[Lustre-discuss] Fwd: OST pools is landed in b1.8

[Peter Bojanic]

Hi Jacques-Charles,

On behalf of the Lustre Group at Sun I'd like to extend our  
congratulations to you and your team for the successful landing of OST  
Pools into the Lustre 1.8 gate.

For those unfamiliar with the feature: the purpose of pools is to make  
object placement definitions over OSTs more flexible. You can read  
more about Pools on the lustre.org arch wiki: http://arch.lustre.org/index.php?title=Pools_of_targets 
.

This is a tremendous milestone for the Lustre Community because it  
marks the first major feature ever contributed by a developer outside  
of our core Lustre Group. We started this journey together at the  
former CFS and I'm delighted to see the relationship with CEA flourish  
and have the opportunity to celebrate this success now at Sun.

We look forward to continued collaboration and more successes with you  
and your team in the coming year, JC.

Cheers,
Bojanic

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Hua Huang <Hua.Huang at Sun.COM>
> Date: August 22, 2008 11:09:51 PM ADT
> Subject: OST pools is landed in b1.8
>
>
> Congratulation to the OST pool team who successfully landed
> the OST feature into b1.8 gate build 4   today. This is a very
> special accomplishments given that
>
> 1. The main responsible engineer JC, although not a Sun employee,
> stayed focus under pressure and has made every attempt in order
> to meet Sun & Lustre's deadline.  JC has worked many hours
> to complete the implementation and resolve issues  even
> while he was on vacation.    Nathan who worked closely
> with JC, provided the strong support to make this feature completion
> possible
>
> 2. The valuable involvement from QE.  Since started the QE testing  
> cycle
> two and a half weeks ago, Minh has uncovered 19 problems, including  
> OST
> specific bugs.    The quick turn around time from development team who
> investigated and/or resolved the large number of problems within
> a short 2.5 weeks  has led to the Build 4 landing success.
> The OST pool team has demonstrated their commitment to meet the  
> deadline
> and deliver a quality product at the same time.  I believe this joint
> effort between Lustre team and our partner will pay off big time.
> Many thanks for everyone's hard work.
>
> Hua