Lustre 2.1 community release -July 19th 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: Cory Spitz, Wally Wang
DDN:  (no attendees)
LLNL: Pam Hamilton, Chris Morrone
OpenSFS: Shay Seager
Oracle: Kevin van Maren
ORNL: James Simmons
TACC: John Hammond
Whamcloud: Peter Jones, Oleg Drokin, Richard Henwood, Sarah Liu
Xyratex: (no attendees)


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 with Xyratex testing of LU145 patch; LLNL have tested LMT 3.0 with latest 2.1 code and only hit LU499 ONGOING
ACTION 2011-03-01 ALL to contribute to 2.1 testing
-Possibility of using test cluster at SDSC ONGOING
ACTION 2011-04-26 LLNL to advise when RHEL6 testing is available on Hyperion
-RHEL5 Hyperion testing taking place; RHEL6 testing expected to start later today ONGOING


Testing update
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-TACC No progress this week
-ORNL Profiling performance results for creates
-LLNL Things going well; added regression testing and no problems to report so far
-Cray no progress this week
-Whamcloud completed POSIX compliance and MMP testing; hard failover testing in progress

Blocker update
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-LU221 Examining autotest failures

-LU437 Cray encountered problems using the latest patch; working with engineer to gather more information

-LU456 Patch waiting for autotest; Oleg does not think that this should be a blocker but it should land soon anyway

-LU479/482 vm environment specific testing failures; engineers trying to reproduce locally

-LU477 RHEL5 version of 128TB LUN support landed; RHEL6 version needed; Whamcloud unable to test RHEL6 128TB LUNs at present; Xyratex has agreed to do this testing

ACTION 2001-07-19 Xyratex to test 128TB LUN support on RHEL6

AOB
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Next meeting will be at 9:30 AM PT on July 26th. Please send suggestions for agenda topics ahead of that time.

Regards

Peter

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Peter Jones
Whamcloud, Inc.
www.whamcloud.com