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6 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10),
7 2.6.18-8.1.8.EL5 (RHEL 5).
8 2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
9 * Client support for unpatched kernels:
10 (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
11 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4),
12 2.6.16 - 2.6.21 vanilla (kernel.org)
13 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.2-cfs1
14 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
18 Description: don't use GFP_* in generic Lustre code.
19 Details : Use cfs_alloc_* functions and CFS_* flags for code portability.
23 Description: obdclass is limited by single OBD_ALLOC(idarray)
24 Details : replace OBD_ALLOC/OBD_FREE with OBD_VMALLOC/OBD_VFREE
28 Description: warnings with build patchless client with vanila 2.6.19 and up
29 Details : change old ctl_table style and replace ctl_table/ctl_table_header
30 with cfs_sysctl_table_t/cfs_sysctl_table_header_t
34 Frequency : Only for SLES
35 Description: sanity_quota fail test_1
36 Details : There are multiple occurences of $TSTUSR in SLES's /etc/group
37 file, which makes TSTID[2] inunique.
41 Frequency : Only for SLES9
42 Description: Kernel patches for SLES9 2.6.5-7.286 kernel
43 Details : Update target/ChangeLog/which_patch .
47 Frequency : Only for test_10 in sanity-quota.sh
48 Description: a bug in quota test code
49 Details : checking a test flag in a wrong place
53 Frequency : Only for test_13 in sanity-quota.sh
54 Description: a bug in quota test script
55 Details : shouldn't check overfull allocated quota
59 Description: jbd statistics
60 Details : Port older jbd statistics patch for sles10
62 Severity : enhancement
64 Description: Add printing inode info into message about error in writepage.
69 Description: reply_lock_interpret crash due to race with it and lock cancel.
70 Details : Do not replay locks that are being cancelled. Do not reference
71 locks by their address during replay, just by their handle.
75 Frequency : When flocks are used.
76 Description: assertion failure in ldlm_cli_enquque_fini for non NULL lock.
77 Details : Flock locks might destroy just granted lock if it could be merged
78 with another existing flock, this is done in completion handler,
79 so teach ldlm_cli_enquque_fini that this is a valid case for
85 Description: Oops in read and write path when failing to allocate lock.
86 Details : Check if lock allocation failed and return error back.
90 Description: lstripe command fails for valid OST index
91 Details : The stripe offset is compared to lov->desc.ld_tgt_count
92 instead of lov->desc.ld_active_tgt_count.
96 Description: sanity.sh failed test 103
97 Details : RHEL mis-interpret setfacl "-X" param, so we won't test setfacl
102 Description: df doesn't work properly if diskfs blocksize != 4K
103 Details : Choose biggest blocksize of OST's as the LOV's blocksize.
107 Description: lfs find on -1 stripe looping in lsm_lmm_verify_common()
108 Details : Avoid lov_verify_lmm_common() on directory with -1 stripe count.
112 Description: obd_health_check_timeout too short
113 Details : set obd_health_check_timeout as 1.5x of obd_timeout
117 Description: llapi_file_create() does not allow some changes
118 Details : add llapi_file_open() that allows specifying the mode and
119 open flags, and also returns an open file handle.
123 Description: merge and cleanup kernel patches.
124 Details : Remove mnt_lustre_list in vfs_intent-2.6-rhel4.patch.
128 Description: Add journal checksum support.(Kernel part)
129 Details : The journal checksum feature adds two new flags i.e
130 JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and
131 JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM. JBD2_FEATURE_CHECKSUM flag
132 indicates that the commit block contains the checksum for
133 the blocks described by the descriptor blocks. Now commit
134 record can be sent to disk without waiting for descriptor
135 blocks to be written to disk. This behavior is controlled
136 using JBD2_FEATURE_ASYNC_COMMIT flag.
140 Description: OSS needs mutliple precreate threads
141 Details : Add ability to start more than one create thread per OSS.
145 Description: Sanity.sh test_65k failed: setstripe should have succeeded
146 Details : execute lfs setstripe on client
150 Description: mds_obd_create error creating tmp object
151 Details : When the user sets quota on root, llog will be affected and can't
152 create files and write files.
155 Frequency : Always on ia64 patchless client, and possibly others.
157 Description: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL check for node_to_cpumask symbol.
158 Details : This allows the patchless client to be loaded on architectures
163 Description: RedHat Update kernel for RHEL5
164 Details : Add the kernel config file for RHEL5.
166 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
168 2007-08-10 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
170 * Support for kernels:
171 2.6.5-7.283 (SLES 9),
172 2.6.9-55.EL (RHEL 4),
173 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10),
174 2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
175 * Client support for unpatched kernels:
176 (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
177 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
178 * Due to recently discovered recovery problems, we do not recommend
179 using patchless RHEL 4 clients with this or any earlier release.
180 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs8
181 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
182 * Starting with this release, the ldiskfs backing filesystem required
183 by Lustre is now in its own package, lustre-ldiskfs. This package
184 should be installed. It is versioned separately from Lustre and
185 may be released separately in future.
189 Description: block reactivating mgc import until all deactivates complete
190 Details : Fix race when failing back MDT/MGS to itself (testing)
192 Severity : enhancement
194 Description: add optional extra BUILD_VERSION info
195 Details : add a new environment variable (namely LUSTRE_VERS) which allows
196 to override the lustre version.
199 Frequency : 2.6.18 servers only
201 Description: ll_kern_mount() doesn't release the module reference
202 Details : The ldiskfs module reference count never drops down to 0
203 because ll_kern_mount() doesn't release the module reference.
208 Description: server LBUG when using old ost_num_threads parameter
209 Details : Accept the old ost_num_threads parameter but warn that it
210 is deprecated, and fix an off-by-one error that caused an LBUG.
215 Description: Transient SCSI error results in persistent IO issue
216 Details : iobuf->dr_error is not reinitialized to 0 between two
220 Frequency : sometimes when underlying device returns I/O errors
222 Description: OSTs not going read-only during write failures
223 Details : OSTs are not remounted read-only when the journal commit threads
224 get I/O errors because fsfilt_ext3 calls journal_start/stop()
225 instead of the ext3 wrappers.
229 Description: poor connect scaling with increasing client count
230 Details : Don't run filter_grant_sanity_check for more than 100 exports
231 to improve scaling for large numbers of clients.
234 Frequency : SLES10 only
236 Description: sanity-quota.sh quotacheck failed: rc = -22
237 Details : Quotas cannot be enabled on SLES10.
240 Frequency : liblustre clients only
242 Description: getdirentries does not give error when run on compute nodes
243 Details : getdirentries does not fail when the size specified as an argument
244 is too small to contain at least one entry
246 Severity : enhancement
248 Description: Add LNET router traceability for debug purposes
249 Details : If a checksum failure occurs with a router as part of the
250 IO path, the NID of the last router that forwarded the bulk data
251 is printed so it can be identified.
256 Description: OST "spontaneously" evicts client; client has imp_pingable == 0
257 Details : Due to a race condition, liblustre clients were occasionally
260 Severity : enhancement
262 Description: lfs setstripe use optional parameters instead of postional
265 Severity : enhancement
267 Description: Nanosecond timestamp support for ldiskfs
268 Details : The on-disk ldiskfs filesystem has added support for nanosecond
269 resolution timestamps. There is not yet support for this at
270 the Lustre filesystem level.
273 Frequency : during server recovery
275 Description: MDS failing to send precreate requests due to OSCC_FLAG_RECOVERING
276 Details : request with rq_no_resend flag not awake l_wait_event if they get a
280 Frequency : nfs export on patchless client
282 Description: connectathon hang when test nfs export over patchless client
283 Details : Disconnected dentry cannot be found with lookup, so we do not need
284 to unhash it or make it invalid
287 Description: fix llapi_lov_get_uuids() to allow many OSTs to be returned
288 Details: : Change llapi_lov_get_uuids() to read the UUIDs from /proc instead
289 of using an ioctl. This allows lfsck for > 160 OSTs to succeed.
294 Description: open req refcounting wrong on reconnect
295 Details : If reconnect happened between getting open reply from server and
296 call to mdc_set_replay_data in ll_file_open, we will schedule
297 replay for unreferenced request that we are about to free.
298 Subsequent close will crash in variety of ways.
299 Check that request is still eligible for replay in
300 mdc_set_replay_data().
305 Description: disable writes to filesystem when reading health_check file
306 Details : the default for reading the health_check proc file has changed
307 to NOT do a journal transaction and write to disk, because this
308 can cause reads of the /proc file to hang and block HA state
309 checking on a healthy but otherwise heavily loaded system. It
310 is possible to return to the previous behaviour during configure
311 with --enable-health-write.
313 Severity : enhancement
315 Description: 64-bit inode version
316 Details: : Add a on-disk 64-bit inode version for ext3 to track changes made
317 to the inode. This will be required for version-based recovery.
322 Description: MDS fails to start if a duplicate client export is detected
323 Details : in some rare cases it was possible for a client to connect to
324 an MDS multiple times. Upon recovery the MDS would detect this
325 and fail during startup. Handle this more gracefully.
327 Severity : enhancement
329 Description: Add -o localflock option to simulate old noflock
331 Details : This will achieve local-only flock/fcntl locks
337 Description: log_commit_thread vs filter_destroy race leads to crash
338 Details : Take import reference before releasing llog record semaphore
343 Description: Wrong request locking in request set processing
344 Details : ptlrpc_check_set wrongly uses req->rq_lock for proctect add to
345 imp_delayed_list, in this place should be used imp_lock.
348 Frequency : when reconnection
350 Description: Grant Leak when osc reconnect to OST
351 Details : When osc reconnect ost, OST(filter) should check whether it
352 should grant more space to client by comparing fed_grant and
353 cl_avail_grant, and return the granted space to client instead
354 of "new granted" space, because client will call osc_init_grant
355 to update the client grant space info.
358 Frequency : when client reconnect to OST
360 Description: Grant Leak when osc do resend and replay bulk write
361 Details : When osc reconnect to OST, OST(filter)should clear grant info of
362 bulk write request, because the grant info while be sync between
363 OSC and OST when reconnect, and we should ignore the grant info
364 these of resend/replay write req.
369 Description: Grant space more than avaiable left space sometimes.
370 Details : When then OST is about to be full, if two bulk writing from
371 different clients came to OST. Accord the avaliable space of the
372 OST, the first req should be permitted, and the second one
373 should be denied by ENOSPC. But if the seconde arrived before
374 the first one is commited. The OST might wrongly permit second
375 writing, which will cause grant space > avaiable space.
378 Frequency : when client is evicted
380 Description: Grant might be wrongly erased when osc is evicted by OST
381 Details : when the import is evicted by server, it will fork another
382 thread ptlrpc_invalidate_import_thread to invalidate the
383 import, where the grant will be set to 0. While the original
384 thread will update the grant it got when connecting. So if
385 the former happened latter, the grant will be wrongly errased
386 because of this race.
391 Description: Checking Stale with correct fid
392 Details : ll_revalidate_it should uses de_inode instead of op_data.fid2
393 to check whether it is stale, because sometimes, we want the
394 enqueue happened anyway, and op_data.fid2 will not be initialized.
396 Severity : enhancement
398 Description: update patchless client
399 Details : Add support for patchless client with 2.6.20, 2.6.21 and RHEL 5
402 Frequency : only with 2.4 kernel
404 Description: random memory corruption
405 Details : size of struct ll_inode_info is to big for union inode.u and this
406 can be cause of random memory corruption.
411 Description: Memory leak in recovery
412 Details : Lov_mds_md was not free in an error handler in mds_create_object.
413 It should also check obd_fail before fsfilt_start, otherwise if
414 fsfilt_start return -EROFS,(failover mds during mds recovery).
415 then the req will return with repmsg->transno = 0 and rc = EROFS.
416 and we met hit the assert LASSERT(req->rq_reqmsg->transno ==
417 req->rq_repmsg->transno) in ptlrpc_replay_interpret. Fcc should
418 be freed no matter whether fsfilt_commit success or not.
421 Frequency : only with huge count clients
423 Description: Prevents from taking the superblock lock in llap_from_page for
425 Details : using LL_ORIGIN_REMOVEPAGE origin flag instead of LL_ORIGIN_UNKNOW
426 for llap_from_page call in ll_removepage prevents from taking the
427 superblock lock for a soon died page.
432 Description: Not check open intent error before release open handle
433 Details : in some rare cases, the open intent error is not checked before
434 release open handle, which may cause
435 ASSERTION(open_req->rq_transno != 0), because it tries to release
436 the failed open handle.
441 Description: Set cat log bitmap only after create log success.
442 Details : in some rare cases, the cat log bitmap is set too early. and it
443 should be set only after create log success.
447 Description: Accessing a block bevice can re-enable I/O when Lustre is
448 tearing down a device.
449 Details : dev_clear_rdonly(bdev) must be called in kill_bdev() instead of
454 Description: service threads may hog cpus when there are a lot of requests
456 Details : Insert cond_resched to give other threads a chance to use some of
462 Description: the cat log was not initialized in recovery
463 Details : When mds(mgs) do recovery, the tgt_count might be zero, so the
464 unlink log on mds will not be initialized until mds post
465 recovery. And also in mds post recovery, the unlink log will
466 initialization will be done asynchronausly, so there will be race
467 between add unlink log and unlink log initialization.
471 Description: brw_stats were being printed incorrectly
472 Details : brw_stats were being printed as log2 but all of them were not
473 recorded as log2. Also remove some code duplication arising from
474 filter_tally_{read,write}.
478 Frequency : rare, only in recovery.
479 Description: ASSERTION(req->rq_type != LI_POISON) failed
480 Details : imp_lock should be held while iterating over imp_sending_list for
481 prevent destroy request after get timeout in ptlrpc_queue_wait.
485 Description: replay-single.sh test 52 fails
486 Details : A lock's skiplist need to be cleanup when it being unlinked
487 from its resource list.
491 Description: Short directio read returns full requested size rather than
493 Details : Direct I/O operations should return actual amount of bytes
494 transferred rather than requested size.
496 Severity : enhancement
498 Description: metadata RPC reduction (e.g. for rm performance)
499 Details : decrease the amount of synchronous RPC between clients and servers
500 by canceling conflicing lock before the operation on the client side
501 and packing thier handles into the main operation RPC to server.
503 Severity : enhancement
505 Description: Async OSC create to avoid the blocking unnecessarily.
506 Details : If a OST has no remain object, system will block on the creating
507 when need to create a new object on this OST. Now, ways use
508 pre-created objects when available, instead of blocking on an
509 empty osc while others are not empty. If we must block, we block
510 for the shortest possible period of time.
512 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
514 2007-05-03 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
519 Frequency : on some architectures
521 Description: 1.6 client sometimes fails to mount from a 1.4 MDT
522 Details : Uninitialized flags sometimes cause configuration commands to
526 Frequency : patchless clients only
528 Description: missing __iget() symbol export
529 Details : The __iget() symbol export is missing. To avoid the need for
530 this on patchless clients the deathrow inode reaper is turned
531 off, and we depend on the VM to clean up old inodes. This
532 dependency was during via the fix for bug 12181.
534 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
536 2007-04-19 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
538 * CONFIGURATION CHANGE. This version of Lustre WILL NOT
539 INTEROPERATE with older versions automatically. In many cases a
540 special upgrade step is needed. Please read the
541 user documentation before upgrading any part of a live system.
542 * WIRE PROTOCOL CHANGE from previous 1.6 beta versions. This
543 version will not interoperate with 1.6 betas before beta5 (1.5.95).
544 * WARNING: Lustre configuration and startup changes are required with
545 this release. See https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf
551 Severity : enhancement
553 Description: MountConf
554 Details : Lustre configuration is now managed via mkfs and mount
555 commands instead of lmc and lconf. New obd types (MGS, MGC)
556 are added for dynamic configuration management. See
557 https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf for
560 Severity : enhancement
562 Description: dynamic OST addition
563 Details : OSTs can now be added to a live filesystem
565 Severity : enhancement
567 Description: startup order invariance
568 Details : MDTs and OSTs can be started in any order. Clients only
569 require the MDT to complete startup.
571 Severity : enhancement
573 Description: parallel, asynchronous orphan cleanup
574 Details : orphan cleanup is now performed in separate threads for each
575 OST, allowing parallel non-blocking operation.
577 Severity : enhancement
579 Description: optimized stripe assignment
580 Details : stripe assignments are now made based on ost space available,
581 ost previous usage, and OSS previous usage, in order to try
582 to optimize storage space and networking resources.
584 Severity : enhancement
586 Description: Permanently set tunables
587 Details : All writable /proc/fs/lustre tunables can now be permanently
588 set on a per-server basis, at mkfs time or on a live
591 Severity : enhancement
593 Description: Lustre message v2
594 Details : Add lustre message format v2.
596 Severity : enhancement
598 Description: client OST exclusion list
599 Details : Clients can be started with a list of OSTs that should be
600 declared "inactive" for known non-responsive OSTs.
604 Description: SPEC SFS validation failure on NFS v2 over lustre.
605 Details : Changes the blocksize for regular files to be 2x RPC size,
606 and not depend on stripe size.
608 Severity : enhancement
610 Description: Multiple MD RPCs in flight.
611 Details : Further unserialise some read-only MDS RPCs - learn about intents.
612 To avoid overly-overloading MDS, introduce a limit on number of
613 MDS RPCs in flight for a single client and add /proc controls
614 to adjust this limit.
616 Severity : enhancement
618 Description: client read/write statistics
619 Details : Add client read/write call usage stats for performance
620 analysis of user processes.
621 /proc/fs/lustre/llite/*/offset_stats shows non-sequential
622 file access. extents_stats shows chunk size distribution.
623 extents_stats_per_process show chunk size distribution per
626 Severity : enhancement
628 Description: mds statistics
629 Details : Add detailed mds operations statistics in
630 /proc/fs/lustre/mds/*/stats.
634 Description: Failure of copying files with lustre special EAs.
635 Details : Client side always return success for setxattr call for lustre
636 special xattr (currently only "trusted.lov").
641 Description: Refcount LNET uuids
642 Details : The global LNET uuid list grew linearly with every startup;
643 refcount repeated list entries instead of always adding to
646 Severity : enhancement
648 Description: Dynamic service threads
649 Details : Within a small range, start extra service threads
650 automatically when the request queue builds up.
