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5 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10)
6 2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
7 * Client support for unpatched kernels:
8 (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
9 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4)
10 2.6.16 - 2.6.21 vanilla (kernel.org)
11 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs8
12 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
16 Description: don't use GFP_* in generic Lustre code.
17 Details : Use cfs_alloc_* functions and CFS_* flags for code portability.
21 Description: obdclass is limited by single OBD_ALLOC(idarray)
22 Details : replace OBD_ALLOC/OBD_FREE with OBD_VMALLOC/OBD_VFREE
26 Description: warnings with build patchless client with vanila 2.6.19 and up
27 Details : change old ctl_table style and replace ctl_table/ctl_table_header
28 with cfs_sysctl_table_t/cfs_sysctl_table_header_t
32 Frequency : Only for SLES
33 Description: sanity_quota fail test_1
34 Details : There are multiple occurences of $TSTUSR in SLES's /etc/group
35 file, which makes TSTID[2] inunique.
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39 2007-08-10 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
41 * Support for kernels:
44 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10)
45 2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
46 * Client support for unpatched kernels:
47 (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
48 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
49 * Due to recently discovered recovery problems, we do not recommend
50 using patchless RHEL 4 clients with this or any earlier release.
51 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs8
52 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
53 * Starting with this release, the ldiskfs backing filesystem required
54 by Lustre is now in its own package, lustre-ldiskfs. This package
55 should be installed. It is versioned separately from Lustre and
56 may be released separately in future.
58 Severity : enhancement
60 Description: add optional extra BUILD_VERSION info
61 Details : add a new environment variable (namely LUSTRE_VERS) which allows
62 to override the lustre version.
65 Frequency : 2.6.18 servers only
67 Description: ll_kern_mount() doesn't release the module reference
68 Details : The ldiskfs module reference count never drops down to 0
69 because ll_kern_mount() doesn't release the module reference.
74 Description: server LBUG when using old ost_num_threads parameter
75 Details : Accept the old ost_num_threads parameter but warn that it
76 is deprecated, and fix an off-by-one error that caused an LBUG.
81 Description: Transient SCSI error results in persistent IO issue
82 Details : iobuf->dr_error is not reinitialized to 0 between two
86 Frequency : sometimes when underlying device returns I/O errors
88 Description: OSTs not going read-only during write failures
89 Details : OSTs are not remounted read-only when the journal commit threads
90 get I/O errors because fsfilt_ext3 calls journal_start/stop()
91 instead of the ext3 wrappers.
95 Description: poor connect scaling with increasing client count
96 Details : Don't run filter_grant_sanity_check for more than 100 exports
97 to improve scaling for large numbers of clients.
100 Frequency : SLES10 only
102 Description: sanity-quota.sh quotacheck failed: rc = -22
103 Details : Quotas cannot be enabled on SLES10.
106 Frequency : liblustre clients only
108 Description: getdirentries does not give error when run on compute nodes
109 Details : getdirentries does not fail when the size specified as an argument
110 is too small to contain at least one entry
112 Severity : enhancement
114 Description: Add LNET router traceability for debug purposes
115 Details : If a checksum failure occurs with a router as part of the
116 IO path, the NID of the last router that forwarded the bulk data
117 is printed so it can be identified.
122 Description: OST "spontaneously" evicts client; client has imp_pingable == 0
123 Details : Due to a race condition, liblustre clients were occasionally
126 Severity : enhancement
128 Description: lfs setstripe use optional parameters instead of postional
131 Severity : enhancement
133 Description: Nanosecond timestamp support for ldiskfs
134 Details : The on-disk ldiskfs filesystem has added support for nanosecond
135 resolution timestamps. There is not yet support for this at
136 the Lustre filesystem level.
139 Frequency : during server recovery
141 Description: MDS failing to send precreate requests due to OSCC_FLAG_RECOVERING
142 Details : request with rq_no_resend flag not awake l_wait_event if they get a
146 Frequency : nfs export on patchless client
148 Description: connectathon hang when test nfs export over patchless client
149 Details : Disconnected dentry cannot be found with lookup, so we do not need
150 to unhash it or make it invalid
153 Description: fix llapi_lov_get_uuids() to allow many OSTs to be returned
154 Details: : Change llapi_lov_get_uuids() to read the UUIDs from /proc instead
155 of using an ioctl. This allows lfsck for > 160 OSTs to succeed.
160 Description: open req refcounting wrong on reconnect
161 Details : If reconnect happened between getting open reply from server and
162 call to mdc_set_replay_data in ll_file_open, we will schedule
163 replay for unreferenced request that we are about to free.
164 Subsequent close will crash in variety of ways.
165 Check that request is still eligible for replay in
166 mdc_set_replay_data().
171 Description: disable writes to filesystem when reading health_check file
172 Details : the default for reading the health_check proc file has changed
173 to NOT do a journal transaction and write to disk, because this
174 can cause reads of the /proc file to hang and block HA state
175 checking on a healthy but otherwise heavily loaded system. It
176 is possible to return to the previous behaviour during configure
177 with --enable-health-write.
179 Severity : enhancement
181 Description: 64-bit inode version
182 Details: : Add a on-disk 64-bit inode version for ext3 to track changes made
183 to the inode. This will be required for version-based recovery.
188 Description: MDS fails to start if a duplicate client export is detected
189 Details : in some rare cases it was possible for a client to connect to
190 an MDS multiple times. Upon recovery the MDS would detect this
191 and fail during startup. Handle this more gracefully.
193 Severity : enhancement
195 Description: Add -o localflock option to simulate old noflock
197 Details : This will achieve local-only flock/fcntl locks
203 Description: log_commit_thread vs filter_destroy race leads to crash
204 Details : Take import reference before releasing llog record semaphore
209 Description: Wrong request locking in request set processing
210 Details : ptlrpc_check_set wrongly uses req->rq_lock for proctect add to
211 imp_delayed_list, in this place should be used imp_lock.
214 Frequency : when reconnection
216 Description: Grant Leak when osc reconnect to OST
217 Details : When osc reconnect ost, OST(filter) should check whether it
218 should grant more space to client by comparing fed_grant and
219 cl_avail_grant, and return the granted space to client instead
220 of "new granted" space, because client will call osc_init_grant
221 to update the client grant space info.
224 Frequency : when client reconnect to OST
226 Description: Grant Leak when osc do resend and replay bulk write
227 Details : When osc reconnect to OST, OST(filter)should clear grant info of
228 bulk write request, because the grant info while be sync between
229 OSC and OST when reconnect, and we should ignore the grant info
230 these of resend/replay write req.
235 Description: Grant space more than avaiable left space sometimes.
236 Details : When then OST is about to be full, if two bulk writing from
237 different clients came to OST. Accord the avaliable space of the
238 OST, the first req should be permitted, and the second one
239 should be denied by ENOSPC. But if the seconde arrived before
240 the first one is commited. The OST might wrongly permit second
241 writing, which will cause grant space > avaiable space.
244 Frequency : when client is evicted
246 Description: Grant might be wrongly erased when osc is evicted by OST
247 Details : when the import is evicted by server, it will fork another
248 thread ptlrpc_invalidate_import_thread to invalidate the
249 import, where the grant will be set to 0. While the original
250 thread will update the grant it got when connecting. So if
251 the former happened latter, the grant will be wrongly errased
252 because of this race.
257 Description: Checking Stale with correct fid
258 Details : ll_revalidate_it should uses de_inode instead of op_data.fid2
259 to check whether it is stale, because sometimes, we want the
260 enqueue happened anyway, and op_data.fid2 will not be initialized.
262 Severity : enhancement
264 Description: update patchless client
265 Details : Add support for patchless client with 2.6.20, 2.6.21 and RHEL 5
268 Frequency : only with 2.4 kernel
270 Description: random memory corruption
271 Details : size of struct ll_inode_info is to big for union inode.u and this
272 can be cause of random memory corruption.
277 Description: Memory leak in recovery
278 Details : Lov_mds_md was not free in an error handler in mds_create_object.
279 It should also check obd_fail before fsfilt_start, otherwise if
280 fsfilt_start return -EROFS,(failover mds during mds recovery).
281 then the req will return with repmsg->transno = 0 and rc = EROFS.
282 and we met hit the assert LASSERT(req->rq_reqmsg->transno ==
283 req->rq_repmsg->transno) in ptlrpc_replay_interpret. Fcc should
284 be freed no matter whether fsfilt_commit success or not.
287 Frequency : only with huge count clients
289 Description: Prevents from taking the superblock lock in llap_from_page for
291 Details : using LL_ORIGIN_REMOVEPAGE origin flag instead of LL_ORIGIN_UNKNOW
292 for llap_from_page call in ll_removepage prevents from taking the
293 superblock lock for a soon died page.
298 Description: Not check open intent error before release open handle
299 Details : in some rare cases, the open intent error is not checked before
300 release open handle, which may cause
301 ASSERTION(open_req->rq_transno != 0), because it tries to release
302 the failed open handle.
307 Description: Set cat log bitmap only after create log success.
308 Details : in some rare cases, the cat log bitmap is set too early. and it
309 should be set only after create log success.
313 Description: Accessing a block bevice can re-enable I/O when Lustre is
314 tearing down a device.
315 Details : dev_clear_rdonly(bdev) must be called in kill_bdev() instead of
320 Description: service threads may hog cpus when there are a lot of requests
322 Details : Insert cond_resched to give other threads a chance to use some of
328 Description: the cat log was not initialized in recovery
329 Details : When mds(mgs) do recovery, the tgt_count might be zero, so the
330 unlink log on mds will not be initialized until mds post
331 recovery. And also in mds post recovery, the unlink log will
332 initialization will be done asynchronausly, so there will be race
333 between add unlink log and unlink log initialization.
337 Description: brw_stats were being printed incorrectly
338 Details : brw_stats were being printed as log2 but all of them were not
339 recorded as log2. Also remove some code duplication arising from
340 filter_tally_{read,write}.
344 Frequency : rare, only in recovery.
345 Description: ASSERTION(req->rq_type != LI_POISON) failed
346 Details : imp_lock should be held while iterating over imp_sending_list for
347 prevent destroy request after get timeout in ptlrpc_queue_wait.
351 Description: replay-single.sh test 52 fails
352 Details : A lock's skiplist need to be cleanup when it being unlinked
353 from its resource list.
357 Description: Short directio read returns full requested size rather than
359 Details : Direct I/O operations should return actual amount of bytes
360 transferred rather than requested size.
362 Severity : enhancement
364 Description: metadata RPC reduction (e.g. for rm performance)
365 Details : decrease the amount of synchronous RPC between clients and servers
366 by canceling conflicing lock before the operation on the client side
367 and packing thier handles into the main operation RPC to server.
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371 2007-05-03 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
376 Frequency : on some architectures
378 Description: 1.6 client sometimes fails to mount from a 1.4 MDT
379 Details : Uninitialized flags sometimes cause configuration commands to
383 Frequency : patchless clients only
385 Description: missing __iget() symbol export
386 Details : The __iget() symbol export is missing. To avoid the need for
387 this on patchless clients the deathrow inode reaper is turned
388 off, and we depend on the VM to clean up old inodes. This
389 dependency was during via the fix for bug 12181.
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393 2007-04-19 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
395 * CONFIGURATION CHANGE. This version of Lustre WILL NOT
396 INTEROPERATE with older versions automatically. In many cases a
397 special upgrade step is needed. Please read the
398 user documentation before upgrading any part of a live system.
399 * WIRE PROTOCOL CHANGE from previous 1.6 beta versions. This
400 version will not interoperate with 1.6 betas before beta5 (1.5.95).
401 * WARNING: Lustre configuration and startup changes are required with
402 this release. See https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf
407 Severity : enhancement
409 Description: MountConf
410 Details : Lustre configuration is now managed via mkfs and mount
411 commands instead of lmc and lconf. New obd types (MGS, MGC)
412 are added for dynamic configuration management. See
413 https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf for
416 Severity : enhancement
418 Description: dynamic OST addition
419 Details : OSTs can now be added to a live filesystem
421 Severity : enhancement
423 Description: startup order invariance
424 Details : MDTs and OSTs can be started in any order. Clients only
425 require the MDT to complete startup.
427 Severity : enhancement
429 Description: parallel, asynchronous orphan cleanup
430 Details : orphan cleanup is now performed in separate threads for each
431 OST, allowing parallel non-blocking operation.
433 Severity : enhancement
435 Description: optimized stripe assignment
436 Details : stripe assignments are now made based on ost space available,
437 ost previous usage, and OSS previous usage, in order to try
438 to optimize storage space and networking resources.
440 Severity : enhancement
442 Description: Permanently set tunables
443 Details : All writable /proc/fs/lustre tunables can now be permanently
444 set on a per-server basis, at mkfs time or on a live
447 Severity : enhancement
449 Description: Lustre message v2
450 Details : Add lustre message format v2.
452 Severity : enhancement
454 Description: client OST exclusion list
455 Details : Clients can be started with a list of OSTs that should be
456 declared "inactive" for known non-responsive OSTs.
460 Description: SPEC SFS validation failure on NFS v2 over lustre.
461 Details : Changes the blocksize for regular files to be 2x RPC size,
462 and not depend on stripe size.
464 Severity : enhancement
466 Description: Multiple MD RPCs in flight.
467 Details : Further unserialise some read-only MDS RPCs - learn about intents.
468 To avoid overly-overloading MDS, introduce a limit on number of
469 MDS RPCs in flight for a single client and add /proc controls
470 to adjust this limit.
472 Severity : enhancement
474 Description: client read/write statistics
475 Details : Add client read/write call usage stats for performance
476 analysis of user processes.
477 /proc/fs/lustre/llite/*/offset_stats shows non-sequential
478 file access. extents_stats shows chunk size distribution.
479 extents_stats_per_process show chunk size distribution per
482 Severity : enhancement
484 Description: mds statistics
485 Details : Add detailed mds operations statistics in
486 /proc/fs/lustre/mds/*/stats.
490 Description: Failure of copying files with lustre special EAs.
491 Details : Client side always return success for setxattr call for lustre
492 special xattr (currently only "trusted.lov").
497 Description: Refcount LNET uuids
498 Details : The global LNET uuid list grew linearly with every startup;
499 refcount repeated list entries instead of always adding to
502 Severity : enhancement
504 Description: Dynamic service threads
505 Details : Within a small range, start extra service threads
506 automatically when the request queue builds up.
509 Frequency : mixed-endian client/server environments
511 Description: mixed-endian crashes
512 Details : The new msg_v2 system had some failures in mixed-endian
515 Severity : enhancement
517 Description: Easy OST removal
518 Details : OSTs can be permanently deactivated with e.g. 'lctl
519 conf_param lustre-OST0001.osc.active=0'
521 Severity : enhancement
523 Description: MGS proc entries
524 Details : Added basic proc entries for the MGS showing what filesystems
527 Severity : enhancement
529 Description: provide MGS failover
530 Details : Added config lock reacquisition after MGS server failover.
532 Severity : enhancement
534 Description: add Linux 2.4 support
535 Details : Added support for RHEL 2.4.21 kernel for 1.6 servers and clients
539 Description: a large application tries to do I/O to the same resource and dies
541 Details : Check the req->rq_arrival time after the call to
542 ost_brw_lock_get(), but before we do anything about
543 processing it & sending the BULK transfer request. This
544 should help move old stale pending locks off the queue as
545 quickly as obd_timeout.
548 Frequency : when an incorrect nid is specified during startup
550 Description: ptlrpc connect to non-existant node causes kernel crash
551 Details : LNET can't be re-entered from an event callback, which
552 happened when we expire a message after the export has been
553 cleaned up. Instead, hand the zombie cleanup off to another
556 Severity : enhancement
558 Description: plain/inodebits lock performance improvement
559 Details : Grouping plain/inodebits in granted list by their request modes
560 and bits policy, thus improving the performance of search through
564 Frequency : only if OST filesystem is corrupted
566 Description: client incorrectly hits assertion in ptlrpc_replay_req()
567 Details : for a short time RPCs with bulk IO are in the replay list,
568 but replay of bulk IOs is unimplemented. If the OST filesystem
569 is corrupted due to disk cache incoherency and then replay is
570 started it is possible to trip an assertion. Avoid putting
571 committed RPCs into the replay list at all to avoid this issue.
574 Frequency : liblustre (e.g. catamount) on a large cluster with >= 8 OSTs/OSS
576 Description: System hang on startup
577 Details : This bug allowed the liblustre (e.g. catamount) client to
578 return to the app before handling all startup RPCs. This
579 could leave the node unresponsive to lustre network traffic
580 and manifested as a server ptllnd timeout.
582 Severity : enhancement
584 Description: Add "/proc/sys/lustre/debug_peer_on_timeout"
585 Details : liblustre envirable: LIBLUSTRE_DEBUG_PEER_ON_TIMEOUT
586 boolean to control whether to print peer debug info when a
587 client's RPC times out.
590 Frequency : only for kernels with patches from Lustre below 1.4.3
592 Description: Remove old rdonly API
593 Details : Remove old rdonly API which unused from at least lustre 1.4.3
596 Frequency : only for devices with external journals
598 Description: Set external device read-only also
599 Details : During a commanded failover stop, we set the disk device
600 read-only while the server shuts down. We now also set any
601 external journal device read-only at the same time.
604 Frequency : when upgrading from 1.4 while trying to change parameters
606 Description: The wrong (new) MDC name was used when setting parameters for
607 upgraded MDT's. Also allows changing of OSC (and MDC)
608 parameters if --writeconf is specified at tunefs upgrade time.
611 Frequency : when setting specific ost indicies
613 Description: QOS code breaks on skipped indicies
614 Details : Add checks for missing OST indicies in the QOS code, so OSTs
615 created with --index need not be sequential.
617 Severity : enhancement
619 Description: Add uninit_groups feature to ldiskfs2 to speed up e2fsck
620 Details : The uninit_groups feature works in conjunction with the kernel
621 filesystem code (ldiskfs2 only) and e2fsprogs-1.39-cfs6 to speed
622 up the pass1 processing of e2fsck. This is a read-only feature
623 in ldiskfs2 only, so older kernels and current ldiskfs cannot
624 mount filesystems that have had this feature enabled.
