[Lustre-discuss] Announce: Lustre 1.8.4 is available!

[Terry Rutledge]

  Hi all,

Lustre 1.8.4 is available on the Oracle Download Center Site.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/sun-az-index-095901.html#L

The change log can be read here:

http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Use:Change_Log_1.8

Here are some items that may interest you in this release:

* Changes to support matrix
     - Update RHEL5.5 kernel to 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
       Update OEL5.5 kernel to 2.6.18-194.3.1.0.1.el5.
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22514
     - Add support for OFED 1.5.1.
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20619
       NOTE: RHEL5 & OEL5 rpms provided on the download site
             are built against the in-kernel OFED driver.

* Significant Bugs
     - Fix bug in orphan recovery which can cause the same OST
       object to be allocated to two different files.
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17485
     - Fix multiple issues related to the grant space.  The
       problem manifests itself as an OST failing write
       requests with ENOSPC while some free space remains.
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22755
     - The dlm_locks slab can grow significantly and consumes
       a lot of memory on the server. This is fixed by imposing
       an hardlimit to grant_plan.
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22476

* Lustre Sysadmins may also be interested in the details of:
     - https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22455
     - https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15252
     - https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22481
       (which Andreas mentioned in his LUG presentation)

As always, you can report issues via Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/

Our next anticipated release is Lustre 1.8.5 in {put date here}.

To access earlier releases of Lustre, please check the box
"See previous products(P)", then click "L" or scroll down to
"Lustre", the current and all previous releases (1.8.0 - 1.8.4)
will be displayed.

Happy downloading!

-- The Lustre Team --