What's new in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6324 Beta
Jul 18, 2012
- Finalized translations.
- Updated UI controls to latest.
- Updated installer for compatibility with the next Scanner release.
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6309 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Got rid of short file name support
- After removing a missing disk (not reconnecting it), the pool would still remain in missing disk mode
- disallowing write access to duplicated folders until a reboot
- Physical drive index was not being updated on reboot. Just a UI issue
- Fixed crash on resource exhaustion in the directory listing code. It will now return the proper
- error code. This was extremely rare
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6298 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Fixed disk enumeration, where disks would not come out of a missing state or newly added disks would not
- immediately show up as being part of the pool
- Do not fail when a file needs to be extended due to a file mapping object
- Changes made to dirty pages in a mapped view (section), should be visible to non-mapped reads
- In particular, this was breaking the SQL installer
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6291 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- System crash caused by MDL fix, fixed.
- Fixed notifications.
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6285 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Handle MDLs sent down to the file system properly. MDLs are built by upper filter drivers to describe
- requests that are not coming directly from the original caller. The filters expect the file system to use
- the MDL instead of the user buffer. (e.g. this is sometimes done by anti-virus file system filters)
- Turned off write network I/O priority boost. (CoveFs_BoostNetworkIoPriorityWrite in .config)
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6278 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Sometimes VDS was being queried too often
- After removing a drive, sometimes a full duplication pass was scheduled. This is not necessary unless you
- specified to duplicate later in the remove wizard
- When DrivePool creates new partitions, it will now properly align them on sector / cylinder boundaries
- This was a problem when formatting advanced format disks and was caused by a bug in one of
- the Windows APIs (IVdsPack::CreateVolume)
- Added option to switch the unit type of the file distribution bars on the folder detail panel
- 3 unit types
- By Bytes
- By Disk Usage Percent
- By Percent of Shared Files
- Not shown for folders stored on a single disk
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6257 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Added some extra safeguards against pool parts being listed twice in the Pool tab
- Offline volumes are now enumerated properly
- They will not be listed in the Pool tab
- Pool tab was sometimes refreshing too often. Changed the timings on the pool tab refresh
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6234 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Do not lock Store while waiting for VDS to respond.
- Apparently, VDS locks up while performing server backup, halting all DrivePool UI activity.
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6232 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Fixed Pool tab refreshing constantly.
New in StableBit DrivePool 1.0.2.6229 Beta (Jul 18, 2012)
- Fixed settings / state getting reset on upgrading.
- Added UI option for network I/O prioritization to the Disks DrivePool tab.
- After some testing, this option seems to be effective at minimizing stutter when streaming high bandwidth media
- directly from the server (such as BluRay).
- Moved read striping option to the Disks DrivePool tab.
- D] Added a new read striping algorithm called "block mode" after conducting some testing with read striping.
- CoveFS will select the correct algorithm to use in real-time.
- Added a number of read striping options to .config:
- CoveFs_ReadStripingBlockMode
- CoveFs_ReadStripingStripeSize
- CoveFs_ReadStripingBlockModeNoCache
- D] Added performance measuring instrumentation into the driver.
- Exposed CoveFS performance measurements, in real time, into the Dashboard.
- Hidden feature exposed by hitting 'P' on the DrivePool tab.
- Added read striping and network I/O boost real-time visualizations to the DrivePool Disks tab.
- When these features are actively working, you will see how much pool I/O is being affected, in percentages.
- Fixed installer service not starting on fresh install.
- Fixed delayed action firing too often, affecting much of the application. Delayed actions are used in the service
- and Dashboard, not in the file system.