626 Severity : enhancement
628 Description: Improve multi-block allocation algorithm to avoid fragmentation
629 Details : The mballoc3 code (ldiskfs2 only) adds new mechanisms to improve
630 allocation locality and avoid filesystem fragmentation.
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634 2007-04-01 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
636 * Support for kernels:
637 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
639 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4)
640 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
641 2.6.16.27-0.9 (SLES 10)
642 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs5
644 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel
648 Frequency : occasional, depends on client load and configuration
649 Bugzilla : 12181, 12203
650 Description: data loss for recently-modified files
652 Details : In some cases it is possible that recently written or created
653 files may not be written to disk in a timely manner (this should
654 normally be within 30s unless client IO load is very high).
655 The problem appears as zero-length files or files that are a
656 multiple of 1MB in size after a client crash or client eviction
657 that are missing data at the end of the file.
659 This problem is more likely to be hit on clients where files are
660 repeatedly created and unlinked in the same directory, clients
661 have a large amount of RAM, have many CPUs, the filesystem has
662 many OSTs, the clients are rebooted frequently, and/or the files
663 are not accessed by other nodes after being written.
665 The presence of the problem can be detected by looking at
666 /proc/sys/fs/inode-state. If the first number (nr_inodes) is
667 smaller than the second (nr_unused) then dirty files will not
668 be flushed automatically to disk. "sync; sleep 10" should be
669 run several times on the node before unmounting it to update
670 Lustre (this is also safe to run on nodes without this problem).
672 There is also a related kernel bug in the RHEL4 4 2.6.9 kernel
673 that can cause this same problem, so customers using that kernel
674 also need to update the kernel in addition to Lustre. In order
675 to properly fix this bug, the RHEL3 2.4.21 kernel is also updated.
677 It is normal that files written just before a client crash (less
678 than 30s) may not yet have been flushed to disk, even for local
682 Frequency : frequent on thin XT3 nodes
684 Description: UUID collision on thin XT3 Linux nodes
685 Details : UUIDs on Compute Node Linux XT3 nodes were not generated
686 randomly, since we relied on an insufficiently-seeded PRNG.
691 Description: OSS hangs after "All ost request buffers busy"
692 Details : A deadlock between quota and journal operations caused OSS
693 hangs after printing "All ost request buffers busy."
696 Frequency : always on liblustre builds
698 Description: Cleanup compiler warnings on liblustre
701 Frequency : always on liblustre builds on XT3
703 Description: LC_CONFIG_CDEBUG don't run while build liblustre on XT3.
707 Description: Addition of EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINKS flag for
708 > 32000 subdirectories
709 Details : Add EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK flag to
710 EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_SUPP. This flag will be set whenever
711 subdirectory count crosses 32000. This will aid e2fsck to
712 correctly handle more than 32000 subdirectories.
715 Frequency : liblustre (e.g. catamount) on a large cluster with >= 8 OSTs/OSS
717 Description: System hang on startup
718 Details : This bug allowed the liblustre (e.g. catamount) client to
719 return to the app before handling all startup RPCs. This
720 could leave the node unresponsive to lustre network traffic
721 and manifested as a server ptllnd timeout.
723 Severity : enhancement
725 Description: Add "/proc/sys/lustre/debug_peer_on_timeout"
726 (liblustre envirable: LIBLUSTRE_DEBUG_PEER_ON_TIMEOUT)
727 boolean to control whether to print peer debug info when a
728 client's RPC times out.
733 Description: make O_SYNC working on 2.6 kernels
734 Details : 2.6 kernels use different method for mark pages for write,
735 so need add a code to lustre for O_SYNC work.
740 Description: Failure to close file and release space on NFS
741 Details : Put inode details into lock acquired in ll_intent_file_open.
742 Use mdc_intent_lock in ll_intent_open to properly
743 detect all kind of errors unhandled by mdc_enqueue.
748 Description: proc file read during shutdown sometimes raced obd removal,
750 Details : Add lock to prevent obd access after proc file removal.
753 Frequency : Only for files larger than 4GB on 32-bit clients.
755 Description: improperly doing page alignment of locks
756 Details : Modify lustre core code to use CFS_PAGE_* defines instead of
757 PAGE_*. Make CFS_PAGE_MASK a 64-bit mask.
762 Description: RPCs being resent when they shouldn't be
763 Details : Some RPCs that should not be resent are being resent. This
764 can cause inconsistencies in the RPC state machine. Do not
765 resend such requests.
768 Frequency : rare, only with NFS export
770 Description: Crash on NFS re-export node
771 Details : under very unusual load conditions an assertion is hit in
772 ll_intent_file_open()
775 Frequency : only if OST filesystem is corrupted
777 Description: client incorrectly hits assertion in ptlrpc_replay_req()
778 Details : for a short time RPCs with bulk IO are in the replay list,
779 but replay of bulk IOs is unimplemented. If the OST filesystem
780 is corrupted due to disk cache incoherency and then replay is
781 started it is possible to trip an assertion. Avoid putting
782 committed RPCs into the replay list at all to avoid this issue.
787 Description: large O_DIRECT requests fail under memory pressure/fragmentation
788 Details : Large single O_DIRECT read and write calls can fail to allocate
789 a sufficiently large buffer to process the request. In case of
790 allocation failure the allocation is retried with a smaller
791 buffer and broken into smaller requests.
793 Severity : enhancement
795 Description: Add -o localflock option to simulate old noflock behaviour.
796 Details : This will achieve local-only flock/fcntl locks coherentness.
801 Description: versioning check is incomplete
802 Details : Checking the version difference of client vs. server, report
803 error if the gap is too big.
808 Description: add support PG_writeback bit
809 Details : add support for PG_writeback bit for Lustre, for more carefull
810 work with page cache in 2.6 kernel. This also fix some deadlocks
811 and remove hack for work O_SYNC with 2.6 kernel.
813 Severity : enhancement
815 Description: Add uninit_groups feature to ldiskfs2 to speed up e2fsck
816 Details : The uninit_groups feature works in conjunction with the kernel
817 filesystem code (ldiskfs2 only) and e2fsprogs-1.39-cfs6 to speed
818 up the pass1 processing of e2fsck. This is a read-only feature
819 in ldiskfs2 only, so older kernels and current ldiskfs cannot
820 mount filesystems that have had this feature enabled.
822 Severity : enhancement
824 Description: Improve multi-block allocation algorithm to avoid fragmentation
825 Details : The mballoc3 code (ldiskfs2 only) adds new mechanisms to improve
826 allocation locality and avoid filesystem fragmentation.
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830 2007-02-09 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
832 * Support for kernels:
833 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL (RHEL 4)
835 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
836 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
837 2.6.16.21-0.8 (SLES10)
838 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs2-0
840 * The backwards-compatible /proc/sys/portals symlink has been removed
841 in this release. Before upgrading, please ensure that you change
842 any configuration scripts or /etc/sysctl.conf files that access
843 /proc/sys/portals/* or sysctl portals.* to use the corresponding
844 entry in /proc/sys/lnet or sysctl lnet.*. This change can be made
845 in advance of the upgrade on any system running Lustre 1.4.6 or
846 newer, since /proc/sys/lnet was added in that version.
847 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel
851 Frequency : only when quota is used
853 Description: avoid scanning export list for quota master
854 Details : Change the algorithms to avoid scanning export list in order
855 to improve the efficiency.
858 Frequency : MDS failover only, very rarely
860 Description: "went back in time" messages on mds failover
861 Details : The greatest transno may be lost when the current operation
862 finishes with an error (transno==0) and the client's last_rcvd
863 record is over-written. Save the greatest transno in the
864 mds_last_transno for this case.
867 Frequency : always for specific kernels and striping counts
869 Description: client may get "Matching packet too big" without ACL support
870 Details : Clients compiled without CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL get an error message
871 when trying to access files in certain configurations. The
872 clients should in fact be denied when mounting because they do
876 Frequency : Cray XT3 with more than 4000 clients and multiple jobs
878 Description: many clients connecting with IO in progress causes connect timeouts
879 Details : Avoid synchronous journal commits to avoid delays caused by many
880 clients connecting/disconnecting when bulk IO is in progress.
881 Queue liblustre connect requests on OST_REQUEST_PORTAL instead of
882 OST_IO_PORTAL to avoid delays behind potentially many pending
886 Frequency : occasionally with multiple writers to a single file
888 Description: shared writes to file may result in wrong size reported by stat()
889 Details : Allow growing of kms when extent lock is cancelled
892 Frequency : always with random mmap IO to multi-striped file
894 Description: mmap write might be lost if we are writing to a 'hole' in stripe
895 Details : Only if the hole is at the end of OST object so that kms is too
896 small. Fix is to increase kms accordingly in ll_nopage.
899 Frequency : rare, only if OST filesystem is inconsistent with MDS filesystem
901 Description: writes to a missing object would leak memory on the OST
902 Details : If there is an inconsistency between the MDS and OST filesystems,
903 such that the MDS references an object that doesn't exist, writes
904 to that object will leak memory due to incorrect cleanup in the
905 error handling path, eventually running out of memory on the OST.
910 Description: Creating too long symlink causes lustre errors
911 Details : Check symlink and name lengths before sending requests to MDS.
914 Frequency : only if flock is enabled (not on by default)
916 Description: posix locks not released on fd closure on 2.6.9+
917 Details : We failed to add posix locks to list of inode locks on 2.6.9+
918 kernels, this caused such locks not to be released on fd close and
919 then assertions on fs unmount about still used locks.
922 Frequency : MDS failover only, very rarely
924 Description: clients may get ASSERTION(granted_lock != NULL)
925 Details : When request was taking a long time, and a client was resending
926 a getattr by name lock request. The were multiple lock requests
927 with the same client lock handle and
928 mds_getattr_name->fixup_handle_for_resent_request found one of the
929 lock handles but later failed with ASSERTION(granted_lock != NULL).
934 Description: handle->h_buffer_credits > 0, assertion failure
935 Details : h_buffer_credits is zero after truncate, causing assertion
936 failure. This patch extends the transaction or creates a new
940 Frequency : NFS re-export or patchless client
941 Bugzilla : 11179, 10796
942 Description: Crash on NFS re-export node (__d_move)
943 Details : We do not want to hash the dentry if we don't have a lock.
944 But if this dentry is later used in d_move, we'd hit uninitialised
945 list head d_hash, so we just do this to init d_hash field but
946 leave dentry unhashed.
949 Frequency : NFS re-export or patchless client
951 Description: NFS exports has problem with symbolic link
952 Details : lustre client didn't properly install dentry when re-exported
953 to NFS or running patchless client.
956 Frequency : NFS re-export or patchless client
958 Description: Various nfs/patchless fixes.
959 Details : fixes reuse disconected alias for lookup process - this fixes
960 warning "find_exported_dentry: npd != pd",
961 fix permission error with open files at nfs.
962 fix apply umask when do revalidate.
965 Frequency : occasional
967 Description: Crash on NFS re-export node
968 Details : calling clear_page() on the wrong pointer triggered oops in
969 generic_mapping_read().
972 Frequency : rarely, using O_DIRECT IO
974 Description: unaligned directio crashes client with LASSERT
975 Details : check for unaligned buffers before trying any requests.
978 Frequency : rarely, using CFS RAID5 patches in non-standard kernel series
980 Description: stale data returned from RAID cache
981 Details : If only a small amount of IO is done to the RAID device before
982 reading it again it is possible to get stale data from the RAID
983 cache instead of reading it from disk.
986 Frequency : always for sles10 kernel
988 Description: sles10 support
989 Details : ll_follow_link: compile fixes and using of nd_set_link
993 Frequency : depends on arch, kernel and compiler version, always on sles10
996 Description: recursive or deep enough symlinks cause stack overflow
997 Details : getting rid of large stack-allocated variable in
1001 Frequency : depends on hardware
1003 Description: lustre write performance loss in the SLES10 kernel
1004 Details : the performance loss is caused by using of write barriers in the
1005 ext3 code. The SLES10 kernel turns barrier support on by
1006 default. The fix is to undo that change for ldiskfs.
1008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1010 2006-12-09 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1012 * Support for kernels:
1013 2.6.9-42.0.3EL (RHEL 4)
1014 2.6.5-7.276 (SLES 9)
1015 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
1016 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1020 Frequency : quota enabled and large files being deleted
1022 Description: releasing more than 4GB of quota at once hangs OST
1023 Details : If a user deletes more than 4GB of files on a single OST it
1024 will cause the OST to spin in an infinite loop. Release
1025 quota in < 4GB chunks, or use a 64-bit value for 1.4.7.1+.
1030 Description: statfs data retrieved from /proc may be stale or zero
1031 Details : When reading per-device statfs data from /proc, in the
1032 {kbytes,files}_{total,free,avail} files, it may appear
1033 as zero or be out of date.
1036 Frequency : systems with MD RAID1 external journal devices
1038 Description: lconf's call to blkid is confused by RAID1 journal devices
1039 Details : Use the "blkid -l" flag to locate the MD RAID device instead
1040 of returning all block devices that match the journal UUID.
1043 Frequency : always, for aggregate stripe size over 4GB
1045 Description: "lfs setstripe" fails assertion when setting 4GB+ stripe width
1046 Details : Using "lfs setstripe" to set stripe size * stripe count over 4GB
1047 will fail the kernel with "ASSERTION(lsm->lsm_xfersize != 0)"
1050 Frequency : always if "lfs find" used on a local file/directory
1052 Description: "lfs find" segfaults if used on a local file/directory
1053 Details : The case where a directory component was not specified wasn't
1054 handled correctly. Handle this properly.
1057 Frequency : always on ppc64
1059 Description: the write to an ext3 filesystem mounted with mballoc got stuck
1060 Details : ext3_mb_generate_buddy() uses find_next_bit() which does not
1061 perform endianness conversion.
1064 Frequency : rarely (truncate to non-zero file size after write under load)
1065 Bugzilla : 10730, 10687
1066 Description: Files padded with zeros to next 4K multiple
1067 Details : With filesystems mounted using the "extents" option (2.6 kernels)
1068 it is possible that files that are truncated to a non-zero size
1069 immediately after being written are filled with zero bytes beyond
1070 the truncated size. No file data is lost.
1072 Severity : enhancement
1074 Description: Allow recovery/failover for liblustre clients.
1075 Details : liblustre clients were unaware of failover configurations until
1078 Severity : enhancement
1080 Description: user file locks should fail when not mounting with flock option
1081 Details : Set up an error-returning stub in ll_file_operations.lock field
1082 to prevent incorrect behaviour when client is mounted without
1083 flock option. Also, set up properly f_op->flock field for
1087 Frequency : always on ia64
1089 Description: "lfs df" loops on printing out MDS statfs information
1090 Details : The obd_ioctl_data was not initialized and in some systems
1091 this caused a failure during the ioctl that did not return
1092 an error. Initialize the struct and return an error on failure.
1095 Frequency : SLES 9 only
1097 Description: Error of copying files with lustre special EAs as root
1098 Details : Client side always return success for setxattr call for lustre
1099 special xattr (currently only "trusted.lov").
1102 Frequency : rarely on clusters with both ia64+i386 clients
1104 Description: ia64+i686 clients doing shared IO on the same file may LBUG
1105 Details : In rare cases when both ia64+i686 (or other mixed-PAGE_SIZE)
1106 clients are doing concurrent writes to the same file it is
1107 possible that the ia64 clients may LASSERT because the OST
1108 extent locks are not PAGE_SIZE aligned. Ensure that grown
1109 locks are always aligned on the request boundary.
1112 Frequency : specific use, occasional
1114 Description: Overwriting in use executable truncates on-disk binary image
1115 Details : If one node attempts to overwrite an executable in use by
1116 another node, we now correctly return ETXTBSY instead of
1117 truncating the file.
1119 Severity : enhancement
1121 Description: Async OSC create to avoid the blocking unnecessarily.
1122 Details : If a OST has no remain object, system will block on the creating
1123 when need to create a new object on this OST. Now, ways use
1124 pre-created objects when available, instead of blocking on an
1125 empty osc while others are not empty. If we must block, we block
1126 for the shortest possible period of time.
1131 Description: chmod on Lustre root is propagated to other clients
1132 Details : Re-validate root's dentry in ll_lookup_it to avoid having it
1133 invalid by the follow_mount time.
1136 Frequency : liblustre clients only
1138 Description: Race in 'instant cancel' lock handling could lead to such locks
1139 never to be granted in case of SMP MDS
1140 Details : Do not destroy not yet granted but cbpending locks in
1144 Frequency : replay/resend of open
1146 Description: non null lock assetion failure in mds_intent_policy
1147 Details : Trying to replay/resend lockless open requests resulted in
1148 mds_open() returning 0 with no lock. Now it sets a flag if
1149 a lock is going to be returned.
1151 Severity : enhancement
1153 Description: Checksum enhancements
1154 Details : New checksum enhancements allow for resending RPCs that failed
1157 Severity : enhancement
1159 Description: Tunables on number of dirty pages in cacche
1160 Details : Allow to set limit on number of dirty pages cached.
1165 Description: client crash on unmount - lock still has references
1166 Details : In some error handling cases it was possible to leak a lock
1167 reference on a client while accessing a file. This was not
1168 harmful to the client during operation, but would cause the
1169 client to crash when the filesystem is unmounted.
1172 Frequency : specific case, rare
1174 Description: ETXTBSY on mds though file not in use by client
1175 Details : ETXTBSY is no longer incorrectly returned when attempting to
1176 chmod or chown a directory that the user previously tried to
1177 execute or a currently-executing binary.
1180 Frequency : extremely rare except on liblustre-based clients
1182 Description: Lustre space not freed when files are deleted
1183 Details : Clean up open-unlinked files after client eviction. Previously
1184 the unlink was skipped and the files remained as orphans.
1189 Description: OST failure "would be an LBUG" in waiting_locks_callback()
1190 Details : In some cases it was possible to send a blocking callback to
1191 a client doing a glimpse, even though that client didn't get
1192 a lock granted. When the glimpse lock is cancelled on the OST
1193 the freed lock is left on the waiting list and corrupted the list.
