* version 1.8.0
* Support for kernels:
2.6.16.54-0.2.5 (SLES 10),
- 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 (RHEL 5),
+ 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 (RHEL 5),
2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org).
* Client support for unpatched kernels:
(see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
2.6.16 - 2.6.21 vanilla (kernel.org)
- * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.7-sun1
+ * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.7-sun3
* Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
* RHEL 4 and RHEL 5/SLES 10 clients behaves differently on 'cd' to a
removed cwd "./" (refer to Bugzilla 14399).
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15865
+Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 15924
+Description: do not process already freed flock
+Details : flock can possibly be freed by another thread before it reaches
+ to ldlm_flock_completion_ast.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 14480
+Description: LBUG during stress test
+Details : Need properly lock accesses the flock deadlock detection list.
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 15837
+Description: oops in page fault handler
+Details : kernel page fault handler can return two special 'pages' in error case, don't
+ try dereference NOPAGE_SIGBUS and NOPAGE_OMM.
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 15716
+Description: timeout with invalidate import.
+Details : ptlrpcd_check call obd_zombie_impexp_cull and wait request which should be
+ handled by ptlrpcd. This produce long age waiting and -ETIMEOUT
+ ptlrpc_invalidate_import and as result LASSERT.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 15741
+Description: Update to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 14134
+Description: enable MGS and MDT services start separately
+Details : add a 'nomgs' option in mount.lustre to enable start a MDT with
+ a co-located MGS without starting the MGS, which is a complement
+ to 'nosvc' mount option.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 14835
+Frequency : after recovery
+Description: precreate to many object's after del orphan.
+Details : del orphan st in oscc last_id == next_id and this triger growing
+ count of precreated objects. Set flag LOW to skip increase count
+ of precreated objects.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15139
+Frequency : rare, on clear nid stats
+Description: ASSERTION(client_stat->nid_exp_ref_count == 0)
+Details : when clean nid stats sometimes try destroy live entry,
+ and this produce panic in free.
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 15575
+Description: Stack overflow during MDS log replay
+ ease stack pressure by using a thread dealing llog_process.
+
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 15443
Description: wait until IO finished before start new when do lock cancel.
of the error messages complaining that MGS is not connected.
Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 15027
+Frequency : on network error
+Description: panic with double free request if network error
+Details : mdc_finish_enqueue is finish request if any network error ocuring,
+ but it's true only for synchronus enqueue, for async enqueue
+ (via ptlrpcd) this incorrect and ptlrpcd want finish request
+ himself.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 11401
+Description: client-side metadata stat-ahead during readdir(directory readahead)
+Details : perform client-side metadata stat-ahead when the client detects
+ readdir and sequential stat of dir entries therein
+
+Severity : major
Frequency : on start mds
Bugzilla : 14884
Description: Implement get_info(last_id) in obdfilter.
external attribute block (e.g. ACL growing in size) for file
data to be lost.
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15346
+Description: skiplist implementation simplification
+Details : skiplists are used to group compatible locks on granted list
+ that was implemented as tracking first and last lock of each lock group
+ the patch changes that to using doubly linked lists
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 15574
+Description: MDS LBUG: ASSERTION(!IS_ERR(dchild))
+Details : Change LASSERTs to client eviction (i.e. abort client's recovery)
+ because LASSERT on both the data supplied by a client, and the data
+ on disk is dangerous and incorrect.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 10718
+Description: Slow trucate/writes to huge files at high offsets.
+Details : Directly associate cached pages to lock that protect those pages,
+ this allows us to quickly find what pages to write and remove
+ once lock callback is received.
+
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