[cdwg] Lustre 2.4 update - December 21st 2012

[Jones, Peter A]

 Hi there

Here is an update on the Lustre 2.4 release.

Landings
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-A number of landings made - see http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master<http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/b2_3>
-The majority of the patches necessary to support clients for newer 3.x kernels have been landed under LU-1337 and LU-1994

Testing
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-Testing on the 2.3.57 tag has completed; a new tag is expected shortly
-The latest 2.4 code was tested at scale (24 OSS, 114 OST, 437 clients) running SWL on the entire Hyperion cluster; as a result LU-793 has been raised in priority to a blocker

Blockers
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-Full list available at http://jira.whamcloud.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10292<http://jira.whamcloud.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10205>
-If there are any issues not presently marked as blockers that you believe should be, please let me know

Other
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-The master branch is open for feature landings; some initial landings have taken place for both DNE (LU-1188) and NRS(LU-398)

Thanks

Peter