1196 Frequency : all core dumps
1198 Description: Broke core dumps to lustre
1199 Details : Negative dentry may be unhashed if parent does not have UPDATE
1200 lock, but some callers, e.g. do_coredump, expect dentry to be
1201 hashed after successful create, hash it in ll_create_it.
1203 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1205 2006-09-13 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1207 * Support for kernels:
1208 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL (RHEL 4)
1209 2.6.5-7.276 (SLES 9)
1210 2.4.21-40.EL (RHEL 3)
1211 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1215 Frequency : always on RHEL 3
1217 Description: Number of open files grows over time
1218 Details : The number of open files grows over time, whether or not
1219 Lustre is started. This was due to a filp leak introduced
1220 by one of our kernel patches.
1222 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1224 08-20-2006 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1226 * Support for kernels:
1227 2.6.9-42.EL (RHEL 4)
1228 2.6.5-7.276 (SLES 9)
1229 2.4.21-40.EL (RHEL 3)
1230 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1235 Bugzilla : 5719, 9635, 9792, 9684
1236 Description: OST (or MDS) trips assertions in (re)connection under heavy load
1237 Details : If a server is under heavy load and cannot reply to new
1238 connection requests before the client resends the (re)connect,
1239 the connection handling code can behave badly if two service
1240 threads are concurrently handing separate (re)connections from
1241 the same client. Add better locking to the connection handling
1242 code, and ensure that only a single connection will be processed
1243 for a given client UUID, even if the lock is dropped.
1245 Severity : enhancement
1247 Description: add TCP zero-copy support to kernel
1248 Details : Add support to the kernel TCP stack to allow zero-copy bulk
1249 sends if the hardware supports scatter-gather and checksumming.
1250 This allows socklnd to do client-write and server-read more
1251 efficiently and reduce CPU utilization from skbuf copying.
1254 Frequency : only if NFS exporting from client
1256 Description: NULL pointer deref in ll_iocontrol() if chattr mknod file
1257 Details : If setting attributes on a file created under NFS that had
1258 never been opened it would be possible to oops the client
1259 if the file had no objects.
1262 Frequency : always for liblustre
1264 Description: liblustre client does MDS+OSTs setattr RPC for each write
1265 Details : When doing a write from a liblustre client, the client
1266 incorrectly issued an RPC to the MDS and each OST the file was
1267 striped over in order to update the timestamps. When writing
1268 with small chunks and many clients this could overwhelm the MDS
1269 with RPCs. In all cases it would slow down the write because
1270 these RPCs are unnecessary.
1272 Severity : enhancement
1274 Description: allow number of MDS service threads to be changed at module load
1275 Details : It is now possible to change the number of MDS service threads
1276 running. Adding "options mds mds_num_threads={N}" to the MDS's
1277 /etc/modprobe.conf will set the number of threads for the next
1278 time Lustre is restarted (assuming the "mds" module is also
1279 reloaded at that time). The default number of threads will
1280 stay the same, 32 for most systems.
1285 Description: OST crash if filesystem is unformatted or corrupt
1286 Details : If an OST is started on a device that has never been formatted
1287 or if the filesystem is corrupt and cannot even mount then the
1288 error handling cleanup routines would dereference a NULL pointer.
1293 Description: NULL pointer deref in llap_from_page.
1294 Details : get_cache_page_nowait can return a page with NULL (or otherwise
1295 incorrect) mapping if the page was truncated/reclaimed while it was
1296 searched for. Check for this condition and skip such pages when
1297 doing readahead. Introduce extra check to llap_from_page() to
1298 verify page->mapping->host is non-NULL (so page is not anonymous).
1301 Frequency : Sometimes when using sys_sendfile
1303 Description: "page not covered by a lock" warnings from ll_readpage
1304 Details : sendfile called ll_readpage without right page locks present.
1305 Now we introduced ll_file_sendfile that does necessary locking
1306 around call to generic_file_sendfile() much like we do in
1310 Frequency : with certain MDS communication failures at client mount time
1312 Description: NULL pointer deref after failed client mount
1313 Details : a client connection request may delayed by the network layer
1314 and not be sent until after the PTLRPC layer has timed out the
1315 request. If the client fails the mount immediately it will try
1316 to clean up before the network times out the request. Add a
1317 reference from the request import to the obd device and delay
1318 the cleanup until the network drops the request.
1321 Frequency : occasionally during client (re)connect
1323 Description: assertion failure during client (re)connect
1324 Details : processing a client connection request may be delayed by the
1325 client or server longer than the client connect timeout. This
1326 causes the client to resend the connection request. If the
1327 original connection request is replied in this interval, the
1328 client may trip an assertion failure in ptlrpc_connect_interpret()
1329 which thought it would be the only running connect process.
1332 Frequency : only with obd_echo servers and clients that are rebooted
1334 Description: kernel BUG accessing uninitialized data structure
1335 Details : When running an obd_echo server it did not start the ping_evictor
1336 thread, and when a client was evicted an uninitialized data
1337 structure was accessed. Start the ping_evictor in the RPC
1338 service startup instead of the OBD startup.
1340 Severity : enhancement
1341 Bugzilla : 10193 (patchless)
1342 Description: Remove dependency on various unexported kernel interfaces.
1343 Details : No longer need reparent_to_init, exit_mm, exit_files,
1344 sock_getsockopt, filemap_populate, FMODE_EXEC, put_filp.
1347 Frequency : rare (only users of deprecated and unsupported LDAP config)
1349 Description: write_conf for zeroconf mount queried LDAP incorrectly for client
1350 Details : LDAP apparently contains 'lustreName' attributes instead of
1351 'name'. A simple remapping of the name is sufficient.
1354 Frequency : rare (only with non-default dump_on_timeout debug enabled)
1356 Description: waiting_locks_callback trips kernel BUG if client is evicted
1357 Details : Running with the dump_on_timeout debug flag turned on makes
1358 it possible that the waiting_locks_callback() can try to dump
1359 the Lustre kernel debug logs from an interrupt handler. Defer
1360 this log dumping to the expired_lock_main() thread.
1362 Severity : enhancement
1364 Description: Support NFS exporting on 2.6 kernels.
1365 Details : Implement non-rawops metadata methods for NFS server to use without
1366 changing NFS server code.
1369 Frequency : very rare (synthetic metadata workload only)
1371 Description: two racing renames might cause an MDS thread to deadlock
1372 Details : Running the "racer" program may cause one MDS thread to rename
1373 a file from being the source of a rename to being the target of
1374 a rename at exactly the same time that another thread is doing
1375 so, and the second thread has already enqueued these locks after
1376 doing a lookup of the target and is trying to relock them in
1377 order. Ensure that we don't try to re-lock the same resource.
1380 Frequency : only very large systems with liblustre clients
1382 Description: slow eviction of liblustre clients with the "evict_by_nid" RPC
1383 Details : Use asynchronous set_info RPCs to send the "evict_by_nid" to
1384 all OSTs in parallel. This allows the eviction of stale liblustre
1385 clients to proceed much faster than if they were done in series,
1386 and also offers similar improvements for other set_info RPCs.
1391 Description: excessive CPU usage during initial read phase on client
1392 Details : During the initial read phase on a client, it would agressively
1393 retry readahead on the file, consuming too much CPU and impacting
1394 performance (since 1.4.5.8). Improve the readahead algorithm
1395 to avoid this, and also improve some other common cases (read
1396 of small files in particular, where "small" is files smaller than
1397 /proc/fs/lustre/llite/*/max_read_ahead_whole_mb, 2MB by default).
1402 Description: MDS crash when receiving packet with unknown intent.
1403 Details : Do not LBUG in unknown intent case, just return -EFAULT
1405 Severity : enhancement
1406 Bugzilla : 9293, 9385
1407 Description: MDS RPCs are serialised on client. This is unnecessary for some.
1408 Details : Do not serialize getattr (non-intent version) and statfs.
1411 Frequency : occasional, when OST network is overloaded/intermittent
1413 Description: client evicted by OST after bulk IO timeout
1414 Details : If a client sends a bulk IO request (read or write) the OST
1415 may evict the client if it is unresposive to its data GET/PUT
1416 request. This is incorrect if the network is overloaded (takes
1417 too long to transfer the RPC data) or dropped the OST GET/PUT
1418 request. There is no need to evict the client at all, since
1419 the pinger and/or lock callbacks will handle this, and the
1420 client can restart the bulk request.
1423 Frequency : Always when mmapping file with no objects
1425 Description: client crashes when mmapping file with no objects
1426 Details : Check that we actually have objects in a file before doing any
1427 operations on objects in ll_vm_open, ll_vm_close and
1433 Description: Request leak when working with deleted CWD
1434 Details : Introduce advanced request refcount tracking for requests
1435 referenced from lustre intent.
1437 Severity : Enhancement
1439 Description: Cache open file handles on client.
1440 Details : MDS now will return special lock along with openhandle, if
1441 requested and client is allowed to hold openhandle, even if unused,
1442 until such a lock is revoked. Helps NFS a lot, since NFS is opening
1443 closing files for every read/write openration.
1445 Severity : Enhancement
1447 Description: Cache open negative dentries on client when possible.
1448 Details : Guard negative dentries with UPDATE lock on parent dir, drop
1449 negative dentries on lock revocation.
1454 Description: Remounting a client read-only wasn't possible with a zconf mount
1455 Details : It wasn't possible to remount a client read-only with llmount.
1457 Severity : enhancement
1458 Description: Include MPICH 1.2.6 Lustre ADIO interface patch
1459 Details : In lustre/contrib/ or /usr/share/lustre in RPM a patch for
1460 MPICH is included to add Lustre-specific ADIO interfaces.
1461 This is based closely on the UFS ADIO layer and only differs
1462 in file creation, in order to allow the OST striping to be set.
1463 This is user-contributed code and not supported by CFS.
1468 Description: extended inode attributes (immutable, append-only) work improperly
1469 when 2.4 and 2.6 kernels are used on client/server or vice versa
1470 Details : Introduce kernel-independent values for these flags.
1472 Severity : enhancement
1475 Description: Allow fractional MB tunings for lustre in /proc/ filesystem.
1476 Details : Many of the /proc/ tunables can only be tuned at a megabyte
1477 granularity. Now, Fractional MB granularity is be supported,
1478 this is very useful for low memory system.
1480 Severity : enhancement
1482 Description: Getattr by fid
1483 Details : Getting a file attributes by its fid, obtaining UPDATE|LOOKUP
1484 locks, avoids extra getattr rpc requests to MDS, allows '/' to
1485 have locks and avoids getattr rpc requests for it on every stat.
1488 Frequency : Always, for filesystems larger than 2TB
1490 Description: ldiskfs crash at mount for filesystem larger than 2TB with mballoc
1491 Details : Kenrel kmalloc limits allocations to 128kB and this prevents
1492 filesystems larger than 2TB to be mounted with mballoc enabled.
1495 Frequency : Always, for 32-bit kernel without CONFIG_LBD and filesystem > 2TB
1497 Description: ldiskfs crash at mount for filesystem larger than 2TB with mballoc
1498 Details : If a 32-bit kernel is compiled without CONFIG_LBD enabled and a
1499 filesystems larger than 2TB is mounted then the kernel will
1500 silently corrupt the start of the filesystem. CONFIG_LBD is
1501 enabled for all CFS-supported kernels, but the possibility of
1502 this happening with a modified kernel config exists.
1504 Severity : enhancement
1506 Description: add client O_DIRECT support for 2.6 kernels
1507 Details : It is now possible to do O_DIRECT reads and writes to files
1508 in the Lustre client mountpoint on 2.6 kernel clients.
1510 Severity : enhancement
1512 Description: parallel glimpse, setattr, statfs, punch, destroy requests
1513 Details : Sends glimpse, setattr, statfs, punch, destroy requests to OSTs in
1514 parallel, not waiting for response from every OST before sending
1515 a rpc to the next OST.
1520 Description: setattr vs write race when updating file timestamps
1521 Details : Client processes that update a file timestamp into the past
1522 right after writing to the file (e.g. tar) it is possible that
1523 the updated file modification time can be reset to the current
1524 time due to a race between processing the setattr and write RPC.
1526 Severity : enhancement
1528 Description: Bring 'lfs find' closer in line with regular Linux find.
1529 Details : lfs find util supports -atime, -mtime, -ctime, -maxdepth, -print,
1530 -print0 options and obtains all the needed info through the lustre
1533 Severity : enhancement
1535 Description: support up to 1024 configured devices on one node
1536 Details : change obd_dev array from statically allocated to dynamically
1537 allocated structs as they are first used to reduce memory usage
1542 Description: Flush dirty partially truncated pages during truncate
1543 Details : Immediatelly flush partially truncated pages in filter_setattr,
1544 this way we completely avoid having any pages in page cache on OST
1545 and can retire ugly workarounds during writes to flush such pages.
1550 Description: i_sem vs transaction deadlock in mds_obd_destroy during unlink.
1551 Details : protect inode from truncation within vfs_unlink() context
1552 just take a reference before calling vfs_unlink() and release it
1553 when parent's i_sem is free.
1558 Description: last_id value checked outside lock on OST caused LASSERT failure
1559 Details : If there were multiple MDS->OST object precreate requests in
1560 flight, it was possible that the OST's last object id was checked
1561 outside a lock and incorrectly tripped an assertion. Move checks
1562 inside locks, and discard old precreate requests.
1565 Frequency : always, if extents are used on OSTs
1567 Description: index ei_leaf_hi (48-bit extension) is not zeroed in extent index
1568 Details : OSTs using the extents format would not zero the high 16 bits of
1569 the index physical block number. This is not a problem for any
1570 OST filesystems smaller than 16TB, and no kernels support ext3
1571 filesystems larger than 16TB yet. This is fixed in 1.4.7 (all
1572 new/modified files) and can be fixed for existing filesystems
1573 with e2fsprogs-1.39-cfs1.
1578 Description: import connection selection may be incorrect if timer wraps
1579 Details : Using a 32-bit jiffies timer with HZ=1000 may cause backup
1580 import connections to be ignored if the 32-bit jiffies counter
1581 wraps. Use a 64-bit jiffies counter.
1584 Frequency : very large clusters immediately after boot
1586 Description: LNET request buffers exhausted under heavy short-term load
1587 Details : If a large number of client requests are generated on a service
1588 that has previously never seen so many requests it is possible
1589 that the request buffer growth cannot keep up with the spike in
1590 demand. Instead of dropping incoming requests, they are held in
1591 the LND until the RPC service can accept more requests.
1594 Frequency : Sometimes during replay
1596 Description: Assertion failure in ll_local_open after replay.
1597 Details : If replay happened on an open request reply before we were able
1598 to set replay handler, reply will become not swabbed tripping the
1599 assertion in ll_local_open. Now we set the handler right after
1600 recognising of open request
1603 Frequency : very rare
1605 Description: kernel reports "badness in vsnprintf"
1606 Details : Reading from the "recovery_status" /proc file in small chunks
1607 may cause a negative length in lprocfs_obd_rd_recovery_status()
1608 call to vsnprintf() (which is otherwise harmless). Exit early
1609 if there is no more space in the output buffer.
1611 Severity : enhancement
1613 Description: clear OBD RPC statistics by writing to them
1614 Details : It is now possible to clear the OBD RPC statistics by writing
1615 to the "stats" file.
1620 Description: Client mtime is not the same on different clients after utimes
1621 Details : In some cases, the client was using the utimes() syscall on
1622 a file cached on another node. The clients now validate the
1623 ctime from the MDS + OSTs to determine which one is right.
1628 Description: Inability to activate failout mode
1629 Details : lconf script incorrectly assumed that in pythong string's numeric
1630 value is used in comparisons.
1633 Frequency : always with multiple stripes per file
1635 Description: Inefficient object allocation for mutli-stripe files
1636 Details : When selecting which OSTs to stripe files over, for files with
1637 a stripe count that divides evenly into the number of OSTs,
1638 the MDS is always picking the same starting OST for each file.
1639 Return the OST selection heuristic to the original design.
1644 Description: mount failures may take full timeout to return an error
1645 Details : Under some heavy load conditions it is possible that a
1646 failed mount can wait for the full obd_timeout interval,
1647 possibly several minutes, before reporting an error.
1648 Instead return an error as soon as the status is known.
1650 Frequency : quota enabled and large files being deleted
1652 Description: releasing more than 4GB of quota at once hangs OST
1653 Details : If a user deletes more than 4GB of files on a single OST it
1654 will cause the OST to spin in an infinite loop. Release
1655 quota in < 4GB chunks, or use a 64-bit value for 1.4.7.1+.
1660 Description: statfs data retrieved from /proc may be stale or zero
1661 Details : When reading per-device statfs data from /proc, in the
1662 {kbytes,files}_{total,free,avail} files, it may appear
1663 as zero or be out of date.
1666 Frequency : systems with MD RAID1 external journal devices
1668 Description: lconf's call to blkid is confused by RAID1 journal devices
1669 Details : Use the "blkid -l" flag to locate the MD RAID device instead
1670 of returning all block devices that match the journal UUID.
1673 Frequency : always, for aggregate stripe size over 4GB
1675 Description: assertion fails when trying to use 4GB stripe size
1676 Details : Use "setstripe" to set stripe size over 4GB will fail the kernel,
1677 complaining "ASSERTION(lsm->lsm_xfersize != 0)"
1680 Frequency : always on ppc64
1682 Description: the first write on an ext3 filesystem with mballoc got stuck
1683 Details : ext3_mb_generate_buddy() uses find_next_bit() which does not
1684 perform endianness conversion.
1686 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1688 02-14-2006 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1690 * WIRE PROTOCOL CHANGE. This version of Lustre networking WILL NOT
1691 INTEROPERATE with older versions automatically. Please read the
1692 user documentation before upgrading any part of a live system.
