Author Archives: maru

This version of lessfs comes with a large number of changes and improvements. Lessfs now returns -ENOSPC by default when it runs out of space. Lessfs will now try to reuse deleted data chunks aggressively when it reaches MIN_SPACE_FREE – … Continue reading →

Lessfs now comes with a diesel Engine. As of release 1.4.0 it also supports Berkeley DB as backend for the meta data of the filesystem. Reason for adding support for Berkeley DB is not that it was sexy to introduce … Continue reading →

Lessfs 1.3.3.12 adds support for hamsterdb to the listdb utility. When lessfs is used with batch replication the master will now close the replication log file after reaching ROTATE_REPLOG_SIZE or after 15 minutes, whichever comes first.

This version of lessfs introduces a number of new features. When the master is configured with REPLICATION_PARTNER_IP=-1 it will automatically create numbered replication logfiles. These log files can either be used with replogtool or you can transfer them to the  … Continue reading →

This version of lessfs introduces a brand new tool: replogtool replogtool makes it possible to manually synchronize a lessfs slave server with the master server by simply copying the masters replogfile to the slave and apply it with replogtool like … Continue reading →

This version of lessfs comes with slightly improved read performance. Parts of the lessfs_read routine have been reviewed and optimized. A potential race condition has been solved as well.

Lessfs-1.3.3.7 mostly a bug fix release. Only minor problems where solved. See Changelog for details.

This release contains major changes of the replication code which is now much more mature. I also decided not to upload a separate SRPM. Lessfs comes with one spec file for tokyocabinet and one for hamsterdb. The SPEC files have … Continue reading →

This is a bug fix release only. The most prominent bug that has been fixed was cache corruption when lessfs was used with hamsterdb. A problem with hamsterdb was also identified and solved. Hamsterdb will release 1.1.9 shortly.

Lessfs-1.3.3 is purely a bugfix release. Replication has been improved. A number of smaller issues with the hamsterdb backend have been solved as well.