It’s been 5 long months since the last release of any kind for us unRAID users, but two days ago beta 7 made its way on the download block. From the unRAID forum, this is what is included/fixed with this release:
Changes from 4.5-beta6 to 4.5-beta7
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Bug fixes:
- If 'config/style.css' is not present, then don't tell browser to load it.
- Fixed kernel crash when number of drives > 17, now correctly supports up to 20 drives ('Pro' issue only).
Other changes:
- Prevent disks appearing 'unformatted' as a result of incomplete Stop Array operation.
- Add driver for Adaptec 2410SA PCI RAID card (untested).
- Upgrade linux kernel to 2.6.30.8
- Upgrade samba to 3.3.7
- Upgrade fuse to 2.8.1
You can download it directly from here, or take it easy on Tom and grab the torrent here.
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Beta8 is out now, and has some serious performance boosts:
unRAID Server 4.5-beta8 Release Notes
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Changes from 4.5-beta7 to 4.5-beta8
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New features:
- Enable ‘Cache Drive’ feature with ‘Plus’ registration key.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed path length limitation in user share file system.
- Fixed incorrect handling of file/directory mode and extended attributes in user share file system.
- Fixed intermittant kernel crash with more than 19 hard drives in array.
Other changes:
- Increased write peformance and added three user-tunables:
md_num_stripes to set the stripe cache size
md_write_limit to set a ceiling on most number of active write stripes
md_sync_window to set the parity sync/check window size in stripes
- The ‘mover’ script now uses ‘rsync’ to move files from the Cache drive to the array.
- Upgrade linux kernel to 2.6.31.5
- Changed linux kernel preemption model to “Voluntary Kernel Preemption”.
- Enable Samba asynchronous I/O.
- Changed ‘ide_core’ from module to built-in.
Cool…just got back from vacation so this will be nice getting home to!