653 Frequency : mixed-endian client/server environments
655 Description: mixed-endian crashes
656 Details : The new msg_v2 system had some failures in mixed-endian
659 Severity : enhancement
661 Description: Easy OST removal
662 Details : OSTs can be permanently deactivated with e.g. 'lctl
663 conf_param lustre-OST0001.osc.active=0'
665 Severity : enhancement
667 Description: MGS proc entries
668 Details : Added basic proc entries for the MGS showing what filesystems
671 Severity : enhancement
673 Description: provide MGS failover
674 Details : Added config lock reacquisition after MGS server failover.
676 Severity : enhancement
678 Description: add Linux 2.4 support
679 Details : Added support for RHEL 2.4.21 kernel for 1.6 servers and clients
683 Description: a large application tries to do I/O to the same resource and dies
685 Details : Check the req->rq_arrival time after the call to
686 ost_brw_lock_get(), but before we do anything about
687 processing it & sending the BULK transfer request. This
688 should help move old stale pending locks off the queue as
689 quickly as obd_timeout.
692 Frequency : when an incorrect nid is specified during startup
694 Description: ptlrpc connect to non-existant node causes kernel crash
695 Details : LNET can't be re-entered from an event callback, which
696 happened when we expire a message after the export has been
697 cleaned up. Instead, hand the zombie cleanup off to another
700 Severity : enhancement
702 Description: plain/inodebits lock performance improvement
703 Details : Grouping plain/inodebits in granted list by their request modes
704 and bits policy, thus improving the performance of search through
708 Frequency : only if OST filesystem is corrupted
710 Description: client incorrectly hits assertion in ptlrpc_replay_req()
711 Details : for a short time RPCs with bulk IO are in the replay list,
712 but replay of bulk IOs is unimplemented. If the OST filesystem
713 is corrupted due to disk cache incoherency and then replay is
714 started it is possible to trip an assertion. Avoid putting
715 committed RPCs into the replay list at all to avoid this issue.
718 Frequency : liblustre (e.g. catamount) on a large cluster with >= 8 OSTs/OSS
720 Description: System hang on startup
721 Details : This bug allowed the liblustre (e.g. catamount) client to
722 return to the app before handling all startup RPCs. This
723 could leave the node unresponsive to lustre network traffic
724 and manifested as a server ptllnd timeout.
726 Severity : enhancement
728 Description: Add "/proc/sys/lustre/debug_peer_on_timeout"
729 Details : liblustre envirable: LIBLUSTRE_DEBUG_PEER_ON_TIMEOUT
730 boolean to control whether to print peer debug info when a
731 client's RPC times out.
734 Frequency : only for kernels with patches from Lustre below 1.4.3
736 Description: Remove old rdonly API
737 Details : Remove old rdonly API which unused from at least lustre 1.4.3
740 Frequency : only for devices with external journals
742 Description: Set external device read-only also
743 Details : During a commanded failover stop, we set the disk device
744 read-only while the server shuts down. We now also set any
745 external journal device read-only at the same time.
748 Frequency : when upgrading from 1.4 while trying to change parameters
750 Description: The wrong (new) MDC name was used when setting parameters for
751 upgraded MDT's. Also allows changing of OSC (and MDC)
752 parameters if --writeconf is specified at tunefs upgrade time.
755 Frequency : when setting specific ost indicies
757 Description: QOS code breaks on skipped indicies
758 Details : Add checks for missing OST indicies in the QOS code, so OSTs
759 created with --index need not be sequential.
761 Severity : enhancement
763 Description: Add uninit_groups feature to ldiskfs2 to speed up e2fsck
764 Details : The uninit_groups feature works in conjunction with the kernel
765 filesystem code (ldiskfs2 only) and e2fsprogs-1.39-cfs6 to speed
766 up the pass1 processing of e2fsck. This is a read-only feature
767 in ldiskfs2 only, so older kernels and current ldiskfs cannot
768 mount filesystems that have had this feature enabled.
770 Severity : enhancement
772 Description: Improve multi-block allocation algorithm to avoid fragmentation
773 Details : The mballoc3 code (ldiskfs2 only) adds new mechanisms to improve
774 allocation locality and avoid filesystem fragmentation.
776 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
778 2007-04-01 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
780 * Support for kernels:
781 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
783 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4)
784 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
785 2.6.16.27-0.9 (SLES 10)
786 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs5
788 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel
792 Frequency : occasional, depends on client load and configuration
793 Bugzilla : 12181, 12203
794 Description: data loss for recently-modified files
796 Details : In some cases it is possible that recently written or created
797 files may not be written to disk in a timely manner (this should
798 normally be within 30s unless client IO load is very high).
799 The problem appears as zero-length files or files that are a
800 multiple of 1MB in size after a client crash or client eviction
801 that are missing data at the end of the file.
803 This problem is more likely to be hit on clients where files are
804 repeatedly created and unlinked in the same directory, clients
805 have a large amount of RAM, have many CPUs, the filesystem has
806 many OSTs, the clients are rebooted frequently, and/or the files
807 are not accessed by other nodes after being written.
809 The presence of the problem can be detected by looking at
810 /proc/sys/fs/inode-state. If the first number (nr_inodes) is
811 smaller than the second (nr_unused) then dirty files will not
812 be flushed automatically to disk. "sync; sleep 10" should be
813 run several times on the node before unmounting it to update
814 Lustre (this is also safe to run on nodes without this problem).
816 There is also a related kernel bug in the RHEL4 4 2.6.9 kernel
817 that can cause this same problem, so customers using that kernel
818 also need to update the kernel in addition to Lustre. In order
819 to properly fix this bug, the RHEL3 2.4.21 kernel is also updated.
821 It is normal that files written just before a client crash (less
822 than 30s) may not yet have been flushed to disk, even for local
826 Frequency : frequent on thin XT3 nodes
828 Description: UUID collision on thin XT3 Linux nodes
829 Details : UUIDs on Compute Node Linux XT3 nodes were not generated
830 randomly, since we relied on an insufficiently-seeded PRNG.
835 Description: OSS hangs after "All ost request buffers busy"
836 Details : A deadlock between quota and journal operations caused OSS
837 hangs after printing "All ost request buffers busy."
840 Frequency : always on liblustre builds
842 Description: Cleanup compiler warnings on liblustre
845 Frequency : always on liblustre builds on XT3
847 Description: LC_CONFIG_CDEBUG don't run while build liblustre on XT3.
851 Description: Addition of EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINKS flag for
852 > 32000 subdirectories
853 Details : Add EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK flag to
854 EXT3_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_SUPP. This flag will be set whenever
855 subdirectory count crosses 32000. This will aid e2fsck to
856 correctly handle more than 32000 subdirectories.
859 Frequency : liblustre (e.g. catamount) on a large cluster with >= 8 OSTs/OSS
861 Description: System hang on startup
862 Details : This bug allowed the liblustre (e.g. catamount) client to
863 return to the app before handling all startup RPCs. This
864 could leave the node unresponsive to lustre network traffic
865 and manifested as a server ptllnd timeout.
867 Severity : enhancement
869 Description: Add "/proc/sys/lustre/debug_peer_on_timeout"
870 (liblustre envirable: LIBLUSTRE_DEBUG_PEER_ON_TIMEOUT)
871 boolean to control whether to print peer debug info when a
872 client's RPC times out.
877 Description: make O_SYNC working on 2.6 kernels
878 Details : 2.6 kernels use different method for mark pages for write,
879 so need add a code to lustre for O_SYNC work.
884 Description: Failure to close file and release space on NFS
885 Details : Put inode details into lock acquired in ll_intent_file_open.
886 Use mdc_intent_lock in ll_intent_open to properly
887 detect all kind of errors unhandled by mdc_enqueue.
892 Description: proc file read during shutdown sometimes raced obd removal,
894 Details : Add lock to prevent obd access after proc file removal.
897 Frequency : Only for files larger than 4GB on 32-bit clients.
899 Description: improperly doing page alignment of locks
900 Details : Modify lustre core code to use CFS_PAGE_* defines instead of
901 PAGE_*. Make CFS_PAGE_MASK a 64-bit mask.
906 Description: RPCs being resent when they shouldn't be
907 Details : Some RPCs that should not be resent are being resent. This
908 can cause inconsistencies in the RPC state machine. Do not
909 resend such requests.
912 Frequency : rare, only with NFS export
914 Description: Crash on NFS re-export node
915 Details : under very unusual load conditions an assertion is hit in
916 ll_intent_file_open()
919 Frequency : only if OST filesystem is corrupted
921 Description: client incorrectly hits assertion in ptlrpc_replay_req()
922 Details : for a short time RPCs with bulk IO are in the replay list,
923 but replay of bulk IOs is unimplemented. If the OST filesystem
924 is corrupted due to disk cache incoherency and then replay is
925 started it is possible to trip an assertion. Avoid putting
926 committed RPCs into the replay list at all to avoid this issue.
931 Description: large O_DIRECT requests fail under memory pressure/fragmentation
932 Details : Large single O_DIRECT read and write calls can fail to allocate
933 a sufficiently large buffer to process the request. In case of
934 allocation failure the allocation is retried with a smaller
935 buffer and broken into smaller requests.
937 Severity : enhancement
939 Description: Add -o localflock option to simulate old noflock behaviour.
940 Details : This will achieve local-only flock/fcntl locks coherentness.
945 Description: versioning check is incomplete
946 Details : Checking the version difference of client vs. server, report
947 error if the gap is too big.
952 Description: add support PG_writeback bit
953 Details : add support for PG_writeback bit for Lustre, for more carefull
954 work with page cache in 2.6 kernel. This also fix some deadlocks
955 and remove hack for work O_SYNC with 2.6 kernel.
957 Severity : enhancement
959 Description: Add uninit_groups feature to ldiskfs2 to speed up e2fsck
960 Details : The uninit_groups feature works in conjunction with the kernel
961 filesystem code (ldiskfs2 only) and e2fsprogs-1.39-cfs6 to speed
962 up the pass1 processing of e2fsck. This is a read-only feature
963 in ldiskfs2 only, so older kernels and current ldiskfs cannot
964 mount filesystems that have had this feature enabled.
966 Severity : enhancement
968 Description: Improve multi-block allocation algorithm to avoid fragmentation
969 Details : The mballoc3 code (ldiskfs2 only) adds new mechanisms to improve
970 allocation locality and avoid filesystem fragmentation.
972 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
974 2007-02-09 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
976 * Support for kernels:
977 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL (RHEL 4)
979 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
980 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
981 2.6.16.21-0.8 (SLES10)
982 * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs2-0
984 * The backwards-compatible /proc/sys/portals symlink has been removed
985 in this release. Before upgrading, please ensure that you change
986 any configuration scripts or /etc/sysctl.conf files that access
987 /proc/sys/portals/* or sysctl portals.* to use the corresponding
988 entry in /proc/sys/lnet or sysctl lnet.*. This change can be made
989 in advance of the upgrade on any system running Lustre 1.4.6 or
990 newer, since /proc/sys/lnet was added in that version.
991 * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel
995 Frequency : only when quota is used
997 Description: avoid scanning export list for quota master
998 Details : Change the algorithms to avoid scanning export list in order
999 to improve the efficiency.
1002 Frequency : MDS failover only, very rarely
1004 Description: "went back in time" messages on mds failover
1005 Details : The greatest transno may be lost when the current operation
1006 finishes with an error (transno==0) and the client's last_rcvd
1007 record is over-written. Save the greatest transno in the
1008 mds_last_transno for this case.
1011 Frequency : always for specific kernels and striping counts
1013 Description: client may get "Matching packet too big" without ACL support
1014 Details : Clients compiled without CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL get an error message
1015 when trying to access files in certain configurations. The
1016 clients should in fact be denied when mounting because they do
1017 not understand ACLs.
1020 Frequency : Cray XT3 with more than 4000 clients and multiple jobs
1022 Description: many clients connecting with IO in progress causes connect timeouts
1023 Details : Avoid synchronous journal commits to avoid delays caused by many
1024 clients connecting/disconnecting when bulk IO is in progress.
1025 Queue liblustre connect requests on OST_REQUEST_PORTAL instead of
1026 OST_IO_PORTAL to avoid delays behind potentially many pending
1030 Frequency : occasionally with multiple writers to a single file
1032 Description: shared writes to file may result in wrong size reported by stat()
1033 Details : Allow growing of kms when extent lock is cancelled
1036 Frequency : always with random mmap IO to multi-striped file
1038 Description: mmap write might be lost if we are writing to a 'hole' in stripe
1039 Details : Only if the hole is at the end of OST object so that kms is too
1040 small. Fix is to increase kms accordingly in ll_nopage.
1043 Frequency : rare, only if OST filesystem is inconsistent with MDS filesystem
1045 Description: writes to a missing object would leak memory on the OST
1046 Details : If there is an inconsistency between the MDS and OST filesystems,
1047 such that the MDS references an object that doesn't exist, writes
1048 to that object will leak memory due to incorrect cleanup in the
1049 error handling path, eventually running out of memory on the OST.
1054 Description: Creating too long symlink causes lustre errors
1055 Details : Check symlink and name lengths before sending requests to MDS.
1058 Frequency : only if flock is enabled (not on by default)
1060 Description: posix locks not released on fd closure on 2.6.9+
1061 Details : We failed to add posix locks to list of inode locks on 2.6.9+
1062 kernels, this caused such locks not to be released on fd close and
1063 then assertions on fs unmount about still used locks.
1066 Frequency : MDS failover only, very rarely
1068 Description: clients may get ASSERTION(granted_lock != NULL)
1069 Details : When request was taking a long time, and a client was resending
1070 a getattr by name lock request. The were multiple lock requests
1071 with the same client lock handle and
1072 mds_getattr_name->fixup_handle_for_resent_request found one of the
1073 lock handles but later failed with ASSERTION(granted_lock != NULL).
1078 Description: handle->h_buffer_credits > 0, assertion failure
1079 Details : h_buffer_credits is zero after truncate, causing assertion
1080 failure. This patch extends the transaction or creates a new
1084 Frequency : NFS re-export or patchless client
1085 Bugzilla : 11179, 10796
1086 Description: Crash on NFS re-export node (__d_move)
1087 Details : We do not want to hash the dentry if we don't have a lock.
1088 But if this dentry is later used in d_move, we'd hit uninitialised
1089 list head d_hash, so we just do this to init d_hash field but
1090 leave dentry unhashed.
1093 Frequency : NFS re-export or patchless client
1095 Description: NFS exports has problem with symbolic link
1096 Details : lustre client didn't properly install dentry when re-exported
1097 to NFS or running patchless client.
1100 Frequency : NFS re-export or patchless client
1102 Description: Various nfs/patchless fixes.
1103 Details : fixes reuse disconected alias for lookup process - this fixes
1104 warning "find_exported_dentry: npd != pd",
1105 fix permission error with open files at nfs.
1106 fix apply umask when do revalidate.
1109 Frequency : occasional
1111 Description: Crash on NFS re-export node
1112 Details : calling clear_page() on the wrong pointer triggered oops in
1113 generic_mapping_read().
1116 Frequency : rarely, using O_DIRECT IO
1118 Description: unaligned directio crashes client with LASSERT
1119 Details : check for unaligned buffers before trying any requests.
1122 Frequency : rarely, using CFS RAID5 patches in non-standard kernel series
1124 Description: stale data returned from RAID cache
1125 Details : If only a small amount of IO is done to the RAID device before
1126 reading it again it is possible to get stale data from the RAID
1127 cache instead of reading it from disk.
1130 Frequency : always for sles10 kernel
1132 Description: sles10 support
1133 Details : ll_follow_link: compile fixes and using of nd_set_link
1134 under newer kernels.
1137 Frequency : depends on arch, kernel and compiler version, always on sles10
1140 Description: recursive or deep enough symlinks cause stack overflow
1141 Details : getting rid of large stack-allocated variable in
1145 Frequency : depends on hardware
1147 Description: lustre write performance loss in the SLES10 kernel
1148 Details : the performance loss is caused by using of write barriers in the
1149 ext3 code. The SLES10 kernel turns barrier support on by
1150 default. The fix is to undo that change for ldiskfs.
1152 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1154 2006-12-09 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1156 * Support for kernels:
1157 2.6.9-42.0.3EL (RHEL 4)
1158 2.6.5-7.276 (SLES 9)
1159 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
1160 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1164 Frequency : quota enabled and large files being deleted
1166 Description: releasing more than 4GB of quota at once hangs OST
1167 Details : If a user deletes more than 4GB of files on a single OST it
1168 will cause the OST to spin in an infinite loop. Release
1169 quota in < 4GB chunks, or use a 64-bit value for 1.4.7.1+.
1174 Description: statfs data retrieved from /proc may be stale or zero
1175 Details : When reading per-device statfs data from /proc, in the
1176 {kbytes,files}_{total,free,avail} files, it may appear
1177 as zero or be out of date.
1180 Frequency : systems with MD RAID1 external journal devices
1182 Description: lconf's call to blkid is confused by RAID1 journal devices
1183 Details : Use the "blkid -l" flag to locate the MD RAID device instead
1184 of returning all block devices that match the journal UUID.
1187 Frequency : always, for aggregate stripe size over 4GB
1189 Description: "lfs setstripe" fails assertion when setting 4GB+ stripe width
1190 Details : Using "lfs setstripe" to set stripe size * stripe count over 4GB
1191 will fail the kernel with "ASSERTION(lsm->lsm_xfersize != 0)"
1194 Frequency : always if "lfs find" used on a local file/directory
1196 Description: "lfs find" segfaults if used on a local file/directory
1197 Details : The case where a directory component was not specified wasn't
1198 handled correctly. Handle this properly.
1201 Frequency : always on ppc64
1203 Description: the write to an ext3 filesystem mounted with mballoc got stuck
1204 Details : ext3_mb_generate_buddy() uses find_next_bit() which does not
1205 perform endianness conversion.
1208 Frequency : rarely (truncate to non-zero file size after write under load)
1209 Bugzilla : 10730, 10687
1210 Description: Files padded with zeros to next 4K multiple
1211 Details : With filesystems mounted using the "extents" option (2.6 kernels)
1212 it is possible that files that are truncated to a non-zero size
1213 immediately after being written are filled with zero bytes beyond
1214 the truncated size. No file data is lost.
1216 Severity : enhancement
1218 Description: Allow recovery/failover for liblustre clients.
1219 Details : liblustre clients were unaware of failover configurations until
1222 Severity : enhancement
1224 Description: user file locks should fail when not mounting with flock option
1225 Details : Set up an error-returning stub in ll_file_operations.lock field
1226 to prevent incorrect behaviour when client is mounted without
1227 flock option. Also, set up properly f_op->flock field for
1231 Frequency : always on ia64
1233 Description: "lfs df" loops on printing out MDS statfs information
1234 Details : The obd_ioctl_data was not initialized and in some systems
1235 this caused a failure during the ioctl that did not return
1236 an error. Initialize the struct and return an error on failure.
