Release Notes

None of the lists below are exhaustive. These are just highlights

05/05/2008

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• COMSTAR is now integrated into Solaris Express Community Edition B90.

04/15/2008

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• Bug fixes.

02/20/2008

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• register-lu and deregister-lu options have been removed from sbdadm. create-lu automatically registers the LU and delete-lu does the deregister.
• Added sbdadm import-lu to bring in a previously initialized LU.
• Bug fixes.

02/01/2008

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• SAS Target support. Added port provider for LSI 1068 series of HBAs. See the mptt SAS Target page for more information.
• Support for dynamic LUN expansion and Thin Provisioning in sbd. See this link for more information.
• Support for saving provider private data i.e. sbdadm's LU registrations will now persist across reboots.
• fcinfo support for target mode FC ports. See the updated man page here.
• TPGS support. Now sbd LUNs will show up under MPxIO by default.
• Support for handling FC RSCNs.
• Ability to offline/online individual LUs and Target ports. See the stmfadm man page in the documents section.
• Added support for getting port aliases. Use 'stmfadm list-target -v' to see all the initiators and their respective aliases.
• Lot of bug fixes.

11/14/2007

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What works

• FC target framework
• Qlogic 4G (PCI-X and PCI-e) adapters.
• Qlogic 8G adapters.
• Ability to export 'disk' type logical units from any regular file or raw device.
• smf model for managing service states.
• LUN mapping and masking.
• Persistence of LUN mappings and maskings.
• Persistence of provider private data i.e. remove the need for doing a 'sbdadm lu-register' again after a reboot.

Under development

• RBAC support.
• PGR support
• iSCSI port provider.
• Emulex HBA support.