0.9.21

• New feature: --remove-share option that will unwind the files from the storage pool and put them back into the shared folder (landing zone).
• New feature: new drive selection algorithm: least_used_space. Will balance used space instead of free space (most_available_space).
• New feature: greyhole.conf can now include other files, or include the output of an executable. 'man greyhole.conf' for details (first contribution from vena; Thanks!)
• Improvement: Support > 255 characters file paths
• Improvement: better --debug
• Improvement: removed balance_modified_files config option; this is now always enabled, since there's no advantage to have this off.
• Improvement: support remote mounts as storage_pool_drives again.
• Improvement: fsck should check that file copies are NOT symlinks
• Bugfix: Duplicate out of space email notification could be sent
• Bugfix: Empty first drive_selection_group stopped Greyhole from working on any new file.
• Bugfix: protection against files re-appearing when deleted during a fsck
• Bugfix: --find-orphaned-files now work when --dir is a path in the LZ
• Bugfix: extra file copies would sometimes appear, only to be removed during the next fsck
• Bugfix: md5-worker threads were not receiving their drive parameters as expected
• Bugfix: drive_selection_groups for specific shares didn't work. Closes GH-55
• Bugfix: Updated greyhole.conf man page for recent changes

0.9.20

• Fixed typo that prevented 0.9.19 from working!

0.9.19

• Bugfix: trying to use drive_selection_algorithm[ShareName] would just fail, and log a lot of warnings
• Bugfix: postrm script for .deb didn't work for uninstalls
• Improvement: compile smb.conf through testparm
• Improvement: append includes in greyhole.conf

0.9.18

• Improvement: performance improvement on fsck & when working on large number of small files
• Improvement: Allow MB & KB in storage_pool_drive lines, for the min_free value. Only GB was allowed before.
• Bugfix: symlinks were mixed up when /usr/lib64 is a symlink pointing to /usr/lib
• Bugfix: Quiet warning on first start (when metadata store backups is undefined)
• Bugfix: delete symlink(s) created on post-install on update/remove.
• Bugfix: quiet warning on fsck_file when no metadata files exists anymore (file was deleted)
• Documentation: Missing required package (php-intl) in INSTALL file
• Documentation: More detailed instructions on how to choose the LZ

0.9.17

• Improvement: .greyhole_uses_this files are not needed anymore
• Improvement: new man pages for greyhole, greyhole-dfree and greyhole.conf
• Improvement: more directory > drive refactoring; dir_selection_* config options are now drive_selection_*
• Improvement: a single fsck for all shares will now be split in a fsck for each share
• Improvement: added necessary PID file to use monit (or similar) when using Upstart (Ubuntu 10+)
• Improvement: now using scheduled fsck for missing or re-appearing drives
• New feature: greyhole.conf controls daemon niceness (default to 1)
• New feature: --fix-symlinks will try to fix all broken symlinks in your Landing Zone
• New feature: --delete-metadata; used when you want to delete all metadata about a specific file
• New feature: Support for Samba 3.6
• Bugfix: New Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit installs wouldn't allow clients to connect to Greyhole shares
• Bugfix: prevent a --going drive from being used for new files copies
• Bugfix: correctly handle duplicate files that have the same name, but use different UTF-8 characters
• Bugfix: adding sysstat dependency, to install the necessary iostat binary used by --iostat
• Bugfix: When displaying the backtrace, PHP objects in arguments would cause a PHP warning, thus hiding the real cause of the warning/error
• Bugfix: stop mv tasks from creating empty directories where unmounted (missing) storage pool drives were
• Bugfix: preserve modification time (etc.) when using cp instead of rsync to create file copies
• Bugfix: don't use (valid or not) file copies that are on storage pool drives that are not part of the pool anymore when trying to create extra copies, during --fsck
• Bugfix: Quiet warning for missing drives on --stats
• Bugfix: some minor fixes (warnings, backtrace, etc.)

0.9.16

• New feature: --iostat; was undocumented feature; display I/O stats for the drives in your pool
• New feature: --logs tails greyhole.log so you can see log entries as they appear
• Bugfix: A re-appearing drive, or --wait-for command, would stop the Greyhole daemon
• Bugfix: PHP Fatal errors weren't logged in greyhole.log
• Bugfix: .deb files were not getting signed correctly by the build script
• Bugfix: daemon could fall in an infinite loop if the file it's working on disappears during processing
• Bugfix: stop fsck from trying to create more copies when one or more drives are unmounted
• Improvement: storage pool directories are now called storage pool drives
• Improvement: better handling of missing mount in --stats and settings backup
• Improvement: adding default value for delete_moves_to_trash: yes
• Improvement: You can now log to syslog instead of a standard file
• Improvement: --going will fix all symlinks before telling you it's now safe to disconnect your drive

0.9.15

• Bugfix: greyhole-dfree logged a warning each time it was called

0.9.14

• New feature: --fsck --checksums
• New feature: --fsck --delete-orphaned-metadata
• Bugfix: prevent Greyhole from writing metadata files in directories where a mount disappeared after the current --fsck started
• Bugfix: prevent an infinite loop that could occur when creating new directories
• Bugfix: some fsck details were missing from emailed report
• Bugfix: better balancing during a drive replacement fsck
• Bugfix: during fsck, don't treat temporary files as real orphaned files, just delete them
• Bugfix: quiet greyhole-dfree warnings when some storage pool directories became unavailable
• Bugfix: USAGE file asked user to make a copy of greyhole.example.conf; this is already taken care of in INSTALL and in RPM/DEB packages
• Improved logging when creating new file copies (during fsck and normally)
• Improvement: Now using cp instead of rsync by default for file copies
• Improvement: settings are now backed up to the data drives, and automatically restore when needed
• Improvement: new recommendations on dir_selection_algorithm
• Improvement: you can now use the keyword 'max' in greyhole.conf num_copies settings
• Improvement: Outputting more details on RPM installs, to try to identify the problem with the missing symlinks on Amahi's hda-greyhole updates
• Improvement: make sure all fsck_file tasks have been executed before running another fsck
• Improvement: will read more spooled tasks at once, instead of wasting time listing again and again the spool directory
• Improvement: Better --status report
• Improvement: increased max queued tasks default for MySQL from 100K to 10M
• Improvement: fixed double-/ typos in log
• Improvement: various code refactoring, quiet warnings, etc.
• Improvement: more verbose PHP warnings in log
• Improvement: faster MySQL query to find the next tasks (added correct index)
• Improvement: better looking --view-queue
• Improvement: --status now detects when the daemon is stopped
• Improvement: better looking logs when multiple threads are doing logging simultaneously
• Improvement: simplified code that checks & mails fsck logs
• New build scripts; cleaner and more automated than the previous uncommitted scripts I used to create new builds
• Committing logo PSD
• Clean up: remove --postrotate and --prerotate commands
• Minor cosmetic changes in the code

0.9.13

• Bugfix: deleting a file would sometimes make Greyhole fell in an infinite loop of doing nothing
• Bugfix: /usr/share/greyhole/USAGE file was missing from RPM

0.9.12

• Bugfix: config parser was confused when storage_pool_directory lines were after dir_selection_algorithm line(s); issue appeared in 0.9.10, and affect mostly Amahi users, since they have those lines in reverse of the example conf that other users used.