[cdwg] Lustre 2.6 update - April 11th 2014

[Jones, Peter A]

Hi there

Here is an update on the Lustre 2.6 release.

Landings
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-A number of landings made http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master
-LU-4008 Is an important fix for larger systems (400 OSTs and up)

Testing
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-Testing on the 2.5.57 tag is ongoing

Blockers
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-https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/issues/?filter=10944<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LU%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22Lustre%202.6.0%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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-Feature freeze is now in effect for 2.6 and we are in the stabilization period, focusing on testing and bug fixing

Thanks

Peter

PS/ As per Cory’s suggestion, I have added this content to  http://wiki.opensfs.org/Lustre_2.6.0
PPS/ It was good to see so many of you at LUG this week