[cdwg] FW: Lustre 2.1 Released

[Hamilton, Pam]

Hi all,

Hopefully, you have all seen Peter's announcement below. This is great news! The weekly Tuesday morning concall (9:30am Pacific) associated with this release is now concluded.

Regards,
Pam

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Pam Hamilton
Lawrence Livermore National Lab 
P.O. Box 808, L-556
Livermore, CA  94551-9900
E-Mail:  pgh at llnl.gov
Phone:  925-423-1332          Fax:  925-423-8719


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lustre-21 at googlegroups.com [mailto:lustre-21 at googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Peter Jones
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:21 PM
> To: lustre-21 at googlegroups.com
> Subject: Lustre 2.1 Released
> 
> Hi there
> 
> It is with great pleasure that I announce that Lustre 2.1 RC2 has been
> declared to be GA. This release can be accessed from the Whamcloud git
> (
> http://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git) via the 2.1.0 or
> v2_1_0_0 tags or else as RPMs from the Whamcloud download site -
> http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/
> 
> This concludes the series of weekly concalls dedicated to this release
> and the updates on this mailing list. Updates and discussion relating
> to
> future releases will be published on the general wc-discuss mailing
> list
> - https://groups.google.com/a/whamcloud.com/group/wc-discuss
> 
> For those interested in some additional background information about
> this - and other - Lustre releases then you may be interested in this
> presentation from the recent EOFS workshop -
> http://www.eofs.org/fileadmin/workshop2011/02_Peter_Jones_Lustre_Releas
> es_-_EOFS_Workshop_Sept_2011_FINAL.pdf
> 
> Thanks to all the members of the Lustre community who have helped with
> this release - either directly through testing and engineering efforts
> or indirectly through expressions of support and encouragement.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter
> Lustre 2.1 Release Manager
> 
> LUSTRE 2.1 RELEASE NOTES
> 
> Release Highlights
> -Full RHEL6\CentOS6 support (server and client)
> -128TB LUN support
> 
> Deprecations
> -Nothing was deprecated from the previous Lustre 2.x release (Lustre
> 2.0)
> 
> Changelogs
> -http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Changelog+2.1
> 
> Known Issues
> -LU110 If upgrading from Lustre 1.8.x and running quotas then mdt quota
> param is not recognized and must be manually reset.
> -LU613 Client lockups could occur while executing binaries from Lustre
> filesystem
> -LU721 Potential race exists so that multiple clients write to the same
> file in parallel can result in data loss if one client closes the file
> after write while other(s) continue the activity
> 
> Notes
> -It is not possible for 2.x clients to work with 1.8 servers, so
> servers
> must be upgraded before/with clients
> - Only full device backup/restore/copy (dd) of the MDT filesystem is
> functional, file-level backup/restore/copy (tar, rsync, cp) will break
> the Object Index (http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation
> Section 17.2)
> 
> Please log any issues found at http://jira.whamcloud.com
> 
> --
> Peter Jones
> Whamcloud, Inc.
> www.whamcloud.com