From 1cd47a604aa86c597e7c29707f076988cd7fbcf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Howison Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:39:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 1.6.1 tag --- NEWS | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b405818..28fc909 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ on disk. All Steps Available on Write ---------------------------- -Previously, existing steps in a file were only accessable in read-only mode. +Previously, existing steps in a file were only accessible in read-only mode. Now, all steps are available in all modes, including write-truncate and write-append. Thus, it is now possible to overwrite existing data in write mode. To help alert the user to this possibility, a warning is issued every @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ New Throttling Routine ---------------------- Previously, a throttle factor of N meant that for P processors, the total -number of P writes were divided into N batchs of P/N writes. +number of P writes were divided into N batches of P/N writes. -To better accomodate round-robin lustre striping, the new policy is to +To better accommodate round-robin lustre striping, the new policy is to execute P/N batches of N writes. Thus, matching N to the number of stripes results in the desirable 1-1 matching of writers to stripes. @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ calls. Previously, a user could overrun internal buffers for dataset names. Now, a fixed limit of 64 chars is imposed. Dataset names that are longer than this are truncated and a warning is printed. We expect that most users are using -short canoncical names like x, px, id, etc. +short canonical names like x, px, id, etc. Changes to Existing API -----------------------