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

Peter Bojanic Peter.Bojanic at Sun.COM
Sat Aug 23 06:41:10 PDT 2008


Yes, or separating directories for access to ultra-fast storage like  
SSD versus disk spindles.

On 23-Aug-08, at 10:25 AM, Mag Gam wrote:

> Very nice. Thanks for keeping us updated.
>
> I could see many features for this. Perphaps, striping to a certain
> pool depending on the strike size?
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Peter Bojanic  
> <Peter.Bojanic at sun.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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