tbd Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+ * version 1.8.1
+ * Support for kernels:
+ 2.6.5-7.314 (SLES 9),
+ 2.6.9-67.0.22.EL (RHEL 4),
+ 2.6.16.60-0.31 (SLES 10),
+ 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 (RHEL 5),
+ 2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org)
+ * Client support for unpatched kernels:
+ (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
+ 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
+ * Client support for unpatched kernels:
+ we do not recommend using patchless RHEL4 clients with kernels
+ prior to 2.6.9-55EL (RHEL4U5).
+ * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.11-sun1
+ * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
+ * RHEL 4 and RHEL 5/SLES 10 clients behaves differently on 'cd' to a
+ removed cwd "./" (refer to Bugzilla 14399).
+ * A new quota file format has been introduced in 1.6.5.
+ The format conversion from prior releases is handled transparently,
+ but releases older than 1.4.12/1.6.5 don't understand this new
+ format. The automatic format conversion can be avoided by running
+ the following command on the MDS:
+ 'tunefs.lustre --param="mdt.quota_type=ug1" $MDTDEV'.
+ For more information, please refer to bugzilla 13904.
+ * Output of lfs quota has been made less detailed by default,
+ old (verbose) output can be obtained by using -v option.
+ * File join has been disabled in this release, refer to Bugzilla 16929.
+ * A new Lustre ADIO driver is available for MPICH2-1.0.7.
+ * NFS export disabled when stack size < 8192. Since the NFSv4 export
+ of Lustre filesystem with 4K stack may cause a stack overflow. For more
+ information, please refer to bugzilla 17630.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : race on file read and write
+Bugzilla : 16417
+Description: Lustre doesn't delete files
+Details : Clients drop lock reference and release openhandle when they find
+ stale inode.
+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+12-31-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
* version 1.8.0
* Support for kernels:
- 2.6.5-7.311 (SLES 9),
- 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL (RHEL 4),
- 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 (SLES 10),
- 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 (RHEL 5),
+ 2.6.5-7.314 (SLES 9),
+ 2.6.9-67.0.22.EL (RHEL 4),
+ 2.6.16.60-0.31 (SLES 10),
+ 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 (RHEL 5),
2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org)
* Client support for unpatched kernels:
(see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
the following command on the MDS:
'tunefs.lustre --param="mdt.quota_type=ug1" $MDTDEV'.
For more information, please refer to bugzilla 13904.
- * A new quota file format was introduced in 1.8.0.
+ * A new quota file format was introduced in 1.6.6/1.8.0.
The format conversion from prior releases is handled transparently,
but releases older than 1.6.6/1.8.0 don't understand this new
format. The automatic format conversion can be avoided by running
'tunefs.lustre --param="ost.quota_type=ug1" $MDTDEV'
or (for 1.4.12/1.6.5 quota files)
'tunefs.lustre --param="mdt.quota_type=ug2" $MDTDEV',
- 'tunefs.lustre --param="ost.quota_type=ug2" $MDTDEV'
+ 'tunefs.lustre --param="ost.quota_type=ug2" $MDTDEV'
For more information, please refer to bugzilla 13904.
+ * Output of lfs quota has been made less detailed by default,
+ old (verbose) output can be obtained by using -v option.
+ * File join has been disabled in this release, refer to Bugzilla 16929.
+ * A new Lustre ADIO driver is available for MPICH2-1.0.7.
+ * NFS export disabled when stack size < 8192. Since the NFSv4 export of
+ Lustre filesystem with 4K stack may cause a stack overflow. For more
+ information, please refer to bugzilla 17630.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequency : on remount
+Bugzilla : 18018
+Description: external journal device not working after the remount
+Details : clear dev_rdonly flag for external journal devices in
+ blkdev_put()
+
+Severity : minor
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 17802
+Description: shutdown vs evict race
+Details : client_disconnect_export vs connect request race.
+ if client will evicted at this time - we start invalidate
+ thread without referece to import and import can be freed
+ at same time.
+
+Severity : minor
+Frequency : always
+Bugzilla : 16693
+Description: shrink LOV EAs before replying
+Details : correctly adjust LOV EA buffer for reply.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 16081
+Description: don't skip ost target if they assigned to file
+Details : Drop slow OSCs if we can, but not for requested start idx.
+ This means "if OSC is slow and it is not the requested
+ start OST, then it can be skipped, otherwise skip it only
+ if it is inactive/recovering/out-of-space.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 17201
+Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : rare, need acl's on inode.
+Bugzilla : 16492
+Description: client can't handle ost additional correctly
+Details : if ost was added after client connected to mds client can have
+ hit lnet_try_match_md ... to big messages to wide striped files.
