[cdwg] Lustre 2.4 update - May 24th 2013

[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/b2_4
-Landed support for RHEL6.4 update  (LU-3354); this kernel update meant that an RC2 was required

Testing
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-Testing on the 2.4.0-RC1 tag has completed; testing on RC2 is underway
-RC1 was tested during dedicated time on Hyperion (17 OSS, 34 OSTs and 737 clients)
-ORNL will be testing the latest tag on Titan during a maintenance window this coming week
-Cray have been testing with RC1

Blockers
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-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
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-b2_4 branch now created

Thanks

Peter