From 5ed21dc1063ec0b260d68eda16da18fa158e2c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dana Robinson Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:12:54 -0500 Subject: [svn-r29491] Updated SWMR known problems details in RELEASE.txt --- release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 8edbd19..19695c5 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -567,11 +567,14 @@ Please contact help@hdfgroup.org if an issue found is not listed here. (DER - 2016/03/21) - SWMR feature - SWMR feature will work only if an HDF5 file uner SWMR access resides on - the file systems that obey POSIX write() semantics. SWMR will not work on - the network file systems (e.g., NFS, SMB/Windows file shares), since - those systems do not guarantee write odering. SWMR regression tests will - fail if run on a network file system. + The SWMR feature will only work if an HDF5 file under SWMR access resides + on a file system that obeys POSIX write() ordering semantics. Because of + this, SWMR will not work on network file systems (e.g., NFS, SMB/Windows + file shares), since those systems do not guarantee write odering. SWMR + regression tests are likely to fail if run on a network file system. SWMR + is currently not tested on Windows though it can be tested manually + (some of the SWMR test programs are built by CMake) and there are no + obvious reasons for it to not work on NTFS or GPFS. (EIP - 2016/03/20) - VDS feature -- cgit v0.12