+ in this case need teach client to handle config events about add
+ lov target and update client max ea size at that event.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 17374
+Description: Update to sles9 kernel-2.6.5-7.314.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 17458
+Description: Update to SLES10 SP2 kernel-2.6.16.60-0.31.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : Create a symlink file with a very long name
+Bugzilla : 16578
+Description: ldlm_cancel_pack()) ASSERTION(max >= dlm->lock_count + count)
+Details : If there is no extra space in the request for early cancels,
+ ldlm_req_handles_avail() returns 0 instead of a negative value.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 16492
+Description: mds is deadlocked
+Details : in rare cases, inode in catalog can have i_no less than have parent
+ i_no, this produce wrong order for locking during open, and parallel
+ unlink can be lock open. this need teach mds_open to grab locks in
+ resource id order, not at parent -> child order.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 1819
+Description: Add /proc entry for import status
+Details : The mdc, osc, and mgc import directories now have
+ an import directory that contains useful import data for debugging
+ connection problems.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15966
+Description: Re-disable certain /proc logging
+Details : Enable and disable client's offset_stats, extents_stats and
+ extents_stats_per_process stats logging on the fly.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequency : Only on FC kernels 2.6.22+
+Bugzilla : 16303
+Description: oops in statahead
+Details : Do not drop reference count for the dentry from VFS when lookup,
+ VFS will do that by itself.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16643
+Description: Generic /proc file permissions
+Details : Set /Proc file permissions in a more generic way to enable non-
+ root users operate on some /proc files.
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 16561
+Description: Hitting mdc_commit_close() ASSERTION
+Details : Properly handle request reference release in
+ ll_release_openhandle().
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15975
+Frequency : only patchless client
+Description: add workaround for race between add/remove dentry from hash
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16845
+Description: Allow OST glimpses to return PW locks
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 16717
+Description: LBUG when llog conf file is full
+Details : When llog bitmap is full, ENOSPC should be returned for plain
+ log.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16907
+Description: Prevent import from entering FULL state when server in recovery
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 16750
+Description: service mount cannot take device name with ":"
+Details : Only when device name contains ":/" will mount treat it as
+ client mount.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15927
+Frequency : rare
+Description: replace ptlrpcd with the statahead thread to interpret the async
+ statahead RPC callback
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16611
+Frequency : on recovery
+Description: I/O failures after umount during fail back
+Details : if client reconnected to restarted server we need join to recovery
+ instead of find server handler is changed and process self eviction
+ with cancel all locks.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16633
+Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15825
+Description: Kernel BUG tries to release flock
+Details : Lustre does not destroy flock lock before last reference goes
+ away. So always drop flock locks when client is evicted and
+ perform unlock regardless of successfulness of speaking to MDS.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16547
+Description: Update to SLES10 SP2 kernel-2.6.16.60-0.27.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16566
+Description: Upcall on Lustre log has been dumped
+Details : Allow for a user mode script to be called once a Lustre log has
+ been dumped. It passes the filename of the dumped log to the
+ script, the location of the script can be specified via
+ /proc/sys/lnet/debug_log_upcall.
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 16583
+Frequency : rare
+Description: avoid messages about idr_remove called for id that is not allocated
+Details : Move assigment s_dev for clustered nfs to end of initialization,
+ for avoid problem with error handling.
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 16109
+Frequency : rare
+Description: avoid Already found the key in hash [CONN_UNUSED_HASH] messages
+Details : When connection is reused this not moved from CONN_UNUSED_HASH into
+ CONN_USED_HASH and this prodice warning when put connection again
+ in unused hash.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15139
+Frequency : rare
+Description: avoid ASSERTION(client_stat->nid_exp_ref_count == 0) failed
+Details : release reference to stats when client disconnected, not
+ when export destroyed for avoid races when client destroyed
+ after main ost export.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16679
+Description: more cleanup in mds_lov
+Details : add workaround for get valid ost count for avoid warnings about
+ drop too big messages, not init llog cat under semphore which
+ can be blocked on reconnect and break normal replay, fix access
+ to wrong pointer.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15899
+Description: File striping can now be set to use an arbitrary pool of OSTs.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16573
+Description: Export bytes_read/bytes_write count on OSC/OST.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16237
+Description: Early reply size mismatch, MGC loses connection
+Details : Apply the MGS_CONNECT_SUPPORTED mask at reconnect time so
+ the connect flags are properly negotiated.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16006
+Description: Properly propagate oinfo flags from lov to osc for statfs
+Details : restore missing copy oi_flags to lov requests.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16317
+Description: exports in /proc are broken
+Details : recreate /proc entries for clients when they reconnect.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16581
+Description: Add man pages for llobdstat(8), llstat(8), plot-llstat(8),
+ : l_getgroups(8), lst(8), routerstat(8)
+Details : included man pages for llobdstat(8), llstat(8),
+ : plot-llstat(8), l_getgroups(8), lst(8), routerstat(8)
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16208
+Description: Implement lustre ll_show_options method.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16188
+Description: Update to SLES9 kernel-2.6.5-7.312.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16503
+Description: Update to RHEL4 kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16317
+Description: exports in /proc are broken
+Details : recreate /proc entries for clients when they reconnect.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16080
+Description: don't fail open with -ERANGE
+Details : if client connected until mds will be know about real ost count
+ get LOV EA can be fail because mds not allocate enougth buffer
+ for LOV EA.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15576
+Description: Resolve device initialization race
+Details : Prevent proc handler from accessing devices added to the
+ obd_devs array but yet be intialized.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16091
+Description: configure's --enable-quota should check the
+ : kernel .config for CONFIG_QUOTA
+Details : configure is terminated if --enable-quota is passed but
+ : no quota support is in kernel
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15308
+Description: Update to SLES10 SP2 kernel-2.6.16.60-0.23.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 16190
+Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16318
+Frequency : rare, on PPC clients
+Description: don't swab ost objects in response about directory, because
+ this not exist.
