* version 1.8.0
* Support for kernels:
2.6.5-7.286 (SLES 9),
- 2.6.9-55.EL (RHEL 4),
+ 2.6.9-55.0.6.EL (RHEL 4),
2.6.16.46-0.14 (SLES 10),
- 2.6.18-8.1.8.EL5 (RHEL 5).
+ 2.6.18-8.1.14.EL5 (RHEL 5).
2.6.18.8 vanilla (kernel.org)
* Client support for unpatched kernels:
(see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
* Recommended e2fsprogs version: 1.40.2-cfs1
* Note that reiserfs quotas are disabled on SLES 10 in this kernel.
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 2262
+Description: self-adjustable client's lru lists
+Details : use adaptive algorithm for managing client cached locks lru
+ lists according to current server load, other client's work
+ pattern, memory activities, etc. Both, server and client
+ side namespaces provide number of proc tunables for controlling
+ things
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 13641
+Description: light-weight GSS support
+Details : Support krb5n and krb5a mode, which keep Kerberos 5 authentication
+ and reduce performance overhead.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 11832
+Description: Linux keyring support
+Details : Support using service of Linux keyring for Lustre GSS internal
+ context refresh/cache mechanism.
+
Severity : normal
Bugzilla : 12186
Description: Fix errors in lfs documentation
It causes scheduling issues when removing large files (17TB in the
present case).
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : only with liblustre clients on XT3
+Bugzilla : 12418
+Description: evictions taking too long
+Details : allow llrd to evict clients directly on OSTs
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : only on ppc
+Bugzilla : 12234
+Description: /proc/fs/lustre/devices broken on ppc
+Details : The patch as applied to 1.6.2 doesn't look correct for all arches.
+ We should make sure the type of 'index' is loff_t and then cast
+ explicitly as needed below. Do not assign an explicitly cast
+ loff_t to an int.
+
+Severity : normal
+Frequency : only for rhel5
+Bugzilla : 13616
+Description: Kernel patches update for RHEL5 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5.
+Details : Modify the target file & which_kernel.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 10786
+Description: omit set fsid for export NFS
+Details : fix set/restore device id for avoid EMFILE error and mark lustre fs
+ as FS_REQUIRES_DEV for avoid problems with generate fsid.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13304
+Frequency : Always, for kernels after 2.6.16
+Description: Fix warning idr_remove called for id=.. which is not
+ allocated.
+Details : Last kernels save old s_dev before kill super and not allow
+ to restore from callback - restore it before call kill_anon_super.
+
+Severity : minor
+Bugzilla : 12948
+Description: buffer overruns could theoretically occur
+Details : llapi_semantic_traverse() modifies the "path" argument by
+ appending values to the end of the origin string, and a
+ overrun may occur. Adding buffer overrun check in liblustreapi.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13730
+Description: client sometimes tried revalidate root dentry.
+Details : not revalidate dentry if it root dentry.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13518
+Description: Kernel patches update for RHEL4 2.6.9-55.0.6.
+Details : Modify vm-tunables-rhel4.patch.
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13452
+Description: Kernel config for 2.6.18-vanilla.
+Details : Modify targets/2.6-vanilla.target.in.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-i686.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-i686-smp.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-x86_64.config.
+ Add config file kernel-2.6.18-2.6-vanilla-x86_64-smp.config.
+
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 11710
+Description: improve handling recoverable errors
+Details : if request processig with error which can be recoverable on server
+ request should be resend, otherwise page released from cache and
+ marked as error.
+
+Severity : critical
+Bugzilla : 13751
+Description: Kernel patches update for RHEL5 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.
+Details : Modify target file & which_patch.
+ A flaw was found in the IA32 system call emulation provided
+ on AMD64 and Intel 64 platforms. An improperly validated 64-bit
+ value could be stored in the %RAX register, which could trigger an
+ out-of-bounds system call table access. An untrusted local user
+ could exploit this flaw to run code in the kernel
+ (ie a root privilege escalation). (CVE-2007-4573).
+
+Severity : normal
+Bugzilla : 13568
+Description: Remove 2.4 kernel checks lustre 1.8
+Details : Remove 2.5.0 check from quota_check.c, quota_ctl.c,
+ quota_interface.c in quota subsystem.
+ Remove 2.4 kernel check from obd_mount.c, linux/linux-sysctl.c in
+ obdclass subsystem.
+
+
+
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empty osc while others are not empty. If we must block, we block
for the shortest possible period of time.
+Severity : major
+Bugzilla : 11710
+Description: improve handling recoverable errors
+Details : if request processig with error which can be recoverable on server
+ request should be resend, otherwise page released from cache and
+ marked as error.
+
+Severity : enhancement
+Bugzilla : 12702
+Description: refine locking for avoid write wrong info into lov_objid file
+Details : fix possible races with add new target and write/update data in
+ lov_objid file.
+
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