[cdwg] Lustre 2.5 update - August 2nd 2013

[Jones, Peter A]

Hi there

Here is an update on the Lustre 2.5 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

-Now that the Feature Freeze has passed, the full list of features in 2.5 is known

Xattr Cache (LU-2869)
LNET router improvements  (LU-2934/2950)
Errno translation (step towards sparc support) (LU-2743)
Permanent Parameters option for lctl set_param (LU-3155)
Reduce ldlm_poold cpu utilization (LU-2924)

HSM (LU-3608) There is still some remaining work for this to be feature complete. As per the discussion on the CDWG call on Wednesday we are going to see we have extended the landing window for these patches only in view of the high interest in this feature and the belief that this work is close to completion. I will send out another update early next week with the final outcome on this.

  *   POSIX Copy tool  http://review.whamcloud.com/#/c/4737/
  *   Disaster Recovery http://review.whamcloud.com/#/c/7027/
  *   Coordinator http://review.whamcloud.com/#/c/6912/

Testing
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- Testing on the 2.4.52 tag is complete; testing on the 2.4.53 tag is ongoing

Blockers
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-Full list available at https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LU%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22Lustre%202.5.0%22%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker%20ORDER%20BY%20key%20DESC

-If there are any issues not presently marked as blockers that you believe should be, please let me know

Other
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-We are trialling using the Fix In Release field for the 2.5 release to track work hoped to be included in the release; this means that a fuller picture of the progress on the release can be viewed at https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU/fixforversion/10295#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aversion-issues-panel

-Feature Freeze is now in effect and 2.5 has entered its stabilization period. We encourage community members to test out the latest code on master and to use JIRA (https://jira.hpdd.intel.com) to report any bugs encountered

-You can also keep up to date with matters relating to the 2.5 release on the CDWG wiki - http://wiki.opensfs.org/Lustre_2.5.0


Thanks

Peter