[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.4.2 released

[Jody McIntyre]

Hi Per,

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:37:37PM +0100, Per Lundqvist wrote:

> Hi Jody, I notice that the rhel kernels are quite old: 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL is 
> from rhel4 update 5 and 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 is from rhel5, before update 1. 
> The latest snapshots are rhel4 update 6 (2.6.9-67.0.1.EL) and rhel5 update 
> 1 (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5) respectively.
> 
> What is the reason for staying so far behind the latest kernels? (We have 
> a problem with a bug in the e1000 driver on both the older kernels - but 
> there are also a couple of security fixes in the newer kernels that should 
> be of interest to everybody)

Indeed.  1.6.4.2 was a bugfixes-only release with minimal changes from
1.6.4.1.  The kernel updates are in the tree for 1.6.5, along with many
other less critical bug fixes.

We could do a 1.6.4.3 release with just the kernel updates, but we have
not received any requests for this from paying customers and we have
lots of other things to work on.

Cheers,
Jody

> thanks,
> /Per
> 
> -- 
> Per Lundqvist
> 
> National Supercomputer Centre
> Link?ping University, Sweden
> 
> http://www.nsc.liu.se


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