1239 Frequency : SLES 9 only
1241 Description: Error of copying files with lustre special EAs as root
1242 Details : Client side always return success for setxattr call for lustre
1243 special xattr (currently only "trusted.lov").
1246 Frequency : rarely on clusters with both ia64+i386 clients
1248 Description: ia64+i686 clients doing shared IO on the same file may LBUG
1249 Details : In rare cases when both ia64+i686 (or other mixed-PAGE_SIZE)
1250 clients are doing concurrent writes to the same file it is
1251 possible that the ia64 clients may LASSERT because the OST
1252 extent locks are not PAGE_SIZE aligned. Ensure that grown
1253 locks are always aligned on the request boundary.
1256 Frequency : specific use, occasional
1258 Description: Overwriting in use executable truncates on-disk binary image
1259 Details : If one node attempts to overwrite an executable in use by
1260 another node, we now correctly return ETXTBSY instead of
1261 truncating the file.
1263 Severity : enhancement
1265 Description: Async OSC create to avoid the blocking unnecessarily.
1266 Details : If a OST has no remain object, system will block on the creating
1267 when need to create a new object on this OST. Now, ways use
1268 pre-created objects when available, instead of blocking on an
1269 empty osc while others are not empty. If we must block, we block
1270 for the shortest possible period of time.
1275 Description: chmod on Lustre root is propagated to other clients
1276 Details : Re-validate root's dentry in ll_lookup_it to avoid having it
1277 invalid by the follow_mount time.
1280 Frequency : liblustre clients only
1282 Description: Race in 'instant cancel' lock handling could lead to such locks
1283 never to be granted in case of SMP MDS
1284 Details : Do not destroy not yet granted but cbpending locks in
1288 Frequency : replay/resend of open
1290 Description: non null lock assetion failure in mds_intent_policy
1291 Details : Trying to replay/resend lockless open requests resulted in
1292 mds_open() returning 0 with no lock. Now it sets a flag if
1293 a lock is going to be returned.
1295 Severity : enhancement
1297 Description: Checksum enhancements
1298 Details : New checksum enhancements allow for resending RPCs that failed
1301 Severity : enhancement
1303 Description: Tunables on number of dirty pages in cacche
1304 Details : Allow to set limit on number of dirty pages cached.
1309 Description: client crash on unmount - lock still has references
1310 Details : In some error handling cases it was possible to leak a lock
1311 reference on a client while accessing a file. This was not
1312 harmful to the client during operation, but would cause the
1313 client to crash when the filesystem is unmounted.
1316 Frequency : specific case, rare
1318 Description: ETXTBSY on mds though file not in use by client
1319 Details : ETXTBSY is no longer incorrectly returned when attempting to
1320 chmod or chown a directory that the user previously tried to
1321 execute or a currently-executing binary.
1324 Frequency : extremely rare except on liblustre-based clients
1326 Description: Lustre space not freed when files are deleted
1327 Details : Clean up open-unlinked files after client eviction. Previously
1328 the unlink was skipped and the files remained as orphans.
1333 Description: OST failure "would be an LBUG" in waiting_locks_callback()
1334 Details : In some cases it was possible to send a blocking callback to
1335 a client doing a glimpse, even though that client didn't get
1336 a lock granted. When the glimpse lock is cancelled on the OST
1337 the freed lock is left on the waiting list and corrupted the list.
1340 Frequency : all core dumps
1342 Description: Broke core dumps to lustre
1343 Details : Negative dentry may be unhashed if parent does not have UPDATE
1344 lock, but some callers, e.g. do_coredump, expect dentry to be
1345 hashed after successful create, hash it in ll_create_it.
1347 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1349 2006-09-13 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1351 * Support for kernels:
1352 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL (RHEL 4)
1353 2.6.5-7.276 (SLES 9)
1354 2.4.21-40.EL (RHEL 3)
1355 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1359 Frequency : always on RHEL 3
1361 Description: Number of open files grows over time
1362 Details : The number of open files grows over time, whether or not
1363 Lustre is started. This was due to a filp leak introduced
1364 by one of our kernel patches.
1366 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1368 08-20-2006 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1370 * Support for kernels:
1371 2.6.9-42.EL (RHEL 4)
1372 2.6.5-7.276 (SLES 9)
1373 2.4.21-40.EL (RHEL 3)
1374 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1379 Bugzilla : 5719, 9635, 9792, 9684
1380 Description: OST (or MDS) trips assertions in (re)connection under heavy load
1381 Details : If a server is under heavy load and cannot reply to new
1382 connection requests before the client resends the (re)connect,
1383 the connection handling code can behave badly if two service
1384 threads are concurrently handing separate (re)connections from
1385 the same client. Add better locking to the connection handling
1386 code, and ensure that only a single connection will be processed
1387 for a given client UUID, even if the lock is dropped.
1389 Severity : enhancement
1391 Description: add TCP zero-copy support to kernel
1392 Details : Add support to the kernel TCP stack to allow zero-copy bulk
1393 sends if the hardware supports scatter-gather and checksumming.
1394 This allows socklnd to do client-write and server-read more
1395 efficiently and reduce CPU utilization from skbuf copying.
1398 Frequency : only if NFS exporting from client
1400 Description: NULL pointer deref in ll_iocontrol() if chattr mknod file
1401 Details : If setting attributes on a file created under NFS that had
1402 never been opened it would be possible to oops the client
1403 if the file had no objects.
1406 Frequency : always for liblustre
1408 Description: liblustre client does MDS+OSTs setattr RPC for each write
1409 Details : When doing a write from a liblustre client, the client
1410 incorrectly issued an RPC to the MDS and each OST the file was
1411 striped over in order to update the timestamps. When writing
1412 with small chunks and many clients this could overwhelm the MDS
1413 with RPCs. In all cases it would slow down the write because
1414 these RPCs are unnecessary.
1416 Severity : enhancement
1418 Description: allow number of MDS service threads to be changed at module load
1419 Details : It is now possible to change the number of MDS service threads
1420 running. Adding "options mds mds_num_threads={N}" to the MDS's
1421 /etc/modprobe.conf will set the number of threads for the next
1422 time Lustre is restarted (assuming the "mds" module is also
1423 reloaded at that time). The default number of threads will
1424 stay the same, 32 for most systems.
1429 Description: OST crash if filesystem is unformatted or corrupt
1430 Details : If an OST is started on a device that has never been formatted
1431 or if the filesystem is corrupt and cannot even mount then the
1432 error handling cleanup routines would dereference a NULL pointer.
1437 Description: NULL pointer deref in llap_from_page.
1438 Details : get_cache_page_nowait can return a page with NULL (or otherwise
1439 incorrect) mapping if the page was truncated/reclaimed while it was
1440 searched for. Check for this condition and skip such pages when
1441 doing readahead. Introduce extra check to llap_from_page() to
1442 verify page->mapping->host is non-NULL (so page is not anonymous).
1445 Frequency : Sometimes when using sys_sendfile
1447 Description: "page not covered by a lock" warnings from ll_readpage
1448 Details : sendfile called ll_readpage without right page locks present.
1449 Now we introduced ll_file_sendfile that does necessary locking
1450 around call to generic_file_sendfile() much like we do in
1454 Frequency : with certain MDS communication failures at client mount time
1456 Description: NULL pointer deref after failed client mount
1457 Details : a client connection request may delayed by the network layer
1458 and not be sent until after the PTLRPC layer has timed out the
1459 request. If the client fails the mount immediately it will try
1460 to clean up before the network times out the request. Add a
1461 reference from the request import to the obd device and delay
1462 the cleanup until the network drops the request.
1465 Frequency : occasionally during client (re)connect
1467 Description: assertion failure during client (re)connect
1468 Details : processing a client connection request may be delayed by the
1469 client or server longer than the client connect timeout. This
1470 causes the client to resend the connection request. If the
1471 original connection request is replied in this interval, the
1472 client may trip an assertion failure in ptlrpc_connect_interpret()
1473 which thought it would be the only running connect process.
1476 Frequency : only with obd_echo servers and clients that are rebooted
1478 Description: kernel BUG accessing uninitialized data structure
1479 Details : When running an obd_echo server it did not start the ping_evictor
1480 thread, and when a client was evicted an uninitialized data
1481 structure was accessed. Start the ping_evictor in the RPC
1482 service startup instead of the OBD startup.
1484 Severity : enhancement
1485 Bugzilla : 10193 (patchless)
1486 Description: Remove dependency on various unexported kernel interfaces.
1487 Details : No longer need reparent_to_init, exit_mm, exit_files,
1488 sock_getsockopt, filemap_populate, FMODE_EXEC, put_filp.
1491 Frequency : rare (only users of deprecated and unsupported LDAP config)
1493 Description: write_conf for zeroconf mount queried LDAP incorrectly for client
1494 Details : LDAP apparently contains 'lustreName' attributes instead of
1495 'name'. A simple remapping of the name is sufficient.
1498 Frequency : rare (only with non-default dump_on_timeout debug enabled)
1500 Description: waiting_locks_callback trips kernel BUG if client is evicted
1501 Details : Running with the dump_on_timeout debug flag turned on makes
1502 it possible that the waiting_locks_callback() can try to dump
1503 the Lustre kernel debug logs from an interrupt handler. Defer
1504 this log dumping to the expired_lock_main() thread.
1506 Severity : enhancement
1508 Description: Support NFS exporting on 2.6 kernels.
1509 Details : Implement non-rawops metadata methods for NFS server to use without
1510 changing NFS server code.
1513 Frequency : very rare (synthetic metadata workload only)
1515 Description: two racing renames might cause an MDS thread to deadlock
1516 Details : Running the "racer" program may cause one MDS thread to rename
1517 a file from being the source of a rename to being the target of
1518 a rename at exactly the same time that another thread is doing
1519 so, and the second thread has already enqueued these locks after
1520 doing a lookup of the target and is trying to relock them in
1521 order. Ensure that we don't try to re-lock the same resource.
1524 Frequency : only very large systems with liblustre clients
1526 Description: slow eviction of liblustre clients with the "evict_by_nid" RPC
1527 Details : Use asynchronous set_info RPCs to send the "evict_by_nid" to
1528 all OSTs in parallel. This allows the eviction of stale liblustre
1529 clients to proceed much faster than if they were done in series,
1530 and also offers similar improvements for other set_info RPCs.
1535 Description: excessive CPU usage during initial read phase on client
1536 Details : During the initial read phase on a client, it would agressively
1537 retry readahead on the file, consuming too much CPU and impacting
1538 performance (since 1.4.5.8). Improve the readahead algorithm
1539 to avoid this, and also improve some other common cases (read
1540 of small files in particular, where "small" is files smaller than
1541 /proc/fs/lustre/llite/*/max_read_ahead_whole_mb, 2MB by default).
1546 Description: MDS crash when receiving packet with unknown intent.
1547 Details : Do not LBUG in unknown intent case, just return -EFAULT
1549 Severity : enhancement
1550 Bugzilla : 9293, 9385
1551 Description: MDS RPCs are serialised on client. This is unnecessary for some.
1552 Details : Do not serialize getattr (non-intent version) and statfs.
1555 Frequency : occasional, when OST network is overloaded/intermittent
1557 Description: client evicted by OST after bulk IO timeout
1558 Details : If a client sends a bulk IO request (read or write) the OST
1559 may evict the client if it is unresposive to its data GET/PUT
1560 request. This is incorrect if the network is overloaded (takes
1561 too long to transfer the RPC data) or dropped the OST GET/PUT
1562 request. There is no need to evict the client at all, since
1563 the pinger and/or lock callbacks will handle this, and the
1564 client can restart the bulk request.
1567 Frequency : Always when mmapping file with no objects
1569 Description: client crashes when mmapping file with no objects
1570 Details : Check that we actually have objects in a file before doing any
1571 operations on objects in ll_vm_open, ll_vm_close and
1577 Description: Request leak when working with deleted CWD
1578 Details : Introduce advanced request refcount tracking for requests
1579 referenced from lustre intent.
1581 Severity : Enhancement
1583 Description: Cache open file handles on client.
1584 Details : MDS now will return special lock along with openhandle, if
1585 requested and client is allowed to hold openhandle, even if unused,
1586 until such a lock is revoked. Helps NFS a lot, since NFS is opening
1587 closing files for every read/write openration.
1589 Severity : Enhancement
1591 Description: Cache open negative dentries on client when possible.
1592 Details : Guard negative dentries with UPDATE lock on parent dir, drop
1593 negative dentries on lock revocation.
1598 Description: Remounting a client read-only wasn't possible with a zconf mount
1599 Details : It wasn't possible to remount a client read-only with llmount.
1601 Severity : enhancement
1602 Description: Include MPICH 1.2.6 Lustre ADIO interface patch
1603 Details : In lustre/contrib/ or /usr/share/lustre in RPM a patch for
1604 MPICH is included to add Lustre-specific ADIO interfaces.
1605 This is based closely on the UFS ADIO layer and only differs
1606 in file creation, in order to allow the OST striping to be set.
1607 This is user-contributed code and not supported by CFS.
1612 Description: extended inode attributes (immutable, append-only) work improperly
1613 when 2.4 and 2.6 kernels are used on client/server or vice versa
1614 Details : Introduce kernel-independent values for these flags.
1616 Severity : enhancement
1619 Description: Allow fractional MB tunings for lustre in /proc/ filesystem.
1620 Details : Many of the /proc/ tunables can only be tuned at a megabyte
1621 granularity. Now, Fractional MB granularity is be supported,
1622 this is very useful for low memory system.
1624 Severity : enhancement
1626 Description: Getattr by fid
1627 Details : Getting a file attributes by its fid, obtaining UPDATE|LOOKUP
1628 locks, avoids extra getattr rpc requests to MDS, allows '/' to
1629 have locks and avoids getattr rpc requests for it on every stat.
1632 Frequency : Always, for filesystems larger than 2TB
1634 Description: ldiskfs crash at mount for filesystem larger than 2TB with mballoc
1635 Details : Kenrel kmalloc limits allocations to 128kB and this prevents
1636 filesystems larger than 2TB to be mounted with mballoc enabled.
1639 Frequency : Always, for 32-bit kernel without CONFIG_LBD and filesystem > 2TB
1641 Description: ldiskfs crash at mount for filesystem larger than 2TB with mballoc
1642 Details : If a 32-bit kernel is compiled without CONFIG_LBD enabled and a
1643 filesystems larger than 2TB is mounted then the kernel will
1644 silently corrupt the start of the filesystem. CONFIG_LBD is
1645 enabled for all CFS-supported kernels, but the possibility of
1646 this happening with a modified kernel config exists.
1648 Severity : enhancement
1650 Description: add client O_DIRECT support for 2.6 kernels
1651 Details : It is now possible to do O_DIRECT reads and writes to files
1652 in the Lustre client mountpoint on 2.6 kernel clients.
1654 Severity : enhancement
1656 Description: parallel glimpse, setattr, statfs, punch, destroy requests
1657 Details : Sends glimpse, setattr, statfs, punch, destroy requests to OSTs in
1658 parallel, not waiting for response from every OST before sending
1659 a rpc to the next OST.
1664 Description: setattr vs write race when updating file timestamps
1665 Details : Client processes that update a file timestamp into the past
1666 right after writing to the file (e.g. tar) it is possible that
1667 the updated file modification time can be reset to the current
1668 time due to a race between processing the setattr and write RPC.
1670 Severity : enhancement
1672 Description: Bring 'lfs find' closer in line with regular Linux find.
1673 Details : lfs find util supports -atime, -mtime, -ctime, -maxdepth, -print,
1674 -print0 options and obtains all the needed info through the lustre
1677 Severity : enhancement
1679 Description: support up to 1024 configured devices on one node
1680 Details : change obd_dev array from statically allocated to dynamically
1681 allocated structs as they are first used to reduce memory usage
1686 Description: Flush dirty partially truncated pages during truncate
1687 Details : Immediatelly flush partially truncated pages in filter_setattr,
1688 this way we completely avoid having any pages in page cache on OST
1689 and can retire ugly workarounds during writes to flush such pages.
1694 Description: i_sem vs transaction deadlock in mds_obd_destroy during unlink.
1695 Details : protect inode from truncation within vfs_unlink() context
1696 just take a reference before calling vfs_unlink() and release it
1697 when parent's i_sem is free.
1702 Description: last_id value checked outside lock on OST caused LASSERT failure
1703 Details : If there were multiple MDS->OST object precreate requests in
1704 flight, it was possible that the OST's last object id was checked
1705 outside a lock and incorrectly tripped an assertion. Move checks
1706 inside locks, and discard old precreate requests.
1709 Frequency : always, if extents are used on OSTs
1711 Description: index ei_leaf_hi (48-bit extension) is not zeroed in extent index
1712 Details : OSTs using the extents format would not zero the high 16 bits of
1713 the index physical block number. This is not a problem for any
1714 OST filesystems smaller than 16TB, and no kernels support ext3
1715 filesystems larger than 16TB yet. This is fixed in 1.4.7 (all
1716 new/modified files) and can be fixed for existing filesystems
1717 with e2fsprogs-1.39-cfs1.
1722 Description: import connection selection may be incorrect if timer wraps
1723 Details : Using a 32-bit jiffies timer with HZ=1000 may cause backup
1724 import connections to be ignored if the 32-bit jiffies counter
1725 wraps. Use a 64-bit jiffies counter.
1728 Frequency : very large clusters immediately after boot
1730 Description: LNET request buffers exhausted under heavy short-term load
1731 Details : If a large number of client requests are generated on a service
1732 that has previously never seen so many requests it is possible
1733 that the request buffer growth cannot keep up with the spike in
1734 demand. Instead of dropping incoming requests, they are held in
1735 the LND until the RPC service can accept more requests.
1738 Frequency : Sometimes during replay
1740 Description: Assertion failure in ll_local_open after replay.
1741 Details : If replay happened on an open request reply before we were able
1742 to set replay handler, reply will become not swabbed tripping the
1743 assertion in ll_local_open. Now we set the handler right after
1744 recognising of open request
1747 Frequency : very rare
1749 Description: kernel reports "badness in vsnprintf"
1750 Details : Reading from the "recovery_status" /proc file in small chunks
1751 may cause a negative length in lprocfs_obd_rd_recovery_status()
1752 call to vsnprintf() (which is otherwise harmless). Exit early
1753 if there is no more space in the output buffer.
1755 Severity : enhancement
1757 Description: clear OBD RPC statistics by writing to them
1758 Details : It is now possible to clear the OBD RPC statistics by writing
1759 to the "stats" file.
