2.4 What’s New or Changed in NSS (OES 11 SP2)

In addition to bug fixes, NSS provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 11 SP2:

  • _admin supports up to 64 concurrent requests: The re-entrance issue in the _admin for user space calls has been resolved, and it can handle up to 64 concurrent requests.

  • file.cmd Supports All NSS Namespaces and Nametypes: The file.cmd interface now works with all the NSS supported nametypes (regular, deleted file) and namespaces (DOS, UNIX, LONG, Macintosh).

  • NSS Change Owner Utility (nsschown): The nsschown utility has been introduced in OES 11 SP2 to identify the files and directories that have obsolete owners, and to list or change the files owned by existing or obsolete owners for directories or files in an NSS volume. For more information, see nsschown in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

  • Rights to Files and Folders: Using the Users or Groups plug-in, you can add or modify rights to files and folders for a user or group on a specified volume from a Rights to Files and Folders tab. You can do this even while creating users or groups. You can also verify the explicit rights of a user or group on a given volume. For more information, see Managing Rights in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

  • View Effective Rights: In iManager, using the Files and Folders plug-in, you can view the effective rights that a trustee has on a folder or file. For more information, see Managing Rights in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

  • Linux Multipath I/O Changes in SLES 11 SP3: The Linux Device Mapper - Multipath software deprecated some attributes and modified some default settings for attributes in the /etc/multipath.conf file in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3. After upgrading to SLES 11 SP3, the multipathd daemon might not work with your existing multipath configuration file. Ensure that you verify your /etc/multipath.conf file before you start the multipathd daemon after an upgrade to OES 11 SP2. For information about the latest attributes and default settings, see the multipath.conf(5) man page after you install or upgrade the server. For more information, see Linux Multipath I/O Changes in SLES 11 SP3 in the OES 11 SP3: Novell Cluster Services for Linux Administration Guide.

  • New metamig Export Option: A new export option (-p) has been added to metamig. This option exports the metadata of all the files under a given path. For more information, see the metamig man page. For more information, see metamig in the OES 11 SP3: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.