StoRM v. 1.11.12

Released on 01.09.2017.

Supported platforms: CentOS 6

Description

This release provides fixes to some outstanding bugs and improvements:

• requires Java 8;
• fixes the insertion of a file tape recall task in the recall task management REST API;
• fixes a couple of problems related to namespace and storage area resolution;
• fixes a bug that causes sanity check failures with GPFS version >= 4.2.2;
• adds a REST API to query metadata (online/offline status, checksum, etc.) about filesystem resources managed by StoRM. The main client of this API is the INDIGO-Datacloud CDMI StoRM plugin;
• removes the deprecated storm-gridhttps-plugin.

This release requires gemss version greater than v1.7.2. It doesn’t work with gemss less than or equal to v1.7.2.

This release supports UMD-3 repository and also UMD-4 repository for SL6 with a known issue.

Released components

Bug fixes

• [STOR-282] - Fix overlapping virtual filesystems error in StoRI children creation
• [STOR-898] - Storage-area resolution fails on moving resources through different storage-areas
• [STOR-925] - GPFS drops dev prefix in mtab causing StoRM backend sanity check to fail
• [STOR-929] - Fix StoRM Recall Interface

Enhancements

• [STOR-441] - Migrate RESTFul services to Jersey 2.x
• [STOR-930] - Add Metadata Endpoint
• [STOR-945] - Move to Java 1.8
• [STOR-946] - Remove storm-gridhttps-plugin configuration

Upgrade from earlier StoRM versions

Follow the following instructions when you are upgrading StoRM to v1.11.12.

1. Update the involved packages

Services to be updated are:

• storm-backend-server
• storm-native-libs
• storm-frontend-server
• storm-webdav
• yaim-storm

Example:

$ yum update storm-backend-server storm-frontend-server storm-webdav storm-native-libs yaim-storm

2. Update the namespace schema

You should have a .rpmnew file on disk:

$ cd /etc/storm/backend-server
$ mv namespace-1.5.0.xsd namespace-1.5.0.xsd.rpmold
$ mv namespace-1.5.0.xsd.rpmnew namespace-1.5.0.xsd

3. Remove storm-gridhttps-plugin

It’s a component that is no more used and with old java dependencies that MUST be removed:

$ yum remove storm-gridhttps-plugin

4. Remove old Java versions

Since this version, the storm-backend-server, storm-webdav and storm-native-libs rpms explicitly REQUIRES JAVA 8.

java -version will tell which is the active version on your system:

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_131"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

Remove old java versions installed on your system with the following command:

$ yum remove java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel

If you have a more complex deployment and you can’t remove them, you can try to configure the active JRE using update-alternatives:

$ update-alternatives --config java

5. Relaunch YAIM configuration

Example:

$ /opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s /etc/storm/siteinfo/storm.def \
  -n se_storm_backend \
  -n se_storm_frontend \
  -n se_storm_gridftp \
  -n se_storm_webdav

Clean install

Follow the instructions in the System Administration Guide.