I would love to get another one out as soon as possible. What's gating
us at the moment is
our testing system (ltest), which has been pushed beyond its limits by
the changes for 1.6
among other things. We are in the middle of developing a new test
system from the ground
up, but in the meantime that means we have even less time for
babysitting betas.
We are reluctant to release anything (even for a beta) that has not
undergone our full internal
test suite on multiple platforms; hence our lack of another release.
We have recently decided to again put a little effort to reinvigorating
ltest for the 1.6 betas
for the reasons you mention, and hopefully this will bear fruit soon.
Brent A Nelson wrote:
Hi, everyone,
It seems like there's been quite a lot of progress with Lustre fixes
and improvements in the last few months; some of these have made it
into Lustre 1.4 releases, while others are specific to the Lustre 1_5
branch. However, it's been a while since the last 1.6beta, and it
seems that 1.5.95 is getting a bit stale...
Are there any plans to get a new beta out soon? There's a lot of nifty
patches in the Bugzilla database that would see much broader testing
if they were integrated into a new release, and a new release might
eliminate some of the problems that people report with 1.5.95, not
realizing that patches are already available. Performance
improvements, NFS export fixes, MGS failover, 2.6.18 Kernel support,
patchless improvements, numerous miscellaneous fixes and
improvements... it's a very impressive list (you guys have been busy!).
Alternatively, could anyone give a list of their "favorite" patches
that seem to be significant improvements over the released 1.5.95? In
particular, how are the various NFS reexport fixes and the 2.6.18
patches working for you? Have you tried the MGS failover patch?
Anything else you'd recommend?
Thanks,
Brent Nelson
Director of Computing
Dept. of Physics
University of Florida
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