Lustre 2.1 community release - May 10th 2011

[Peter Jones]

Hi there

Here are the high level minutes from today's Lustre 2.1 call

Attendees (apologies if I missed anyone)

Bull: Sebastien Buissson
Cray: Cory Spitz, Wally Wang
DDN: Ryan Weiss
LLNL: Prakash Surya, Pam Hamilton, Chris Morrone
OpenSFS: Shay Seager
ORNL: James Simmons, Sarp Oral
SGI: (no attendees)
TACC: (no attendees)
Whamcloud: Peter Jones, Oleg Drokin, Sarah Liu, Richard Henwood
Xyratex: Vitaly Fertman


Review of actions from last meeting
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ACTION 2011-03-01 Xyratex to explore whether any existing Xyratex 2.x patches are appropriate for inclusion in the 2.1 release
-Vitaly advises that one more patch relating to LMT to come; LU145 needs to land first; Vitaly will update this patch ONGOING
ACTION 2011-03-01 ALL to contribute to 2.1 testing
-no developments this week ONGOING
ACTION 2011-04-26 LLNL to advise when RHEL6 testing is available on Hyperion
-Hyperion will be running RHEL6.1 beta and this may limit ability to scale test 2.1 for RHEL6.0; Chris submitting patches to enable Lustre 2.1 to work for RHEL6.1 beta ONGOING


Testing update
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-TACC tested storage
-ORNL plan to test 1.8.6 and 2.1 interoperability next
-LLNL focusing on single-node testing
-Cray have been testing SLES11 SP1 direct attached Lustre at small scale; passes 85% of acc-sm tests

Blocker update
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-LU276 Engineer thinks that test threshold may be too low; need to do further testing to confirm
-LU118 Existing patch is very large; patch created for same issue on 1.8.x but different approach needed for 2.x
-LU300 New issue from Tera100 production; possibly linked to LU122; engineer to investigate
-LU106 Patch needs rebasing on latest code
-LU163 Some more work needed here


AOB
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-ORNL\Cray would like to get LU224 landed; Oleg to inspect

-LLNL mentioned that the build messages in JIRA can clutter up the ticket (eg LU73)

ACTION 2011-05-10 Jones to investigate whether it is possible to filter out build messages from JIRA tickets

-LLNL mentioned that it had been a long time since the last 2.x git tag

ACTION 2011-05-10 Oleg to create git tag 2.0.60

Next meeting will be at 9:30 AM PT on May 17th. Please send suggestions for agenda topics ahead of that time.

Regards

Peter

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Peter Jones
Whamcloud, Inc.
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