1764 Description: Client mtime is not the same on different clients after utimes
1765 Details : In some cases, the client was using the utimes() syscall on
1766 a file cached on another node. The clients now validate the
1767 ctime from the MDS + OSTs to determine which one is right.
1772 Description: Inability to activate failout mode
1773 Details : lconf script incorrectly assumed that in pythong string's numeric
1774 value is used in comparisons.
1777 Frequency : always with multiple stripes per file
1779 Description: Inefficient object allocation for mutli-stripe files
1780 Details : When selecting which OSTs to stripe files over, for files with
1781 a stripe count that divides evenly into the number of OSTs,
1782 the MDS is always picking the same starting OST for each file.
1783 Return the OST selection heuristic to the original design.
1788 Description: mount failures may take full timeout to return an error
1789 Details : Under some heavy load conditions it is possible that a
1790 failed mount can wait for the full obd_timeout interval,
1791 possibly several minutes, before reporting an error.
1792 Instead return an error as soon as the status is known.
1794 Frequency : quota enabled and large files being deleted
1796 Description: releasing more than 4GB of quota at once hangs OST
1797 Details : If a user deletes more than 4GB of files on a single OST it
1798 will cause the OST to spin in an infinite loop. Release
1799 quota in < 4GB chunks, or use a 64-bit value for 1.4.7.1+.
1804 Description: statfs data retrieved from /proc may be stale or zero
1805 Details : When reading per-device statfs data from /proc, in the
1806 {kbytes,files}_{total,free,avail} files, it may appear
1807 as zero or be out of date.
1810 Frequency : systems with MD RAID1 external journal devices
1812 Description: lconf's call to blkid is confused by RAID1 journal devices
1813 Details : Use the "blkid -l" flag to locate the MD RAID device instead
1814 of returning all block devices that match the journal UUID.
1817 Frequency : always, for aggregate stripe size over 4GB
1819 Description: assertion fails when trying to use 4GB stripe size
1820 Details : Use "setstripe" to set stripe size over 4GB will fail the kernel,
1821 complaining "ASSERTION(lsm->lsm_xfersize != 0)"
1824 Frequency : always on ppc64
1826 Description: the first write on an ext3 filesystem with mballoc got stuck
1827 Details : ext3_mb_generate_buddy() uses find_next_bit() which does not
1828 perform endianness conversion.
1830 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1832 02-14-2006 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
1834 * WIRE PROTOCOL CHANGE. This version of Lustre networking WILL NOT
1835 INTEROPERATE with older versions automatically. Please read the
1836 user documentation before upgrading any part of a live system.
1837 * WARNING: Lustre networking configuration changes are required with
1838 this release. See https://bugzilla.clusterfs.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10052
1841 * Support for kernels:
1842 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL (RHEL 4)
1843 2.6.5-7.244 (SLES 9)
1844 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
1847 Severity : enhancement
1848 Bugzilla : 7981/8208
1849 Description: Introduced Lustre Networking (LNET)
1850 Details : LNET is new networking infrastructure for Lustre, it includes
1851 a reorganized network configuration mode (see the user
1852 documentation for full details) as well as support for routing
1853 between different network fabrics. Lustre Networking Devices
1854 (LNDs) for the supported network fabrics have also been
1855 created for this new infrastructure.
1857 Severity : enhancement
1858 Description: Introduced Access control lists
1859 Details : clients can set ACLs on files and directories in order to have
1860 more fine-grained permissions than the standard Unix UGO+RWX.
1861 The MDS must be started with the "-o acl" mount option.
1863 Severity : enhancement
1864 Description: Introduced filesystem quotas
1865 Details : Administrators may now establish per-user quotas on the
1868 Severity : enhancement
1870 Description: Configuration change for the XT3
1871 The PTLLND is now used to run Lustre over Portals on the XT3
1872 The configure option(s) --with-cray-portals are no longer used.
1873 Rather --with-portals=<path-to-portals-includes> is used to
1874 enable building on the XT3. In addition to enable XT3 specific
1875 features the option --enable-cray-xt3 must be used.
1880 Description: Running on many-way SMP OSTs can trigger oops in llcd_send()
1881 Details : A race between allocating a new llcd and re-getting the llcd_lock
1882 allowed another thread to grab newly-allocated llcd.
1884 Severity : enhancement
1886 Description: 2.6 OST async journal commit and locking fix to improve performance
1887 Details : The filter_direct_io()+filter_commitrw_write() journal commits for
1888 2.6 kernels are now async as they already were in 2.4 kernels so
1889 that they can commit concurrently with the network bulk transfer.
1890 For block-allocated files the filter allocation semaphore is held
1891 to avoid filesystem fragmentation during allocation. BKL lock
1892 removed for 2.6 xattr operations where it is no longer needed.
1897 Description: lconf incorrectly determined whether two IP networks could talk
1898 Details : In some more complicated routing and multiple-network
1899 configurations, lconf will avoid trying to make a network
1900 connection to a disjoint part of the IP space. It was doing the
1901 math incorrectly for one set of cases.
1906 Description: Fix for potential infinite loop processing records in an llog.
1907 Details : If an llog record is corrupted/zeroed, it is possible to loop
1908 forever in llog_process(). Validate the llog record length
1909 and skip the remainder of the block on error.
1912 Frequency : occasional (liblustre only)
1914 Description: liblustre could not open files whose last component is a symlink
1915 Details : sysio_path_walk() would incorrectly pass the open intent to
1916 intermediate path components.
1919 Frequency : rare (liblustre only with non-standard tuning)
1920 Bugzilla : 7201 (7350)
1921 Description: Tuning the MDC DLM LRU size to zero triggers client LASSERT
1922 Details : llu_lookup_finish_locks() tries to set lock data on a lock
1923 after it has been released, only do this for referenced locks
1925 Severity : enhancement
1927 Description: specifying an (invalid) directory default stripe_size of -1
1928 would reset the directory default striping
1929 Details : stripe_size -1 was used internally to signal directory stripe
1930 removal, now use "all default" to signal dir stripe removal
1931 as a directory striping of "all default" is not useful
1934 Frequency : common for large clusters running liblustre clients
1936 Description: doing an ls when liblustre clients are running is slow
1937 Details : sending a glimpse AST to a liblustre client waits for every AST
1938 to time out, as liblustre clients will not respond. Since they
1939 cannot cache data we refresh the OST lock LVB from disk instead.
1941 Severity : enhancement
1943 Description: doing an ls at the same time as file IO can be slow
1944 Details : enqueue and other "small" requests can be blocked behind many
1945 large IO requests. Create a new OST IO portal for non-IO
1946 requests so they can be processed faster.
1949 Frequency : rare (only HPUX clients mounting unsupported re-exported NFS vol)
1951 Description: an HPUX NFS client would get -EACCESS when ftruncate()ing a newly
1952 created file with mode 000
1953 Details : the Linux NFS server relies on an MDS_OPEN_OWNEROVERRIDE hack to
1954 allow an ftruncate() as a non-root user to a file with mode 000.
1955 Lustre now respects this flag to disable mode checks when
1956 truncating a file owned by the user
1959 Frequency : liblustre-only, when liblustre client dies unexpectedly or becomes
1962 Description: Revoking locks from clients that went dead or catatonic might take
1964 Details : New lock flags FL_CANCEL_ON_BLOCK used by liblustre makes
1965 cancellation of such locks instant on servers without waiting for
1966 any reply from clients. Clients drops these locks when cancel
1967 notification from server is received without replying.
1970 Frequency : liblustre-only, when liblustre client dies or becomes busy
1972 Description: Doing ls on Linux clients can take a long time with active
1974 Details : Liblustre client cannot handle ASTs in timely manner, so avoid
1975 granting such locks to it in the first place if possible. Locks
1976 are taken by proxy on the OST during the read or write and
1977 dropped immediately afterward. Add connect flags handling, do
1978 not grant locks to liblustre clients for glimpse ASTs.
1980 Severity : enhancement
1982 Description: Improve read-ahead algorithm to avoid excessive IO for random reads
1983 Details : Existing read-ahead algorithm is tuned for the case of streamlined
1984 sequential reads and behaves badly with applications doing random
1985 reads. Improve it by reading ahead at least read region, and
1986 avoiding excessive large RPC for small reads.
1988 Severity : enhancement
1990 Description: Creating more than 1000 files for a single job may cause a load
1991 imbalance on the OSTs if there are also a large number of OSTs.
1992 Details : qos_prep_create() uses an OST index reseed value that is an
1993 even multiple of the number of available OSTs so that if the
1994 reseed happens in the middle of the object allocation it will
1995 still utilize the OSTs as uniformly as possible.
2000 Description: OST or MDS may oops in ping_evictor_main()
2001 Details : ping_evictor_main() drops obd_dev_lock if deleting a stale export
2002 but doesn't restart at beginning of obd_exports_timed list
2005 Severity : enhancement
2007 Description: improve by-nid export eviction on the MDS and OST
2008 Details : allow multiple exports with the same NID to be evicted at one
2009 time without re-searching the exports list.
2012 Frequency : rare, only with supplementary groups enabled on SMP 2.6 kernels
2014 Description: MDS may oops in groups_free()
2015 Details : in rare race conditions a newly allocated group_info struct is
2016 freed again, and this can be NULL. The 2.4 compatibility code
2017 for groups_free() checked for a NULL pointer, but 2.6 did not.
2020 Frequency : common for liblustre clients doing little filesystem IO
2021 Bugzilla : 9352, 7313
2022 Description: server may evict liblustre clients accessing contended locks
2023 Details : if a client is granted a lock or receives a completion AST
2024 with a blocking AST already set it would not reply to the AST
2025 for LDLM_FL_CANCEL_ON_BLOCK locks. It now replies to such ASTs.
2028 Frequency : lfs setstripe, only systems with more than 160 OSTs
2030 Description: unable to set striping with a starting offset beyond OST 160
2031 Details : llapi_create_file() incorrectly limited the starting stripe
2032 index to the maximum single-file stripe count.
2035 Frequency : LDAP users only
2037 Description: lconf did not handle in-kernel recovery with LDAP properly
2038 Details : lconf/LustreDB get_refs() is searching the wrong namespace
2040 Severity : enhancement
2042 Description: bind OST threads to NUMA nodes to improve performance
2043 Details : all OST threads are uniformly bound to CPUs on a single NUMA
2044 node and do their allocations there to localize memory access
2046 Severity : enhancement
2048 Description: llmount can determine client NID directly from Myrinet (GM)
2049 Details : the client NID code from gmnalnid was moved directly into
2050 llmount, removing the need to use this or specifying the
2051 client NID explicitly when mounting GM clients with zeroconf
2054 Frequency : if client is started with down MDS
2056 Description: if client is started with down MDS mount hangs in ptlrpc_queue_wait
2057 Details : Having an LWI_INTR() wait event (interruptible, but no timeout)
2058 will wait indefinitely in ptlrpc_queue_wait->l_wait_event() after
2059 ptlrpc_import_delayed_req() because we didn't check if the
2060 request was interrupted, and we also didn't break out of the
2061 event loop if there was no timeout
2066 Description: data loss during non-page-aligned writes to a single file from
2067 both multiple nodes and multiple threads on one node at same time
2068 Details : updates to KMS and lsm weren't protected by common lock. Resulting
2069 inconsistency led to false short-reads, that were cached and later
2070 used by ->prepare_write() to fill in partially written page,
2071 leading to data loss.
2074 Frequency : always, if lconf --abort_recovery used
2076 Description: lconf --abort_recovery fails with 'Operation not supported'
2077 Details : lconf was attempting to abort recovery on the MDT device and not
2080 Severity : enhancement
2082 Description: remove cleanup logs
2083 Details : replace lconf-generated cleanup logs with lustre internal
2084 cleanup routines. Eliminates the need for client-cleanup and
2087 Severity : enhancement
2089 Description: add support for EAs (user and system) on lustre filesystems
2090 Details : it is now possible to store extended attributes in the Lustre
2091 client filesystem, and with the user_xattr mount option it
2092 is possible to allow users to store EAs on their files also
2094 Severity : enhancement
2096 Description: Add possibility (config option) to show minimal available OST free
2098 Details : When compiled with --enable-mindf configure option, statfs(2)
2099 (and so, df) will return least minimal free space available from
2100 all OSTs as amount of free space on FS, instead of summary of
2101 free spaces of all OSTs.
2103 Severity : enhancement
2105 Description: do not expand extent locks acquired on OST-side
2106 Details : Modify ldlm_extent_policy() to not expand local locks, acquired
2107 by server: they are not cached anyway.
2110 Frequency : when mmap is used/binaries executed from Lustre
2112 Description: Unmmap pages before throwing them away from read cache.
2113 Details : llap_shrink cache now attempts to unmap pages before discarding
2114 them (if unmapping failed - do not discard). SLES9 kernel has
2115 extra checks that trigger if this unmapping is not done first.
2120 Description: lconf didn't resolve symlinks before checking to see whether a
2121 given mountpoint was already in use
2124 Frequency : when migrating failover services
2125 Bugzilla : 6395, 9514
2126 Description: When migrating a subset of services from a node (e.g. failback
2127 from a failover service node) the remaining services would
2128 time out and evict clients.
2129 Details : lconf --force (implied by --failover) sets the global obd_timeout
2130 to 5 seconds in order to quickly disconnect, but this caused
2131 other RPCs to time out too quickly. Do not change the global
2132 obd_timeout for force cleanup, only set it for DISCONNECT RPCs.
2134 Severity : enhancement
2135 Frequency : if MDS is started with down OST
2136 Bugzilla : 9439,5706
2137 Description: Allow startup/shutdown of an MDS without depending on the
2138 availability of the OSTs.
2139 Details : Asynchronously call mds_lov_synchronize during MDS startup.
2140 Add appropriate locking and lov-osc refcounts for safe
2141 cleaning. Add osc abort_inflight calls in case the
2142 synchronize never started.
2145 Frequency : occasional (Cray XT3 only)
2147 Description: root not authorized to access files in CRAY_PORTALS environment
2148 Details : The client process capabilities were not honoured on the MDS in
2149 a CRAY_PORTALS/CRAY_XT3 environment. If the file had previously
2150 been accessed by an authorized user then root was able to access
2151 the file on the local client also. The root user capabilities
2152 are now allowed on the MDS, as this environment has secure UID.
2155 Frequency : occasional
2157 Description: ldiskfs "too long searching" message happens too often
2158 Details : A debugging message (otherwise harmless) prints too often on
2159 the OST console. This has been reduced to only happen when
2160 there are fragmentation problems on the filesystem.
2165 Description: Division by zero in statfs when all OSCs are inactive
2166 Details : lov_get_stripecnt() returns zero due to incorrect order of checks,
2167 lov_statfs divides by value returned by lov_get_stripecnt().
2171 Bugzilla : 9489, 3273
2172 Description: First write from each client to each OST was only 4kB in size,
2173 to initialize client writeback cache, which caused sub-optimal
2174 RPCs and poor layout on disk for the first writen file.
2175 Details : Clients now request an initial cache grant at (re)connect time
2176 and so that they can start streaming writes to the cache right
2177 away and always do full-sized RPCs if there is enough data.
2178 If the OST is rebooted the client also re-establishes its grant
2179 so that client cached writes will be honoured under the grant.
2184 Description: Slow ls (and stat(2) syscall) on files residing on IO-loaded OSTs
2185 Details : Now I/O RPCs go to different portal number and (presumably) fast
2186 lock requests (and glimses) and other RPCs get their own service
2187 threads pool that should be able to service those RPCs
2190 Severity : enhancement
2192 Description: Ability to exchange lustre version between client and servers and
2193 issue warnings at client side if client is too old. Also for
2194 liblustre clients there is ability to refuse connection of too old
2196 Details : New 'version' field is added to connect data structure that is
2197 filled with version info. That info is later checked by server and
2201 Frequency : rare, liblustre only.
2202 Bugzilla : 9296, 9581
2203 Description: Two simultaneous writes from liblustre at offset within same page
2204 might proceed at the same time overwriting eachother with stale
2206 Details : I/O lock withing llu_file_prwv was released too early, before data
2207 actually was hitting the wire. Extended lock-holding time until
2208 server acknowledges receiving data.
2211 Frequency : extremely rare. Never observed in practice.
2213 Description: avoid generating lustre_handle cookie of 0.
2214 Details : class_handle_hash() generates handle cookies by incrementing
2215 global counter, and can hit 0 occasionaly (this is unlikely, but
2216 not impossible, because initial value of cookie counter is
2217 selected randonly). Value of 0 is used as a sentinel meaning
2218 "unassigned handle" --- avoid it. Also coalesce two critical
2219 sections in this function into one.
2221 Severity : enhancement
2223 Description: allow liblustre clients to delegate truncate locking to OST
2224 Details : To avoid overhead of locking, liblustre client instructs OST to
2225 take extent lock in ost_punch() on client's behalf. New connection
2226 flag is added to handle backward compatibility.
2228 Severity : enhancement
2229 Bugzilla : 4928, 7341, 9758
2230 Description: allow number of OST service threads to be specified
2231 Details : a module parameter allows the number of OST service threads
2232 to be specified via "options ost ost_num_threads={N}" in the
2233 OSS's /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf.
2237 Bugzilla : 6146, 9635, 9895
2238 Description: servers crash with bad pointer in target_handle_connect()
2239 Details : In rare cases when a client is reconnecting it was possible that
2240 the connection request was the last reference for that export.
2241 We would temporarily drop the export reference and get a new
2242 one, but this may have been the last reference and the export
2243 was just destroyed. Get new reference before dropping old one.
2245 Severity : enhancement
2246 Frequency : if client is started with failover MDS
2248 Description: Allow multiple MDS hostnames in the mount command
2249 Details : Try to read the configuration from all specified MDS
2250 hostnames during a client mount in case the "primary"
2253 Severity : enhancement
2255 Description: Stop sending data to evicted clients as soon as possible.
2256 Details : Check if the client we are about to send or are sending data to
2257 was evicted already. (Check is done every second of waiting,
2258 for which l_wait_event interface was extended to allow checking
2259 of exit condition at specified intervals).
2262 Frequency : rare, normally only when NFS exporting is done from client
2264 Description: 'bad disk LOV MAGIC: 0x00000000' error when chown'ing files
2266 Details : Make mds_get_md() recognise empty md case and set lmm size to 0.
2269 Frequency : always, if srand() is called before liblustre initialization
2271 Description: Liblustre uses system PRNG disturbing its usage by user application
2272 Details : Introduce internal to lustre fast and high-quality PRNG for
2273 lustre usage and make liblustre and some other places in generic
2274 lustre code to use it.
