On 2010-08-30, at 14:04, Daneil Goodman wrote:> We have several ten servers and thousands of compute nodes which are still
running lustre-1.6.7.2. on several HPC clusters. I would like to know:
>
> - When will lustre-1.6.x.x retire?
It was announced in the last LUG, etc that support for 1.6.x will end in June of
this year. We will still provide ongoing support for a limited number customers
on 1.6.x as in the terms of their contracts.
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Lustre_Release_Information
I did a search to see if the 1.6 EOL was sent out to lustre-announce, but I
couldn''t see any email to that effect.
> - Does Oracle still maintain and upgrade it to new version?
There are no new 1.6.x releases being made by Oracle, though bugs are still
occasionally fixed for existing customers and are available as patches in
bugzilla.
> - Where can I download it? Looks like the download link disappeared.
It looks like it might still be accessed via http://downloads.lustre.org/ but we
really encourage users to upgrade to 1.8, which has been GA for 2 years and is
widely in use. Unlike the 1.6.x releases, the 1.8 (and later) releases are
split into "feature" and "bugfix" releases, and 1.8 is
already in the latter mode - it will not be getting any major feature additions
and is focussed on stability.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.