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- * version 1.6.1
+ * version 1.8.0
* Support for kernels:
- 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL (RHEL 3)
- 2.6.5-7.283 (SLES 9)
- 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4)
- 2.6.12.6 vanilla (kernel.org)
- 2.6.16.27-0.9 (SLES 10)
+ 2.6.9-55.EL (RHEL 4)
+ 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10)
+ 2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
* Client support for unpatched kernels:
(see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
2.6.9-42.0.10.EL (RHEL 4)
2.6.16 - 2.6.21 vanilla (kernel.org)
- * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs7
+ * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs8
* Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
- * bug fixes
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : when using more than 256 SCSI disks on a single server
+Bugzilla : 12755
+Description: Kernel BUG: sd_iostats_bump: unexpected disk index
+Details : a kernel BUG is hit when using more than 256 SCSI disks.
+
+2007-08-10 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>
+ * version 1.6.1
+ * Support for kernels:
+ 2.6.5-7.283 (SLES 9)
+ 2.6.9-55.EL (RHEL 4)
+ 2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10)
+ 2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
+ * Client support for unpatched kernels:
+ (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
+ 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
+ * Due to recently discovered recovery problems, we do not recommend
+ using patchless RHEL 4 clients with this or any earlier release.
+ * Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.39.cfs8
+ * Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
+ * Starting with this release, the ldiskfs backing filesystem required
+ by Lustre is now in its own package, lustre-ldiskfs. This package
+ should be installed. It is versioned separately from Lustre and
+ may be released separately in future.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 12194
Details : Direct I/O operations should return actual amount of bytes
transferred rather than requested size.
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 10589
+Description: metadata RPC reduction (e.g. for rm performance)
+Details : decrease the amount of synchronous RPC between clients and servers
+ by canceling conflicing lock before the operation on the client side
+ and packing thier handles into the main operation RPC to server.
+
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2007-05-03 Cluster File Systems, Inc. <info@clusterfs.com>