Lustre 2.1 community release -July 5th 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 Buisson
Cray: Wally Wang
DDN:  (no attendees)
LLNL: Pam Hamilton, Chris Morrone
OpenSFS: Shay Seager
ORNL: James Simmons
PSC: Josephine Palencia
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 on testing of LU145 patche  ONGOING
ACTION 2011-03-01 ALL to contribute to 2.1 testing
-No news this week ONGOING
ACTION 2011-04-26 LLNL to advise when RHEL6 testing is available on Hyperion
-We have a path forward; 2.1 testing should resume today ONGOING
ACTION 2011-06-28 Jones to follow-up with Bull about quotas issues on Tera100
-tickets LU483 and Lu484 opened COMPLETE

Testing update
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-TACC Performance with 1.8.5 clients seems good but hit one issue; LLNL suggested using a more current tag to avoid this issue
-ORNL will publish regression testing results soon; setting up RHEL6; will test Gemini system today
-LLNL Hit assertion on client-side
-Cray no progress this week
-Whamcloud increased throughput of autotest using

Blocker update
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-LU168/LU467/LU478/LU479/LU480 All due to switch in autotest system; blocking all other autotest runs from running successfully

-LU394/437 LLNL report that latest patch works well in testing
-LU456 Patch going through inspections and testing; blocked due to autotest Oleg does not think that this should be a blocker
-LU386 Patch going through inspections and testing; blocked due to autotest
-LU469 Patch going through inspections and testing; blocked due to autotest

-LU468 Xyratex found issue in original patch so have not uploaded it to gerrit; TACC have been unable to reproduce this issue and have requested details as to which kernel used

-LU477 Problem formatting 128TB LUN

-LU483 May becomes a blocker depending as to whether this is a regression from previous releases

AOB
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Next meeting will be at 9:30 AM PT on July 12th. Please send suggestions for agenda topics ahead of that time.

Regards

Peter

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Peter Jones
Whamcloud, Inc.
www.whamcloud.com