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The restart should take less then five minutes. Stopping the redirectors first prevents clients being redirected and the chance that a file is not found because a data server is being restarted. The clients will wait while the xrootds are down and reconnect once the data servers and redirectors are up.

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This update will not change the xrootd client binaries it will only change the xrd.pl
perl script.

The layout directory structure of the xrootd application area changed switching changed. Instead of keeping releases in afs-sysname and /release-name they are now in dist/release-name
/afs-sysname (e.g.: i386_rhel30/20080728-0933v1 to dist/20080728-0933v1/i386_rhel30).