[Lustre-discuss] Enabling async journals while the filesystem is active

[David Dillow]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:36 -0700, Peter Jones wrote:
> Quite. And async journal commits were officially added in 1.8.2.
> 
> Erik Froese wrote:
> > I remember something about a bug during recovery after a crash in 1.8.1.1.
> > Erik
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Peter Jones <peter.x.jones at oracle.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Really? I had heard of a serious bug before async journal commits were
> >> included in a release, but I had understood that things were working well at
> >> the few sites running it.

We've been quite happy with it. I recall a bug being reported against
them, but IIRC that was actually a longstanding bug that predated async
journals. My recollection is foggy, though so perhaps Oleg can set the
record straight.
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Dave Dillow
National Center for Computational Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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