1693 * WARNING: Lustre networking configuration changes are required with
1694 this release. See https://bugzilla.clusterfs.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10052
1697 * Support for kernels:
1698 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL (RHEL 4)
1699 2.6.5-7.244 (SLES 9)
1700 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1703 Severity : enhancement
1704 Bugzilla : 7981/8208
1705 Description: Introduced Lustre Networking (LNET)
1706 Details : LNET is new networking infrastructure for Lustre, it includes
1707 a reorganized network configuration mode (see the user
1708 documentation for full details) as well as support for routing
1709 between different network fabrics. Lustre Networking Devices
1710 (LNDs) for the supported network fabrics have also been
1711 created for this new infrastructure.
1713 Severity : enhancement
1714 Description: Introduced Access control lists
1715 Details : clients can set ACLs on files and directories in order to have
1716 more fine-grained permissions than the standard Unix UGO+RWX.
1717 The MDS must be started with the "-o acl" mount option.
1719 Severity : enhancement
1720 Description: Introduced filesystem quotas
1721 Details : Administrators may now establish per-user quotas on the
1724 Severity : enhancement
1726 Description: Configuration change for the XT3
1727 The PTLLND is now used to run Lustre over Portals on the XT3
1728 The configure option(s) --with-cray-portals are no longer used.
1729 Rather --with-portals=<path-to-portals-includes> is used to
1730 enable building on the XT3. In addition to enable XT3 specific
1731 features the option --enable-cray-xt3 must be used.
1736 Description: Running on many-way SMP OSTs can trigger oops in llcd_send()
1737 Details : A race between allocating a new llcd and re-getting the llcd_lock
1738 allowed another thread to grab newly-allocated llcd.
1740 Severity : enhancement
1742 Description: 2.6 OST async journal commit and locking fix to improve performance
1743 Details : The filter_direct_io()+filter_commitrw_write() journal commits for
1744 2.6 kernels are now async as they already were in 2.4 kernels so
1745 that they can commit concurrently with the network bulk transfer.
1746 For block-allocated files the filter allocation semaphore is held
1747 to avoid filesystem fragmentation during allocation. BKL lock
1748 removed for 2.6 xattr operations where it is no longer needed.
1753 Description: lconf incorrectly determined whether two IP networks could talk
1754 Details : In some more complicated routing and multiple-network
1755 configurations, lconf will avoid trying to make a network
1756 connection to a disjoint part of the IP space. It was doing the
1757 math incorrectly for one set of cases.
1762 Description: Fix for potential infinite loop processing records in an llog.
1763 Details : If an llog record is corrupted/zeroed, it is possible to loop
1764 forever in llog_process(). Validate the llog record length
1765 and skip the remainder of the block on error.
1768 Frequency : occasional (liblustre only)
1770 Description: liblustre could not open files whose last component is a symlink
1771 Details : sysio_path_walk() would incorrectly pass the open intent to
1772 intermediate path components.
1775 Frequency : rare (liblustre only with non-standard tuning)
1776 Bugzilla : 7201 (7350)
1777 Description: Tuning the MDC DLM LRU size to zero triggers client LASSERT
1778 Details : llu_lookup_finish_locks() tries to set lock data on a lock
1779 after it has been released, only do this for referenced locks
1781 Severity : enhancement
1783 Description: specifying an (invalid) directory default stripe_size of -1
1784 would reset the directory default striping
1785 Details : stripe_size -1 was used internally to signal directory stripe
1786 removal, now use "all default" to signal dir stripe removal
1787 as a directory striping of "all default" is not useful
1790 Frequency : common for large clusters running liblustre clients
1792 Description: doing an ls when liblustre clients are running is slow
1793 Details : sending a glimpse AST to a liblustre client waits for every AST
1794 to time out, as liblustre clients will not respond. Since they
1795 cannot cache data we refresh the OST lock LVB from disk instead.
1797 Severity : enhancement
1799 Description: doing an ls at the same time as file IO can be slow
1800 Details : enqueue and other "small" requests can be blocked behind many
1801 large IO requests. Create a new OST IO portal for non-IO
1802 requests so they can be processed faster.
1805 Frequency : rare (only HPUX clients mounting unsupported re-exported NFS vol)
1807 Description: an HPUX NFS client would get -EACCESS when ftruncate()ing a newly
1808 created file with mode 000
1809 Details : the Linux NFS server relies on an MDS_OPEN_OWNEROVERRIDE hack to
1810 allow an ftruncate() as a non-root user to a file with mode 000.
1811 Lustre now respects this flag to disable mode checks when
1812 truncating a file owned by the user
1815 Frequency : liblustre-only, when liblustre client dies unexpectedly or becomes
1818 Description: Revoking locks from clients that went dead or catatonic might take
1820 Details : New lock flags FL_CANCEL_ON_BLOCK used by liblustre makes
1821 cancellation of such locks instant on servers without waiting for
1822 any reply from clients. Clients drops these locks when cancel
1823 notification from server is received without replying.
1826 Frequency : liblustre-only, when liblustre client dies or becomes busy
1828 Description: Doing ls on Linux clients can take a long time with active
1830 Details : Liblustre client cannot handle ASTs in timely manner, so avoid
1831 granting such locks to it in the first place if possible. Locks
1832 are taken by proxy on the OST during the read or write and
1833 dropped immediately afterward. Add connect flags handling, do
1834 not grant locks to liblustre clients for glimpse ASTs.
1836 Severity : enhancement
1838 Description: Improve read-ahead algorithm to avoid excessive IO for random reads
1839 Details : Existing read-ahead algorithm is tuned for the case of streamlined
1840 sequential reads and behaves badly with applications doing random
1841 reads. Improve it by reading ahead at least read region, and
1842 avoiding excessive large RPC for small reads.
1844 Severity : enhancement
1846 Description: Creating more than 1000 files for a single job may cause a load
1847 imbalance on the OSTs if there are also a large number of OSTs.
1848 Details : qos_prep_create() uses an OST index reseed value that is an
1849 even multiple of the number of available OSTs so that if the
1850 reseed happens in the middle of the object allocation it will
1851 still utilize the OSTs as uniformly as possible.
1856 Description: OST or MDS may oops in ping_evictor_main()
1857 Details : ping_evictor_main() drops obd_dev_lock if deleting a stale export
1858 but doesn't restart at beginning of obd_exports_timed list
1861 Severity : enhancement
1863 Description: improve by-nid export eviction on the MDS and OST
1864 Details : allow multiple exports with the same NID to be evicted at one
1865 time without re-searching the exports list.
1868 Frequency : rare, only with supplementary groups enabled on SMP 2.6 kernels
1870 Description: MDS may oops in groups_free()
1871 Details : in rare race conditions a newly allocated group_info struct is
1872 freed again, and this can be NULL. The 2.4 compatibility code
1873 for groups_free() checked for a NULL pointer, but 2.6 did not.
1876 Frequency : common for liblustre clients doing little filesystem IO
1877 Bugzilla : 9352, 7313
1878 Description: server may evict liblustre clients accessing contended locks
1879 Details : if a client is granted a lock or receives a completion AST
1880 with a blocking AST already set it would not reply to the AST
1881 for LDLM_FL_CANCEL_ON_BLOCK locks. It now replies to such ASTs.
1884 Frequency : lfs setstripe, only systems with more than 160 OSTs
1886 Description: unable to set striping with a starting offset beyond OST 160
1887 Details : llapi_create_file() incorrectly limited the starting stripe
1888 index to the maximum single-file stripe count.
1891 Frequency : LDAP users only
1893 Description: lconf did not handle in-kernel recovery with LDAP properly
1894 Details : lconf/LustreDB get_refs() is searching the wrong namespace
1896 Severity : enhancement
1898 Description: bind OST threads to NUMA nodes to improve performance
1899 Details : all OST threads are uniformly bound to CPUs on a single NUMA
1900 node and do their allocations there to localize memory access
1902 Severity : enhancement
1904 Description: llmount can determine client NID directly from Myrinet (GM)
1905 Details : the client NID code from gmnalnid was moved directly into
1906 llmount, removing the need to use this or specifying the
1907 client NID explicitly when mounting GM clients with zeroconf
1910 Frequency : if client is started with down MDS
1912 Description: if client is started with down MDS mount hangs in ptlrpc_queue_wait
1913 Details : Having an LWI_INTR() wait event (interruptible, but no timeout)
1914 will wait indefinitely in ptlrpc_queue_wait->l_wait_event() after
1915 ptlrpc_import_delayed_req() because we didn't check if the
1916 request was interrupted, and we also didn't break out of the
1917 event loop if there was no timeout
1922 Description: data loss during non-page-aligned writes to a single file from
1923 both multiple nodes and multiple threads on one node at same time
1924 Details : updates to KMS and lsm weren't protected by common lock. Resulting
1925 inconsistency led to false short-reads, that were cached and later
1926 used by ->prepare_write() to fill in partially written page,
1927 leading to data loss.
1930 Frequency : always, if lconf --abort_recovery used
1932 Description: lconf --abort_recovery fails with 'Operation not supported'
1933 Details : lconf was attempting to abort recovery on the MDT device and not
1936 Severity : enhancement
1938 Description: remove cleanup logs
1939 Details : replace lconf-generated cleanup logs with lustre internal
1940 cleanup routines. Eliminates the need for client-cleanup and
1943 Severity : enhancement
1945 Description: add support for EAs (user and system) on lustre filesystems
1946 Details : it is now possible to store extended attributes in the Lustre
1947 client filesystem, and with the user_xattr mount option it
1948 is possible to allow users to store EAs on their files also
1950 Severity : enhancement
1952 Description: Add possibility (config option) to show minimal available OST free
1954 Details : When compiled with --enable-mindf configure option, statfs(2)
1955 (and so, df) will return least minimal free space available from
1956 all OSTs as amount of free space on FS, instead of summary of
1957 free spaces of all OSTs.
1959 Severity : enhancement
1961 Description: do not expand extent locks acquired on OST-side
1962 Details : Modify ldlm_extent_policy() to not expand local locks, acquired
1963 by server: they are not cached anyway.
1966 Frequency : when mmap is used/binaries executed from Lustre
1968 Description: Unmmap pages before throwing them away from read cache.
1969 Details : llap_shrink cache now attempts to unmap pages before discarding
1970 them (if unmapping failed - do not discard). SLES9 kernel has
1971 extra checks that trigger if this unmapping is not done first.
1976 Description: lconf didn't resolve symlinks before checking to see whether a
1977 given mountpoint was already in use
1980 Frequency : when migrating failover services
1981 Bugzilla : 6395, 9514
1982 Description: When migrating a subset of services from a node (e.g. failback
1983 from a failover service node) the remaining services would
1984 time out and evict clients.
1985 Details : lconf --force (implied by --failover) sets the global obd_timeout
1986 to 5 seconds in order to quickly disconnect, but this caused
1987 other RPCs to time out too quickly. Do not change the global
1988 obd_timeout for force cleanup, only set it for DISCONNECT RPCs.
1990 Severity : enhancement
1991 Frequency : if MDS is started with down OST
1992 Bugzilla : 9439,5706
1993 Description: Allow startup/shutdown of an MDS without depending on the
1994 availability of the OSTs.
1995 Details : Asynchronously call mds_lov_synchronize during MDS startup.
1996 Add appropriate locking and lov-osc refcounts for safe
1997 cleaning. Add osc abort_inflight calls in case the
1998 synchronize never started.
2001 Frequency : occasional (Cray XT3 only)
2003 Description: root not authorized to access files in CRAY_PORTALS environment
2004 Details : The client process capabilities were not honoured on the MDS in
2005 a CRAY_PORTALS/CRAY_XT3 environment. If the file had previously
2006 been accessed by an authorized user then root was able to access
2007 the file on the local client also. The root user capabilities
2008 are now allowed on the MDS, as this environment has secure UID.
2011 Frequency : occasional
2013 Description: ldiskfs "too long searching" message happens too often
2014 Details : A debugging message (otherwise harmless) prints too often on
2015 the OST console. This has been reduced to only happen when
2016 there are fragmentation problems on the filesystem.
2021 Description: Division by zero in statfs when all OSCs are inactive
2022 Details : lov_get_stripecnt() returns zero due to incorrect order of checks,
2023 lov_statfs divides by value returned by lov_get_stripecnt().
2027 Bugzilla : 9489, 3273
2028 Description: First write from each client to each OST was only 4kB in size,
2029 to initialize client writeback cache, which caused sub-optimal
2030 RPCs and poor layout on disk for the first writen file.
2031 Details : Clients now request an initial cache grant at (re)connect time
2032 and so that they can start streaming writes to the cache right
2033 away and always do full-sized RPCs if there is enough data.
2034 If the OST is rebooted the client also re-establishes its grant
2035 so that client cached writes will be honoured under the grant.
2040 Description: Slow ls (and stat(2) syscall) on files residing on IO-loaded OSTs
2041 Details : Now I/O RPCs go to different portal number and (presumably) fast
2042 lock requests (and glimses) and other RPCs get their own service
2043 threads pool that should be able to service those RPCs
2046 Severity : enhancement
2048 Description: Ability to exchange lustre version between client and servers and
2049 issue warnings at client side if client is too old. Also for
2050 liblustre clients there is ability to refuse connection of too old
2052 Details : New 'version' field is added to connect data structure that is
2053 filled with version info. That info is later checked by server and
2057 Frequency : rare, liblustre only.
2058 Bugzilla : 9296, 9581
2059 Description: Two simultaneous writes from liblustre at offset within same page
2060 might proceed at the same time overwriting eachother with stale
2062 Details : I/O lock withing llu_file_prwv was released too early, before data
2063 actually was hitting the wire. Extended lock-holding time until
2064 server acknowledges receiving data.
2067 Frequency : extremely rare. Never observed in practice.
2069 Description: avoid generating lustre_handle cookie of 0.
2070 Details : class_handle_hash() generates handle cookies by incrementing
2071 global counter, and can hit 0 occasionaly (this is unlikely, but
2072 not impossible, because initial value of cookie counter is
2073 selected randonly). Value of 0 is used as a sentinel meaning
2074 "unassigned handle" --- avoid it. Also coalesce two critical
2075 sections in this function into one.
2077 Severity : enhancement
2079 Description: allow liblustre clients to delegate truncate locking to OST
2080 Details : To avoid overhead of locking, liblustre client instructs OST to
2081 take extent lock in ost_punch() on client's behalf. New connection
2082 flag is added to handle backward compatibility.
2084 Severity : enhancement
2085 Bugzilla : 4928, 7341, 9758
2086 Description: allow number of OST service threads to be specified
2087 Details : a module parameter allows the number of OST service threads
2088 to be specified via "options ost ost_num_threads={N}" in the
2089 OSS's /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf.
2093 Bugzilla : 6146, 9635, 9895
2094 Description: servers crash with bad pointer in target_handle_connect()
2095 Details : In rare cases when a client is reconnecting it was possible that
2096 the connection request was the last reference for that export.
2097 We would temporarily drop the export reference and get a new
2098 one, but this may have been the last reference and the export
2099 was just destroyed. Get new reference before dropping old one.
2101 Severity : enhancement
2102 Frequency : if client is started with failover MDS
2104 Description: Allow multiple MDS hostnames in the mount command
2105 Details : Try to read the configuration from all specified MDS
2106 hostnames during a client mount in case the "primary"
2109 Severity : enhancement
2111 Description: Stop sending data to evicted clients as soon as possible.
2112 Details : Check if the client we are about to send or are sending data to
2113 was evicted already. (Check is done every second of waiting,
2114 for which l_wait_event interface was extended to allow checking
2115 of exit condition at specified intervals).
2118 Frequency : rare, normally only when NFS exporting is done from client
2120 Description: 'bad disk LOV MAGIC: 0x00000000' error when chown'ing files
2122 Details : Make mds_get_md() recognise empty md case and set lmm size to 0.
2125 Frequency : always, if srand() is called before liblustre initialization
2127 Description: Liblustre uses system PRNG disturbing its usage by user application
2128 Details : Introduce internal to lustre fast and high-quality PRNG for
2129 lustre usage and make liblustre and some other places in generic
2130 lustre code to use it.
2132 Severity : enhancement
2133 Bugzilla : 9477, 9557, 9870
2134 Description: Verify that the MDS configuration logs are updated when xml is
2135 Details : Check if the .xml configuration logs are newer than the config
2136 logs stored on the MDS and report an error if this is the case.
2137 Request --write-conf, or allow starting with --old_conf.
2139 Severity : enhancement
2141 Description: Handle symlinks in the path when checking if Lustre is mounted.
2142 Details : Resolve intermediate symlinks when checking if a client has
2143 mounted a filesystem to avoid duplicate client mounts.
2148 Description: lconf can hit an error exception but still return success.
2149 Details : The lconf command catches the Command error exception at the top
2150 level script context and will exit with the associated exit
2151 status, but doesn't ensure that this exit status is non-zero.
2156 Description: failure of ptlrpc thread startup can cause oops
2157 Details : Starting a ptlrpc service thread can fail if there are a large
2158 number of threads or the server memory is very fragmented.
2159 Handle this without oopsing.
2162 Frequency : always, only if liblustre and non-default acceptor port was used
2164 Description: liblustre cannot connect to servers with non-default acceptor port
2165 Details : tcpnal_set_default_params() was not called and was therefore
2166 ignoring the environment varaible TCPNAL_PORT, as well as other
2167 TCPNAL_ environment variables
2172 Description: two objects could be created on the same OST for a single file
2173 Details : If an OST is down, in some cases it was possible to create two
2174 objects on a single OST for a single file. No problems other
2175 than potential performance impact and spurious error messages.
2179 Bugzilla : 5681, 9562
2180 Description: Client may oops in ll_unhash_aliases
2181 Details : Client dcache may become inconsistent in race condition.
2182 In some cases "getcwd" can fail if the current directory is
2188 Description: Inode refcounting problems in NFS export code
2189 Details : link_raw functions used to call d_instantiate without obtaining
2190 extra inode reference first.
2194 Bugzilla : 9942, 9903
2195 Description: Referencing freed requests leading to crash, memleaks with NFS.
2196 Details : We used to require that call to ll_revalidate_it was always
2197 followed by ll_lookup_it. Also with revalidate_special() it is
2198 possible to call ll_revalidate_it() twice for the same dentry
2199 even if first occurence returned success. This fix changes semantic
2200 between DISP_ENQ_COMPLETE disposition flag to mean there is extra
2201 reference on a request referred from the intent.