+Details : bug similar bug 14856, but in different function.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15754
+Description: lfs quota tool enhancement
+Details : added units specifiers support for setquota, default to
+ current uid/gid for quota report, short quota stats by
+ default, nonpositional parameters for setquota, added
+ llapi_quotactl manual page.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15625
+Description: *optional* service tags registration
+Details : if the "service tags" package is installed on a Lustre node
+ When the filesystem is mounted, a local-node service tag will
+ be created. See http://inventory.sun.com/ for more information
+ about the Service Tags asset management system.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 16037
Description: Client runs out of low memory
Details : Consider only lowmem when counting initial number of llap pages
-Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 15825
Description: Kernel BUG tries to release flock
Details : Lustre does not destroy flock lock before last reference goes
- away. So always drop flock locks when client is evicted and
- perform unlock regardless of successfulness of speaking to MDS.
+ away. So always drop flock locks when client is evicted and
+ perform unlock regardless of successfulness of speaking to MDS.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : occasional
Bugzilla : 15210
-Description: add recount protection for osc callbacks, so avoid panic on shutdown
+Description: add refcount for osc callbacks, so avoid panic on shutdown
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 16189
Description: Update to RHEL4 kernel-2.6.9-67.0.20.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : testing only
Bugzilla : 12653
Description: sanity test 65a fails if stripecount of -1 is set
Details : handle -1 striping on filesystem in ll_dirstripe_verify
Severity : normal
+Frequency : only in unusual configurations
Bugzilla : 16014
Description: Kernel panic with find ost index.
Details : lov_obd have panic if some OST's have sparse indexes.
-Severity : normal
-Bugzilla : 14742
-Frequency : rare
-Description: ASSERTION(CheckWriteback(page,cmd)) failed
-Details : badly clear PG_Writeback bit in ll_ap_completion can produce false
- positive assertion.
-
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 15865
Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.
Severity : major
+Frequency : rarely, if filesystem is mounted with -o flock
Bugzilla : 15924
Description: do not process already freed flock
Details : flock can possibly be freed by another thread before it reaches
to ldlm_flock_completion_ast.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : rarely, if filesystem is mounted with -o flock
Bugzilla : 14480
Description: LBUG during stress test
Details : Need properly lock accesses the flock deadlock detection list.
Severity : minor
+Frequency : rarely, if binaries are being run from Lustre
Bugzilla : 15837
Description: oops in page fault handler
-Details : kernel page fault handler can return two special 'pages' in
+Details : kernel page fault handler can return two special 'pages' in
error case, don't try dereference NOPAGE_SIGBUS and NOPAGE_OMM.
Severity : minor
+Frequency : rarely, during shutdown
Bugzilla : 15716
Description: timeout with invalidate import.
-Details : ptlrpcd_check call obd_zombie_impexp_cull and wait request which should be
- handled by ptlrpcd. This produce long age waiting and -ETIMEOUT
- ptlrpc_invalidate_import and as result LASSERT.
+Details : ptlrpcd_check call obd_zombie_impexp_cull and wait request which
+ should be handled by ptlrpcd. This produce long age waiting and
+ -ETIMEOUT ptlrpc_invalidate_import and as result LASSERT.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : rarely
+Bugzilla : 14742
+Frequency : rare
+Description: ASSERTION(CheckWriteback(page,cmd)) failed
+Details : badly clear PG_Writeback bit in ll_ap_completion can produce false
+ positive assertion.
