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This changes the way the AFS::Object::VLDB data can be extracted. In 1.0,
the API allowed AFS::Object::VLDBEntry object to be queried only by name,
but 3 new methods calls allow this data to be queried by numeric ID as well
as name:


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<PRE>    getVLDBEntryById($id)
    getVLDBEntryByName($name)
    getVolumeIds()
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The API for getVLDBEntry has changed, and the single argument usage:


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<PRE>    getVLDBEntry($name)         # DEPRECATED!!!!
</PRE>

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has been deprecated. If warnings are enabled (perl -w), then the API will
carp at you. In the next release (1.2), that usage will no longer be
supported. Upgrade your code, or pay the price.


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The new usage of getVLDBEntry is one of:


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<PRE>    getVLDBEntry( name =&gt; $name )
    getVLDBEntry( id =&gt; $id )
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The internal method <CODE>_addEntry()</CODE> now manages the data by id as
well as name, but you're not supposed to know that anyway...


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<H1><A NAME="Bugs">Bugs

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<H2><A NAME="AFS_Command_BOS_status">AFS::Command::BOS->status

</A></H2>
When querying a specific instance, if it wasn't there, the API would try to
add an undefined instance object to the result, and croak. Now, you just
get a result object with no instances.


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<H2><A NAME="AFS_Command_FS_several_metho">AFS::Command::FS->(several methods)

</A></H2>
If you pass a list of paths to methods such as <CODE>whichcell(),</CODE>
then the error handling was a bit intrusive. The way it used to work, in
1.0, was to return an error if we didn't see output for one or more of the
paths. Now, the code is more forgiving, and if have no idea what happened
for one of the given paths, we'll return a Path object for that path which
has a generic error.


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<H2><A NAME="AFS_Command_FS_lsmount">AFS::Command::FS->lsmount

</A></H2>
The ``File 'foo' doesn't exist'' error message wasn't trapped as a
recognized error. It is now.


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<H2><A NAME="AFS_Command_FS_sysname">AFS::Command::FS->sysname

</A></H2>
The pattern matching was a bit greedy and the trailing single quote was
showing up in the returned sysname value.


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