2276 Severity : enhancement
2277 Bugzilla : 9477, 9557, 9870
2278 Description: Verify that the MDS configuration logs are updated when xml is
2279 Details : Check if the .xml configuration logs are newer than the config
2280 logs stored on the MDS and report an error if this is the case.
2281 Request --write-conf, or allow starting with --old_conf.
2283 Severity : enhancement
2285 Description: Handle symlinks in the path when checking if Lustre is mounted.
2286 Details : Resolve intermediate symlinks when checking if a client has
2287 mounted a filesystem to avoid duplicate client mounts.
2292 Description: lconf can hit an error exception but still return success.
2293 Details : The lconf command catches the Command error exception at the top
2294 level script context and will exit with the associated exit
2295 status, but doesn't ensure that this exit status is non-zero.
2300 Description: failure of ptlrpc thread startup can cause oops
2301 Details : Starting a ptlrpc service thread can fail if there are a large
2302 number of threads or the server memory is very fragmented.
2303 Handle this without oopsing.
2306 Frequency : always, only if liblustre and non-default acceptor port was used
2308 Description: liblustre cannot connect to servers with non-default acceptor port
2309 Details : tcpnal_set_default_params() was not called and was therefore
2310 ignoring the environment varaible TCPNAL_PORT, as well as other
2311 TCPNAL_ environment variables
2316 Description: two objects could be created on the same OST for a single file
2317 Details : If an OST is down, in some cases it was possible to create two
2318 objects on a single OST for a single file. No problems other
2319 than potential performance impact and spurious error messages.
2323 Bugzilla : 5681, 9562
2324 Description: Client may oops in ll_unhash_aliases
2325 Details : Client dcache may become inconsistent in race condition.
2326 In some cases "getcwd" can fail if the current directory is
2332 Description: Inode refcounting problems in NFS export code
2333 Details : link_raw functions used to call d_instantiate without obtaining
2334 extra inode reference first.
2338 Bugzilla : 9942, 9903
2339 Description: Referencing freed requests leading to crash, memleaks with NFS.
2340 Details : We used to require that call to ll_revalidate_it was always
2341 followed by ll_lookup_it. Also with revalidate_special() it is
2342 possible to call ll_revalidate_it() twice for the same dentry
2343 even if first occurence returned success. This fix changes semantic
2344 between DISP_ENQ_COMPLETE disposition flag to mean there is extra
2345 reference on a request referred from the intent.
2346 ll_intent_release() then releases such a request.
2349 Frequency : rare, normally benchmark loads only
2351 Description: unlinked inodes were kept in memory on the client
2352 Details : If a client is repeatedly creating and unlinking files it
2353 can accumulate a lot of stale inodes in the inode slab cache.
2354 If there is no other client load running this can cause the
2355 client node to run out of memory. Instead flush old inodes
2356 from client cache that have the same inode number as a new inode.
2359 Frequency : SLES9 2.6.5 kernel and long filenames only
2360 Bugzilla : 9969, 10379
2361 Description: utime reports stale NFS file handle
2362 Details : SLES9 uses out-of-dentry names in some cases, which confused
2363 the lustre dentry revalidation. Change it to always use the
2367 Frequency : rare, unless heavy write-truncate concurrency is continuous
2368 Bugzilla : 4180, 6984, 7171, 9963, 9331
2369 Description: OST becomes very slow and/or deadlocked during object unlink
2370 Details : filter_destroy() was holding onto the parent directory lock
2371 while truncating+unlinking objects. For very large objects this
2372 may block other threads for a long time and slow overall OST
2373 responsiveness. It may also be possible to get a lock ordering
2374 deadlock in this case, or run out of journal credits because of
2375 the combined truncate+unlink. Solution is to do object truncate
2376 first in one transaction without parent lock, and then do the
2377 final unlink in a new transaction with the parent lock. This
2378 reduces the lock hold time dramatically.
2381 Frequency : rare, 2.4 kernels only
2383 Description: MDS or OST cleanup may trip kernel BUG when dropping kernel lock
2384 Details : mds_cleanup() and filter_cleanup() need to drop the kernel lock
2385 before unmounting their filesystem in order to avoid deadlock.
2386 The kernel_locked() function in 2.4 kernels only checks whether
2387 the kernel lock is held, not whether it is this process that is
2388 holding it as 2.6 kernels do.
2393 Description: MDS or OST may oops/LBUG if a client is connecting multiple times
2394 Details : The client ptlrpc code may be trying to reconnect to a down
2395 server before a previous connection attempt has timed out.
2396 Increase the reconnect interval to be longer than the connection
2397 timeout interval to avoid sending duplicate connections to
2401 Frequency : echo_client brw_test command
2403 Description: fix echo_client to work with OST preallocated code
2404 Details : OST preallocation code (5137) didn't take echo_client IO path
2405 into account: echo_client calls filter methods outside of any
2406 OST thread and, hence, there is no per-thread preallocated
2407 pages and buffers to use. Solution: hijack pga pages for IO. As
2408 a byproduct, this avoids unnecessary data copying.
2412 Bugzilla : 3555, 5962, 6025, 6155, 6296, 9574
2413 Description: Client can oops in mdc_commit_close() after open replay
2414 Details : It was possible for the MDS to return an open request with no
2415 transaction number in mds_finish_transno() if the client was
2416 evicted, but without actually returning an error. Clients
2417 would later try to replay that open and may trip an assertion
2418 Simplify the client close codepath, and always return an error
2419 from the MDS in case the open is not successful.
2422 Frequency : rare, 2.6 OSTs only
2424 Description: OST may deadlock under high load on fragmented files
2425 Details : If there was a heavy load and highly-fragmented OST filesystems
2426 it was possible to have all the OST threads deadlock waiting on
2427 allocation of biovecs, because the biovecs were not released
2428 until the entire RPC IO was completed. Instead, release biovecs
2429 as soon as they are complete to ensure forward IO progress.
2431 Severity : enhancement
2433 Description: Support for specifying external journal device at mount
2434 Details : If an OST or MDS device is formatted with an external journal
2435 device, this device major/minor is stored in the ext3 superblock
2436 and may not be valid for failover. Allow detecting and
2437 specifying the external journal at mount time.
2442 Description: Mounting an MDS with pending unlinked files may cause oops
2443 Details : target_finish_recovery() calls mds_postrecov() which returned
2444 the number of orphans unlinked. mds_lov_connect->mds_postsetup()
2445 considers this an error and immediately begins cleaning up the
2446 lov, just after starting the mds_lov process
2448 Severity : enhancement
2450 Description: Implement 'lfs df' to report actual free space on per-OST basis
2451 Details : Add sub-command 'df' on 'lfs' to report the disk space usage of
2452 MDS/OSDs. Usage: lfs df [-i][-h]. Command Options: '-i' to report
2453 usage of objects; '-h' to report in human readable format.
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2457 08-26-2005 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2464 Description: Mounting an ldiskfs file system with mballoc may crash OST node.
2465 Details : ldiskfs mballoc code may reference an uninitialized buddy struct
2466 at startup during orphan unlinking. Instead, skip buddy update
2467 before setup, as it will be regenerated after recovery is complete.
2472 Description: If an OST is inactive, its locks might reference stale inodes.
2473 Details : lov_change_cbdata() must iterate over all namespaces, even if
2474 they are inactive to clear inode references from the lock.
2476 Severity : enhancement
2477 Frequency : occasional, if non-standard max_dirty_mb used
2479 Description: Client will block write RPCs if not enough grant
2480 Details : If a client has max_dirty_mb smaller than max_rpcs_in_flight,
2481 then the client will block writes while waiting for another RPC
2482 to complete instead of consuming its dirty limit. With change
2483 we get improved performance when max_dirty_mb is small.
2485 Severity : enhancement
2486 Bugzilla : 3389, 6253
2487 Description: Add support for supplementary groups on the MDS.
2488 Details : The MDS has an upcall /proc/fs/lustre/mds/{mds}/group_upcall
2489 (set to /usr/sbin/l_getgroups if enabled) which will do MDS-side
2490 lookups for user supplementary groups into a cache.
2494 Description: O_CREAT|O_EXCL open flags in liblustre always return -EEXIST
2495 Details : Make libsysio to not enforce O_EXCL by clearing the flag,
2496 for liblustre O_EXCL is enforced by MDS.
2500 Description: readdir never returns NULL in liblustre.
2501 Details : Corrected llu_iop_getdirentries logic, to return offset of next
2502 dentry in struct dirent.
2506 Frequency : liblustre only, depends on application IO pattern
2507 Description: liblustre clients evicted if not contacting servers
2508 Details : Don't put liblustre clients into the ping_evictor list, so
2509 they will not be evicted by the pinger ever.
2511 Severity : enhancement
2513 Description: Add ability to evict clients by NID from MDS.
2514 Details : By echoing "nid:$NID" string into
2515 /proc/fs/lustre/mds/.../evict_client client with nid that equals to
2516 $NID would be instantly evicted from this MDS and from all active
2517 OSTs connected to it.
2521 Description: Do not query file size twice, somewhat slowing stat(2) calls.
2522 Details : lookup_it_finish() used to query file size from OSTs that was not
2527 Description: service threads change working directory to that of init
2528 Details : Starting lustre service threads may pin the working directory
2529 of the parent thread, making that filesystem busy. Threads
2530 now change to the working directory of init to avoid this.
2534 Frequency : during shutdown only
2535 Description: shutdown with a failed MDS or OST can cause unmount to hang
2536 Details : Don't resend DISCONNECT messages in ptlrpc_disconnect_import()
2541 Frequency : 2.6 only
2542 Description: chmod/chown may include an extra supplementary group
2543 Details : ll{,u}_mdc_pack_op_data() does not properly initialize the
2544 supplementary group and if none is specified this is used.
2547 Bugzilla : 5479 (6816)
2549 Description: Racing open + rm can assert client in mdc_set_open_replay_data()
2550 Details : If lookup is in progress on a file that is unlinked we might try
2551 to revalidate the inode and fail in revalidate after lookup is
2552 complete and ll_file_open() enqueues the open again but
2553 it_open_error() was not checking DISP_OPEN_OPEN errors correctly.
2556 Frequency : always, if lconf --abort_recovery used
2558 Description: lconf --abort_recovery fails with 'Operation not supported'
2559 Details : lconf was attempting to abort recovery on the MDT device and not
2562 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2564 2005-08-08 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2569 Frequency : rare (only unsupported configurations with a node running as an
2571 Bugzilla : 6514, 5137
2572 Description: Mounting a Lustre file system on a node running as an OST could
2574 Details : OSTs now preallocates memory needed to write out data at
2575 startup, instead of when needed, to avoid having to
2576 allocate memory in possibly low memory situations.
2577 Specifically, if the file system is mounted on on OST,
2578 memory pressure could force it to try to write out data,
2579 which it needed to allocate memory to do. Due to the low
2580 memory, it would be unable to do so and the node would
2581 become unresponsive.
2583 Severity : enhancement
2585 Description: Addition of lconf --service command line option
2586 Details : lconf now accepts a '--service <arg>' option, which is
2587 shorthand for 'lconf --group <arg> --select <arg>=<hostname>'
2589 Severity : enhancement
2591 Description: Failover mode is now the default for OSTs.
2592 Details : By default, OSTs will now run in failover mode. To return to
2593 the old behaviour, add '--failout' to the lmc line for OSTs.
2595 Severity : enhancement
2597 Description: Health checks are now provided for MDS and OSTs
2598 Details : Additional detailed health check information on MSD and OSTs
2599 is now provided through the procfs health_check value.
2602 Frequency : occasional, depends on IO load
2604 Description: Disk fragmentation on the OSTs could eventually cause slowdowns
2605 after numerous create/delete cycles
2606 Details : The ext3 inode allocation policy would not allocate new inodes
2607 very well on the OSTs because there are no new directories
2608 being created. Instead we look for groups with free space if
2609 the parent directories are nearly full.
2614 Description: Network or server problems during mount may cause partially
2615 mounted clients instead of returning an error.
2616 Details : The config llog parsing code may overwrite the error return
2617 code during mount error handling, returning success instead
2623 Description: MDS can fail to allocate large reply buffers
2624 Details : After long uptimes the MDS can fail to allocate large reply
2625 buffers (e.g. zconf client mount config records) due to memory
2626 fragmentation or consumption by the buffer cache. Preallocate
2627 some large reply buffers so that these replies can be sent even
2628 under memory pressure.
2632 Frequency : rare (liblustre)
2633 Description: fsx running with liblustre complained that using truncate() to
2634 extend the file doesn't work. This patch corrects that issue.
2635 Details : This is the liblustre equivalent of the fix for bug 6196. Fixes
2636 ATTR_SIZE and lsm use in llu_setattr_raw.
2640 Frequency : rare, only 2.6 kernels
2641 Description: Unusual file access patterns on the MDS may result in inode
2642 data being lost in very rare circumstances.
2643 Details : Bad interaction between the ea-in-inode patch and the "no-read"
2644 code in the 2.6 kernel caused the inode and/or EA data not to
2645 be read from disk, causing single-file corruption.
2649 Frequency : rare, only 2.6 filesystems using extents
2650 Description: Heavy concurrent write and delete load may cause data corruption.
2651 Details : It was possible under high-load situations to have an extent
2652 metadata block in the block device cache from a just-unlinked
2653 file overwrite a newly-allocated data block. We now unmap any
2654 metadata buffers that alias just-allocated data blocks.
2658 Frequency : filesystems with default stripe_count larger than 77
2659 Description: lconf+mke2fs fail when formatting filesystem with > 77 stripes
2660 Details : lconf specifies an inode size of 4096 bytes when the default
2661 stripe_count is larger than 77. This conflicts with the default
2662 inode density of 1 per 4096 bytes. Allocate smaller inodes in
2663 this case to avoid pinning too much memory for large EAs.
2665 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2667 2005-07-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2672 Frequency : rare (extremely heavy IO load with hundreds of clients)
2674 Description: Client is evicted, gets IO error writing to file
2675 Details : lock ordering changes for bug 5492 reintroduced bug 3267 and
2676 caused clients to be evicted for AST timeouts. The fixes in
2677 bug 5192 mean we no longer need to have such short AST timeouts
2678 so ldlm_timeout has been increased.
2681 Frequency : occasional during --force or --failover shutdown under load
2682 Bugzilla : 5949, 4834
2683 Description: Server oops/LBUG if stopped with --force or --failover under load
2684 Details : a collection of import/export refcount and cleanup ordering
2685 issues fixed for safer force cleanup
2688 Frequency : only filesystems larger than 120 OSTs
2689 Bugzilla : 5990, 6223
2690 Description: lfs getstripe would oops on a very large filesystem
2691 Details : lov_getconfig used kfree on vmalloc'd memory
2694 Frequency : only filesystems exporting via NFS to Solaris 10 clients
2695 Bugzilla : 6242, 6243
2696 Description: reading from files that had been truncated to a non-zero size
2697 but never opened returned no data
2698 Details : ll_file_read() reads zeros from no-object files to EOF
2703 Description: A bug in MDS/OSS recovery could cause the OSS to fail an assertion
2704 Details : There's little harm in aborting MDS/OSS recovery and letting it
2705 try again, so I removed the LASSERT and return an error instead.
2707 Severity : enhancement
2709 Description: New debugging infrastructure for tracking down data corruption
2710 Details : The I/O checksum code was replaced to: (a) control it at runtime,
2711 (b) cover more of the client-side code path, and (c) try to narrow
2712 down where problems occurred
2716 Bugzilla : 3819, 4364, 4397, 6313
2717 Description: Racing close and eviction MDS could cause assertion in mds_close
2718 Details : It was possible to get multiple mfd references during close and
2719 client eviction, leading to one thread referencing a freed mfd.
2721 Severity: : enhancement
2722 Bugzilla : 3262, 6359
2723 Description: Attempts to reconnect to servers are now more aggressive.
2724 Details : This builds on the enhanced upcall-less recovery that was added
2725 in 1.4.2. When trying to reconnect to servers, clients will
2726 now try each server in the failover group every 10 seconds. By
2727 default, clients would previously try one server every 25 seconds.
2732 Description: After recovery, certain operations trigger a failed
2733 assertion on a client.
2734 Details : Failing over an mds, using lconf -d --failover, while a
2735 client was doing a readdir() call would cause the client to
2736 LBUG after recovery completed and the readdir() was resent.
2738 Severity : enhancement
2740 Description: Default groups are now added by lconf
2741 Details : You can now run lconf --group <servicename> without having to
2742 manually add groups with lmc.
2745 Frequency : occasional
2747 Description: Nodes with an elan id of 0 trigger a failed assertion
2750 Frequency : always when accessing e.g. tty/console device nodes
2752 Description: tty and some other devices nodes cannot be used on lustre
2753 Details : file's private_data field is used by device data and lustre
2754 values in there got lost. New field was added to struct file to
2755 store fs-specific private data.
2758 Frequency : when exporting Lustre via NFS
2760 Description: NFSD failed occasionally when looking up a path component
2761 Details : NFSD is looking up ".." which was broken in ext3 directories
2762 that had grown large enough to become hashed.
2765 Frequency : Clusters with multiple interfaces not on the same subnet
2767 Description: Nodes will repeatedly try to reconnect to an interface which it
2768 cannot reach and report an error to the log.
2769 Details : Extra peer list entries will be created by lconf with some peers
2770 unreachable. lconf now validates the peer before adding it.
2773 Frequency : Only if a default stripe is set on the filesystem root.
2775 Description: Setting a default stripe on the filesystem root prevented the
2776 filesystem from being remounted.
2777 Details : The client was sending extra request flags in the root getattr
2778 request and did not allocate a reply buffer for the dir EA.
2781 Frequency : occasional, higher if lots of files are accessed by one client
2782 Bugzilla : 6159, 6097
2783 Description: Client trips assertion regarding lsm mismatch/magic
2784 Details : While revalidating inodes the VFS looks up inodes with ifind()
2785 and in rare cases can find an inode that is being freed.
2786 The ll_test_inode() code will free the lsm during ifind()
2787 when it finds an existing inode and then the VFS later attaches
2788 this free lsm to a new inode.
2792 Bugzilla : 6422, 7030
2793 Description: MDS deadlock between mkdir and client eviction
2794 Details : Creating a new file via mkdir or mknod (starting a transaction
2795 and getting the ns lock) can deadlock with client eviction
2796 (gets ns lock and trying to finish a synchronous transaction).
2799 Frequency : occasional
2800 Description: While starting a server, the fsfilt_ext3 module could not be
2802 Details : CFS's improved ext3 filesystem is named ldiskfs for 2.6
2803 kernels. Previously, lconf would still use the ext3 name
2804 when trying to load modules. Now, it will correctly use
2805 ext3 on 2.4 and ldiskfs on 2.6.
