"created the osd branch within 2.8.4 stock code"

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AUTHORS

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+
+Design and development of PVFS2 is lead by a collaboration of
+researchers from the following institutions*:
+
+Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory at
+  Clemson University 
+
+Mathematics and Computer Science Division at
+  Argonne National Laboratory
+
+
+*All named authors are associated with one of these institutions.
+Other contributors are listed in the CREDITS file.
+
+
+Active Authors (Maintainers)
+============================
+
+core design, documentation and implementation by:
+
+Robert Ross <rross@mcs.anl.gov>
+Walt Ligon <walt@parl.clemson.edu>
+Phil Carns <pcarns@parl.clemson.edu>
+Robert Latham <robl@mcs.anl.gov>
+
+
+Other Authors
+=============
+
+Neill Miller <neillm@mcs.anl.gov> (01/2003 - 01/2005)
+-- retired author, maintainer, and release manager
+
+Frank Shorter <fshorte@parl.clemson.edu>
+-- client side API development, system test harnesses
+
+Harish Ramachandran <rharish@parl.clemson.edu>
+-- initial client side API implementation
+
+Dale Whitchurch <dalew@parl.clemson.edu>
+-- initial server state machine implementation
+
+Mike Speth <mspeth@parl.clemson.edu>
+-- some PTS correctness tests
+
+Brad Settlemyer <bradles@CLEMSON.EDU>
+-- distribution framework enhancements

CREDITS

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+Active contributors
+===================
+
+Pete Wyckoff <pw@osc.edu>
+-- Infiniband support
+   little endian encoding/decoding
+   IA64/Alpha clean compilation fixes
+   extensive testing
+
+Jiesheng Wu <wujs@mcs.anl.gov>
+-- buffer cache development (in progress)
+
+Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>
+-- extensive testing and suggestions (linux vfs interface)
+   various pvfs2-client related patches (noted in cvs logs)
+   authored the pvfs2-chown admin utility program
+   detailed bug reporting and analysis
+   fixed permissions on newly created dirs using pvfs2-mkdir
+   misc formatting patches
+   misc warning removals
+
+Murali Vilayannur <vilayann@mcs.anl.gov>
+-- testing and development
+   initial linux 2.4.x prototype (before 2.6.x merge)
+   initial 64-bit operation tag implementation (in kernel)
+   misc kernel code bug fixes
+
+Sven Marnach <sven@pvs.informatik.uni-heidelberg.de>
+-- fixed makefile LD selection and html docs target
+
+Philipp Sadleder <philipp@sadleder.de>
+-- reported a problem with large username handling in pvfs2-ls
+   extended pvfs2-cp to truncate target files if they exist
+-- Updated documentation for dist-simple-stripe.c and modified
+   the basic distribution to use a single data file object.
+
+David Beilloin <dbeilloi@mc.com>
+-- reported that temp configuration files on the client should be
+   created in /tmp (if possible) rather than the current directory
+   since pvfs2 programs may be run from slow file systems (such as
+   NFS)
+-- reported memory leak in pvfs2-rm admin tool
+-- contributed resource reclamation on some failure cases
+-- contributed strip size to pvfs2-cp
+
+Phil Carns and David Metheny
+- lots of cleanups to the VFS and system interfaces
+- contributed pvfs2-stat, pvfs2-ln, cleanups to pvfs2-mkdir and pvfs2-rm
+- cleanups to pvfs2-genconfig
+- config file enhancements
+- /sbin/mount.pvfs2 helper tool for 2.4 kernels
+- contributed support for /etc/mtab as an additional source for a pvfs2 tabfile
+  entry
+
+
+
+Other contributors
+==================
+
+Georg Kraml <georg@ads.tuwien.ac.at>
+-- AVL tree implementation (public domain)
+
+Lukas Schroeder's
+-- the general purpose dotconf (http://www.azzit.de/dotconf/)
+   project for configuration file parsing (LGPL)
+
+Mark Veltzer
+-- realized the single makefile approach used in pvfs2
+
+Dan Nurmi
+-- started work on the PTS back when the P stood for pvfs-1
+
+Bitstream, Inc.
+-- The fonts used in the pvfs2 visualization tools (src/apps/vis)
+   (may be redistributed subject to the license which is embedded in
+   the font files themselves)
+
+SDL project
+-- pvfs2-config borrows heavily from sdl-config
+
+Kyle Schochenmaier
+-- Ported BMI InfiniBand to OpenIB API
+