2202 ll_intent_release() then releases such a request.
2205 Frequency : rare, normally benchmark loads only
2207 Description: unlinked inodes were kept in memory on the client
2208 Details : If a client is repeatedly creating and unlinking files it
2209 can accumulate a lot of stale inodes in the inode slab cache.
2210 If there is no other client load running this can cause the
2211 client node to run out of memory. Instead flush old inodes
2212 from client cache that have the same inode number as a new inode.
2215 Frequency : SLES9 2.6.5 kernel and long filenames only
2216 Bugzilla : 9969, 10379
2217 Description: utime reports stale NFS file handle
2218 Details : SLES9 uses out-of-dentry names in some cases, which confused
2219 the lustre dentry revalidation. Change it to always use the
2223 Frequency : rare, unless heavy write-truncate concurrency is continuous
2224 Bugzilla : 4180, 6984, 7171, 9963, 9331
2225 Description: OST becomes very slow and/or deadlocked during object unlink
2226 Details : filter_destroy() was holding onto the parent directory lock
2227 while truncating+unlinking objects. For very large objects this
2228 may block other threads for a long time and slow overall OST
2229 responsiveness. It may also be possible to get a lock ordering
2230 deadlock in this case, or run out of journal credits because of
2231 the combined truncate+unlink. Solution is to do object truncate
2232 first in one transaction without parent lock, and then do the
2233 final unlink in a new transaction with the parent lock. This
2234 reduces the lock hold time dramatically.
2237 Frequency : rare, 2.4 kernels only
2239 Description: MDS or OST cleanup may trip kernel BUG when dropping kernel lock
2240 Details : mds_cleanup() and filter_cleanup() need to drop the kernel lock
2241 before unmounting their filesystem in order to avoid deadlock.
2242 The kernel_locked() function in 2.4 kernels only checks whether
2243 the kernel lock is held, not whether it is this process that is
2244 holding it as 2.6 kernels do.
2249 Description: MDS or OST may oops/LBUG if a client is connecting multiple times
2250 Details : The client ptlrpc code may be trying to reconnect to a down
2251 server before a previous connection attempt has timed out.
2252 Increase the reconnect interval to be longer than the connection
2253 timeout interval to avoid sending duplicate connections to
2257 Frequency : echo_client brw_test command
2259 Description: fix echo_client to work with OST preallocated code
2260 Details : OST preallocation code (5137) didn't take echo_client IO path
2261 into account: echo_client calls filter methods outside of any
2262 OST thread and, hence, there is no per-thread preallocated
2263 pages and buffers to use. Solution: hijack pga pages for IO. As
2264 a byproduct, this avoids unnecessary data copying.
2268 Bugzilla : 3555, 5962, 6025, 6155, 6296, 9574
2269 Description: Client can oops in mdc_commit_close() after open replay
2270 Details : It was possible for the MDS to return an open request with no
2271 transaction number in mds_finish_transno() if the client was
2272 evicted, but without actually returning an error. Clients
2273 would later try to replay that open and may trip an assertion
2274 Simplify the client close codepath, and always return an error
2275 from the MDS in case the open is not successful.
2278 Frequency : rare, 2.6 OSTs only
2280 Description: OST may deadlock under high load on fragmented files
2281 Details : If there was a heavy load and highly-fragmented OST filesystems
2282 it was possible to have all the OST threads deadlock waiting on
2283 allocation of biovecs, because the biovecs were not released
2284 until the entire RPC IO was completed. Instead, release biovecs
2285 as soon as they are complete to ensure forward IO progress.
2287 Severity : enhancement
2289 Description: Support for specifying external journal device at mount
2290 Details : If an OST or MDS device is formatted with an external journal
2291 device, this device major/minor is stored in the ext3 superblock
2292 and may not be valid for failover. Allow detecting and
2293 specifying the external journal at mount time.
2298 Description: Mounting an MDS with pending unlinked files may cause oops
2299 Details : target_finish_recovery() calls mds_postrecov() which returned
2300 the number of orphans unlinked. mds_lov_connect->mds_postsetup()
2301 considers this an error and immediately begins cleaning up the
2302 lov, just after starting the mds_lov process
2304 Severity : enhancement
2306 Description: Implement 'lfs df' to report actual free space on per-OST basis
2307 Details : Add sub-command 'df' on 'lfs' to report the disk space usage of
2308 MDS/OSDs. Usage: lfs df [-i][-h]. Command Options: '-i' to report
2309 usage of objects; '-h' to report in human readable format.
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2313 08-26-2005 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2320 Description: Mounting an ldiskfs file system with mballoc may crash OST node.
2321 Details : ldiskfs mballoc code may reference an uninitialized buddy struct
2322 at startup during orphan unlinking. Instead, skip buddy update
2323 before setup, as it will be regenerated after recovery is complete.
2328 Description: If an OST is inactive, its locks might reference stale inodes.
2329 Details : lov_change_cbdata() must iterate over all namespaces, even if
2330 they are inactive to clear inode references from the lock.
2332 Severity : enhancement
2333 Frequency : occasional, if non-standard max_dirty_mb used
2335 Description: Client will block write RPCs if not enough grant
2336 Details : If a client has max_dirty_mb smaller than max_rpcs_in_flight,
2337 then the client will block writes while waiting for another RPC
2338 to complete instead of consuming its dirty limit. With change
2339 we get improved performance when max_dirty_mb is small.
2341 Severity : enhancement
2342 Bugzilla : 3389, 6253
2343 Description: Add support for supplementary groups on the MDS.
2344 Details : The MDS has an upcall /proc/fs/lustre/mds/{mds}/group_upcall
2345 (set to /usr/sbin/l_getgroups if enabled) which will do MDS-side
2346 lookups for user supplementary groups into a cache.
2350 Description: O_CREAT|O_EXCL open flags in liblustre always return -EEXIST
2351 Details : Make libsysio to not enforce O_EXCL by clearing the flag,
2352 for liblustre O_EXCL is enforced by MDS.
2356 Description: readdir never returns NULL in liblustre.
2357 Details : Corrected llu_iop_getdirentries logic, to return offset of next
2358 dentry in struct dirent.
2362 Frequency : liblustre only, depends on application IO pattern
2363 Description: liblustre clients evicted if not contacting servers
2364 Details : Don't put liblustre clients into the ping_evictor list, so
2365 they will not be evicted by the pinger ever.
2367 Severity : enhancement
2369 Description: Add ability to evict clients by NID from MDS.
2370 Details : By echoing "nid:$NID" string into
2371 /proc/fs/lustre/mds/.../evict_client client with nid that equals to
2372 $NID would be instantly evicted from this MDS and from all active
2373 OSTs connected to it.
2377 Description: Do not query file size twice, somewhat slowing stat(2) calls.
2378 Details : lookup_it_finish() used to query file size from OSTs that was not
2383 Description: service threads change working directory to that of init
2384 Details : Starting lustre service threads may pin the working directory
2385 of the parent thread, making that filesystem busy. Threads
2386 now change to the working directory of init to avoid this.
2390 Frequency : during shutdown only
2391 Description: shutdown with a failed MDS or OST can cause unmount to hang
2392 Details : Don't resend DISCONNECT messages in ptlrpc_disconnect_import()
2397 Frequency : 2.6 only
2398 Description: chmod/chown may include an extra supplementary group
2399 Details : ll{,u}_mdc_pack_op_data() does not properly initialize the
2400 supplementary group and if none is specified this is used.
2403 Bugzilla : 5479 (6816)
2405 Description: Racing open + rm can assert client in mdc_set_open_replay_data()
2406 Details : If lookup is in progress on a file that is unlinked we might try
2407 to revalidate the inode and fail in revalidate after lookup is
2408 complete and ll_file_open() enqueues the open again but
2409 it_open_error() was not checking DISP_OPEN_OPEN errors correctly.
2412 Frequency : always, if lconf --abort_recovery used
2414 Description: lconf --abort_recovery fails with 'Operation not supported'
2415 Details : lconf was attempting to abort recovery on the MDT device and not
2418 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2420 2005-08-08 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2425 Frequency : rare (only unsupported configurations with a node running as an
2427 Bugzilla : 6514, 5137
2428 Description: Mounting a Lustre file system on a node running as an OST could
2430 Details : OSTs now preallocates memory needed to write out data at
2431 startup, instead of when needed, to avoid having to
2432 allocate memory in possibly low memory situations.
2433 Specifically, if the file system is mounted on on OST,
2434 memory pressure could force it to try to write out data,
2435 which it needed to allocate memory to do. Due to the low
2436 memory, it would be unable to do so and the node would
2437 become unresponsive.
2439 Severity : enhancement
2441 Description: Addition of lconf --service command line option
2442 Details : lconf now accepts a '--service <arg>' option, which is
2443 shorthand for 'lconf --group <arg> --select <arg>=<hostname>'
2445 Severity : enhancement
2447 Description: Failover mode is now the default for OSTs.
2448 Details : By default, OSTs will now run in failover mode. To return to
2449 the old behaviour, add '--failout' to the lmc line for OSTs.
2451 Severity : enhancement
2453 Description: Health checks are now provided for MDS and OSTs
2454 Details : Additional detailed health check information on MSD and OSTs
2455 is now provided through the procfs health_check value.
2458 Frequency : occasional, depends on IO load
2460 Description: Disk fragmentation on the OSTs could eventually cause slowdowns
2461 after numerous create/delete cycles
2462 Details : The ext3 inode allocation policy would not allocate new inodes
2463 very well on the OSTs because there are no new directories
2464 being created. Instead we look for groups with free space if
2465 the parent directories are nearly full.
2470 Description: Network or server problems during mount may cause partially
2471 mounted clients instead of returning an error.
2472 Details : The config llog parsing code may overwrite the error return
2473 code during mount error handling, returning success instead
2479 Description: MDS can fail to allocate large reply buffers
2480 Details : After long uptimes the MDS can fail to allocate large reply
2481 buffers (e.g. zconf client mount config records) due to memory
2482 fragmentation or consumption by the buffer cache. Preallocate
2483 some large reply buffers so that these replies can be sent even
2484 under memory pressure.
2488 Frequency : rare (liblustre)
2489 Description: fsx running with liblustre complained that using truncate() to
2490 extend the file doesn't work. This patch corrects that issue.
2491 Details : This is the liblustre equivalent of the fix for bug 6196. Fixes
2492 ATTR_SIZE and lsm use in llu_setattr_raw.
2496 Frequency : rare, only 2.6 kernels
2497 Description: Unusual file access patterns on the MDS may result in inode
2498 data being lost in very rare circumstances.
2499 Details : Bad interaction between the ea-in-inode patch and the "no-read"
2500 code in the 2.6 kernel caused the inode and/or EA data not to
2501 be read from disk, causing single-file corruption.
2505 Frequency : rare, only 2.6 filesystems using extents
2506 Description: Heavy concurrent write and delete load may cause data corruption.
2507 Details : It was possible under high-load situations to have an extent
2508 metadata block in the block device cache from a just-unlinked
2509 file overwrite a newly-allocated data block. We now unmap any
2510 metadata buffers that alias just-allocated data blocks.
2514 Frequency : filesystems with default stripe_count larger than 77
2515 Description: lconf+mke2fs fail when formatting filesystem with > 77 stripes
2516 Details : lconf specifies an inode size of 4096 bytes when the default
2517 stripe_count is larger than 77. This conflicts with the default
2518 inode density of 1 per 4096 bytes. Allocate smaller inodes in
2519 this case to avoid pinning too much memory for large EAs.
2521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2523 2005-07-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2528 Frequency : rare (extremely heavy IO load with hundreds of clients)
2530 Description: Client is evicted, gets IO error writing to file
2531 Details : lock ordering changes for bug 5492 reintroduced bug 3267 and
2532 caused clients to be evicted for AST timeouts. The fixes in
2533 bug 5192 mean we no longer need to have such short AST timeouts
2534 so ldlm_timeout has been increased.
2537 Frequency : occasional during --force or --failover shutdown under load
2538 Bugzilla : 5949, 4834
2539 Description: Server oops/LBUG if stopped with --force or --failover under load
2540 Details : a collection of import/export refcount and cleanup ordering
2541 issues fixed for safer force cleanup
2544 Frequency : only filesystems larger than 120 OSTs
2545 Bugzilla : 5990, 6223
2546 Description: lfs getstripe would oops on a very large filesystem
2547 Details : lov_getconfig used kfree on vmalloc'd memory
2550 Frequency : only filesystems exporting via NFS to Solaris 10 clients
2551 Bugzilla : 6242, 6243
2552 Description: reading from files that had been truncated to a non-zero size
2553 but never opened returned no data
2554 Details : ll_file_read() reads zeros from no-object files to EOF
2559 Description: A bug in MDS/OSS recovery could cause the OSS to fail an assertion
2560 Details : There's little harm in aborting MDS/OSS recovery and letting it
2561 try again, so I removed the LASSERT and return an error instead.
2563 Severity : enhancement
2565 Description: New debugging infrastructure for tracking down data corruption
2566 Details : The I/O checksum code was replaced to: (a) control it at runtime,
2567 (b) cover more of the client-side code path, and (c) try to narrow
2568 down where problems occurred
2572 Bugzilla : 3819, 4364, 4397, 6313
2573 Description: Racing close and eviction MDS could cause assertion in mds_close
2574 Details : It was possible to get multiple mfd references during close and
2575 client eviction, leading to one thread referencing a freed mfd.
2577 Severity: : enhancement
2578 Bugzilla : 3262, 6359
2579 Description: Attempts to reconnect to servers are now more aggressive.
2580 Details : This builds on the enhanced upcall-less recovery that was added
2581 in 1.4.2. When trying to reconnect to servers, clients will
2582 now try each server in the failover group every 10 seconds. By
2583 default, clients would previously try one server every 25 seconds.
2588 Description: After recovery, certain operations trigger a failed
2589 assertion on a client.
2590 Details : Failing over an mds, using lconf -d --failover, while a
2591 client was doing a readdir() call would cause the client to
2592 LBUG after recovery completed and the readdir() was resent.
2594 Severity : enhancement
2596 Description: Default groups are now added by lconf
2597 Details : You can now run lconf --group <servicename> without having to
2598 manually add groups with lmc.
2601 Frequency : occasional
2603 Description: Nodes with an elan id of 0 trigger a failed assertion
2606 Frequency : always when accessing e.g. tty/console device nodes
2608 Description: tty and some other devices nodes cannot be used on lustre
2609 Details : file's private_data field is used by device data and lustre
2610 values in there got lost. New field was added to struct file to
2611 store fs-specific private data.
2614 Frequency : when exporting Lustre via NFS
2616 Description: NFSD failed occasionally when looking up a path component
2617 Details : NFSD is looking up ".." which was broken in ext3 directories
2618 that had grown large enough to become hashed.
2621 Frequency : Clusters with multiple interfaces not on the same subnet
2623 Description: Nodes will repeatedly try to reconnect to an interface which it
2624 cannot reach and report an error to the log.
2625 Details : Extra peer list entries will be created by lconf with some peers
2626 unreachable. lconf now validates the peer before adding it.
2629 Frequency : Only if a default stripe is set on the filesystem root.
2631 Description: Setting a default stripe on the filesystem root prevented the
2632 filesystem from being remounted.
2633 Details : The client was sending extra request flags in the root getattr
2634 request and did not allocate a reply buffer for the dir EA.
2637 Frequency : occasional, higher if lots of files are accessed by one client
2638 Bugzilla : 6159, 6097
2639 Description: Client trips assertion regarding lsm mismatch/magic
2640 Details : While revalidating inodes the VFS looks up inodes with ifind()
2641 and in rare cases can find an inode that is being freed.
2642 The ll_test_inode() code will free the lsm during ifind()
2643 when it finds an existing inode and then the VFS later attaches
2644 this free lsm to a new inode.
2648 Bugzilla : 6422, 7030
2649 Description: MDS deadlock between mkdir and client eviction
2650 Details : Creating a new file via mkdir or mknod (starting a transaction
2651 and getting the ns lock) can deadlock with client eviction
2652 (gets ns lock and trying to finish a synchronous transaction).
2655 Frequency : occasional
2656 Description: While starting a server, the fsfilt_ext3 module could not be
2658 Details : CFS's improved ext3 filesystem is named ldiskfs for 2.6
2659 kernels. Previously, lconf would still use the ext3 name
2660 when trying to load modules. Now, it will correctly use
2661 ext3 on 2.4 and ldiskfs on 2.6.
2663 Severity : enhancement
2664 Description: The default stripe count has been changed to 1
2665 Details : The interpretation of the default stripe count (0, to lfs
2666 or lmc) has been changed to mean striping across a single
2667 OST, rather than all available. For general usage we have
2668 found a stripe count of 1 or 2 works best.
2670 Severity : enhancement
2671 Description: Add support for compiling against Cray portals.
2672 Details : Conditional compiling for some areas that are different
2676 Frequency : occasional
2677 Bugzilla : 6409, 6834
2678 Description: Creating files with an explicit stripe count may lead to
2679 a failed assertion on the MDS
2680 Details : If some OSTs are full or unavailable, creating files may
2681 trigger a failed assertion on the MDS. Now, Lustre will
2682 try to use other servers or return an error to the
2686 Frequency : occasional
2688 Description: Multiple concurrent overlapping read+write on multiple SMP nodes
2689 caused lock timeout during readahead (since 1.4.2).
2690 Details : Processes doing readahead might match a lock that hasn't been
2691 granted yet if there are overlapping and conflicting lock
2692 requests. The readahead process waits on ungranted lock
2693 (original lock is CBPENDING), while OST waits for that process
2694 to cancel CBPENDING read lock and eventually evicts client.
2696 Severity : enhancement
2698 Description: Initial enabling of flock support for clients
2699 Details : Implements fcntl advisory locking and file status functions.
2700 This feature is provided as an optional mount flag (default
2701 off), and is NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED. Not all types of record
2702 locking are implemented yet, and those that are are not guaranteed
2703 to be completely correct in production environments.