Severity : normal
Frequency : only with broken builds/installations
Bugzilla : 15779
-Description: do not LBUG if lquota.ko and fsfilt_ldiskfs.ko are of different versions
+Description: no LBUG if lquota.ko and fsfilt_ldiskfs.ko are different versions
Details : just return an error to a user, put a console error message
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 15742
Description: Update to RHEL4 kernel-2.6.9-67.0.15.
-Severity : major
+Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 14134
Description: enable MGS and MDT services start separately
Details : add a 'nomgs' option in mount.lustre to enable start a MDT with
to 'nosvc' mount option.
Severity : normal
-Frequency : always, on ppc.
+Frequency : always, on big-endian systems
Bugzilla : 14856
-Description: cleanup in ptlrpc code, related to ppc platform
-Details : store magic in native order avoid panic's in recovery on ppc node
- and forbid from this error in future. Also fix posibily of twice swab
- data. Fix get lov striping to userpace.
+Description: cleanup in ptlrpc code, related to PPC platform
+Details : store magic in native order avoid panic's in recovery on PPC
+ node and forbid from this error in future. Also fix posibily
+ of twice swab data. Fix get lov striping to userpace.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : rarely, if replay get lost on server
Bugzilla : 15756
-Frequency : rare, replay get lost on server
Description: server incorrectly drop resent replays lead to recovery failure.
Details : do not drop replay according to msg flags, instead we check the
per-export recovery request queue for duplication of transno.
Severity : normal
-Bugzilla : 14835
Frequency : after recovery
+Bugzilla : 14835
Description: precreate to many object's after del orphan.
Details : del orphan st in oscc last_id == next_id and this triger growing
count of precreated objects. Set flag LOW to skip increase count
of precreated objects.
Severity : normal
-Bugzilla : 15139
Frequency : rare, on clear nid stats
+Bugzilla : 15139
Description: ASSERTION(client_stat->nid_exp_ref_count == 0)
Details : when clean nid stats sometimes try destroy live entry,
and this produce panic in free.
Severity : major
+Frequency : occasionally since 1.6.4
Bugzilla : 15575
Description: Stack overflow during MDS log replay
Details : ease stack pressure by using a thread dealing llog_process.
in reconstruct_open() and free dentry reference also.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 15443
Description: wait until IO finished before start new when do lock cancel.
Details : VM protocol want old IO finished before start new, in this case
- need wait until PG_writeback is cleared until check dirty flag and
- call writepages in lock cancel callback.
+ need wait until PG_writeback is cleared until check dirty flag
+ and call writepages in lock cancel callback.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 12888
Description: mds_mfd_close() ASSERTION(rc == 0)
Details : In mds_mfd_close(), we need protect inode's writecount change
within its orphan write semaphore to prevent possible races.
Severity : minor
-Bugzilla : 14645
Frequency : rare, on shutdown ost
+Bugzilla : 14645
Description: don't hit live lock with umount ost.
Details : shrink_dcache_parent can be in long loop with destroy dentries,
use shrink_dcache_sb instead.
Severity : minor
+Frequency : only when echo_client is used
Bugzilla : 14949
-Description: don't panic with use echo client
-Details : echo client pass NULL as client nid pointer and this produce null
+Description: don't panic with use echo_client
+Details : echo client pass NULL as client nid pointer and this produce NULL
pointer dereference.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : Always on 32-bit PowerPC systems
Bugzilla : 15278
-Description: fix build on ppc32
-Details : compile code with -m64 flag produce wrong object file for ppc32.
+Description: fix build on PPC32
+Details : compile code with -m64 flag produce wrong object file for PPC32.
Severity : normal
+Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 15574
Description: MDS LBUG: ASSERTION(!IS_ERR(dchild))
-Details : In reconstruct_* functions, LASSERTs on both the data supplied by
- a client, and the data on disk are dangerous and incorrect. Change
- them with client eviction.
+Details : In reconstruct_* functions, LASSERTs on both the data supplied
+ by a client, and the data on disk are dangerous and incorrect.
+ Change them with client eviction.
-Severity : normal
+Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 15346
Description: skiplist implementation simplification
Details : skiplists are used to group compatible locks on granted list
- that was implemented as tracking first and last lock of each lock group
- the patch changes that to using doubly linked lists
+ that was implemented as tracking first and last lock of each lock
+ group the patch changes that to using doubly linked lists
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 15933
Description: delete compatibility for 32bit qdata
-Details : as planned, when lustre is beyond b1_8, lquota won't support for 32bit
- qunit. That means servers of b1_4 and servers of b1_8 can't be used
- together if users want to use quota.
+Details : as planned, when lustre is beyond b1_8, lquota won't support 32bit
+ qunit. That means servers of b1_4 and servers of b1_8 can't be
+ used together if users want to use quota.