2807 Severity : enhancement
2808 Description: The default stripe count has been changed to 1
2809 Details : The interpretation of the default stripe count (0, to lfs
2810 or lmc) has been changed to mean striping across a single
2811 OST, rather than all available. For general usage we have
2812 found a stripe count of 1 or 2 works best.
2814 Severity : enhancement
2815 Description: Add support for compiling against Cray portals.
2816 Details : Conditional compiling for some areas that are different
2820 Frequency : occasional
2821 Bugzilla : 6409, 6834
2822 Description: Creating files with an explicit stripe count may lead to
2823 a failed assertion on the MDS
2824 Details : If some OSTs are full or unavailable, creating files may
2825 trigger a failed assertion on the MDS. Now, Lustre will
2826 try to use other servers or return an error to the
2830 Frequency : occasional
2832 Description: Multiple concurrent overlapping read+write on multiple SMP nodes
2833 caused lock timeout during readahead (since 1.4.2).
2834 Details : Processes doing readahead might match a lock that hasn't been
2835 granted yet if there are overlapping and conflicting lock
2836 requests. The readahead process waits on ungranted lock
2837 (original lock is CBPENDING), while OST waits for that process
2838 to cancel CBPENDING read lock and eventually evicts client.
2840 Severity : enhancement
2842 Description: Initial enabling of flock support for clients
2843 Details : Implements fcntl advisory locking and file status functions.
2844 This feature is provided as an optional mount flag (default
2845 off), and is NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED. Not all types of record
2846 locking are implemented yet, and those that are are not guaranteed
2847 to be completely correct in production environments.
2848 mount -t lustre -o [flock|noflock] ...
2851 Frequency : occasional
2853 Description: OSTs running 2.4 kernels but with extents enabled might trip an
2854 assertion in the ext3 JBD (journaling) layer.
2855 Details : The b_committed_data struct is protected by the big kernel lock
2856 in 2.4 kernels, serializing journal_commit_transaction() and
2857 ext3_get_block_handle->ext3_new_block->find_next_usable_block()
2858 access to this struct. In 2.6 kernels there is finer grained
2859 locking to improve SMP performance of the JBD layer.
2863 Description: Changes the "SCSI I/O Stats" kernel patch to default to "enabled"
2868 Description: merge and cleanup kernel patches.
2871 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2873 2005-05-05 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2875 NOTE: Lustre 1.4.2 uses an incompatible network protocol than previous
2876 versions of Lustre. Please update all servers and clients to
2877 version 1.4.2 or later at the same time. You must also run
2878 "lconf --write-conf {config}.xml" on the MDS while it is stopped
2879 to update the configuration logs.
2881 - fix for HPUX NFS client breakage when NFS exporting Lustre (5781)
2882 - mdc_enqueue does not need max_mds_easize request buffer on send (5707)
2883 - swab llog records of type '0' so we get proper header size/idx (5861)
2884 - send llog cancel req to DLM cancel portal instead of cb portal (5515)
2885 - fix rename of one directory over another leaking an inode (5953)
2886 - avoid SetPageDirty on 2.6 (5981)
2887 - don't re-add just-being-destroyed locks to the waiting list (5653)
2888 - when creating new directories, inherit the parent's custom
2889 striping settings if present parent (3048)
2890 - flush buffers from cache before direct IO in 2.6 obdfilter (4982)
2891 - don't hold i_size_sem in ll_nopage() and ll_ap_refresh_count (6077)
2892 - don't hold client locks on temporary worklist from l_lru (5666)
2893 - handle IO errors in 2.6 obdfilter bio completion routine (6046)
2894 - automatically evict dead clients (5921)
2895 - Update file size properly in create+truncate+fstat case (6196)
2896 - Do not unhash mountpoint dentries, do not allow removal of
2898 - Avoid lock ordering deadlock issue with write/truncate (6203,5654)
2899 - reserve enough journal credits in fsfilt_start_log for setattr (4554)
2900 - ldlm_enqueue freed-export error path would always LBUG (6149,6184)
2901 - don't reference lr_lvb_data until after we hold lr_lvb_sem (6170)
2902 - don't overwrite last_rcvd if there is a *_client_add() error (6086)
2903 - Correctly handle reads of files with no objects (6243)
2904 - lctl recover will also mark a device active if deactivate used (5933)
2906 - by default create 1 inode per 4kB space on MDS, per 16kB on OSTs
2907 - allow --write-conf on an MDS with different nettype than client (5619)
2908 - don't write config llogs to MDS for mounts not from that MDS (5617)
2909 - lconf should create multiple TCP connections from a client (5201)
2910 - init scripts are now turned off by default; run chkconfig --on
2911 lustre and chkconfig --on lustrefs to use them
2912 - upcalls are no longer needed for clients to recover to failover
2914 - add --abort-recovery option to lconf to abort recovery on device
2916 - add support for an arbitrary number of OSTs (3026)
2917 - Quota support protocol changes.
2918 - forward compatibility changes to wire structs (6007)
2919 - rmmod NALs that might be loaded because of /etc/modules.conf (6133)
2920 - support for mountfsoptions and clientoptions to the Lustre LDAP (5873)
2921 - improved "lustre status" script
2922 - initialize blocksize for non-regular files (6062)
2923 - added --disable-server and --disable-client configure options (5782)
2924 - introduce a lookup cache for lconf to avoid repeated DB scans (6204)
2925 - Vanilla 2.4.29 support
2926 - increase maximum number of obd devices to 520 (6242)
2927 - remove the tcp-zero-copy patch from the suse-2.4 series (5902)
2928 - Quadrics Elan drivers are now included for the RHEL 3 2.4.21 and
2929 SLES 9 2.6.5 kernels
2930 - limit stripes per file to 160 (the maximum EA size) (6093)
2932 2005-03-22 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2935 - don't LASSERT in ll_release on NULL lld with NFS export (4655, 5760)
2936 - hold NS lock when calling handle_ast_error->del_waiting_lock (5746)
2937 - fix setattr mtime regression from lovcleanup merge (4829, 5669)
2938 - workaround for 2.6 crash in ll_unhash_aliases (5687, 5210)
2939 - small ext3 extents cleanups and fixes (5733)
2940 - improved mballoc code, several small races and bugs fixed (5733, 5638)
2941 - kernel version 43 - fix remove_suid bugs in both 2.4 and 2.6 (5695)
2942 - avoid needless client->OST connect, fix handle mismatch (5317)
2943 - fix DLM error path that led to out-of-sync client, long delays (5779)
2944 - support common vfs-enforced mount options (nodev,nosuid,noexec) (5637)
2945 - fix several locking issues related to i_size (5492,5624,5654,5672)
2946 - don't move pending lock onto export if it is already evicted (5683)
2947 - fix kernel oops when creating .foo in unlinked directory (5548)
2948 - fix deadlock in obdfilter statistics vs. object create (5811)
2949 - use time_{before,after} to avoid timer jiffies wrap (5882)
2950 - shutdown --force/--failover stability (3607,3651,4797,5203,4834)
2951 - Do not leak request if server was not able to process it (5154)
2952 - If mds_open unable to find parent dir, make that negative lookup(5154)
2953 - don't create new directories with extent-mapping (5909, 5936)
2955 - fix lustre/lustrefs init scripts for SuSE (patch from Scali, 5702)
2956 - don't hold the pinger_sem in ptlrpc_pinger_sending_on_import
2957 - change obd_increase_kms to obd_adjust_kms (up or down) (5654)
2958 - lconf, lmc search both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 for Python libs (5800)
2959 - support for RHEL4 kernel on i686 (5773)
2960 - provide error messages when incompatible logs are encountered (5898)
2962 2005-02-18 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
2963 * version 1.4.0.10 (1.4.1 release candidate 1)
2965 - don't keep a lock reference when lock is not granted (4238)
2966 - unsafe list practices (rarely) led to infinite eviction loop (4908)
2967 - add per-fs limit of Lustre pages in page cache, avoid OOM (4699)
2968 - drop import inflight refcount on signal_completed_replay error (5255)
2969 - unlock page after async write error during send (3677)
2970 - handle missing objects in filter_preprw_read properly (5265)
2971 - no transno return for symlink open, don't save no-trasno open (3440)
2972 - don't try to complete elan receive that already failed (4012)
2973 - free RPC server reply state on error (5406)
2974 - clean up thread from ptlrpc_start_thread() on error (5160)
2975 - readahead could read extra page into cache that wasn't ejected (5388)
2976 - prevent races in class_attach/setup/cleanup/detach (5260)
2977 - don't dereference de->d_inode after l_dput of de (5458)
2978 - use "int" for stripe value returned from lock_to_stripe (5544)
2979 - mballoc allocation and error-checking fixes in 2.6 (5504)
2980 - block device patches to fix I/O request sizes in 2.6 (5482)
2981 - look up hostnames for IB nals (5602)
2982 - 2.6 changed lock ordering of 2 semaphores, caused deadlock (5654)
2983 - don't start multiple acceptors for the same port (5277)
2984 - fix incorrect LASSERT in mds_getattr_name (5635)
2985 - export a proc file for general "ping" checking (5628)
2986 - fix "lfs check" to not block when the MDS is down (5628)
2988 - service request history (4965)
2989 - put {ll,lov,osc}_async_page structs in a single slab (4699)
2990 - create an "evict_client" /proc entry on OSTs, like the MDS has
2991 - fix mount usage message, return errors per mount(8) (5168)
2992 - change grep [] to grep "[]" in tests so they work in more UMLs
2993 - fix ppc64/x86_64 spec to use %{_libdir} instead of /usr/lib (5389)
2994 - remove ancient LOV_MAGIC_V0 EA support (5047)
2995 - add "disk I/Os in flight" and "I/O req time" stats in obdfilter
2996 - align r/w RPCs to PTLRPC_MAX_BRW_SIZE boundary for performance (3451)
2997 - allow readahead allocations to fail when low on memory (5383)
2998 - mmap locking landed again, after considerable improvement (2828)
2999 - add get_hostaddr() to lustreDB.py for LDAP support (5459)
3001 2004-11-23 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3004 - send OST transaction number in read/write reply to free req (4966)
3005 - don't ASSERT in ptl_send_rpc() if we run out of memory (5119)
3006 - lock /proc/sys/portals/routes internal state, avoiding oops (4827)
3007 - the watchdog thread now runs as interruptible (5246)
3008 - flock/lockf fixes (but it's still disabled, pending 5135)
3009 - don't use EXT3 constants in llite code (5094)
3010 - memory shortage at startup could cause assertion (5176)
3012 - reorganization of lov code
3013 - single portals codebase
3015 - add extents/mballoc support (5025)
3016 - direct I/O reads in the obdfilter (4048)
3017 - kernel patches from LNXI for 2.6 (bluesmoke, perfctr, mtd, kexec)
3019 tbd Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3022 - send OST transaction number in read/write reply to free req (4966)
3023 - don't ASSERT in ptl_send_rpc() if we run out of memory (5119)
3024 - lock /proc/sys/portals/routes internal state, avoiding oops (4827)
3025 - the watchdog thread now runs as interruptible (5246)
3026 - handle missing objects in filter_preprw_read properly (5265)
3027 - unsafe list practices (rarely) led to infinite eviction loop (4908)
3028 - drop import inflight refcount on signal_completed_replay error (5255)
3029 - unlock page after async write error during send (3677)
3030 - return original error code on reconstructed replies (3761)
3031 - no transno return for symlink open, don't save no-trasno open (3440)
3033 - add pid to ldlm debugging output (4922)
3034 - bump the watchdog timeouts -- we can't handle 30sec yet
3035 - extra debugging for orphan dentry/inode bug (5259)
3037 2004-11-16 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3040 - fix TCP_NODELAY bug, which caused extreme perf regression (5134)
3041 - allocate qswnal tx descriptors singly to avoid fragmentation (4504)
3042 - don't LBUG on obdo_alloc() failure, use OBD_SLAB_ALLOC() (4800)
3043 - fix NULL dereference in /proc/sys/portals/routes (4827)
3044 - allow failed mdc_close() operations to be interrupted (4561)
3045 - stop precreate on OST before MDS would time out on it (4778)
3046 - don't send partial-page writes before EOF from client (4410)
3047 - discard client grant for sub-page writes on large-page clients (4520)
3048 - don't free dentries not owned by NFS code, check generation (4806)
3049 - fix lsm leak if mds_create_objects() fails (4801)
3050 - limit debug_daemon file size, always print CERROR messages (4789)
3051 - use transno after validating reply (3892)
3052 - process timed out requests if import state changes (3754)
3053 - update mtime on OST during writes, return in glimpse (4829)
3054 - add mkfsoptions to LDAP (4679)
3055 - use ->max_readahead method instead of zapping global ra (5039)
3056 - don't interrupt __l_wait_event() during strace
3058 - add software watchdogs to catch hung threads quickly (4941)
3059 - make lustrefs init script start after nfs is mounted
3060 - fix CWARN/ERROR duplication (4930)
3061 - return async write errors to application if possible (2248)
3062 - add /proc/sys/portal/memused (bytes allocated by PORTALS_ALLOC)
3063 - print NAL number in %x format (4645)
3064 - update barely-supported suse-2.4.21-171 series (4842)
3065 - support for sles 9 %post scripts
3066 - support for building 2.6 kernel-source packages
3067 - support for sles km_* packages
3069 2004-10-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3072 - ignore -ENOENT errors in osc_destroy (3639)
3073 - notify osc create thread that OSC is being cleaned up (4600)
3074 - add nettype argument for llmount in #5d in conf-sanity.sh (3936)
3075 - reconstruct ost_handle() like mds_handle() (4657)
3076 - create a new thread to do import eviction to avoid deadlock (3969)
3077 - let lconf resolve symlinked-to devices (4629)
3078 - don't unlink "objects" from directory with default EA (4554)
3079 - hold socknal file ref over connect in case target is down (4394)
3080 - allow more than 32000 subdirectories in a single directory (3244)
3081 - fix blocks count for O_DIRECT writes (3751)
3082 - OST returns ENOSPC from object create when no space left (4539)
3083 - don't send truncate RPC if file size isn't changing (4410)
3084 - limit OSC precreate to 1/2 of value OST considers bogus (4778)
3085 - bind to privileged port in socknal and tcpnal (3689)
3087 - rate limit CERROR/CWARN console message to avoid overload (4519)
3088 - GETFILEINFO dir ioctl returns LOV EA + MDS stat in 1 call (3327)
3089 - basic mmap support (3918)
3090 - kernel patch series update from b1_4 (4711)
3092 2004-09-16 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3095 - avoid crash during MDS cleanup with OST shut down (2775)
3096 - fix loi_list_lock/oig_lock inversion on interrupted IO (4136)
3097 - don't use bad inodes on the MDS (3744)
3098 - dynamic object preallocation to improve recovery speed (4236)
3099 - don't hold spinlock over lock dumping or change debug flags (4401)
3100 - don't zero obd_dev when it is force cleaned (3651)
3101 - print grants to console if they go negative (4431)
3102 - "lctl deactivate" will stop automatic recovery attempts (3406)
3103 - look for existing locks in ldlm_handle_enqueue() (3764)
3104 - don't resolve lock handle twice in recovery avoiding race (4401)
3105 - revalidate should check working dir is a directory (4134)
3107 - don't always mark "slow" obdfilter messages as errors (4418)
3109 2004-08-24 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3112 - don't close LustreDB during write_conf until it is done (3860)
3113 - fix typo in lconf for_each_profile (3821)
3114 - allow dumping logs from multiple threads at one time (3820)
3115 - don't allow multiple threads in OSC recovery (3812)
3116 - fix debug_size parameters (3864)
3117 - fix mds_postrecov to initialize import for llog ctxt (3121)
3118 - replace config semaphore with spinlock (3306)
3119 - be sure to send a reply for a CANCEL rpc with bad export (3863)
3120 - don't allow enqueue to complete on a destroyed export (3822)
3121 - down write_lock before checking llog header bitmap (3825)
3122 - recover from lock replay timeout (3764)
3123 - up llog sem before sending rpc (3652)
3124 - reduce ns lock hold times when setting kms (3267)
3125 - change a dlm LBUG to LASSERTF, to maybe learn something (4228)
3126 - fix NULL deref and obd_dev leak on setup error (3312)
3127 - replace some LBUG about llog ops with error handling (3841)
3128 - don't match INVALID dentries from d_lookup and spin (3784)
3129 - hold dcache_lock while marking dentries INVALID and hashing (4255)
3130 - fix invalid assertion in ptlrpc_set_wait (3880)
3132 - add libwrap support for the TCP acceptor (3996)
3133 - add /proc/sys/portals/routes for non-root route listing (3994)
3134 - allow setting MDS UUID in .xml (2580)
3135 - print the stack of a process that LBUGs (4228)
3137 2004-07-14 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3140 - don't cleanup request in ll_file_open() on failed MDS open (3430)
3141 - make sure to unset replay flag from failed open requests (3440)
3142 - if default stripe count is 0, use OST count for inode size (3636)
3143 - update parent mtime/ctime on client for create/unlink (2611)
3144 - drop dentry ref in ext3_add_link from open_connect_dentry (3266)
3145 - free recovery state on server during a forced cleanup (3571)
3146 - unregister_reply for resent reqs (3063)
3147 - loop back devices mounting and status check on 2.6 (3563)
3148 - fix resource-creation race that can provoke i_size == 0 (3513)
3149 - don't try to use bad inodes returned from MDS/OST fs lookup (3688)
3150 - more debugging for page-accounting assertion (3746)
3151 - return -ENOENT instead of asserting if ost getattr+unlink race (3558)
3152 - avoid deadlock after precreation failure (3758)
3153 - fix race and lock order deadlock in orphan handling (3450, 3750)
3154 - add validity checks when grabbing inodes from l_ast_data (3599)
3156 - add /proc/.../recovery_status to obdfilter (3428)
3157 - lightweight CDEBUG infrastructure, debug daemon (3668)
3158 - change default OSC RPC parameters to be better on small clusters
3159 - turn off OST read cache for files smaller than 32MB
3160 - install man pages and include them in rpms (3100)
3161 - add new init script for (un)mounting lustre filesystems (2593)
3162 - run chkconfig in %post for init scripts (3701)
3163 - drop scimac NAL (unmaintained)
3165 2004-06-17 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3168 - clean kiobufs before and after use (3485)
3169 - strip trailing '/'s before comparing paths with /proc/mounts (3486)
3170 - remove assertions to work around "in-flight rpcs" recovery bug (3063)
3171 - change init script to fail more clearly if not run as root (1528)
3172 - allow clients to reconnect during replay (1742)
3173 - fix ns_lock/i_sem lock ordering deadlock for kms update (3477)
3174 - don't do DNS lookups on NIDs too small for IP addresses (3442)
3175 - re-awaken ptlrpcd if new requests arrive during check_set (3554)
3176 - fix cond_resched (3554)
3177 - only evict unfinished clients after recovery (3515)
3178 - allow bulk resend, prevent data loss (3570)
3179 - dynamic ptlrpc request buffer allocation (2102)
3180 - don't allow unlinking open directory if it isn't empty (2904)
3181 - set MDS/OST threads to umask 0 to not clobber client modes (3359)
3182 - remove extraneous obd dereference causing LASSERT failure (3334)
3183 - don't use get_cycles() when creating temp. files on the mds (3156)
3184 - hold i_sem when setting i_size in ll_extent_lock() (3564)
3185 - handle EEXIST for set-stripe, set proper directory name (3336)
3187 - servers can dump a log evicting a client - lustre.dump_on_timeout=1
3188 - fix ksocknal_fmb_callback() error messages (2918)
3190 2004-05-27 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3193 - don't copy lvb into (possibly NULL) reply on error (2983)
3194 - don't deref dentry after dput, don't free lvb on error (2922)
3195 - use the kms to determine writeback rpc length (2947)
3196 - increment oti_logcookies when osc is inactive (2948)
3197 - update client's i_blocks count via lvb messages (2543)
3198 - handle intent open/close of special files properly (1557)
3199 - mount MDS with errors=remount-ro, like obdfilter (2009)
3200 - initialize lock handle to avoid ASSERT on error cleanup (3057)
3201 - don't use cancelling-locks' kms values (2947)
3202 - use highest lock extent for kms, not last one (2925)
3203 - don't dereference ERR_PTR() dentry in error handling path (3107)
3204 - fix thread race in portals_debug_dumplog() (3122)
3205 - create lprocfs device entries at setup instead of at attach (1519)
3206 - common AST error handler, don't evict client on completion race (3145)
3207 - zero nameidata in detach_mnt in 2.6 (3118)
3208 - verify d_inode after revalidate_special is valid in 2.6 (3116)
3209 - use lustre_put_super() to handle zconf unmounts in 2.6 (3064)
3210 - initialize RPC timeout timer earlier for 2.6 (3219)
3211 - don't dereference NULL reply buffer if mdc_close was never sent (2410)
3212 - print nal/nid for unknown nid (3258)
3213 - additional checks for oscc recovery before doing precreate (3284)
