[cdwg] Lustre 2.4.2 released

[Jones, Peter A]

We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.4.2 Release has been declared GA and is available for download<http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-maintenance-release/> . You can also grab the source from git<http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=30aa3cadaab6d58cd37d8e33e1ab8e8f98b4859d>

The release highlights are

LU-3027<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3027>: A race condition  that could result in mis-reporting of file size has been corrected
LU-3430<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3430> : A rare race that could result in an LBUG on an OSS while running the orr policy for NRS has been fixed
LU-3934<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3934>: Fixed an upgrade problem that prevented files created under 1.8.x being accessible

Fuller details can be found in the change log<https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Changelog+2.4>

The following are known issues in the Lustre 2.4.2 Release:

LU-3544<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3544>: Re-exporting Lustre over NFS from SLES11 SP2 has known issues
LU-4222<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4222>:  A race condition exists when mounting multiple filesystems from the same client

Work is in progress for these issues.

Please log any issues found in the issue tracking system<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/>