ChangeLog

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+-----------------------
+OrangeFS Release ChangeLog
+-----------------------
+orangefs-2.8.4
+* Change verisioning to no longer include dates, just increment the sub version for every release
+
+orangefs-2.8.3-20110323
+* Bug fix: resolve assert in dbpf_open_cache_remove() when using tree code for file remove
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20110322141529
+
+* Bug fix: PINT_dist_encode() segfault in pvfs2-server caused by the client create state machine not sending dist information on create retries.
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110322014656 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110322031703
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110322040628
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110322114637
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110322121208 
+
+* Bug fix: fix incorrect attribute output using sys attrs
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110301023749
+
+* Bug fix: fix segfault in pvfs2-server if client provides too large of buffer in the list-eattr state machine. Includes additional sanity checks on extended attribute operations
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110225222047
+
+* Bug fix: merge dir.c fix from main branch
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20110126215228 
+
+* Bug fix: resolve data corruption caused by ki_pos not being updated during synchronous I/O through asynchronous path (relevant to newer kernels).
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110123143300
+
+* Bug fix: fix resolving symbolic links from pvfs2-* utilities
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110114215452 
+
+* Bug fix: Fix ncache entry update when moving files by David Metheny
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110111154332 
+
+* Bug fix: PVFS_hint_add fix by Julian Kunkel and refinement of patch
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110105051448 
+	CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20110224203131
+
+* Bug fix: change where unlocks occur w.r.t __PVFS_JOB_THREADED__ to prevent deadlock
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221163004
+
+* Bug fix: change incorrect use of union members in tree-communicate
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101214182035 
+
+* Bug fix: initialize values in trove-migrate to resolve segfault
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20101213175120 
+
+* Bug fix: pvfs2-mkspace not set collection-only properly
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20101213174458
+
+* Bug fix: update iteration in quickhash to use safe variant
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101207004159 
+
+* Bug fix: null handle/fs_id sent to getattr in client create state machine
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20101201170021
+
+* Added support for newer (> 2.6.18) kernels up through 2.6.34.
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101216185529 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221153412 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221153514
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221153709
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221153806 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221154012 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221154240 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221160327
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110123143015 
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110124130323
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110203182026
+
+* Added beginning of new user interface
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:walt:20110208213934
+
+* Cleanup: change PINT_dist_finalize to unregister and free distributions cleanly
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221163224 
+
+* Cleanup: delete items from timer queue list when element is freed
+        CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20101221163041
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+orangefs-2.8.2-20100920
+* Changed unstuff state machine to handle writing to files with read-only
+permissions on create 
+	CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20100920181650
+
+* Bug fix for kernel panics from list corruption
+	CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20100915132022 
+
+* Trove version increase to 0.1.5 to support precreate pools of multiple types
+	CVS: Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20100908153740
+
+* PJMP memory leak fix
+	CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20100906203050
+
+* BMI memory leak fix
+	CVS: Orange-Branch:bligon:20100831190531,
+	     Orange-Branch:bligon:20100831190748,
+	     Orange-Branch:bligon:20100902155433

INSTALL

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+Please see the quickstart guide which can be generated with
+`make docs` and found in:
+
+doc/pvfs2-quickstart.pdf
+doc/pvfs2-quickstart.ps
+
+Also available at:
+http://www.orangefs.org/documentation/releases/current/doc/pvfs2-quickstart.pdf