3214 - fix ll_extent_lock() error return code for 64-bit systems (3043)
3215 - don't crash in mdc_close for bad permissions on open (3285)
3216 - zero i_rdev for non-device files (3147)
3217 - clear page->private before handing to FS, better assertion (3119)
3218 - tune the read pipeline (3236)
3219 - fix incorrect decref of invalidated dentry (2350)
3220 - provide read-ahead stats and refine rpc in flight stats (3328)
3221 - don't hold journal transaction open across create RPC (3313)
3222 - update atime on MDS at close time (3265)
3223 - close LDAP connection when recovering to avoid server load (3315)
3224 - update iopen-2.6 patch with fixes from 2399,2517,2904 (3301)
3225 - don't leak open file on MDS after open resend (3325)
3226 - serialize filter_precreate and filter_destroy_precreated (3329)
3227 - loop device shouldn't call sync_dev() for nul device (3092)
3228 - clear page cache after eviction (2766)
3229 - resynchronize MDS->OST in background (2824)
3230 - refuse to mount the same filesystem twice on same mountpoint (3394)
3231 - allow llmount to create routes for mounting behind routers (3320)
3232 - push lock cancellation to blocking thread for glimpse ASTs (3409)
3233 - don't call osc_set_data_with_check() for TEST_LOCK matches (3159)
3234 - fix rare problem with rename on htree directories (3417)
3236 - allow default OST striping configuration per directory (1414)
3237 - fix compilation for qswnal for 2.6 kernels (3125)
3238 - increase maximum number of MDS request buffers for large systems
3239 - change liblustreapi to be useful for external progs like lfsck (3098)
3240 - increase local configuration timeout for slow disks (3353)
3241 - allow configuring ldlm AST timeout - lustre.ldlm_timeout=<seconds>
3243 2004-03-22 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3246 - fixes for glimpse AST timeouts / incorrectly 0-sized files (2818)
3247 - don't overwrite extent policy data in reply if lock was blocked (2901)
3248 - drop filter export grants atomically with removal from device (2663)
3249 - del obd_self_export from work_list in class_disconnect_exports (2908)
3250 - don't LBUG if MDS recovery times out during orphan cleanup (2530)
3251 - swab reply message in mdc_close, other PPC fixes (2464)
3252 - fix destroying of named logs (2325)
3253 - overwrite old logs when running lconf --write_conf (2264)
3254 - bump LLOG_CHUNKSIZE to 8k to allow for larger clusters (2306)
3255 - fix race in target_handle_connect (2898)
3256 - mds_reint_create() should take same inode create lock (2926)
3257 - correct journal credits calculated for CANCEL_UNLINK_LOG (2931)
3258 - don't close files for self_export to avoid uninitialized obd (2936)
3259 - allow MDS with the same name as client node (2939)
3260 - hold dentry reference for closed log files for unlink (2325)
3261 - reserve space for all logs during transactions (2059)
3262 - don't evict page beyond end of stripe extent (2925)
3263 - don't oops on a deleted current working directory (2399)
3264 - handle hard links to targets without a parent properly (2517)
3265 - don't dereference NULL lock when racing during eviction (2867)
3266 - don't grow lock extents when lots of conflicting locks (2919)
3268 2004-03-04 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3271 - account for cache space usage on clients to avoid data loss (974)
3272 - lfsck support in lustre kernel code (2349)
3273 - reduce journal credits needed for BRW writes (2370)
3274 - orphan handling to avoid losing space on client/server crashes
3275 - ptlrpcd can be blocked, stopping ALL progress (2477)
3276 - use lock value blocks to assist in proper KMS, faster stat (1021)
3277 - takes i_sem instead of DLM locks internally on obdfilter (2720)
3278 - recovery for initial connections (2355)
3279 - fixes for mds_cleanup_orphans (1934)
3280 - abort_recovery crashes MDS in b_eq (mds_unlink_orphan) (2584)
3281 - block all file creations until orphan recovery completes (1901)
3282 - client remove rq_connection from request struct (2423)
3283 - conf-sanity test_5, proper cleanup in umount log not availale (2640)
3284 - recovery timer race (2670)
3285 - mdc_close recovey bug (2532)
3286 - ptlrpc cleanup bug (2710)
3287 - mds timeout on local locks (2588)
3288 - namespace lock held during RPCs (2431)
3289 - handle interrupted sync write properly (2503)
3290 - don't try to handle a message that hasn't been replied to (2699)
3291 - client assert failure during cleanup after abort recovery (2701)
3292 - leak mdc device after failed mount (2712)
3293 - ptlrpc_check_set allows timedout requests to complete (2714)
3294 - wait for inflight reqs when ptlrpcd finishes (2710)
3295 - make sure unregistered services are removed from the srv_list
3296 - reset bulk XID's when resending them (caught by 1138 test)
3297 - unregister_bulk after timeout
3298 - fix lconf error (2694)
3299 - handle write after unfinished setstripe, stripe-only getstripe (2388)
3300 - readahead locks pages, leaves pending causing memory pressure (2673)
3301 - increase OST request buffers to 4096 on large machines (2729)
3302 - fix up permission of existing directories in simple_mkdir (2661)
3303 - init deleted item, add assertions ptlrpc_abort_inflight() (2725)
3304 - don't assign transno to errored transactions (2742)
3305 - don't delete objects on OST if given a bogus objid from MDS (2751)
3306 - handle large client PAGE_SIZE readdir on small PAGE_SIZE MDS (2777)
3307 - if rq_no_resend, then timeout request after recovery (2432)
3308 - fix MDS llog_logid record size, 64-bit array alignment (2733)
3309 - don't call usermode_helper from ptlrpcd, DEFAULT upcall (2773)
3310 - put magic in mount.lustre data, check for bad/NULL mount data (2529)
3311 - MDS recovery shouldn't delete objects that it has given out (2730)
3312 - if enqueue arrives after completion, don't clobber LVB (2819)
3313 - don't unlock pages twice when trigger_group_io returns error (2814)
3314 - don't deref NULL rq_repmsg if ldlm_handle_enqueue failed (2822)
3315 - don't write pages to disk if there was an error (1450)
3316 - don't ping imports that have recovery disabled (2676)
3317 - take buffered bytes into account when balancing socknal conn (2817)
3318 - hold a DLM lock over readdir always, use truncate_inode_pages (2706)
3319 - reconnect unlink llog connection after MDS reconnects to OST (2816)
3320 - remove little-endian swabbing of llog records (1987)
3321 - set/limit i_blksize to LL_MAX_BLKSIZE on client (2884)
3322 - retry reposting request buffers if they fail (1191)
3323 - grow extent at grant time to avoid granting a revoked lock (2809)
3324 - lock revoke doesn't evict page if covered by a second lock (2765)
3325 - disable VM readahead to avoid reading outside lock extents (2805)
3327 - return LL_SUPER_MAGIC from statfs for the filesystem type (1972)
3328 - updated kernel patches for hp-2.4.20 kernel (2681)
3330 2004-02-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3333 - fix truncated write corruption (2366)
3334 - fix for failed assertion in iopen_connect_dentry (1792,2517)
3336 - don't flag the ptlrpcd thread with PF_MEMALLOC (2636)
3337 - ensure len(uuid) < 37 in lmc (1171)
3338 - fix ia64 OOPS in llog_test (2255)
3339 - zero end of page at obdfilter for partial page writes (2648)
3340 - don't leave stale dentries around after renames (bug 2428)
3341 - fix timeouts when evicting a client with a single lock held (2642)
3342 - set deadline for the initial HELLO message to drain (2634)
3343 - print out dotted-quad IP addresses in the socknal (2302)
3345 - additional debugging for MDS client eviction problem (2443)
3346 - fix mkfsoptions support for osts (2603, 2604)
3348 2004-01-27 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3351 - add series for the vanilla 2.6.0 kernel
3352 - add series for the vanilla 2.4.24 kernel
3353 - add series for a cray x86/64 UL kernel drop
3354 - fix xattr patches for the vanilla 2.4.19 series
3356 - generate true UUIDs in lmc (1171)
3357 - have portals stack dumping break in UML (2466)
3358 - avoid bad dchild deref; avoid inum lock w/o creation (2362)
3359 - allocate with _NOFS in ldlm to avoid deadlock (1933)
3360 - wake callback waiting threads on client eviction (2460)
3361 - Add --ptldebug and --subsystem to lmc (1719)
3362 - update assertion to allow safe interrupt allocation
3363 - set rq_no_resend for cancel requests (2432)
3364 - recalculate ptlrpcd timeout after resend (2494)
3365 - call vfs_rmdir when removing pending directories (2368)
3366 - fix renaming a file to itself (2429)
3367 - lmc creates a default one-stripe lov (2454)
3368 - expand procfs space to handle large clusters (2326)
3369 - increase UML stack to avoid overflow
3370 - update lconf's list of debug and subsystem masks
3371 - fix lfs find --obd (2510)
3372 - /proc tunable for disabling filter read caching (2591)
3373 - stop rpm packages from altering slapd.conf (2301)
3374 - disable nagle in the socknal under 0conf (2578)
3375 - choose mds inode size based on stripe count (2572)
3376 - fix kernel-source rpm problems (2516)
3378 - add --disable-doc to avoid pdf generation (2421)
3379 - update documentation, tests, type-os, comments
3380 - avoid format warnings on ia64
3381 - remove the TOE NAL
3382 - tiny code cleanups by removing unused fields
3384 2004-01-07 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3387 - fix obvious semaphore misuse in as-yet-unused setattr path (2348)
3388 - remove the most blatant lies from BUILDING file (2371)
3389 - change default debug level to reasonable production setting
3390 - reduce client side cache size to reduce cache flush time
3391 - reduce max RPCs in flight to avoid unnecessary file fragmentation
3392 - make TCP zerocopy and pinger support enabled by default (2476)
3393 - sync writes completed after process exits caused crashes (2319)
3394 - maintain correct mount count on the MDS (2356)
3395 - backout 1557, because 2316 wasn't really fixed
3396 - better file I/O statistics gathering in /proc
3397 - don't take unnecessary, deadlock-inducing bug in readpage (2383)
3398 - another kernel patch to fix zero-copy TCP function export
3399 - don't take duplicate lock when processing re-sent getattr (2420)
3400 - lctl uses obd_self_export instead of creating new conn (2353)
3401 - MDS/OST recovery case which requires object creation asserted (2425)
3402 - move lfs from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin in packages
3403 - fix race between mds_client_add and mds_client_free (2417)
3404 - use kmalloc instead of slabs in portals (2430)
3405 - don't create duplicate records when a failover MDS is present (2442)
3406 - remove unnecessary mount age check (2332)
3407 - don't remove directory inodes from locks prematurely (2451)
3408 - don't break if MDS service name is the same as hostname (2103)
3409 - fix races in client write RPC generation when cache full (2482)
3411 2003-12-13 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3414 - remove now-unused request->rq_obd (278)
3415 - if an allocation fails, print out how much memory we've used (1933)
3416 - use PORTAL_SLAB_ALLOC for structures, to get GFP_MEMALLOC (1933)
3417 - add the "configurable stack size" patch to most series files (1256)
3418 - ability to write large log records, for 100+ OST configs (2306)
3419 - fix NULL deref when filter_prep fails (2314)
3420 - fix operator precedence error in filter_sync
3421 - dynamic allocation of socknal TX descriptors (2315)
3422 - fix a missed case in the GFP_MEMALLOC patch, can cause deadlock (2310)
3423 - fix gcc 2.96 compilation problem in xattr kernel patch (2294)
3424 - ensure that CWARN messages in Portals always get to the syslog
3425 - __init/__exit are not for prototype decls (ldlm_init/exit)
3426 - x86-64 compile warning fixes
3427 - fix gateway LMC keyword conflict (2318)
3428 - fix MDS lock inversions in getattr/reint paths (1844)
3429 - fix a rare lock re-ordering bug, which caused deadlock (2322)
3430 - fix i_sem/journal inversion in fsfilt_ext3_write_record (2306)
3431 - DLM race condition prevented some lock evictions (2328)
3432 - ENOMEM detection and retry on socknal sends (2230)
3433 - use GFP_NOFS throughout Lustre, to combat ENOMEM (2230)
3434 - move osc_rpcd into ptlrpc, for use in MDC and others (2329)
3435 - protect MDS inode fsdata with stronger locking; fixes assertion (2313)
3436 - better error messages when a client is rejected during recovery (1505)
3437 - avoid cancelling locks which were never granted, after failure (2330)
3438 - fix i_sem/journal inversion in mds_client_add (2333)
3439 - fix truncate/getattr lock cycle deadlock (2334)
3440 - use rpcd to send close; allows resend after timeout, avoid leak (1897)
3441 - fix two rare exit paths which could leak an l_lock() ref (2321)
3442 - fencepost error in MDS/OST orphan recovery (2226)
3443 - make log record alignment 8 bytes (1988)
3444 - lstripe now fails when requested offset > ost_count (2237)
3445 - ensure that all kernel series have a complete list.h (1607)
3446 - fix crashes in special-file operations (2316)
3447 - lctl create/brw OID mismatch, caused by obsolete filter loop (2339)
3449 - allow configurable automake binary, for testing new versions
3450 - small update to the lfs documentation
3452 2003-12-03 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3454 * fix negative export reference count in fsfilt_sync (2312)
3456 2003-12-01 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
3457 * release candidate 0.9.1
3459 - orphans are moved into the PENDING directory for possible recovery
3460 - replayed opens now open by fid for orphan/rename safety (1042)
3461 - last close of an orphan inode generates a transno (683)
3462 - chdir() and mount() now pin the directory entry (1020)
3463 - avoid CERROR in normal ll_setattr_raw() error case (1500)
3464 - discard very old requests without processing them (1502)
3465 - remove some common, well-understood CERRORs (1505)
3466 - require O_DIRECT I/O to be page-sized to workaround IA64 crash (1609)
3467 - clear "grant" flags in OST replies until OST grant code lands (1644)
3468 - fix read performance by not clobbering i_blksize on client (1598)
3469 - fix __ldlm_handle2lock oops by not dereferencing lock after PUT (1625)
3470 - make LRU size a /proc tunable, clears locks when reduced (707)
3471 - fix some lprocfs rot that prevented ptlbd from loading (1732)
3472 - server locks take references on exports now (1558)
3473 - build fixes for 2.4.20-rh trees (1663)
3474 - return an error from lov_create if all OSCs are inactive (1751)
3475 - fix import levels when a reconnect happens without a timeout (1597)
3476 - exit early from mds_open if we get a lookup error (1749)
3477 - partial page read at EOF wouldn't wait for disk before sending (1642)
3478 - avoid NULL deref in obdfilter when reading page past EOF (1592)
3479 - avoid LASSERT in ll_intent_lock if server failed very early (1090)
3480 - fix LBUG in ll_it_open_error with rc = -2 (1861)
3481 - write/truncate lock inversion (1639)
3482 - Don't auto-load obdclass, portals modules during cleanup (1495)
3483 - fix timestamps from jumping to "now" (1763)
3484 - extra journal assertions (1648)
3485 - add an extra multiunlink test (1771)
3486 - fix read_record/write_record API (1776)
3487 - fix leak of offset_extent, possible incorrect i_size later (1772)
3488 - fix lasserts in mis-matched transnos during open-unlink testing (1541)
3489 - Debugging for the kqswnal_get_idle_tx problems (1820)
3490 - Allow recovery to be attempted multiple times (1536)
3491 - Write out MDS last_rcvd file after it is first created (1600)
3492 - Fix tx_descriptor leak in failed transmit situations (1827)
3493 - ext3 journaling fixes for assertion failure after IO error (1871)
3494 - class_export_put() on freed export after completion AST error (1896)
3495 - Fix revalidate looping in VFS (1322)
3496 - Don't access a freed export during MDS_REINT timeout (1521)
3497 - Add open-unlink recovery support on the MDS (1673,1764)
3498 - Return an error if no MDS data was read from last_rcvd (1946)
3499 - Fix for lookup "." or ".." crash on error (1932,1931,1935)
3500 - Don't setup a disk device that doesn't match exported UUID (317)
3501 - Reduce bulk RPC timeout to avoid cascading client/OST failures (1845)
3502 - avoid committing NULL handle in force close
3503 - local.sh is now a one-stripe LOV configuration
3504 - POSIX utime.4 -EPERM on FIFO not owned by user (56)
3505 - fix ext3 htree duplicate directory entry corruption (1516)
3506 - POSIX creat.13, fstat.1, open.18, stat.3 new file atime/mtime (2020)
3507 - update to new LOV EA format (2097)
3508 - interoperability for different PAGE_SIZE/wordsize (686,1821,1343,2042)
3510 2003-06-15 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3513 - imports and exports cleanup too early, need refcounts (349, 879, 1045)
3514 - per-import/export recovery handling (958, 931, 959)
3515 - multiple last-rcvd slots, for serving multiple FSes (949)
3516 - connections are again shared between multiple imp/exports (963, 964)
3517 - "umount -f" would hang if any requests needed to be sent (393, 978)
3518 - avoid pinning large req buffer by copying for queued messages (989)
3519 - add "uuid" to "lctl device" command to help upcalls (991)
3520 - "open" RPCs with transnos would confuse recovery counters (1037)
3521 - do proper endian conversion of all wire messages (288, 340, 891)
3522 - remove OST bulk get LBUGs, fix ost_brw_write cleanup (1126)
3523 - call waiting locks callback from LDLM recovery thread (1127, 1151)
3524 - fix ptlrpc_connection leak in target_handle_connect (1174)
3525 - fix import refcounting bug in OST and MDS cleanup (1134)
3526 - if an invalid-at-open-time OSC returned before close(), LBUG (1150)
3527 - fix very unlikely obd_types race condition (501)
3528 - remove osc_open hack for echo_client (1187)
3529 - we leaked exports/dlmimps for forcibly disconnected clients (1143)
3530 - a failure in read_inode2 leads to deadlock (1139)
3531 - cancel ack-locks as soon as transaction is committed (1072)
3532 - fix major leaks and crashes in the bulk I/O path (937, 1057)
3533 - make sure to commitrw after any preprw to avoid deadlock (1162)
3534 - failing to execute a file in a lustre FS would lock inode (1203)
3535 - small DEBUG_REQ fix to avoid dereferencing a NULL (1227)
3536 - don't ASSERT while cleaning up an incompletely-setup obd (1248)
3537 - obd_uuid2tgt would walk off the end of the list (1255)
3538 - on IA64 the osc would give portals incorrect bulk size (1258)
3539 - fix debug daemon ioctl interface; allows daemon on ia64 (1274)
3540 - fix lock inversion caused by new llite matching code (1282)
3541 - limit the number of dirty pages on a client to 10MB (1286)
3542 - timed out locks were not being corrected cancelled (1289)
3543 - fix O_DIRECT above 4GB on IA-32 (1292)
3544 * major user-visible changes
3545 - fail out/fail over policy now controlled by the upcall (993)
3547 - add OBD_PING to check server availability and failure (954)
3548 - lustre messages are now sent in sending host order (288, 340, 891)
3549 - add eadatalen to MDS getattr reply (340)
3550 - OST read replies may contain second buffer, with per-page status (593)
3552 2003-03-11 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3555 - LDLM_DEBUG macro fix, for gcc 3.2 (850)
3556 - failed open()s could cause deadlock; fixed (867, 869)
3557 - stop cancelling OST locks when files are closed (481)
3558 - overlapping XID spaces caused network corruption (851, 853)
3559 - fix unsafe fsfilt counter arithmetic; change to atomic_t
3560 - setattr_raw added, to do single-RPC, server-side setattrs
3561 - lmc/lconf syntax change for OST UUIDs
3562 - fix crashy race condition between ptlrpc_free_req and osc_close
3563 - don't use request in mdc_enqueue if we hit a timeout (889)
3564 - don't set the inode i_size for regular files from the MDS (896)
3565 - handle out of order completion AST (842)
3566 - don't LBUG if a lock request times out after receiving AST (913)
3567 - avoid d_rehash race in ll_find_alias by rehashing inside dcache_lock
3568 - if a bad lock AST arrives, send an error instead of dropping entirely
3569 - return 0 from revalidate2 if ll_intent_lock returns -EINTR (912)
3570 - fix leak in bulk IO when only partially completed (899, 900, 926)
3571 - fix O_DIRECT for ia64 (55)
3572 - (almost) eliminate Lustre-kernel-thread effects on load average (722)
3573 - C-z after timeout could hang a process forever; fixed (977)
3575 - client-side I/O cache (678, 924, 929, 941, 970)
3577 - READPAGE and SETATTRs which don't take server-side locks get
3580 2003-02-11 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3583 - Fix ldlm_lock_match on the MDS to avoid matching remote locks (592)
3584 - Fix fsfilt_extN_readpage() to read a full page of directory
3585 entries, or fake the remainder if PAGE_SIZE != blocksize (500)
3586 - Avoid extra mdc_getattr() in ll_intent_lock when possible (534, 604)
3587 - Fix imbalanced LOV object allocation and out-of-bound access (469)
3588 - Most intent operations were removed, in favour of a new RPC mode
3589 that does a single RPC to the server and bypasses most of the VFS
3590 - All LDLM resource ID arrays were removed in favour of ldlm_res_id
3591 - Aggressively cancel local locks on DLM servers
3592 - mds_reint_unlink sends EA to the client if it's the last nlink.
