FYI: Cray plans to deploy 2.2 at year's end and therefore we'll treat it as our maintenance branch. It is true that not much has landed to b2_2 since 2.2 was released, but Cray will be pushing patches to it including some that have already landed to b2_1 for 2.1.x. It is our hope that we can catch it up and b2_2 will be a stable branch for others to use in production as Cray will. We have not yet begun the push process but expect to begin shortly. ORNL, I believe, has similar plans and James Simmons has already starting posting patches to b2_2 for review.
Thanks, -Cory On 6/6/2012 6:08 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 01:55:35 +0400 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:01:22 -0600 Andreas Dilger wrote: >>> Note that Lustre 2.2 is not yet designated a maintenance release, so will >>> not necessarily be getting fixes and updated releases. If this is for a >>> production system, and you are not prepared to be making your own updates, >>> you should stick with 2.1.x. >>> >>> The 2.1.2 release is imminent, but for now 2.1.1 is the latest maintenance >>> release. >> >> We're planning to use Lustre for production purposes in about half a >> year. Until then it will be used for testing and to create client >> packages and related build system parts. >> >> So if 2.2 branch will be eventually put to maintenance, half a year >> looks like a good time. If it may never become a maintained branch, >> then I'll stick with 2.1 branch. > > Currently there is no plan to move away from 2.1.x as the maintenance branch. > The next long-term maintenance branch may not be until 2.3 or 2.4, but this > will be decided in the future. We definitely do not want to discourage > testing and usage of Lustre 2.2 for experienced users that are already > expecting to be doing maintenance themselves, but it has not been getting > fixes for known issues that are landing on master and 2.1.x. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger Whamcloud, Inc. > Principal Lustre Engineer http://www.whamcloud.com/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
