Hi,

I recently installed 5.3 on Red Hat Linux EL 3, upgrading from 5.2.4.0.
The config is very small - 15 clients, a disk pool and a tape pool,
a 30-slot SCSI library (Spectra Logic 2K) with two Sony AIT drives.

What's cool in 5.3 is that it uses the Linux SG driver to control SCSI
devices, which means that you are no longer dependent on any
Red Hat or SuSE kernel version. All you need is a distribution with
a compatible level of glibc. I did an install on a Debian unstable
machine with kernel 2.6.9 to test the library and the drives - works
like a charm!

My only problem is that the library does not dismount tapes properly
(see my post earlier this month), but it was doing that even before the
upgrade to 5.3.

As was mentioned, the HTTP interface is deprecated in favor of ISC,
but if you have 'COMMMETHOD HTTP' and 'HTTPPORT' in your
dsmserv.opt, 5.3 will still start, issuing a message that they are
deprecated.

Dmitri
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