Severity : normal
-Frequency : blocks per group is less than blocksize*8 and uninit_groups is enabled
+Frequency : only with administrator action
+Bugzilla : 14693
+Description: mount failure if config log has invalid conf_param setting
+Details : If administrator specified an incorrect configuration parameter
+ with "lctl conf_param" this would cause an error during future
+ client mounts. Instead, ignore the bad configuration parameter.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : blocks per group < blocksize*8 and uninit_groups is enabled
Bugzilla : 15932
Description: ldiskfs error: XXX blocks in bitmap, YYY in gd
Details : If blocks per group is less than blocksize*8, set rest of the
Details : In ldlm_resource_add_lock(), call to ldlm_resource_dump()
starve other threads from the resource lock for a long time in
case of long waiting queue, so change the debug level from
- OTHER to the less frequently used D_INFO.
+ D_OTHER to the less frequently used D_INFO.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 13128
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 15284
-Description: ll_recover_lost_found_objs - rename objects in lost+found to object ID
-Details : OST crashes and subsequent e2fsck can lead to objects being moved
- to lost+found directory. Using the "ll_recover_lost_found_objs"
+Description: ll_recover_lost_found_objs - recover objects in lost+found
+Details : OST corruption and subsequent e2fsck can leave objects in the
+ lost+found directory. Using the "ll_recover_lost_found_objs"
tool, these objects can be retrieved and data can be salvaged
- by using the object ID saved in the fid.
+ by using the object ID saved in the fid EA on each object.
Severity : minor
Frequency : rare
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 15684
-Description: Procfs and llog threads access destoryed import sometimes.
+Description: Procfs and llog threads access destoryed import sometimes.
Details : Sync the import destoryed process with procfs and llog threads by
the import refcount and semaphore.
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+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 15674
+Description: mds fails to respond, threads stuck in ldlm_completion_ast
+Details : Sort source/child resource pair after updating child resource.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequncy : rare
+Bugzilla : 16226
+Description: kernel BUG at ldiskfs2_ext_new_extent_cb
+Details : If insertion of an extent fails, then discard the inode
+ preallocation and free data blocks else it can lead to duplicate
+ blocks.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16199
+Description: don't always update ctime in ext3_xattr_set_handle()
+Details : Current xattr code updates the inode ctime in ext3_xattr_set_handle.
+ In some cases the ctime should not be updated, for example for
+ 2.0->1.8 compatibility it is necessary to delete an xattr and it
+ should not update the ctime.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15058
+Description: add quota statistics
+Details : 1. sort out quota proc entries and proc code.
+ 2. add quota statistics
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : often
+Bugzilla : 16125
+Description: quotas are not honored with O_DIRECT
+Details : all writes with the flag O_DIRECT will use grants which leads to
+ this problem. Now using OBD_BRW_SYNC to guard this.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 15713/16362
+Description: Assertion in iopen_connect_dentry in 1.6.3
+Details : looking up an inode via iopen with the wrong generation number can
+ populate the dcache with a disconneced dentry while the inode
+ number is in the process of being reallocated. This causes an
+ assertion failure in iopen since the inode's dentry list contains
+ both a connected and disconnected dentry.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16496
+Description: assertion failure in ldlm_handle2lock()
+Details : fix a race between class_handle_unhash() and class_handle2object()
+ introduced in lustre 1.6.5 by bug 13622.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 11817
+Description: superblock lock contention with many SMP cores on one client
+Details : several client filesystem locks were highly contended on SMP
+ NUMA systems with 8 or more cores. Per-CPU datastructures
+ and more efficient locking implemented to reduce contention.
+
+Severity : minor
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 12755
+Description: Kernel BUG: sd_iostats_bump: unexpected disk index
+Details : remove the limit of 256 scsi disks in the sd_iostat patch
+
+Severity : minor
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 16494
+Description: oops in sd_iostats_seq_show()
+Details : unloading/reloading the scsi low level driver triggers a kernel
+ bug when trying to access the sd iostat file.
+
+Severity : major
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 16404
+Description: Kernel panics during QLogic driver reload
+Details : REQ_BLOCK_PC requests are not handled properly in the sd iostat
+ patch, causing memory corruption.
+
+Severity : minor
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 16140
+Description: journal_dev option does not work in b1_6
+Details : pass mount option during pre-mount.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 10555
+Description: Add a FIEMAP(FIle Extent MAP) ioctl for ldiskfs
+Details : FIEMAP ioctl will allow an application to efficiently fetch the
+ extent information of a file. It can be used to map logical blocks
+ in a file to physical blocks in the block device.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : only with adaptive timeout enabled
+Bugzilla : 16972
+Description: DEBUG_REQ() bad paging request
+Details : ptlrpc_at_recv_early_reply() should not modify req->rq_repmsg
+ because it can be accessed by reply_in_callback() without the
+ rq_lock held.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : only on Cray X2
+Bugzilla : 16813
+Description: X2 build failures
+Details : fix build failures on Cray X2.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 2066
+Description: xid & resent requests
+Details : Initialize RPC XID from clock at startup (randomly if clock is
+ bad).
