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

[Mag Gam]

Yep. Good stuff. I suppose we can see this in 1.8



On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Peter Bojanic <Peter.Bojanic at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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