2704 mount -t lustre -o [flock|noflock] ...
2707 Frequency : occasional
2709 Description: OSTs running 2.4 kernels but with extents enabled might trip an
2710 assertion in the ext3 JBD (journaling) layer.
2711 Details : The b_committed_data struct is protected by the big kernel lock
2712 in 2.4 kernels, serializing journal_commit_transaction() and
2713 ext3_get_block_handle->ext3_new_block->find_next_usable_block()
2714 access to this struct. In 2.6 kernels there is finer grained
2715 locking to improve SMP performance of the JBD layer.
2719 Description: Changes the "SCSI I/O Stats" kernel patch to default to "enabled"
2721 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2723 2005-05-05 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2725 NOTE: Lustre 1.4.2 uses an incompatible network protocol than previous
2726 versions of Lustre. Please update all servers and clients to
2727 version 1.4.2 or later at the same time. You must also run
2728 "lconf --write-conf {config}.xml" on the MDS while it is stopped
2729 to update the configuration logs.
2731 - fix for HPUX NFS client breakage when NFS exporting Lustre (5781)
2732 - mdc_enqueue does not need max_mds_easize request buffer on send (5707)
2733 - swab llog records of type '0' so we get proper header size/idx (5861)
2734 - send llog cancel req to DLM cancel portal instead of cb portal (5515)
2735 - fix rename of one directory over another leaking an inode (5953)
2736 - avoid SetPageDirty on 2.6 (5981)
2737 - don't re-add just-being-destroyed locks to the waiting list (5653)
2738 - when creating new directories, inherit the parent's custom
2739 striping settings if present parent (3048)
2740 - flush buffers from cache before direct IO in 2.6 obdfilter (4982)
2741 - don't hold i_size_sem in ll_nopage() and ll_ap_refresh_count (6077)
2742 - don't hold client locks on temporary worklist from l_lru (5666)
2743 - handle IO errors in 2.6 obdfilter bio completion routine (6046)
2744 - automatically evict dead clients (5921)
2745 - Update file size properly in create+truncate+fstat case (6196)
2746 - Do not unhash mountpoint dentries, do not allow removal of
2748 - Avoid lock ordering deadlock issue with write/truncate (6203,5654)
2749 - reserve enough journal credits in fsfilt_start_log for setattr (4554)
2750 - ldlm_enqueue freed-export error path would always LBUG (6149,6184)
2751 - don't reference lr_lvb_data until after we hold lr_lvb_sem (6170)
2752 - don't overwrite last_rcvd if there is a *_client_add() error (6086)
2753 - Correctly handle reads of files with no objects (6243)
2754 - lctl recover will also mark a device active if deactivate used (5933)
2756 - by default create 1 inode per 4kB space on MDS, per 16kB on OSTs
2757 - allow --write-conf on an MDS with different nettype than client (5619)
2758 - don't write config llogs to MDS for mounts not from that MDS (5617)
2759 - lconf should create multiple TCP connections from a client (5201)
2760 - init scripts are now turned off by default; run chkconfig --on
2761 lustre and chkconfig --on lustrefs to use them
2762 - upcalls are no longer needed for clients to recover to failover
2764 - add --abort-recovery option to lconf to abort recovery on device
2766 - add support for an arbitrary number of OSTs (3026)
2767 - Quota support protocol changes.
2768 - forward compatibility changes to wire structs (6007)
2769 - rmmod NALs that might be loaded because of /etc/modules.conf (6133)
2770 - support for mountfsoptions and clientoptions to the Lustre LDAP (5873)
2771 - improved "lustre status" script
2772 - initialize blocksize for non-regular files (6062)
2773 - added --disable-server and --disable-client configure options (5782)
2774 - introduce a lookup cache for lconf to avoid repeated DB scans (6204)
2775 - Vanilla 2.4.29 support
2776 - increase maximum number of obd devices to 520 (6242)
2777 - remove the tcp-zero-copy patch from the suse-2.4 series (5902)
2778 - Quadrics Elan drivers are now included for the RHEL 3 2.4.21 and
2779 SLES 9 2.6.5 kernels
2780 - limit stripes per file to 160 (the maximum EA size) (6093)
2782 2005-03-22 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2785 - don't LASSERT in ll_release on NULL lld with NFS export (4655, 5760)
2786 - hold NS lock when calling handle_ast_error->del_waiting_lock (5746)
2787 - fix setattr mtime regression from lovcleanup merge (4829, 5669)
2788 - workaround for 2.6 crash in ll_unhash_aliases (5687, 5210)
2789 - small ext3 extents cleanups and fixes (5733)
2790 - improved mballoc code, several small races and bugs fixed (5733, 5638)
2791 - kernel version 43 - fix remove_suid bugs in both 2.4 and 2.6 (5695)
2792 - avoid needless client->OST connect, fix handle mismatch (5317)
2793 - fix DLM error path that led to out-of-sync client, long delays (5779)
2794 - support common vfs-enforced mount options (nodev,nosuid,noexec) (5637)
2795 - fix several locking issues related to i_size (5492,5624,5654,5672)
2796 - don't move pending lock onto export if it is already evicted (5683)
2797 - fix kernel oops when creating .foo in unlinked directory (5548)
2798 - fix deadlock in obdfilter statistics vs. object create (5811)
2799 - use time_{before,after} to avoid timer jiffies wrap (5882)
2800 - shutdown --force/--failover stability (3607,3651,4797,5203,4834)
2801 - Do not leak request if server was not able to process it (5154)
2802 - If mds_open unable to find parent dir, make that negative lookup(5154)
2803 - don't create new directories with extent-mapping (5909, 5936)
2805 - fix lustre/lustrefs init scripts for SuSE (patch from Scali, 5702)
2806 - don't hold the pinger_sem in ptlrpc_pinger_sending_on_import
2807 - change obd_increase_kms to obd_adjust_kms (up or down) (5654)
2808 - lconf, lmc search both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 for Python libs (5800)
2809 - support for RHEL4 kernel on i686 (5773)
2810 - provide error messages when incompatible logs are encountered (5898)
2812 2005-02-18 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2813 * version 1.4.0.10 (1.4.1 release candidate 1)
2815 - don't keep a lock reference when lock is not granted (4238)
2816 - unsafe list practices (rarely) led to infinite eviction loop (4908)
2817 - add per-fs limit of Lustre pages in page cache, avoid OOM (4699)
2818 - drop import inflight refcount on signal_completed_replay error (5255)
2819 - unlock page after async write error during send (3677)
2820 - handle missing objects in filter_preprw_read properly (5265)
2821 - no transno return for symlink open, don't save no-trasno open (3440)
2822 - don't try to complete elan receive that already failed (4012)
2823 - free RPC server reply state on error (5406)
2824 - clean up thread from ptlrpc_start_thread() on error (5160)
2825 - readahead could read extra page into cache that wasn't ejected (5388)
2826 - prevent races in class_attach/setup/cleanup/detach (5260)
2827 - don't dereference de->d_inode after l_dput of de (5458)
2828 - use "int" for stripe value returned from lock_to_stripe (5544)
2829 - mballoc allocation and error-checking fixes in 2.6 (5504)
2830 - block device patches to fix I/O request sizes in 2.6 (5482)
2831 - look up hostnames for IB nals (5602)
2832 - 2.6 changed lock ordering of 2 semaphores, caused deadlock (5654)
2833 - don't start multiple acceptors for the same port (5277)
2834 - fix incorrect LASSERT in mds_getattr_name (5635)
2835 - export a proc file for general "ping" checking (5628)
2836 - fix "lfs check" to not block when the MDS is down (5628)
2838 - service request history (4965)
2839 - put {ll,lov,osc}_async_page structs in a single slab (4699)
2840 - create an "evict_client" /proc entry on OSTs, like the MDS has
2841 - fix mount usage message, return errors per mount(8) (5168)
2842 - change grep [] to grep "[]" in tests so they work in more UMLs
2843 - fix ppc64/x86_64 spec to use %{_libdir} instead of /usr/lib (5389)
2844 - remove ancient LOV_MAGIC_V0 EA support (5047)
2845 - add "disk I/Os in flight" and "I/O req time" stats in obdfilter
2846 - align r/w RPCs to PTLRPC_MAX_BRW_SIZE boundary for performance (3451)
2847 - allow readahead allocations to fail when low on memory (5383)
2848 - mmap locking landed again, after considerable improvement (2828)
2849 - add get_hostaddr() to lustreDB.py for LDAP support (5459)
2851 2004-11-23 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2854 - send OST transaction number in read/write reply to free req (4966)
2855 - don't ASSERT in ptl_send_rpc() if we run out of memory (5119)
2856 - lock /proc/sys/portals/routes internal state, avoiding oops (4827)
2857 - the watchdog thread now runs as interruptible (5246)
2858 - flock/lockf fixes (but it's still disabled, pending 5135)
2859 - don't use EXT3 constants in llite code (5094)
2860 - memory shortage at startup could cause assertion (5176)
2862 - reorganization of lov code
2863 - single portals codebase
2865 - add extents/mballoc support (5025)
2866 - direct I/O reads in the obdfilter (4048)
2867 - kernel patches from LNXI for 2.6 (bluesmoke, perfctr, mtd, kexec)
2869 tbd Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2872 - send OST transaction number in read/write reply to free req (4966)
2873 - don't ASSERT in ptl_send_rpc() if we run out of memory (5119)
2874 - lock /proc/sys/portals/routes internal state, avoiding oops (4827)
2875 - the watchdog thread now runs as interruptible (5246)
2876 - handle missing objects in filter_preprw_read properly (5265)
2877 - unsafe list practices (rarely) led to infinite eviction loop (4908)
2878 - drop import inflight refcount on signal_completed_replay error (5255)
2879 - unlock page after async write error during send (3677)
2880 - return original error code on reconstructed replies (3761)
2881 - no transno return for symlink open, don't save no-trasno open (3440)
2883 - add pid to ldlm debugging output (4922)
2884 - bump the watchdog timeouts -- we can't handle 30sec yet
2885 - extra debugging for orphan dentry/inode bug (5259)
2887 2004-11-16 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2890 - fix TCP_NODELAY bug, which caused extreme perf regression (5134)
2891 - allocate qswnal tx descriptors singly to avoid fragmentation (4504)
2892 - don't LBUG on obdo_alloc() failure, use OBD_SLAB_ALLOC() (4800)
2893 - fix NULL dereference in /proc/sys/portals/routes (4827)
2894 - allow failed mdc_close() operations to be interrupted (4561)
2895 - stop precreate on OST before MDS would time out on it (4778)
2896 - don't send partial-page writes before EOF from client (4410)
2897 - discard client grant for sub-page writes on large-page clients (4520)
2898 - don't free dentries not owned by NFS code, check generation (4806)
2899 - fix lsm leak if mds_create_objects() fails (4801)
2900 - limit debug_daemon file size, always print CERROR messages (4789)
2901 - use transno after validating reply (3892)
2902 - process timed out requests if import state changes (3754)
2903 - update mtime on OST during writes, return in glimpse (4829)
2904 - add mkfsoptions to LDAP (4679)
2905 - use ->max_readahead method instead of zapping global ra (5039)
2906 - don't interrupt __l_wait_event() during strace
2908 - add software watchdogs to catch hung threads quickly (4941)
2909 - make lustrefs init script start after nfs is mounted
2910 - fix CWARN/ERROR duplication (4930)
2911 - return async write errors to application if possible (2248)
2912 - add /proc/sys/portal/memused (bytes allocated by PORTALS_ALLOC)
2913 - print NAL number in %x format (4645)
2914 - update barely-supported suse-2.4.21-171 series (4842)
2915 - support for sles 9 %post scripts
2916 - support for building 2.6 kernel-source packages
2917 - support for sles km_* packages
2919 2004-10-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2922 - ignore -ENOENT errors in osc_destroy (3639)
2923 - notify osc create thread that OSC is being cleaned up (4600)
2924 - add nettype argument for llmount in #5d in conf-sanity.sh (3936)
2925 - reconstruct ost_handle() like mds_handle() (4657)
2926 - create a new thread to do import eviction to avoid deadlock (3969)
2927 - let lconf resolve symlinked-to devices (4629)
2928 - don't unlink "objects" from directory with default EA (4554)
2929 - hold socknal file ref over connect in case target is down (4394)
2930 - allow more than 32000 subdirectories in a single directory (3244)
2931 - fix blocks count for O_DIRECT writes (3751)
2932 - OST returns ENOSPC from object create when no space left (4539)
2933 - don't send truncate RPC if file size isn't changing (4410)
2934 - limit OSC precreate to 1/2 of value OST considers bogus (4778)
2935 - bind to privileged port in socknal and tcpnal (3689)
2937 - rate limit CERROR/CWARN console message to avoid overload (4519)
2938 - GETFILEINFO dir ioctl returns LOV EA + MDS stat in 1 call (3327)
2939 - basic mmap support (3918)
2940 - kernel patch series update from b1_4 (4711)
2942 2004-09-16 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2945 - avoid crash during MDS cleanup with OST shut down (2775)
2946 - fix loi_list_lock/oig_lock inversion on interrupted IO (4136)
2947 - don't use bad inodes on the MDS (3744)
2948 - dynamic object preallocation to improve recovery speed (4236)
2949 - don't hold spinlock over lock dumping or change debug flags (4401)
2950 - don't zero obd_dev when it is force cleaned (3651)
2951 - print grants to console if they go negative (4431)
2952 - "lctl deactivate" will stop automatic recovery attempts (3406)
2953 - look for existing locks in ldlm_handle_enqueue() (3764)
2954 - don't resolve lock handle twice in recovery avoiding race (4401)
2955 - revalidate should check working dir is a directory (4134)
2957 - don't always mark "slow" obdfilter messages as errors (4418)
2959 2004-08-24 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2962 - don't close LustreDB during write_conf until it is done (3860)
2963 - fix typo in lconf for_each_profile (3821)
2964 - allow dumping logs from multiple threads at one time (3820)
2965 - don't allow multiple threads in OSC recovery (3812)
2966 - fix debug_size parameters (3864)
2967 - fix mds_postrecov to initialize import for llog ctxt (3121)
2968 - replace config semaphore with spinlock (3306)
2969 - be sure to send a reply for a CANCEL rpc with bad export (3863)
2970 - don't allow enqueue to complete on a destroyed export (3822)
2971 - down write_lock before checking llog header bitmap (3825)
2972 - recover from lock replay timeout (3764)
2973 - up llog sem before sending rpc (3652)
2974 - reduce ns lock hold times when setting kms (3267)
2975 - change a dlm LBUG to LASSERTF, to maybe learn something (4228)
2976 - fix NULL deref and obd_dev leak on setup error (3312)
2977 - replace some LBUG about llog ops with error handling (3841)
2978 - don't match INVALID dentries from d_lookup and spin (3784)
2979 - hold dcache_lock while marking dentries INVALID and hashing (4255)
2980 - fix invalid assertion in ptlrpc_set_wait (3880)
2982 - add libwrap support for the TCP acceptor (3996)
2983 - add /proc/sys/portals/routes for non-root route listing (3994)
2984 - allow setting MDS UUID in .xml (2580)
2985 - print the stack of a process that LBUGs (4228)
2987 2004-07-14 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2990 - don't cleanup request in ll_file_open() on failed MDS open (3430)
2991 - make sure to unset replay flag from failed open requests (3440)
2992 - if default stripe count is 0, use OST count for inode size (3636)
2993 - update parent mtime/ctime on client for create/unlink (2611)
2994 - drop dentry ref in ext3_add_link from open_connect_dentry (3266)
2995 - free recovery state on server during a forced cleanup (3571)
2996 - unregister_reply for resent reqs (3063)
2997 - loop back devices mounting and status check on 2.6 (3563)
2998 - fix resource-creation race that can provoke i_size == 0 (3513)
2999 - don't try to use bad inodes returned from MDS/OST fs lookup (3688)
3000 - more debugging for page-accounting assertion (3746)
3001 - return -ENOENT instead of asserting if ost getattr+unlink race (3558)
3002 - avoid deadlock after precreation failure (3758)
3003 - fix race and lock order deadlock in orphan handling (3450, 3750)
3004 - add validity checks when grabbing inodes from l_ast_data (3599)
3006 - add /proc/.../recovery_status to obdfilter (3428)
3007 - lightweight CDEBUG infrastructure, debug daemon (3668)
3008 - change default OSC RPC parameters to be better on small clusters
3009 - turn off OST read cache for files smaller than 32MB
3010 - install man pages and include them in rpms (3100)
3011 - add new init script for (un)mounting lustre filesystems (2593)
3012 - run chkconfig in %post for init scripts (3701)
3013 - drop scimac NAL (unmaintained)
3015 2004-06-17 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3018 - clean kiobufs before and after use (3485)
3019 - strip trailing '/'s before comparing paths with /proc/mounts (3486)
3020 - remove assertions to work around "in-flight rpcs" recovery bug (3063)
3021 - change init script to fail more clearly if not run as root (1528)
3022 - allow clients to reconnect during replay (1742)
3023 - fix ns_lock/i_sem lock ordering deadlock for kms update (3477)
3024 - don't do DNS lookups on NIDs too small for IP addresses (3442)
3025 - re-awaken ptlrpcd if new requests arrive during check_set (3554)
3026 - fix cond_resched (3554)
3027 - only evict unfinished clients after recovery (3515)
3028 - allow bulk resend, prevent data loss (3570)
3029 - dynamic ptlrpc request buffer allocation (2102)
3030 - don't allow unlinking open directory if it isn't empty (2904)
3031 - set MDS/OST threads to umask 0 to not clobber client modes (3359)
3032 - remove extraneous obd dereference causing LASSERT failure (3334)
3033 - don't use get_cycles() when creating temp. files on the mds (3156)
3034 - hold i_sem when setting i_size in ll_extent_lock() (3564)
3035 - handle EEXIST for set-stripe, set proper directory name (3336)
3037 - servers can dump a log evicting a client - lustre.dump_on_timeout=1
3038 - fix ksocknal_fmb_callback() error messages (2918)
3040 2004-05-27 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3043 - don't copy lvb into (possibly NULL) reply on error (2983)
3044 - don't deref dentry after dput, don't free lvb on error (2922)
3045 - use the kms to determine writeback rpc length (2947)
3046 - increment oti_logcookies when osc is inactive (2948)
3047 - update client's i_blocks count via lvb messages (2543)
3048 - handle intent open/close of special files properly (1557)
3049 - mount MDS with errors=remount-ro, like obdfilter (2009)
3050 - initialize lock handle to avoid ASSERT on error cleanup (3057)
3051 - don't use cancelling-locks' kms values (2947)
3052 - use highest lock extent for kms, not last one (2925)
3053 - don't dereference ERR_PTR() dentry in error handling path (3107)
3054 - fix thread race in portals_debug_dumplog() (3122)
3055 - create lprocfs device entries at setup instead of at attach (1519)
3056 - common AST error handler, don't evict client on completion race (3145)
3057 - zero nameidata in detach_mnt in 2.6 (3118)
3058 - verify d_inode after revalidate_special is valid in 2.6 (3116)
3059 - use lustre_put_super() to handle zconf unmounts in 2.6 (3064)
3060 - initialize RPC timeout timer earlier for 2.6 (3219)
3061 - don't dereference NULL reply buffer if mdc_close was never sent (2410)
3062 - print nal/nid for unknown nid (3258)
3063 - additional checks for oscc recovery before doing precreate (3284)
3064 - fix ll_extent_lock() error return code for 64-bit systems (3043)
3065 - don't crash in mdc_close for bad permissions on open (3285)
3066 - zero i_rdev for non-device files (3147)
3067 - clear page->private before handing to FS, better assertion (3119)
3068 - tune the read pipeline (3236)
3069 - fix incorrect decref of invalidated dentry (2350)
3070 - provide read-ahead stats and refine rpc in flight stats (3328)
3071 - don't hold journal transaction open across create RPC (3313)
3072 - update atime on MDS at close time (3265)
3073 - close LDAP connection when recovering to avoid server load (3315)
3074 - update iopen-2.6 patch with fixes from 2399,2517,2904 (3301)
3075 - don't leak open file on MDS after open resend (3325)
3076 - serialize filter_precreate and filter_destroy_precreated (3329)
3077 - loop device shouldn't call sync_dev() for nul device (3092)
3078 - clear page cache after eviction (2766)