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 14840
+Description: quota recovery deadlock during mds failover
+Details : This patch includes att18982, att18236, att18237 in bz14840.
+ Solve the problems:
+ 1. fix osts hang when mds does failover with quotaon
+ 2. prevent watchdog storm when osts threads wait for the
+ recovery of mds
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16695
+Description: kernel panic on racer
+Details : Do not access dchild->d_inode when IS_ERR(dchild) is true.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 14095
+Description: Add lustre_start utility to start or stop multiple Lustre servers
+ from a CSV file.
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 17024
+Description: Lustre GPF in {:ptlrpc:ptlrpc_server_free_request+373}
+Details : In case of memory pressure, list_del() can be called twice on
+ req->rq_history_list, causing a kernel oops.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 17026
+Description: (ptllnd_peer.c:557:kptllnd_peer_check_sends()) ASSERTION(!in_interrupt()) failed
+Details : fix stack overflow in the distributed lock manager by defering export
+ eviction after a failed ast to the elt thread instead of handling
+ it in the dlm interpret routine.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 12800
+Description: More exported tunables for mballoc
+Details : Add support for tunable preallocation window and new tunables for
+ large/small requests
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16680
+Description: Detect corruption of block bitmap and checking for preallocations
+Details : Checks validity of on-disk block bitmap. Also it does better
+ checking of number of applied preallocations. When corruption is
+ found, it turns filesystem readonly to prevent further corruptions.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16438
+Frequency : only for big-endian servers
+Description: Check if system is big-endian while mounting fs with extents feature
+Details : Mounting a filesystem with extents feature will fail on big-endian
+ systems since ext3-based ldiskfs is not supported on big-endian
+ systems. This can be over-riden with "bigendian_extents" mount option.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16860
+Description: Excessive recovery window
+Details : With AT enabled, the recovery window can be excessively long (6000+
+ seconds). To address this problem, we no longer use
+ OBD_RECOVERY_FACTOR when extending the recovery window (the connect
+ timeout no longer depends on the service time, it is set to
+ INITIAL_CONNECT_TIMEOUT now) and clients report the old service
+ time via pb_service_time.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 16522
+Description: Watchdog triggered on MDS failover
+Details : enable OBD_CONNECT_MDT flag when connecting from the MDS so that
+ the OSTs know that the MDS "UUID" can be reused for the same export
+ from a different NID, so we do not need to wait for the export to be
+ evicted
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2008-05-26 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
* version 1.6.5
* Support for kernels:
- 2.6.5-7.311 (SLES 9),
- 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL (RHEL 4),
- 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 (SLES 10),
- 2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org)
+ 2.6.5-7.311 (SLES 9),
+ 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL (RHEL 4),
+ 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 (SLES 10),
+ 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 (RHEL 5),
+ 2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org)
* Client support for unpatched kernels:
- (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
- 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
+ (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
+ 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
* Due to problems with nested symlinks and FMODE_EXEC (bug 12652),
- we do not recommend using patchless RHEL4 clients with kernels
- prior to 2.6.9-55EL (RHEL4U5).
+ we do not recommend using patchless RHEL4 clients with kernels
+ prior to 2.6.9-55EL (RHEL4U5).
* Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.7-sun1
* Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
* RHEL 4 and RHEL 5/SLES 10 clients behaves differently on 'cd' to a
- removed cwd "./" (refer to Bugzilla 14399).
+ removed cwd "./" (refer to Bugzilla 14399).
* A new quota file format has been introduced in 1.6.5.
- The format conversion from prior releases is handled transparently,
+ The format conversion from prior releases is handled transparently,
but releases older than 1.4.12/1.6.5 will not understand this new
format. The automatic format conversion can be avoided by running
the following command on the MDS before upgrading:
Bugzilla : 14443
Description: quota performance fix
Details : quota data is written in journalled mode instead of ordered to
- increase performance
+ increase performance
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 13915
Description: lfs support for human-readable quota grace time strings
Details : lfs setquota -t and lfs quota -t represent quota grace times
- in "XXwXXdXXhXXmXXs" format instead of large values in seconds
+ in "XXwXXdXXhXXmXXs" format instead of large values in seconds
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : always with o2ib 1.3 and sles10
+Bugzilla : 15870
+Description: fix build with SLES10 and o2ib v3.
+Details : sles10 uses diffrent name for Module.symver file but configure
+ assume this file has same name on RHEL/SLES/vanila kernels.
