*************************************************************************************************************************** Bright Technologies, Inc. Bright DataOptimizer Release Notes Version 4.2.1.11030, 2013-03-25 *************************************************************************************************************************** =========================================================================================================================== LEGAL NOTICE =========================================================================================================================== The information contained in this document may change without notice, due to any cause, including software and/or hardware changes. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within, Bright Technologies, Incorporated (hereinafter referred to and acknowledged as BTI) and the author of this document accept no liability for any errors that may occur. BTI hereby expressly disclaims all warranties, express and implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Under no circumstances shall BTI be liable for any consequential, incidental, or special damages, including lost profits, lost data, or lost goodwill, however caused. The information in this document is protected by copyright: Copyright ©2012-2013 Bright Technologies, Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Except as specifically permitted herein, no portion of the information in this document may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written permission of BTI. BrightClip is a registered trademark of Bright Technologies, Inc. STORNEXT is a registered trademark of Quantum Corporation. HyperFS is a trademark of FalconStor Software, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. =========================================================================================================================== PRODUCT NOTICE =========================================================================================================================== Concurrent BDO operations on the same volume are not recommended. This applies to running BDO commands concurrently using the same system and/or using separate systems accessing the same volume. =========================================================================================================================== SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS =========================================================================================================================== BDO VERSION BDO VERSION OPERATING SYSTEM (32- and 64-bit) FOR SNFS FOR HyperFS* =================================================================== RedHat EL/CentOS 5u2+ 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 RedHat EL/CentOS 6 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LES 10 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 SUSE LES 11 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10928 Mac OS X 10.7 Lion 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10928 Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10928 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows XP 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 Windows 7 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 Windows Server 2003 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 Windows Server 2008 4.2.1.11030 4.2.0.10881 ------------------------------------------------------------------- * For HyperFS SAN solutions, the Bright Tech. program * "btexfsd-2.2.1-10881-RHEL5-64" must be installed and running on the metadata server. Please refer to the user guide for details. =========================================================================================================================== KNOWN ISSUES =========================================================================================================================== 1. OS: All. Issue: SNFS 3.5 volumes with Allocation Sessions feature enabled are currently not supported. 2. OS: All. Issue: BDO does not operate on hard-linked files (in which a file link count is greater than 1). The program will display the following message if hard-linked files are encountered, "Failed to analyze directory ...: 95("Operation not supported")". 3. OS: Mac. Issue: When BDO operates on a sequence comprised of files that are larger than 4K media (48.63 MB per file), a follow-up analysis may indicate that the sequence is "out of sequence". This may be due to the files being stored across multiple stripe groups, with a gap between files on the same stripe group. BDO will report such a sequence as needing optimization. However, in such cases, a significant amount of optimization is still achieved. 4. OS: All. Issue: With SNFS, when a single file is specified as the target, BDO does not process the file. Workaround - specify the upper directory as the target (which contains the file); keep in mind that other files in the same directory will be processed by the BDO command. 5. OS: Windows XP. Issue: With HyperFS, a target specified as a relative path is currently not supported. Workaround - use a full path when specifying the target. 6. OS: Windows. Issue: On a shared volume, a Windows client will attempt to follow symbolic links (a.k.a. soft links, symlinks) that were created by a Linux or Mac client. The program will halt with the error, "Unable to stat dir entry...". This is a Windows limitation; no fix is available. =========================================================================================================================== VERSION HISTORY =========================================================================================================================== BDO 4.2.1.11030 (2013-03-26) ---------------------------- 1. Revised the handling of symbolic links (a.k.a. soft links, symlinks) - by default, symbolic links contained within the specified source content will now be followed. The new option --dont-followlinks was added to allow for disabling this default behavior. BDO 4.2.0.11003 (2013-03-12) ---------------------------- 1. Added support for SNFS clients Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion. BDO 4.2.0.10928 (2013-01-07) ---------------------------- 1. Added support for HyperFS clients Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard, 10.7 Lion, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. BDO 4.2.0.10881 (2012-12-04) ---------------------------- 1. No longer supporting Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 32-bit. 2. ISSUE FIXED . OS: Linux (HyperFS MDS). . Issue: With HyperFS, running BDO on the MDS (metadata server) is currently not supported. BDO 4.2.0.10723 (2012-11-12) ---------------------------- 1. Added support for optimized file layout on HyperFS volumes. 2. No longer supporting the following operating systems: RedHat EL/CentOS 4u4+ 32/64-bit Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard BDO 4.2.0.10619 (2012-07-27) ---------------------------- 1. Added a fix for handling the SNFS "file busy" status when a file is opened with a multi-threaded operation. For up to several seconds after opening a file, the SNFS file system maintains "multiple references" to the file. The occur- rence of data corruption was possible when allocating new space for the file content while the multiple references are open. The snfsdefrag program demonstrates the existence of this issue by reporting "file is busy" if multiple references to a file are open. 2. Added '-C, --chunk' option for setting the chunk size used by the -P pre-allocate function (the default is 1 gigabyte). 3. Added the "round" option (also known as "round robin") to the pre-allocate flags for 'univ' and 'advanced', specified as '-P univ,round' or '-P advanced,round'. This round pre-allocator will rotate file allocations across each available stripe group, making use of the -C chunk size where possible. When using '-P advanced,round', files that are larger than the chunk size will be stored using the SNFS volume configuration setting for 'AllocationStrategy'. Unique stripe group affinities are required for using '-P advanced,round'. 4. Added output status reporting of the "round" flag. 5. BDO now includes the Bright Media File Awareness feature through use of the new option, '--patternFilter'. When invoked, BDO will process only the file types specified by the Bright media file filters. This option is disabled by default. 6. Added the capability for BDO to operate on the generic area of a BrightClip workspace. BDO 4.0.1.9920 (2012-01-09) --------------------------- 1. Changed the install path for all installers to use /usr/bti/ instead of /usr/bsi/. 2. Fixed parsing of autodesk file names in the sequence name parser. 3. Modified all Linux and Mac OS X installers to create the /var/log/bright/ directory. BDO 4.0.1.9710 (2011-12-02) --------------------------- 1. Support for StorNext® 4.2 > Includes 3D Stereoscopic Optimizer for 3D files (--merge-3d option). 2. Operating system support: RedHat EL/CentOS 4u4+ 32/64-bit RedHat EL/CentOS 5u2+ 32/64-bit RedHat EL/CentOS 6+ 32/64-bit Windows XP 32/64-bit Windows Server 2003 32/64-bit Windows 7 32/64-bit Windows Server 2008 32/64-bit Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 32-bit Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 32/64-bit SUSE 10 ES 32/64-bit SUSE 11 ES 32/64-bit