[cdwg] Lustre 2.6 update - February 14th 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
-support for RHEL6.5 was landed (LU-4287); note that there is presently a RH bug inherited from upstream code that means that there is a leak associated with attempting to hardlink files; it is expected that this will be addressed in upcoming RH updates; see http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1638580 for details

Testing
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-Testing is underway on the 2.5.54 tag is complete; testing on the 2.5.55 tag is underway

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 targeted for February 28th; GA is targeted for May 31st

Thanks

Peter

PS/ You can also keep up to date with matters relating to the 2.6 release on the CDWG wiki - http://wiki.opensfs.org/Lustre_2.6.0