Severity : critical
Frequency : very rare, if additional xattrs are used on kernels >= 2.6.12
Severity : minor
Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 13380
-Description: fix for occasional failure case of -ENOSPC in recovery-small tests
-Details : Move the 'good_osts' check before the 'total_bavail' check. This
- will result in an -EAGAIN and in the exit call path we call
- alloc_rr() which will with increasing aggressiveness attempt to
+Description: fix for occasional failure case of -ENOSPC in recovery-small tests
+Details : Move the 'good_osts' check before the 'total_bavail' check. This
+ will result in an -EAGAIN and in the exit call path we call
+ alloc_rr() which will with increasing aggressiveness attempt to
aquire precreated objects on the minimum number of required OSCs.
Severity : major
Bugzilla : 14326
Description: Use old size assignment to avoid deadlock
Details : This reverts the changes in bugs 2369 and bug 14138 that introduced
- the scheduling while holding a spinlock. We do not need locking
- for size in ll_update_inode() because size is only updated from
- the MDS for directories or files without objects, so there is no
- other place to do the update, and concurrent access to such inodes
+ the scheduling while holding a spinlock. We do not need locking
+ for size in ll_update_inode() because size is only updated from
+ the MDS for directories or files without objects, so there is no
+ other place to do the update, and concurrent access to such inodes
are protected by the inode lock.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 14872
Description: the recovery timer never expires
Details : for new client connect request, the recovery timer should not be
- reset, otherwise recovery timer will never expired, if the old
- client never come. Only old client connect and first connection
+ reset, otherwise recovery timer will never expired, if the old
+ client never come. Only old client connect and first connection
req should trigger recovery timer reset.
Severity : normal
Severity : major
Frequency : on network error
Bugzilla : 15027
-Description: panic with double free request if network error
+Description: panic with double free request if network error
Details : mdc_finish_enqueue is finish request if any network error occuring,
- but it's true only for synchronus enqueue, for async enqueue
+ but it's true only for synchronus enqueue, for async enqueue
(via ptlrpcd) this incorrect and ptlrpcd want finish request
himself.
Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 14421
Description: ASSERTION(!PageDirty(page)) failed
-Details : Wrong check could lead to an assertion failure under specific
+Details : Wrong check could lead to an assertion failure under specific
load patterns.
Severity : normal
Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 12228
Description: LBUG in ptlrpc_check_set() bad phase ebc0de00
-Details : access to bitfield in structure is always rounded to long
+Details : access to bitfield in structure is always rounded to long
and this produce problem with not atomic change any bit.
Severity : normal
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 14483
-Description: Detect stride IO mode in read-ahead
+Description: Detect stride IO mode in read-ahead
Details : When a client does stride read, read-ahead should detect that and
- read-ahead pages according to the detected stride pattern.
+ read-ahead pages according to the detected stride pattern.
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 15033
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 15198
Description: LDLM soft lockups - improvement
-Details : It is be possible to send the lock handle along with each read
- or write request because the client is already doing a lock match
+Details : It is be possible to send the lock handle along with each read
+ or write request because the client is already doing a lock match
itself so there isn't any reason the OST should have to re-do that
search.
Bugzilla : 15776
Description: Extent locks not granted with no conflicts sometimes.
Details : When race occurs in glimpse handler and nothing is returned,
- we do not reprocess the queue after lock cancel, and that leads
+ we do not reprocess the queue after lock cancel, and that leads
to a stall until next activity on a resource
Severity : normal
and causing dumpstack.
Details : for every quota slave, at any time, there is only one quota req
is sent to quota master for every uid/gid. Before that quota req
- returns, all the thread relative to the same uid/gid will wait.
+ returns, all the thread relative to the same uid/gid will wait.
So if the quota req is lost because mds failovers or any other
reasons, this bug will be hit. Now, dqacq_interpret() will handle
- quota reqs who time out.
+ quota reqs who time out.
Severity : enhancement
Frequency : always
Frequency : occasional
Bugzilla : 13730
Description: Do not fail import if osc_interpret_create gets -EAGAIN
-Details : If osc_interpret_create got -EAGAIN it immediately exits and
- wakeup oscc_waitq. After wakeup oscc_wait_for_objects call
- oscc_has_objects and see OSC has no objests and call
+Details : If osc_interpret_create got -EAGAIN it immediately exits and
+ wakeup oscc_waitq. After wakeup oscc_wait_for_objects call
+ oscc_has_objects and see OSC has no objests and call
oscc_internal_create to resend create request.
Severity : enhancement
even on a Lustre-patched (server) kernel.
