[lustre-discuss] Future of Lustre in upstream?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 30, 2018, at 10:07, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+lustre at mail.hebrew.edu> wrote:
> 
> So I had missed this:
> https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lustre-filesystem-dropped-linux-418-kernel
> 
> Until a friend pointed it out.
> 
> The LWG reports (http://wiki.opensfs.org/Lustre_Working_Group) do still paint a picture of progress so where is the upstream client now?
> 
> We had been using upstream with kernel 4.14 until we were forced to revert to kernel 4.4 on our cluster due to some propriatary vendors' software that also needed to be run and I had been hoping that when they moved to a newer kernel we would be able to also go back to upstream.

The work to clean up the Lustre client for the upstream kernel continues on
in a separate tree, and is actively being worked on by Neil and James (CC'd).
If you were on the lustre-devel list you'd see a steady stream of patches for
that tree.

I don't have the URL for that Git tree handy, but I'm sure they are happy to get some more testing and usage of their code.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
CTO Whamcloud




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