3079 - resynchronize MDS->OST in background (2824)
3080 - refuse to mount the same filesystem twice on same mountpoint (3394)
3081 - allow llmount to create routes for mounting behind routers (3320)
3082 - push lock cancellation to blocking thread for glimpse ASTs (3409)
3083 - don't call osc_set_data_with_check() for TEST_LOCK matches (3159)
3084 - fix rare problem with rename on htree directories (3417)
3086 - allow default OST striping configuration per directory (1414)
3087 - fix compilation for qswnal for 2.6 kernels (3125)
3088 - increase maximum number of MDS request buffers for large systems
3089 - change liblustreapi to be useful for external progs like lfsck (3098)
3090 - increase local configuration timeout for slow disks (3353)
3091 - allow configuring ldlm AST timeout - lustre.ldlm_timeout=<seconds>
3093 2004-03-22 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3096 - fixes for glimpse AST timeouts / incorrectly 0-sized files (2818)
3097 - don't overwrite extent policy data in reply if lock was blocked (2901)
3098 - drop filter export grants atomically with removal from device (2663)
3099 - del obd_self_export from work_list in class_disconnect_exports (2908)
3100 - don't LBUG if MDS recovery times out during orphan cleanup (2530)
3101 - swab reply message in mdc_close, other PPC fixes (2464)
3102 - fix destroying of named logs (2325)
3103 - overwrite old logs when running lconf --write_conf (2264)
3104 - bump LLOG_CHUNKSIZE to 8k to allow for larger clusters (2306)
3105 - fix race in target_handle_connect (2898)
3106 - mds_reint_create() should take same inode create lock (2926)
3107 - correct journal credits calculated for CANCEL_UNLINK_LOG (2931)
3108 - don't close files for self_export to avoid uninitialized obd (2936)
3109 - allow MDS with the same name as client node (2939)
3110 - hold dentry reference for closed log files for unlink (2325)
3111 - reserve space for all logs during transactions (2059)
3112 - don't evict page beyond end of stripe extent (2925)
3113 - don't oops on a deleted current working directory (2399)
3114 - handle hard links to targets without a parent properly (2517)
3115 - don't dereference NULL lock when racing during eviction (2867)
3116 - don't grow lock extents when lots of conflicting locks (2919)
3118 2004-03-04 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3121 - account for cache space usage on clients to avoid data loss (974)
3122 - lfsck support in lustre kernel code (2349)
3123 - reduce journal credits needed for BRW writes (2370)
3124 - orphan handling to avoid losing space on client/server crashes
3125 - ptlrpcd can be blocked, stopping ALL progress (2477)
3126 - use lock value blocks to assist in proper KMS, faster stat (1021)
3127 - takes i_sem instead of DLM locks internally on obdfilter (2720)
3128 - recovery for initial connections (2355)
3129 - fixes for mds_cleanup_orphans (1934)
3130 - abort_recovery crashes MDS in b_eq (mds_unlink_orphan) (2584)
3131 - block all file creations until orphan recovery completes (1901)
3132 - client remove rq_connection from request struct (2423)
3133 - conf-sanity test_5, proper cleanup in umount log not availale (2640)
3134 - recovery timer race (2670)
3135 - mdc_close recovey bug (2532)
3136 - ptlrpc cleanup bug (2710)
3137 - mds timeout on local locks (2588)
3138 - namespace lock held during RPCs (2431)
3139 - handle interrupted sync write properly (2503)
3140 - don't try to handle a message that hasn't been replied to (2699)
3141 - client assert failure during cleanup after abort recovery (2701)
3142 - leak mdc device after failed mount (2712)
3143 - ptlrpc_check_set allows timedout requests to complete (2714)
3144 - wait for inflight reqs when ptlrpcd finishes (2710)
3145 - make sure unregistered services are removed from the srv_list
3146 - reset bulk XID's when resending them (caught by 1138 test)
3147 - unregister_bulk after timeout
3148 - fix lconf error (2694)
3149 - handle write after unfinished setstripe, stripe-only getstripe (2388)
3150 - readahead locks pages, leaves pending causing memory pressure (2673)
3151 - increase OST request buffers to 4096 on large machines (2729)
3152 - fix up permission of existing directories in simple_mkdir (2661)
3153 - init deleted item, add assertions ptlrpc_abort_inflight() (2725)
3154 - don't assign transno to errored transactions (2742)
3155 - don't delete objects on OST if given a bogus objid from MDS (2751)
3156 - handle large client PAGE_SIZE readdir on small PAGE_SIZE MDS (2777)
3157 - if rq_no_resend, then timeout request after recovery (2432)
3158 - fix MDS llog_logid record size, 64-bit array alignment (2733)
3159 - don't call usermode_helper from ptlrpcd, DEFAULT upcall (2773)
3160 - put magic in mount.lustre data, check for bad/NULL mount data (2529)
3161 - MDS recovery shouldn't delete objects that it has given out (2730)
3162 - if enqueue arrives after completion, don't clobber LVB (2819)
3163 - don't unlock pages twice when trigger_group_io returns error (2814)
3164 - don't deref NULL rq_repmsg if ldlm_handle_enqueue failed (2822)
3165 - don't write pages to disk if there was an error (1450)
3166 - don't ping imports that have recovery disabled (2676)
3167 - take buffered bytes into account when balancing socknal conn (2817)
3168 - hold a DLM lock over readdir always, use truncate_inode_pages (2706)
3169 - reconnect unlink llog connection after MDS reconnects to OST (2816)
3170 - remove little-endian swabbing of llog records (1987)
3171 - set/limit i_blksize to LL_MAX_BLKSIZE on client (2884)
3172 - retry reposting request buffers if they fail (1191)
3173 - grow extent at grant time to avoid granting a revoked lock (2809)
3174 - lock revoke doesn't evict page if covered by a second lock (2765)
3175 - disable VM readahead to avoid reading outside lock extents (2805)
3177 - return LL_SUPER_MAGIC from statfs for the filesystem type (1972)
3178 - updated kernel patches for hp-2.4.20 kernel (2681)
3180 2004-02-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3183 - fix truncated write corruption (2366)
3184 - fix for failed assertion in iopen_connect_dentry (1792,2517)
3186 - don't flag the ptlrpcd thread with PF_MEMALLOC (2636)
3187 - ensure len(uuid) < 37 in lmc (1171)
3188 - fix ia64 OOPS in llog_test (2255)
3189 - zero end of page at obdfilter for partial page writes (2648)
3190 - don't leave stale dentries around after renames (bug 2428)
3191 - fix timeouts when evicting a client with a single lock held (2642)
3192 - set deadline for the initial HELLO message to drain (2634)
3193 - print out dotted-quad IP addresses in the socknal (2302)
3195 - additional debugging for MDS client eviction problem (2443)
3196 - fix mkfsoptions support for osts (2603, 2604)
3198 2004-01-27 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3201 - add series for the vanilla 2.6.0 kernel
3202 - add series for the vanilla 2.4.24 kernel
3203 - add series for a cray x86/64 UL kernel drop
3204 - fix xattr patches for the vanilla 2.4.19 series
3206 - generate true UUIDs in lmc (1171)
3207 - have portals stack dumping break in UML (2466)
3208 - avoid bad dchild deref; avoid inum lock w/o creation (2362)
3209 - allocate with _NOFS in ldlm to avoid deadlock (1933)
3210 - wake callback waiting threads on client eviction (2460)
3211 - Add --ptldebug and --subsystem to lmc (1719)
3212 - update assertion to allow safe interrupt allocation
3213 - set rq_no_resend for cancel requests (2432)
3214 - recalculate ptlrpcd timeout after resend (2494)
3215 - call vfs_rmdir when removing pending directories (2368)
3216 - fix renaming a file to itself (2429)
3217 - lmc creates a default one-stripe lov (2454)
3218 - expand procfs space to handle large clusters (2326)
3219 - increase UML stack to avoid overflow
3220 - update lconf's list of debug and subsystem masks
3221 - fix lfs find --obd (2510)
3222 - /proc tunable for disabling filter read caching (2591)
3223 - stop rpm packages from altering slapd.conf (2301)
3224 - disable nagle in the socknal under 0conf (2578)
3225 - choose mds inode size based on stripe count (2572)
3226 - fix kernel-source rpm problems (2516)
3228 - add --disable-doc to avoid pdf generation (2421)
3229 - update documentation, tests, type-os, comments
3230 - avoid format warnings on ia64
3231 - remove the TOE NAL
3232 - tiny code cleanups by removing unused fields
3234 2004-01-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3237 - fix obvious semaphore misuse in as-yet-unused setattr path (2348)
3238 - remove the most blatant lies from BUILDING file (2371)
3239 - change default debug level to reasonable production setting
3240 - reduce client side cache size to reduce cache flush time
3241 - reduce max RPCs in flight to avoid unnecessary file fragmentation
3242 - make TCP zerocopy and pinger support enabled by default (2476)
3243 - sync writes completed after process exits caused crashes (2319)
3244 - maintain correct mount count on the MDS (2356)
3245 - backout 1557, because 2316 wasn't really fixed
3246 - better file I/O statistics gathering in /proc
3247 - don't take unnecessary, deadlock-inducing bug in readpage (2383)
3248 - another kernel patch to fix zero-copy TCP function export
3249 - don't take duplicate lock when processing re-sent getattr (2420)
3250 - lctl uses obd_self_export instead of creating new conn (2353)
3251 - MDS/OST recovery case which requires object creation asserted (2425)
3252 - move lfs from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin in packages
3253 - fix race between mds_client_add and mds_client_free (2417)
3254 - use kmalloc instead of slabs in portals (2430)
3255 - don't create duplicate records when a failover MDS is present (2442)
3256 - remove unnecessary mount age check (2332)
3257 - don't remove directory inodes from locks prematurely (2451)
3258 - don't break if MDS service name is the same as hostname (2103)
3259 - fix races in client write RPC generation when cache full (2482)
3261 2003-12-13 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3264 - remove now-unused request->rq_obd (278)
3265 - if an allocation fails, print out how much memory we've used (1933)
3266 - use PORTAL_SLAB_ALLOC for structures, to get GFP_MEMALLOC (1933)
3267 - add the "configurable stack size" patch to most series files (1256)
3268 - ability to write large log records, for 100+ OST configs (2306)
3269 - fix NULL deref when filter_prep fails (2314)
3270 - fix operator precedence error in filter_sync
3271 - dynamic allocation of socknal TX descriptors (2315)
3272 - fix a missed case in the GFP_MEMALLOC patch, can cause deadlock (2310)
3273 - fix gcc 2.96 compilation problem in xattr kernel patch (2294)
3274 - ensure that CWARN messages in Portals always get to the syslog
3275 - __init/__exit are not for prototype decls (ldlm_init/exit)
3276 - x86-64 compile warning fixes
3277 - fix gateway LMC keyword conflict (2318)
3278 - fix MDS lock inversions in getattr/reint paths (1844)
3279 - fix a rare lock re-ordering bug, which caused deadlock (2322)
3280 - fix i_sem/journal inversion in fsfilt_ext3_write_record (2306)
3281 - DLM race condition prevented some lock evictions (2328)
3282 - ENOMEM detection and retry on socknal sends (2230)
3283 - use GFP_NOFS throughout Lustre, to combat ENOMEM (2230)
3284 - move osc_rpcd into ptlrpc, for use in MDC and others (2329)
3285 - protect MDS inode fsdata with stronger locking; fixes assertion (2313)
3286 - better error messages when a client is rejected during recovery (1505)
3287 - avoid cancelling locks which were never granted, after failure (2330)
3288 - fix i_sem/journal inversion in mds_client_add (2333)
3289 - fix truncate/getattr lock cycle deadlock (2334)
3290 - use rpcd to send close; allows resend after timeout, avoid leak (1897)
3291 - fix two rare exit paths which could leak an l_lock() ref (2321)
3292 - fencepost error in MDS/OST orphan recovery (2226)
3293 - make log record alignment 8 bytes (1988)
3294 - lstripe now fails when requested offset > ost_count (2237)
3295 - ensure that all kernel series have a complete list.h (1607)
3296 - fix crashes in special-file operations (2316)
3297 - lctl create/brw OID mismatch, caused by obsolete filter loop (2339)
3299 - allow configurable automake binary, for testing new versions
3300 - small update to the lfs documentation
3302 2003-12-03 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3304 * fix negative export reference count in fsfilt_sync (2312)
3306 2003-12-01 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3307 * release candidate 0.9.1
3309 - orphans are moved into the PENDING directory for possible recovery
3310 - replayed opens now open by fid for orphan/rename safety (1042)
3311 - last close of an orphan inode generates a transno (683)
3312 - chdir() and mount() now pin the directory entry (1020)
3313 - avoid CERROR in normal ll_setattr_raw() error case (1500)
3314 - discard very old requests without processing them (1502)
3315 - remove some common, well-understood CERRORs (1505)
3316 - require O_DIRECT I/O to be page-sized to workaround IA64 crash (1609)
3317 - clear "grant" flags in OST replies until OST grant code lands (1644)
3318 - fix read performance by not clobbering i_blksize on client (1598)
3319 - fix __ldlm_handle2lock oops by not dereferencing lock after PUT (1625)
3320 - make LRU size a /proc tunable, clears locks when reduced (707)
3321 - fix some lprocfs rot that prevented ptlbd from loading (1732)
3322 - server locks take references on exports now (1558)
3323 - build fixes for 2.4.20-rh trees (1663)
3324 - return an error from lov_create if all OSCs are inactive (1751)
3325 - fix import levels when a reconnect happens without a timeout (1597)
3326 - exit early from mds_open if we get a lookup error (1749)
3327 - partial page read at EOF wouldn't wait for disk before sending (1642)
3328 - avoid NULL deref in obdfilter when reading page past EOF (1592)
3329 - avoid LASSERT in ll_intent_lock if server failed very early (1090)
3330 - fix LBUG in ll_it_open_error with rc = -2 (1861)
3331 - write/truncate lock inversion (1639)
3332 - Don't auto-load obdclass, portals modules during cleanup (1495)
3333 - fix timestamps from jumping to "now" (1763)
3334 - extra journal assertions (1648)
3335 - add an extra multiunlink test (1771)
3336 - fix read_record/write_record API (1776)
3337 - fix leak of offset_extent, possible incorrect i_size later (1772)
3338 - fix lasserts in mis-matched transnos during open-unlink testing (1541)
3339 - Debugging for the kqswnal_get_idle_tx problems (1820)
3340 - Allow recovery to be attempted multiple times (1536)
3341 - Write out MDS last_rcvd file after it is first created (1600)
3342 - Fix tx_descriptor leak in failed transmit situations (1827)
3343 - ext3 journaling fixes for assertion failure after IO error (1871)
3344 - class_export_put() on freed export after completion AST error (1896)
3345 - Fix revalidate looping in VFS (1322)
3346 - Don't access a freed export during MDS_REINT timeout (1521)
3347 - Add open-unlink recovery support on the MDS (1673,1764)
3348 - Return an error if no MDS data was read from last_rcvd (1946)
3349 - Fix for lookup "." or ".." crash on error (1932,1931,1935)
3350 - Don't setup a disk device that doesn't match exported UUID (317)
3351 - Reduce bulk RPC timeout to avoid cascading client/OST failures (1845)
3352 - avoid committing NULL handle in force close
3353 - local.sh is now a one-stripe LOV configuration
3354 - POSIX utime.4 -EPERM on FIFO not owned by user (56)
3355 - fix ext3 htree duplicate directory entry corruption (1516)
3356 - POSIX creat.13, fstat.1, open.18, stat.3 new file atime/mtime (2020)
3357 - update to new LOV EA format (2097)
3358 - interoperability for different PAGE_SIZE/wordsize (686,1821,1343,2042)
3360 2003-06-15 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3363 - imports and exports cleanup too early, need refcounts (349, 879, 1045)
3364 - per-import/export recovery handling (958, 931, 959)
3365 - multiple last-rcvd slots, for serving multiple FSes (949)
3366 - connections are again shared between multiple imp/exports (963, 964)
3367 - "umount -f" would hang if any requests needed to be sent (393, 978)
3368 - avoid pinning large req buffer by copying for queued messages (989)
3369 - add "uuid" to "lctl device" command to help upcalls (991)
3370 - "open" RPCs with transnos would confuse recovery counters (1037)
3371 - do proper endian conversion of all wire messages (288, 340, 891)
3372 - remove OST bulk get LBUGs, fix ost_brw_write cleanup (1126)
3373 - call waiting locks callback from LDLM recovery thread (1127, 1151)
3374 - fix ptlrpc_connection leak in target_handle_connect (1174)
3375 - fix import refcounting bug in OST and MDS cleanup (1134)
3376 - if an invalid-at-open-time OSC returned before close(), LBUG (1150)
3377 - fix very unlikely obd_types race condition (501)
3378 - remove osc_open hack for echo_client (1187)
3379 - we leaked exports/dlmimps for forcibly disconnected clients (1143)
3380 - a failure in read_inode2 leads to deadlock (1139)
3381 - cancel ack-locks as soon as transaction is committed (1072)
3382 - fix major leaks and crashes in the bulk I/O path (937, 1057)
3383 - make sure to commitrw after any preprw to avoid deadlock (1162)
3384 - failing to execute a file in a lustre FS would lock inode (1203)
3385 - small DEBUG_REQ fix to avoid dereferencing a NULL (1227)
3386 - don't ASSERT while cleaning up an incompletely-setup obd (1248)
3387 - obd_uuid2tgt would walk off the end of the list (1255)
3388 - on IA64 the osc would give portals incorrect bulk size (1258)
3389 - fix debug daemon ioctl interface; allows daemon on ia64 (1274)
3390 - fix lock inversion caused by new llite matching code (1282)
3391 - limit the number of dirty pages on a client to 10MB (1286)
3392 - timed out locks were not being corrected cancelled (1289)
3393 - fix O_DIRECT above 4GB on IA-32 (1292)
3394 * major user-visible changes
3395 - fail out/fail over policy now controlled by the upcall (993)
3397 - add OBD_PING to check server availability and failure (954)
3398 - lustre messages are now sent in sending host order (288, 340, 891)
3399 - add eadatalen to MDS getattr reply (340)
3400 - OST read replies may contain second buffer, with per-page status (593)
3402 2003-03-11 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3405 - LDLM_DEBUG macro fix, for gcc 3.2 (850)
3406 - failed open()s could cause deadlock; fixed (867, 869)
3407 - stop cancelling OST locks when files are closed (481)
3408 - overlapping XID spaces caused network corruption (851, 853)
3409 - fix unsafe fsfilt counter arithmetic; change to atomic_t
3410 - setattr_raw added, to do single-RPC, server-side setattrs
3411 - lmc/lconf syntax change for OST UUIDs
3412 - fix crashy race condition between ptlrpc_free_req and osc_close
3413 - don't use request in mdc_enqueue if we hit a timeout (889)
3414 - don't set the inode i_size for regular files from the MDS (896)
3415 - handle out of order completion AST (842)
3416 - don't LBUG if a lock request times out after receiving AST (913)
3417 - avoid d_rehash race in ll_find_alias by rehashing inside dcache_lock
3418 - if a bad lock AST arrives, send an error instead of dropping entirely
3419 - return 0 from revalidate2 if ll_intent_lock returns -EINTR (912)
3420 - fix leak in bulk IO when only partially completed (899, 900, 926)
3421 - fix O_DIRECT for ia64 (55)
3422 - (almost) eliminate Lustre-kernel-thread effects on load average (722)
3423 - C-z after timeout could hang a process forever; fixed (977)
3425 - client-side I/O cache (678, 924, 929, 941, 970)
3427 - READPAGE and SETATTRs which don't take server-side locks get
3430 2003-02-11 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3433 - Fix ldlm_lock_match on the MDS to avoid matching remote locks (592)
3434 - Fix fsfilt_extN_readpage() to read a full page of directory
3435 entries, or fake the remainder if PAGE_SIZE != blocksize (500)
3436 - Avoid extra mdc_getattr() in ll_intent_lock when possible (534, 604)
3437 - Fix imbalanced LOV object allocation and out-of-bound access (469)
3438 - Most intent operations were removed, in favour of a new RPC mode
3439 that does a single RPC to the server and bypasses most of the VFS
3440 - All LDLM resource ID arrays were removed in favour of ldlm_res_id
3441 - Aggressively cancel local locks on DLM servers
3442 - mds_reint_unlink sends EA to the client if it's the last nlink.
