[PATCH] More WHATSNEW

[Michael Adam]

Reviewed-by: /me

On 2014-09-20 at 17:39 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Please review&push!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Volker
> 
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> From 7e7745e4a0936a07de9b1c646f87eefc6cb792a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:16:49 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] WHATSNEW: Mention tdb mutexes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> ---
>  WHATSNEW.txt |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
> index e9a5627..a474d7e 100644
> --- a/WHATSNEW.txt
> +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
> @@ -95,6 +95,22 @@ systematized and subcommands for reading and writing the autorid idmap
>  database have been added. Note that the writing commands should be
>  used with great care. See the net(8) manual page for details.
>  
> +tdb improvements
> +================
> +
> +The tdb library, our core mechanism to store Samba-specific data on disk and
> +share it between processes, has been improved to support process shared robust
> +mutexes on Linux. These mutexes are available on Linux and Solaris and
> +significantly reduce the overhead involved with tdb. To enable mutexes for
> +tdb, set
> +
> +dbwrap_tdb_mutexes:* = yes
> +
> +in the [global] section of your smb.conf.
> +
> +Tdb has furthermore improved to manage its file space more efficiently. This
> +will lead to smaller and less fragmented databases.
> +
>  
>  ######################################################################
>  Changes
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
> 
> From 1b2b0c1df9346ee34e97b0d99cca112528ab84e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:20:11 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] WHATSNEW: Mention unix domain datagram messaging
> 
> Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
> ---
>  WHATSNEW.txt |    7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
> index a474d7e..6fd9261 100644
> --- a/WHATSNEW.txt
> +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
> @@ -111,6 +111,13 @@ in the [global] section of your smb.conf.
>  Tdb has furthermore improved to manage its file space more efficiently. This
>  will lead to smaller and less fragmented databases.
>  
> +Messaging improvements
> +======================
> +
> +Our internal messaging subsystem, used for example for things like oplock
> +break messages between smbds or setting a process debug level dynamically, has
> +been rewritten to use unix domain datagram messages.
> +
>  
>  ######################################################################
>  Changes
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 

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