StableBit DrivePool for Windows Home Server 2011 Beta 1.0.2.6131 released

There has been another beta build from CoveCube! StableBit DrivePool development marches on – now its version 1.0.2.6131.

Here is how CoveCube describes this application:

• Combine all your hard drives into one big storage pool (except the system drive with the OS).
• Add and remove drives from the pool at any time without re-partitioning or manually moving folders.
• Create duplicated folders on the storage drive pool that are protected against single drive failure. If a drive fails on which a duplicated file was stored, the contents of that file will remain readable even without the drive.
• All your data is stored in standard NTFS files. You can always access your files even if the Windows Home Server completely crashes or this add-in can’t be used.

This beta version’s change log:

1.0.2.6131

* [D] Added option to boost read I/O priority of network originated I/O requests over most other I/O. Off by default. (CoveFs_BoostNetworkIoPriority in .config)

* [D] Corrected real-time file placement algorithm when using multiple partitions on the same physical disk. Sometimes, it would not select the partition with the most free space. Generally applies to disks > 2TB+.

* [D] Updated locking model based on some reverse engineering of Windows internals.

* [D] Fixed share access delegation between memory mapped file I/O and non-memory mapped file I/O.

* [D] Prevent file truncation, when mapped sections exist and the truncation would overlap the memory mapped region.

* [D] Virtual memory mapped section synchronization with on-disk data for writes. This issue was exposed by Microsoft Forefront Client Security which memory maps all files and expects that mapping to be in sync with the on-disk data.

* Updated deployment to be in sync with Scanner.