Lustre 2.1 community release -July 26th 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: (no attendees)
Cray: (no attendees)
DDN:  (no attendees)
LLNL: Prakash Surya, Chris Morrone
OpenSFS: Shay Seager
ORNL: James Simmons
TACC: John Hammond
Whamcloud: Peter Jones, Oleg Drokin, Richard Henwood, Sarah Liu
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
-Still no progress ONGOING
ACTION 2011-03-01 ALL to contribute to 2.1 testing
-No new developments this week ONGOING
ACTION 2011-04-26 LLNL to advise when RHEL6 testing is available on Hyperion
-RHEL5 Hyperion testing has been successful for tag 65; RHEL6 testing still not operational; working through configuration issues with Hyperion sysadmins ONGOING
ACTION 2001-07-19 Xyratex to test 128TB LUN support on RHEL6
-Xyratex confirm that instructions are clear for this task; fix for this included in latest tag;  Xyratex working on schedule for this testing ONGOING

Testing update
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-TACC No progress this week
-ORNL More performance profiling
-LLNL Things going well; hit one client eviction running mdtest; analyzing results
-Cray no updates this week
-Whamcloud release testing ongoing; will switch from testing tag 65 to tag 66

Blocker update
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-LU221 Test script issue; autotest failure for fix is due to unrelated issue with stack usage that affects i686; will open a ticket to address this issue

-LU451 Remaining NFS issue; performing tests to isolate problem

-Xyratex suggested that LU502 should also be considered as a blocker; this fix was landed immediately after the call :-)

AOB
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-Xyratex provided fix for software raid zero copy (with data corruption issue now fixed) under LU535

Next meeting will be at 9:30 AM PT on August 2nd. Please send suggestions for agenda topics ahead of that time.

Regards

Peter

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Peter Jones
Whamcloud, Inc.
www.whamcloud.com