HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

Table Of Contents
What’s New at a Glance
What’s New in the Original 11i v1 Release?
Chapter 2
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CMA threads deprecated and kernel threads implemented. (See “Kernel Threads vs.
CMA Threads” on page 225.)
Amount of private data space available increased. (See “Large Private Data Space”
on page 226.
The creation of unique memory windows for shared objects now allowed for 32-bit
processes. (See “Memory Windows” on page 228.)
Dynamic tunables enabled. (See “Dynamic Tunables” on page 231.)
System-V IPC message queue enhanced. (See “System-V IPC Message Queue
Enhancement” on page 233.)
System-V IPC kernel tunable configuration parameter SEMMSL now a dynamic
kernel tunable. (See “System-V IPC SEMMSL Dynamic Kernel Tunable” on
page 234.)
SCSI Queue depth management enhanced. (See “SCSI Queue Depth Management”
on page 236.)
Chapter 11: Disk and File Management (see page 239)
Striping and mirroring for shared volume groups enabled. (SeeAdditional Support
for Striping and Mirroring” on page 243.)
Journaled File System (JFS) upgraded to version 3.3 (See “New Version of Journaled
File System (JFS)” on page 244.)
Network File System (NFS) now supported over TCP/IP in addition to running over
User Datagram Protocol (UDP). (See “Network File System Support on TCP/IP” on
page 246.)
Also added to NSF are loopback transport support, user-space threads, and
enhancements to NFS server-side performance. (See “Other NFS Changes” on
page 248.)
New daemon, AutoFS, mounts and unmounts NFS file systems automatically with
more reliability than automount. (See “Mounting and Unmounting NFS File
Systems Automatically Using AutoFS” on page 249.)
HP Fibrechannel High Availability Disk and Closure added. (See “HP Fibrechannel
High Availability Disk and Closure” on page 252.)
Chapter 12: Internet and Networking Services (see page 253)
•New version of sendmail, sendmail-8.9.3, included. (See “Sendmail-8.9.3” on
page 260.)
•New version of BIND, BIND 8.1.2, included. (See “BIND 8.1.2” on page 261.)
•The rexecd and remshd services now use Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)
for authentication. (See ““PAM-ized” rexecd and remshd” on page 262.)
Dynamic Host Protocol (DHCP) enabled to perform updates to DDNS. (See “DHCP
with Nonsecure DNS Updates” on page 263.)
Network Transport (including ifconfig, ndd, nestat, virtual IP (VIP) address,
setsockopt, T_OPTMGMT) enhanced. (See “Network Transport” on page 265.)
New version of FTPD enhanced with new features. (See “New Versions of FTPD” on
page 269.)