Lustre announce - Jun 2006 - Lustre 1.6.0 beta4 is now available

NOTE: NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE

Cluster File Systems is pleased to announce the next beta version of
Lustre 1.6, which includes all of the features that will be in the
production release, including:

* MountConf. This new configuration and management system extends
the zeroconf concept from clients to servers, so that mounting a server
starts it and unmounting stops it. Server configuration is specified
when you format the storage, so lconf and lmc have been retired.

* New storage can be added dynamically to a live cluster -- just format
a new device and mount it.

* Startup order invariance - start servers in any order

* Optimized stripe assignments

* Patchless client support, which allows the Lustre client to run on
unmodified kernel distributions. (vanilla 2.6.16+ and RHEL4 so far)

* NFS export support

* Improved ''find''

* Version interoperability with 1.4.6.x

* Many more improvements (see ChangeLog)

The new beta is known as 1.6beta4, (or internal version 1.5.91)

Partners, customers, and evaluators can download this release from:
http://www.clusterfs.com/download-beta.html

Please see the Lustre wiki for more information about this release:
https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf

Thank you for your assistance; as always, you can report issues via
Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.clusterfs.com/) or email
(support@clusterfs.com).

-- The Lustre Team --

What does "Optimized stripe assignments" mean?  Is it the location of
the stripes that is optimized or the stripe count/width?

Thanks,

--Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: lustre-discuss-bounces@clusterfs.com
[mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@clusterfs.com] On Behalf Of Nathaniel
Rutman
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:55 PM
To: lustre-announce@clusterfs.com; lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com
Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.0 beta4 is now available


NOTE: NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE

Cluster File Systems is pleased to announce the next beta version of
Lustre 1.6, which includes all of the features that will be in the
production release, including:

* MountConf. This new configuration and management system extends
the zeroconf concept from clients to servers, so that mounting a server
starts it and unmounting stops it. Server configuration is specified
when you format the storage, so lconf and lmc have been retired.

* New storage can be added dynamically to a live cluster -- just format
a new device and mount it.

* Startup order invariance - start servers in any order

* Optimized stripe assignments

* Patchless client support, which allows the Lustre client to run on
unmodified kernel distributions. (vanilla 2.6.16+ and RHEL4 so far)

* NFS export support

* Improved ''find''

* Version interoperability with 1.4.6.x

* Many more improvements (see ChangeLog)

The new beta is known as 1.6beta4, (or internal version 1.5.91)

Partners, customers, and evaluators can download this release from:
http://www.clusterfs.com/download-beta.html

Please see the Lustre wiki for more information about this release:
https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf

Thank you for your assistance; as always, you can report issues via
Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.clusterfs.com/) or email
(support@clusterfs.com).

-- The Lustre Team --

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The location of the stripes.  We now try to separate the stripes across 
machines,
not just disks (to improve network loading), as well as fill emptier 
OSTs first.

(The balance can be tuned under 
/proc/fs/lustre/lov/<lovname>/qos_prio_free -
increasing the value means weight free space more.)


Canon, Richard Shane wrote:
>What does "Optimized stripe assignments" mean?  Is it the location
of
>the stripes that is optimized or the stripe count/width?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Shane
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lustre-discuss-bounces@clusterfs.com
>[mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@clusterfs.com] On Behalf Of Nathaniel
>Rutman
>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:55 PM
>To: lustre-announce@clusterfs.com; lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com
>Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.0 beta4 is now available
>
>
>NOTE: NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE
>
>Cluster File Systems is pleased to announce the next beta version of
>Lustre 1.6, which includes all of the features that will be in the
>production release, including:
>
>* MountConf. This new configuration and management system extends
>the zeroconf concept from clients to servers, so that mounting a server
>starts it and unmounting stops it. Server configuration is specified
>when you format the storage, so lconf and lmc have been retired.
>
>* New storage can be added dynamically to a live cluster -- just format
>a new device and mount it.
>
>* Startup order invariance - start servers in any order
>
>* Optimized stripe assignments
>
>* Patchless client support, which allows the Lustre client to run on
>unmodified kernel distributions. (vanilla 2.6.16+ and RHEL4 so far)
>
>* NFS export support
>
>* Improved ''find''
>
>* Version interoperability with 1.4.6.x
>
>* Many more improvements (see ChangeLog)
>
>The new beta is known as 1.6beta4, (or internal version 1.5.91)
>
>Partners, customers, and evaluators can download this release from:
>http://www.clusterfs.com/download-beta.html
>
>Please see the Lustre wiki for more information about this release:
>https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf
>
>Thank you for your assistance; as always, you can report issues via
>Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.clusterfs.com/) or email
>(support@clusterfs.com).
>
>-- The Lustre Team --
>
>_______________________________________________
>Lustre-discuss mailing list
>Lustre-discuss@clusterfs.com
>https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
>  
>