[cdwg] Lustre 2.4 update - April 26th 2013

[Dilger, Andreas]

On 2013/30/04 10:40 AM, "Cory Spitz" <spitzcor at cray.com> wrote:

>Also, is it reasonable to use the new e2fsprogs with 1.8.9-wc1 too?  [how
>about earlier 1.8.x releases?]

We haven't made a 1.8.x release with the new e2fsprogs, so this hasn't been
tested very much.  That said, the only potential problems would be in the
lfsck code.  There were changes in the upstream e2fsprogs, which are always
listed in the RELEASE-NOTES file in the source code, or at the e2fsprogs
site:

  http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.42.7

The only Lustre-specific fixes since 1.42.6.wc2 are related to building
against
the newer 2.4 header files, and accommodating some of the changes to the
on-disk
format (LU-2677), as well as some cleanup and code reorganization.

Cheers, Andreas

>On 4/30/13 11:30 AM, "Cory Spitz" <spitzcor at cray.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Is there more detail about the new stable e2fsprogs?  Is there a README
>>or
>>published changelog for e2fsprogs like there is for Lustre?
>>
>>Nevertheless, Cray will restart 2.4 testing with the new e2fsprogs
>>package.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Cory
>>
>>
>>On 4/26/13 6:23 PM, "Jones, Peter A" <peter.a.jones at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there
>>>
>>>Here is an update on the Lustre 2.4 release.
>>>
>>>Landings
>>>========
>>>
>>>-A number of landings made - see
>>>http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/head
>>>s
>>>/
>>>master
>>>
>>>Testing
>>>=======
>>>
>>>-Testing on the 2.3.64 tag is drawing to a close; a new tag is
>>>anticipated early next week
>>>
>>>Blockers
>>>========
>>>
>>>-Full list available at https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/issues/?filter=10292
>>>-If there are any issues not presently marked as blockers that you
>>>believe should be, please let me know
>>>
>>>Other
>>>=====
>>>-New version of e2fsprogs (1.42.7-wc1) released for compatibility with
>>>2.4 features
>>>-We are in the stabilization period for the release now so this is an
>>>ideal time for community members to test tags and open JIRA tickets for
>>>any issues encountered
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Peter


Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger

Lustre Software Architect
Intel High Performance Data Division