allow a larger number of targets
  o compatibility fix for 2.6.28 (independently also provided by Francois
    Micaux)
  o ignore SIGPIPE in ietd
  o allow cleanup of stale targets in the kernel module

Andreas Florath
  o support for a global worker threadpool instead of per target pools
    (configurable via the worker_thread_pool_size module parameter)

Arne Redlich
  o compatibility fixes for 2.6.30, 2.6.29
  o in cooperation with Xie Gang: Unit Attention support (thanks to Stefan
    Rubner for spotting a bug)
  o in cooperation with Shreyansh Jain: support for splitting text messages into
    several PDUs, allowing more targets to be reported during discovery
    (thanks to Cheng Rengquan for bugfixes)
  o clean up all connections, sessions and targets in the kernel module if the
    daemon is gone
  o rework sense data handling, plugging memleaks
  o fix valgrind warnings of uses of uninitialized variables
  o support for Reject PDUs (thanks to FUJITA Tomonori for a bugfix)
  o fix SERVICE ACTION IN: IET only supports READ CAPACITY 16, return sense data
    for all others
  o allow READ CAPACITY even if a LU is RESERVEd
  o iSNS: report the actual target port instead of the default iSCSI port
  o fix list corruption if target thread creation fails
  o fix stopping of threads that have never been awakened before
  o fix CHAP account handling bugs
  o fix netlink socket cleanup
  o code cleanups

Cheng Renquan
  o remove superfluous linefeed from debug messages
  o enable runtime switching of debug levels for the kernel module and
    provide description for the module's debug flags parameter

sdrb
  o return proper status class in case of login failures

Ross S. W. Walker
  o support more than one portal per target during discovery, and allow
    configuration of the presented portals using targets.allow - previously only
    the incoming interface was reported (thanks to David Shirley for
    reporting a bug)
  o deprecate initiators.allow
  o regex based filtering in initiators.allow and targets.allow
  o move config files to /etc/iet
  o add version and author info and description to kernel module
  o fix debug log levels
  o fix ietd.conf permissions
  o move kernel module to /lib/modules/<kver>/extra where it belongs
  o improve init scripts, using common names and functions across distributions
  o improve usage comments in ietd.conf
  o specfile to build RPMs, including weak module support
  o DKMS support

Ming Zhang
  o Use the LU's sector size in the format mode page instead of defaulting to 512

This version includes the files needed for the neon library. These seem to be missing on some systems, most likely all Pioneer Editions.

With mod_deflate, the Apache web server on the ReadyNAS is able to compress content sent to clients in real time. This saves bandwith and thereby speeds up content delivery, which turn makes for a reception on the users side. Due to CPU constraints on the Sparc-based ReadyNAS line, compression levels are set quite conservative so to not stress the CPU too much when delivering a lot of content.
Note: In addition to mod_deflate, this addon also installs mod_info which is neede to determine the state of mod_deflate (active/inactive) at runtime.