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<div>We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.11.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for <a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/latest-feature-release/" style="color: purple;"></a><a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.11.0/">download</a><a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.11.0/"> </a>.
You can also grab the source from <a href="http://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git/commit/ea79df5af4d9b034e39caa396cefc2a075e572ba" style="color: purple;"></a><a href="https://git.hpdd.intel.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/2.11.0">git</a></div>
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<div>This major release includes new features: </div>
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<div><font style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Data on MDT</b> </font></font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font></span>The Lustre Data on MDT (DoM) feature improves
small file IO by placing small files directly on the MDT. It also improves large file IO by avoiding the OST being affected by small random IO that can cause device seeking and hurt the streaming IO performance<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><font style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">(</font><a href="https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3285" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard;">LU-3285</a><font style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">File Level Redundancy –Delayed Resync </b></font>Provides a mechanism whereby files can be replicated on multiple OSTs in the same namespace, thus strengthening and improving reliability,
availability, and aggregate parallel read performance of the data<font style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"> (</font><a href="https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-9771" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LU-9771</a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></div>
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<div><b>Lock Ahead</b><font style="font-family: Calibri;"> Enables userspace to </font><font face="Calibri">request</font> LDLM locks asynchronously thus <font face="Calibri,sans-serif">improving</font><font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font>performance
for certain workloads<font face="Calibri,sans-serif"> (</font></font><a href="https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-6179" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">LU-6179</a><font style="font-family: Calibri;">)</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Fuller details can be found in the <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.11.0">2.11 wiki page</a> (including the <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.11.0_Changelog">ch</a><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_2.11.0_Changelog">ange
log</a> and <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.11.0#Test_Matrix">test mat</a><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Release_2.11.0#Test_Matrix">rix</a>)</div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Please log any issues found in the <a href="https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/" style="color: purple;">issue tracking system</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Thanks to all those who have contributed to the creation of this release.</div>
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