It is only relevant for sparse files but the current implementation
has a too high overhead on a single node (~10%). We need to find
a better solution at a later point.

This is an optimization for mdtest which shows very slow performance
in removing files, getting worse with an increasing number of nodes.

Since the introduction of required parameters wasn't possible to show
the help message.
In fact the --help flag was checked after all other parameters.

mdtest summary calculation of multiple iterations might be flawed.
Also Daemon is restarted for each iteration.

Postpone the creation of the OpenFile object until we are sure that the
file actually exists and we have enough access rigths for it.

Problem:
In the case the path for which the check access is performed doesn't
exists the server will set `out.err` with the correct error number (ENOENT).
On client side the value of out.err is used as return value but the
errno variable is not set.

Assert is put after a more detailed error message is written to the log.

Previously, host rpc addresses have been looked up lazily when a request
was done. This is not necessary as all hosts are looked up anyways
while the file system is running.

Now, all RPC addresses are looked up when the environment is initialized.
After that, the rpc_address map is only accessed read-only and does not
require a mutex anymore.

Since POSIX.1-2001 the S_IFMT (0170000) bitmask of the file mode must
contain the file type.

At the moment we correctly support
 - [S_IFREG] regular file
 - [S_IFDIR] directory

Previously, clients would look for the daemon by name which was not robust.
If the daemon was started with valgrind for example, clients would not find
the daemon.

Similar to other applications a daemon now creates a pid file with
information about its pid and its started mountdir.

Proper errorhandling on server and client side was added.

Multiple daemons per node are explicitly not allowed for now!

Previously, we gave already installed libfabric versions no chance
to be detected over exclusively installed libfabric

Review and fixes that died when rebasing all commits

Nafi3 authored Mar 12, 2018 and Marc Vef committed Mar 23, 2018

This commit gives new options regarding separation of metadir and rootdir location. If only rootdir destination is given both metadata and data is stored at the same path

target was the index of the cycle and target[target] was the actual
identifier of the target. In some part of the code target was considered
as the identifier directly.

Now the index of the cycle is i and target is the actual identifier of
the target.

The calculus (on clients) about the last chunk involved into a
write/read operation was bugged.

A new blocks_calc_util library has been introduced in order to make
easier to perform this kind of calculus.

In the case the host running the startup script is not one of the node
that will run adafs it does not make sense to check for the binary of
the daemon locally.