3593 client uses that EA to unlink OST objects.
3594 - mds_reint_{rename,unlink,link} were rewritten to take ordered locks
3595 - recursive symlinks were fixed (439)
3596 - fixed NULL deref in DEBUG_REQ
3597 - filter_update_lastobjid no longer calls sync, which annoyed extN
3598 - fixed multi-client small-writes to a single file problem (445)
3599 - fixed mtime updates during file writes (607)
3600 - fixed vector writes on obdfilter causing problems when ENOSPC (670)
3601 - fixed bug in obd_brw_read/write() (under guise of testing 367)
3602 - fixed Linux OST size reporting problem (444, 656)
3603 - OST now updates object mtime with writes or setattr (607, 619)
3604 - client verifies file size before zeroing page past EOF (445)
3605 - OST now writes last allocated objid to disk with allocation (108)
3606 - LOV on echo now works (409)
3608 - mds_reint_unlink sends a new buffer, with the EA included. this
3609 buffer is only valid if body->valid & OBD_MD_FLEASIZE, which is only
3610 set if a regular file was being unlinked, and it was the last link
3611 - use PtlGet from the target for bulk writes (315)
3612 - OST now updates object mtime with writes or setattr (607, 619)
3613 - LDLM now has a grant-time callback to revalidate locked items, if
3615 - Many MDS operations were reorganized to combat race conditions
3617 - Merge b_intel branch (updated lprocfs code) - now at /proc/fs/lustre
3618 - configure check to avoid gcc version 2.96 20000731-2.96-98) (606)
3620 2003-01-06 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3623 - Fully reactivate OST imports after reconnection (512, others)
3624 - Make sure client sees our -ENOTCONN from mds_handle (513 - partial)
3625 - More graceful error handling for truncating on dead OST (515)
3626 - Don't error out unless we're actually accessing dead stripes (474)
3627 - Fix garbage sizes when stripes are missing (410)
3628 - LRU counters were broken, causing constant lock purge (433, 432)
3629 - garbage on read from stripes with failed OSTs (441)
3630 - mark OSCs as active before reconnecting during recovery (438)
3631 - lov_enqueue and lov_cancel need to handle inactive OSTs (403)
3632 - lfind did not preserve OST order in output (443)
3633 - symlinks cause hung clients, incorrect data (439)
3634 - stop dereferencing request after dropping refcount (457)
3635 - don't LASSERT(spin_is_locked) on non-SMP (455)
3636 - fixes for many rename() bugs
3637 - fstat didn't correctly synchronize attributes (399)
3638 - server must handle lock cancellation during blocking AST prep (487)
3639 - bulk descriptors were free()d too soon (511)
3640 - fix paths in lconf, which would load incorrect modules (451, 507)
3641 - fix confusing lconf 'host not found' error message (386)
3642 - fix lock order deadlock on OST (O/R i_sem before journal ops, 478)
3643 - fix race condition in mdc_blocking_ast() for inode access (526)
3644 - fix lov_unpackmd() unpacking wrong number of stripes (537)
3645 - fix lov_set_osc_active() marking wrong OSC inactive (440)
3646 - fix bad lstripe lov_unpackmd() assertion (fix layering too) (527)
3647 - fix multiple writes of stripe MD to MDS (358, maybe 519)
3648 - fix lstripe in several ways (kernel side) (527)
3649 - fix request leak in ldlm_cli_enqueue (262)
3650 - incorrect OSC was marked inactive after OST failure
3651 - call mds_fs_cleanup before unmounting filesystem (524)
3652 - fix races between taking ns_lock and ldlm_lock_change_resource
3653 - fix races updating LOV export open file list
3654 - fix lov_enqueue error path, avoid decref-ing bad lock handle
3655 - fix recovery NULL deref in ldlm_cli_cancel_unused
3656 - fix some DLM races by using new hash table for lock handles (419)
3657 - permit the client to specify desired inodes, at replay
3658 - duplicate requests when we queue them for replay reintegration
3659 - fix last_rcvd offset calculation
3660 - sync after each recovered transaction, so we always make progress
3661 - never, not always, ERESTART requests without transnos
3662 - store the lov_desc in the MDS, so we don't depend on getlovinfo to
3664 - skip replay if the MDS says that the client is already connected
3665 - don't check for a recovery-enabled export to match lctl's UUID
3666 - don't INC_USE_COUNT for phantom exports
3667 - don't crash when cleaning up phantom exports (567)
3668 - don't double-finish or set replay data for errored mdc_open requests
3669 - abort requests when they time out, so we don't get old replies
3670 - send/receive replies for AST messages again
3671 - if the client says that it doesn't have the lock, cancel it on the
3673 - if we timeout during I/O, don't try to cancel an in-use lock; instead
3674 mark it as destroyed, it will all work out when decref is called
3675 - fix module use counts (22, 581)
3677 - ASTs now expect a reply (server cancels lock on error reply)
3679 2002-12-02 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3682 - fix many simultaneous client startup (392)
3683 - fix dentry->d_it clobbering
3684 - credentials weren't being shipped for readdir/getattr operations
3685 - remove invalid assertions triggered during some concurrent MD
3687 - proper Lustre versions added (336, 389)
3688 - fix memory leak for create error case (398)
3689 - fix LOV locking bug that would get cli/srv out of sync
3690 - fix echo client over LOV (409)
3691 - fix dbench 2, extN refcount problem (170, 258, 356, 418)
3692 - fix double-O_EXCL intent crash (424)
3693 - avoid sending multiple lock CANCELs (352)
3695 - MDS can do multi-client recovery (modulo bugs in new code)
3697 - many updates, edits, cleanups
3699 2002-11-18 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3702 - fix null d_it dereference (346)
3703 - fix full OST/dbench hang (333)
3704 - fix permission problem with file removal (286)
3705 - fix removal of OSCs from LOV when they fail
3706 - fix NULL deref during bulk timeout (214)
3707 - fix problems related to multiple filesystems on one MDS (241)
3708 - fixed serious subtle metadata locking bugs
3709 - free locks on clients when inodes are removed due to memory
3711 - fix inode pointer in lock data (285)
3712 - partial support for multiple MDS on a single host (241)
3713 - data locks weren't cancelled at clear_inode time (290, 311)
3714 - intent locks could lead to unbounded lock growth (205)
3715 - added a maximum lock count, an LRU list, and a flusher
3716 - fix multiple rename (365)
3717 - properly abstracted the echo client
3718 - OSC locked 1 byte too many; fixed
3719 - rewrote brw callback code:
3720 - fixed recovery bugs related to LOVs (306)
3721 - fixed too-many-pages-in-one-write crash (191)
3722 - fixed (again) crash in sync_io_timeout (214)
3723 - probably fixed callback-related race (385)
3725 - Add capability to MDS protocol
3726 - LDLM cancellations and callbacks on different portals
3728 2002-10-28 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3731 - limit client IOV size to PTL_MD_MAX_IOV (611336, 191)
3732 - defer open object destruction to close time (601981, 138)
3733 - open/close OST file handle in obdo (OBD_MD_FLHANDLE) (601981, 138)
3734 - move LDLM_ENQUEUE/CONVERT back to MDS portal (625069)
3735 - abstract ll_lookup2, fix ll_revalidate2 to use abstraction (256)
3736 - don't call obd_setattr in ll_file_release for destroyed objects
3737 * protocol change to lustre_msg: move |version| and add |flags|
3738 * protocol change to osc_punch: "start" in "o_size", "end" in "o_blocks"
3739 * lock replay: for LDLM_FL_REPLAY trust client to do right thing
3740 * added replay of create, unlink, link and rename operations during
3741 MDS failover; recovery should be much more robust now
3742 * remove failed OSCs from LOVs (only lov_create uses this so far)
3743 * the lustre-HOWTO was brought (more) up to date (582544)
3745 2002-10-23 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3748 - in-use dentries weren't being reused properly (617851)
3749 - prevent multiple LDLM setup (599178)
3750 - fix LOV size calculations for truncate (617853)
3751 - fix client handling of MDS intent errors (POSIX)
3752 - fix permission bug in lovstripe.c test (624321)
3753 - fix MDS thread deadlock - move LDLM handler to DLM portal (625069)
3754 - truncate past end of file could corrupt data
3755 - proper cleanup after timeouts, crashes, etc (592524, 550815)
3756 - a race in recovery could return ETIMEDOUT to apps (623947)
3757 - building outside the source directory was fixed
3758 * the lustre-HOWTO was brought (more) up to date (582544)
3759 * major progress was made on recovery functionality
3761 2002-10-10 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3764 - recovery deadlock fix
3765 - rm -rf causes LBUG fix (617817)
3766 - file open by multiple tasks fix (618962)
3767 - directory permissions bugs (602707 and 620007)
3768 - journal_stop fixed with locking (611313)
3769 - O_APPEND failures resolved (618273, perhaps 614459)
3770 - lconf PATH fix (619770)
3771 - IA64 build fix (621450)
3772 - RPC buffer sizes scale with amount of memory
3774 2002-10-01 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3777 - locks would be cancelled without throwing away data pages,
3778 resulting in inconsistent data (605627)
3779 - inode attributes were not always being refreshed (605627, 612449)
3780 - lconf now continues to cleanup after lctl reports an error
3781 - MDS now enforces user permissions (602707)
3782 - lprocfs cleanup fixed, but not yet enabled (614157)
3783 - fixed infinite server hang, should a client not respond to an AST
3784 - avoid going into recovery if user calls readlink() with a buffer
3785 that's too small (613941)
3786 - AST RPCs no longer require replies (614867) -- this may be changed
3787 - don't crash server if client sends an IOV that's too big (611336)
3788 - fixed lock conversion deadlock (611892)
3789 - fixed the following of symlinks (614622)
3790 * recovery: the server can remove locks from a client that dies, other
3791 clients can make progress
3792 * more extN patch fixes
3793 * compile-time configurable ptlrpc buffer allocations
3795 - collaborative read cache document
3796 - Lustre Lite Performance CDR document-in-progress
3798 2002-09-20 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3801 - fix typo in patch-2.4.18
3803 2002-09-20 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3806 - clear ptlrpc request each time in handle_incoming_request()
3807 - unlink of files now destroys the object on the OST
3809 2002-09-19 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3811 * add hard link support
3812 * change obdfile creation method
3813 * kernel patch changed
3815 2002-09-19 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3818 - stack overflow bug in extN fixed
3820 2002-09-18 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3822 * documentation updates
3823 - add man pages for config tools
3824 - update tests/README to describe testing with new config tools
3825 - finish metadata API descriptions
3826 * bug fixes and cleanups
3827 - statfs workaround for 16TB limit
3828 - LOV stripe allocation improved, can stripe on subset of OSTs
3829 - LOV file size/IO offset was wrong for files > 4GB in size
3830 - object EA data was being dropped, caused files to be unreadable
3831 - memory overflow with non-LOV OST caused memory corruption
3832 - fixed regression tests to work with new config tools, obdfilter
3833 - fixed bug when directory size became larger than 1 block
3834 - fixed bug (for single client case) when PWD was deleted
3835 - invalidate local directory pages when doing intent-based ops
3836 - avoid LDLM oops when lock callback contained bad data
3838 2002-09-09 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3840 * documentation updates
3841 * bug fixes and cleanups
3842 - configuration tools
3845 - 64-bit compile warnings
3846 - 64-bit internal statfs data
3848 * test_brw on persistent OST devices
3850 * lprocfs (disabled)
3852 2002-09-04 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3854 * documentation updates
3855 * bug fixes and cleanups
3856 * configuration tools
3858 2002-08-30 Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3861 * many small fixes to 0_5_4
3862 * io/network handling
3863 * thinkos in MDS operations
3865 2002-08-24 Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3868 * crucial basic fixes to 0.5.3
3869 * IOR, Iozone work over Elan
3872 2002-08-07 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3873 * version 0_5_3, our first alpha
3874 * we use the new Portals iovs
3875 * documentation updates
3876 * bug fixes and cleanups
3877 * small changes in the DLM wire protocol
3879 2002-07-25 Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3880 * version 0_5_1 with some initial stability,
3881 * locking on MD and file I/O.
3882 * documentation updates
3883 * several bug fixes since 0.5.0
3884 * small changes in wire protocol
3886 2002-07-18 Phil Schwan <phil@clusterfs.com>
3888 * delivered as Lustre Light Alpha
3889 * fixed a crash after handling invalid MDS requests
3890 * fixed directory pages for architectures with non-4k pages sizes
3892 2002-07-11 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3893 * release version v0_4_4
3894 * Moves TCP acceptor to be on port 2432 (unused Coda port) instead
3896 * Fixes a number of interruption problems with OST operations.
3897 * Update documentation for portals header changes
3898 * Move all wire protocol structs/defines to lustre_idl.h
3899 * Fixes symlink length bug.
3900 * Add tcpdump to repository.
3902 2002-07-05 Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
3903 * release version v0_4_3
3904 * Fixes statfs for inodes on extN.
3905 * Fixes bug in runtests which would delete /etc/hosts.
3906 * Use 64-bit object IDs wherever possible (not into VFS though)
3907 Remove ost_get_info, which is unused by lustre, and out of date.
3909 2002-07-03 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3910 * release version v0_4_2 Fixes a lookup error (type not passed)
3911 * move forward to head of Portals
3912 * move forward to latest Lustre kernel
3914 2002-06-25 Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
3915 * release version v0_4_1. Hopefully stable on single node use.