Severity : enhancement
-Bugzilla : 2369
+Bugzilla : 2369
Description: use i_size_read and i_size_write in 2.6 port
Details : replace inode->i_size access with i_size_read/write()
Bugzilla : 12234
Description: /proc/fs/lustre/devices broken on ppc
Details : The patch as applied to 1.6.2 doesn't look correct for all arches.
- We should make sure the type of 'index' is loff_t and then cast
+ We should make sure the type of 'index' is loff_t and then cast
explicitly as needed below. Do not assign an explicitly cast
loff_t to an int.
Bugzilla : 13751
Description: Kernel patches update for RHEL5 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.
Details : Modify target file & which_patch.
- A flaw was found in the IA32 system call emulation provided
- on AMD64 and Intel 64 platforms. An improperly validated 64-bit
- value could be stored in the %RAX register, which could trigger an
- out-of-bounds system call table access. An untrusted local user
- could exploit this flaw to run code in the kernel
- (ie a root privilege escalation). (CVE-2007-4573).
+ A flaw was found in the IA32 system call emulation provided
+ on AMD64 and Intel 64 platforms. An improperly validated 64-bit
+ value could be stored in the %RAX register, which could trigger an
+ out-of-bounds system call table access. An untrusted local user
+ could exploit this flaw to run code in the kernel
+ (ie a root privilege escalation). (CVE-2007-4573).
Severity : minor
-Bugzilla : 13732
+Bugzilla : 13732
Description: change order of libsysio includes
Details : '#include sysio.h' should always come before '#include xtio.h'
Bugzilla : 13570
Description: To avoid grant space > avaible space when the disk is almost
full. Without this patch you might see the error "grant XXXX >
- available" or some LBUG about grant, when the disk is almost
+ available" or some LBUG about grant, when the disk is almost
full.
Details : In filter_check_grant, for non_grant cache write, we should
- check the left space by if (*left > ungranted + bytes), instead
- of (*left > ungranted), because only we are sure the left space
- is enough for another "bytes", then the ungrant space should be
+ check the left space by if (*left > ungranted + bytes), instead
+ of (*left > ungranted), because only we are sure the left space
+ is enough for another "bytes", then the ungrant space should be
increase. In client, we should update cl_avail_grant only there is
OBD_MD_FLGRANT in the reply.
Details : block usage reported by 'lfs quota' does not take into account
files that have been written with O_DIRECT.
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 17197
+Description: (rw.c:1323:ll_read_ahead_pages()) ASSERTION(page_idx > ria->ria_stoff) failed
+Details : Once the unmatched stride IO mode is detected, shrink the stride-ahead
+ window to 0. If it does hit cache miss, and read-pattern is still
+ stride-io mode, does not reset the stride window, but also does not
+ increase the stride window length in this case.
+
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2007-09-27 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 2262
Description: self-adjustable client's lru lists
-Details : use adaptive algorithm for managing client cached locks lru
+Details : use adaptive algorithm for managing client cached locks lru
lists according to current server load, other client's work
- pattern, memory activities, etc. Both, server and client
- side namespaces provide number of proc tunables for controlling
+ pattern, memory activities, etc. Both, server and client
+ side namespaces provide number of proc tunables for controlling
things
Severity : cleanup
Details : rewrite inherited code (uuid parsing code from ext2 utils and
readdir code from ext3) from scratch preserving functionality.
-Severity : normal
+Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 13436
Description: Only those disconnect error should be returned by rq_status.
-Details : In open/enqueue processs, Some errors, which will cause client
- disconnected, should be returned by rq_status, while other
+Details : In open/enqueue processs, Some errors, which will cause client
+ disconnected, should be returned by rq_status, while other
errors should still be returned by intent, then mdc or llite will
detect them.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 11230
-Description: Tune the kernel for good SCSI performance.
+Description: Tune the kernel for good SCSI performance.
Details : Set the value of /sys/block/{dev}/queue/max_sectors_kb
to the value of /sys/block/{dev}/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
in mount_lustre.
Bugzilla : 13304
Frequency : Always, for kernels after 2.6.16
Description: Fix warning idr_remove called for id=.. which is not allocated.
-Details : Last kernels save old s_dev before kill super and not allow
+Details : Last kernels save old s_dev before kill super and not allow
to restore from callback - restore it before call kill_anon_super.
Severity : normal
be freed no matter whether fsfilt_commit success or not.
Severity : minor
-Frequency : only with huge numbers of clients
+Frequency : only with large numbers of cores on a single node
Bugzilla : 11817
Description: Prevents from taking the superblock lock in llap_from_page for
- a soon died page.
+ a soon killed page.
Details : using LL_ORIGIN_REMOVEPAGE origin flag instead of LL_ORIGIN_UNKNOW
for llap_from_page call in ll_removepage() prevents from taking
the superblock lock for a soon died page.
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