Lustre discuss - Sep 2009 - Patch Details

Looking at the bug 20278 patch "details", it appears that the patch
has
not only not landed in any release yet but has not even been given
permission to "land".  I''m wondering what this really means
in terms of
the suitability of the patch.   Has it been tested at all?   

If we are hitting this bug in production and need the patch, is it
reasonably safe to apply it by hand (to 1.8.1), rebuild and deploy.

Any status on 1.8.1.1?

Thanks,

Charlie Taylor
UF HPC Center

On Sep 22, 2009  12:37 -0400, Charles A. Taylor wrote:
> Looking at the bug 20278 patch "details", it appears that the
patch has
> not only not landed in any release yet but has not even been given
> permission to "land".  I''m wondering what this really
means in terms of
> the suitability of the patch.   Has it been tested at all?   
Bug 20278 has only been reported against HEAD, not 1.8.x at all.  If
you are hitting that bug on 1.8.1 then it needs to be reported to us.
As it is, this isn''t scheduled to land on 1.8 at all.
> If we are hitting this bug in production and need the patch, is it
> reasonably safe to apply it by hand (to 1.8.1), rebuild and deploy.
> 
> Any status on 1.8.1.1?
Testing is underway.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.