[Lustre-discuss] Question on versions, who is going to support what, etc.

[Cory Spitz]

Hi, Joe.

Yes, OpenSFS will be converging on 2.x for future development as well. 
However, OpenSFS may choose to provide support for 1.8.x releases for 
some time.  As OpenSFS is just getting started, much of the details are 
yet to be decided.

Thanks,
-Cory


On 12/14/2010 11:13 AM, Joe Landman wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 12:09 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> The 1.8 branch is in "maintenance mode" and will only be getting bug
>> fixes. All new development is being done on the 2.x branch.
>>
>> We are finalizing the patches being landed on the Git master branch
>> in anticipation of the upcoming 2.1 release, so testing and feedback
>> of this branch is very welcome at this stage.  A few mature "feature"
>> patches are still being considered, but at this stage it is largely
>> bug fixing only until the 2.1 branch is released.
>>
>> There are weekly build tags being created, that are suitable for
>> external testing. My understanding is that build 8 (v2_0_58_0, IIRC)
>> performed quite well, and a performance regression is being
>> investigated in build 9 (v2_0_59_0).
>
> Greetings Andreas
>
>     Thanks!  We are doing RPM builds from clones of the git trees now.  I
> wanted to understand where 1.8.x was headed, and see if we should have
> multiple build processes going on.  I presume the OpenSFS and other
> folks are also converged around 2.x?  Hopefully?
>
>     Regards
>
> Joe
>
>