3443 client uses that EA to unlink OST objects.
3444 - mds_reint_{rename,unlink,link} were rewritten to take ordered locks
3445 - recursive symlinks were fixed (439)
3446 - fixed NULL deref in DEBUG_REQ
3447 - filter_update_lastobjid no longer calls sync, which annoyed extN
3448 - fixed multi-client small-writes to a single file problem (445)
3449 - fixed mtime updates during file writes (607)
3450 - fixed vector writes on obdfilter causing problems when ENOSPC (670)
3451 - fixed bug in obd_brw_read/write() (under guise of testing 367)
3452 - fixed Linux OST size reporting problem (444, 656)
3453 - OST now updates object mtime with writes or setattr (607, 619)
3454 - client verifies file size before zeroing page past EOF (445)
3455 - OST now writes last allocated objid to disk with allocation (108)
3456 - LOV on echo now works (409)
3458 - mds_reint_unlink sends a new buffer, with the EA included. this
3459 buffer is only valid if body->valid & OBD_MD_FLEASIZE, which is only
3460 set if a regular file was being unlinked, and it was the last link
3461 - use PtlGet from the target for bulk writes (315)
3462 - OST now updates object mtime with writes or setattr (607, 619)
3463 - LDLM now has a grant-time callback to revalidate locked items, if
3465 - Many MDS operations were reorganized to combat race conditions
3467 - Merge b_intel branch (updated lprocfs code) - now at /proc/fs/lustre
3468 - configure check to avoid gcc version 2.96 20000731-2.96-98) (606)
3470 2003-01-06 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3473 - Fully reactivate OST imports after reconnection (512, others)
3474 - Make sure client sees our -ENOTCONN from mds_handle (513 - partial)
3475 - More graceful error handling for truncating on dead OST (515)
3476 - Don't error out unless we're actually accessing dead stripes (474)
3477 - Fix garbage sizes when stripes are missing (410)
3478 - LRU counters were broken, causing constant lock purge (433, 432)
3479 - garbage on read from stripes with failed OSTs (441)
3480 - mark OSCs as active before reconnecting during recovery (438)
3481 - lov_enqueue and lov_cancel need to handle inactive OSTs (403)
3482 - lfind did not preserve OST order in output (443)
3483 - symlinks cause hung clients, incorrect data (439)
3484 - stop dereferencing request after dropping refcount (457)
3485 - don't LASSERT(spin_is_locked) on non-SMP (455)
3486 - fixes for many rename() bugs
3487 - fstat didn't correctly synchronize attributes (399)
3488 - server must handle lock cancellation during blocking AST prep (487)
3489 - bulk descriptors were free()d too soon (511)
3490 - fix paths in lconf, which would load incorrect modules (451, 507)
3491 - fix confusing lconf 'host not found' error message (386)
3492 - fix lock order deadlock on OST (O/R i_sem before journal ops, 478)
3493 - fix race condition in mdc_blocking_ast() for inode access (526)
3494 - fix lov_unpackmd() unpacking wrong number of stripes (537)
3495 - fix lov_set_osc_active() marking wrong OSC inactive (440)
3496 - fix bad lstripe lov_unpackmd() assertion (fix layering too) (527)
3497 - fix multiple writes of stripe MD to MDS (358, maybe 519)
3498 - fix lstripe in several ways (kernel side) (527)
3499 - fix request leak in ldlm_cli_enqueue (262)
3500 - incorrect OSC was marked inactive after OST failure
3501 - call mds_fs_cleanup before unmounting filesystem (524)
3502 - fix races between taking ns_lock and ldlm_lock_change_resource
3503 - fix races updating LOV export open file list
3504 - fix lov_enqueue error path, avoid decref-ing bad lock handle
3505 - fix recovery NULL deref in ldlm_cli_cancel_unused
3506 - fix some DLM races by using new hash table for lock handles (419)
3507 - permit the client to specify desired inodes, at replay
3508 - duplicate requests when we queue them for replay reintegration
3509 - fix last_rcvd offset calculation
3510 - sync after each recovered transaction, so we always make progress
3511 - never, not always, ERESTART requests without transnos
3512 - store the lov_desc in the MDS, so we don't depend on getlovinfo to
3514 - skip replay if the MDS says that the client is already connected
3515 - don't check for a recovery-enabled export to match lctl's UUID
3516 - don't INC_USE_COUNT for phantom exports
3517 - don't crash when cleaning up phantom exports (567)
3518 - don't double-finish or set replay data for errored mdc_open requests
3519 - abort requests when they time out, so we don't get old replies
3520 - send/receive replies for AST messages again
3521 - if the client says that it doesn't have the lock, cancel it on the
3523 - if we timeout during I/O, don't try to cancel an in-use lock; instead
3524 mark it as destroyed, it will all work out when decref is called
3525 - fix module use counts (22, 581)
3527 - ASTs now expect a reply (server cancels lock on error reply)
3529 2002-12-02 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3532 - fix many simultaneous client startup (392)
3533 - fix dentry->d_it clobbering
3534 - credentials weren't being shipped for readdir/getattr operations
3535 - remove invalid assertions triggered during some concurrent MD
3537 - proper Lustre versions added (336, 389)
3538 - fix memory leak for create error case (398)
3539 - fix LOV locking bug that would get cli/srv out of sync
3540 - fix echo client over LOV (409)
3541 - fix dbench 2, extN refcount problem (170, 258, 356, 418)
3542 - fix double-O_EXCL intent crash (424)
3543 - avoid sending multiple lock CANCELs (352)
3545 - MDS can do multi-client recovery (modulo bugs in new code)
3547 - many updates, edits, cleanups
3549 2002-11-18 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3552 - fix null d_it dereference (346)
3553 - fix full OST/dbench hang (333)
3554 - fix permission problem with file removal (286)
3555 - fix removal of OSCs from LOV when they fail
3556 - fix NULL deref during bulk timeout (214)
3557 - fix problems related to multiple filesystems on one MDS (241)
3558 - fixed serious subtle metadata locking bugs
3559 - free locks on clients when inodes are removed due to memory
3561 - fix inode pointer in lock data (285)
3562 - partial support for multiple MDS on a single host (241)
3563 - data locks weren't cancelled at clear_inode time (290, 311)
3564 - intent locks could lead to unbounded lock growth (205)
3565 - added a maximum lock count, an LRU list, and a flusher
3566 - fix multiple rename (365)
3567 - properly abstracted the echo client
3568 - OSC locked 1 byte too many; fixed
3569 - rewrote brw callback code:
3570 - fixed recovery bugs related to LOVs (306)
3571 - fixed too-many-pages-in-one-write crash (191)
3572 - fixed (again) crash in sync_io_timeout (214)
3573 - probably fixed callback-related race (385)
3575 - Add capability to MDS protocol
3576 - LDLM cancellations and callbacks on different portals
3578 2002-10-28 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3581 - limit client IOV size to PTL_MD_MAX_IOV (611336, 191)
3582 - defer open object destruction to close time (601981, 138)
3583 - open/close OST file handle in obdo (OBD_MD_FLHANDLE) (601981, 138)
3584 - move LDLM_ENQUEUE/CONVERT back to MDS portal (625069)
3585 - abstract ll_lookup2, fix ll_revalidate2 to use abstraction (256)
3586 - don't call obd_setattr in ll_file_release for destroyed objects
3587 * protocol change to lustre_msg: move |version| and add |flags|
3588 * protocol change to osc_punch: "start" in "o_size", "end" in "o_blocks"
3589 * lock replay: for LDLM_FL_REPLAY trust client to do right thing
3590 * added replay of create, unlink, link and rename operations during
3591 MDS failover; recovery should be much more robust now
3592 * remove failed OSCs from LOVs (only lov_create uses this so far)
3593 * the lustre-HOWTO was brought (more) up to date (582544)
3595 2002-10-23 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3598 - in-use dentries weren't being reused properly (617851)
3599 - prevent multiple LDLM setup (599178)
3600 - fix LOV size calculations for truncate (617853)
3601 - fix client handling of MDS intent errors (POSIX)
3602 - fix permission bug in lovstripe.c test (624321)
3603 - fix MDS thread deadlock - move LDLM handler to DLM portal (625069)
3604 - truncate past end of file could corrupt data
3605 - proper cleanup after timeouts, crashes, etc (592524, 550815)
3606 - a race in recovery could return ETIMEDOUT to apps (623947)
3607 - building outside the source directory was fixed
3608 * the lustre-HOWTO was brought (more) up to date (582544)
3609 * major progress was made on recovery functionality
3611 2002-10-10 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3614 - recovery deadlock fix
3615 - rm -rf causes LBUG fix (617817)
3616 - file open by multiple tasks fix (618962)
3617 - directory permissions bugs (602707 and 620007)
3618 - journal_stop fixed with locking (611313)
3619 - O_APPEND failures resolved (618273, perhaps 614459)
3620 - lconf PATH fix (619770)
3621 - IA64 build fix (621450)
3622 - RPC buffer sizes scale with amount of memory
3624 2002-10-01 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3627 - locks would be cancelled without throwing away data pages,
3628 resulting in inconsistent data (605627)
3629 - inode attributes were not always being refreshed (605627, 612449)
3630 - lconf now continues to cleanup after lctl reports an error
3631 - MDS now enforces user permissions (602707)
3632 - lprocfs cleanup fixed, but not yet enabled (614157)
3633 - fixed infinite server hang, should a client not respond to an AST
3634 - avoid going into recovery if user calls readlink() with a buffer
3635 that's too small (613941)
3636 - AST RPCs no longer require replies (614867) -- this may be changed
3637 - don't crash server if client sends an IOV that's too big (611336)
3638 - fixed lock conversion deadlock (611892)
3639 - fixed the following of symlinks (614622)
3640 * recovery: the server can remove locks from a client that dies, other
3641 clients can make progress
3642 * more extN patch fixes
3643 * compile-time configurable ptlrpc buffer allocations
3645 - collaborative read cache document
3646 - Lustre Lite Performance CDR document-in-progress
3648 2002-09-20 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3651 - fix typo in patch-2.4.18
3653 2002-09-20 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3656 - clear ptlrpc request each time in handle_incoming_request()
3657 - unlink of files now destroys the object on the OST
3659 2002-09-19 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3661 * add hard link support
3662 * change obdfile creation method
3663 * kernel patch changed
3665 2002-09-19 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3668 - stack overflow bug in extN fixed
3670 2002-09-18 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3672 * documentation updates
3673 - add man pages for config tools
3674 - update tests/README to describe testing with new config tools
3675 - finish metadata API descriptions
3676 * bug fixes and cleanups
3677 - statfs workaround for 16TB limit
3678 - LOV stripe allocation improved, can stripe on subset of OSTs
3679 - LOV file size/IO offset was wrong for files > 4GB in size
3680 - object EA data was being dropped, caused files to be unreadable
3681 - memory overflow with non-LOV OST caused memory corruption
3682 - fixed regression tests to work with new config tools, obdfilter
3683 - fixed bug when directory size became larger than 1 block
3684 - fixed bug (for single client case) when PWD was deleted
3685 - invalidate local directory pages when doing intent-based ops
3686 - avoid LDLM oops when lock callback contained bad data
3688 2002-09-09 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3690 * documentation updates
3691 * bug fixes and cleanups
3692 - configuration tools
3695 - 64-bit compile warnings
3696 - 64-bit internal statfs data
3698 * test_brw on persistent OST devices
3700 * lprocfs (disabled)
3702 2002-09-04 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3704 * documentation updates
3705 * bug fixes and cleanups
3706 * configuration tools
3708 2002-08-30 Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3711 * many small fixes to 0_5_4
3712 * io/network handling
3713 * thinkos in MDS operations
3715 2002-08-24 Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3718 * crucial basic fixes to 0.5.3
3719 * IOR, Iozone work over Elan
3722 2002-08-07 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3723 * version 0_5_3, our first alpha
3724 * we use the new Portals iovs
3725 * documentation updates
3726 * bug fixes and cleanups
3727 * small changes in the DLM wire protocol
3729 2002-07-25 Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3730 * version 0_5_1 with some initial stability,
3731 * locking on MD and file I/O.
3732 * documentation updates
3733 * several bug fixes since 0.5.0
3734 * small changes in wire protocol
3736 2002-07-18 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3738 * delivered as Lustre Light Alpha
3739 * fixed a crash after handling invalid MDS requests
3740 * fixed directory pages for architectures with non-4k pages sizes
3742 2002-07-11 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3743 * release version v0_4_4
3744 * Moves TCP acceptor to be on port 2432 (unused Coda port) instead
3746 * Fixes a number of interruption problems with OST operations.
3747 * Update documentation for portals header changes
3748 * Move all wire protocol structs/defines to lustre_idl.h
3749 * Fixes symlink length bug.
3750 * Add tcpdump to repository.
3752 2002-07-05 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3753 * release version v0_4_3
3754 * Fixes statfs for inodes on extN.
3755 * Fixes bug in runtests which would delete /etc/hosts.
3756 * Use 64-bit object IDs wherever possible (not into VFS though)
3757 Remove ost_get_info, which is unused by lustre, and out of date.
3759 2002-07-03 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3760 * release version v0_4_2 Fixes a lookup error (type not passed)
3761 * move forward to head of Portals
3762 * move forward to latest Lustre kernel
3764 2002-06-25 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3765 * release version v0_4_1. Hopefully stable on single node use.
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