Mon, 19 Feb 2007
Lustre now in Debian
Kudos to whoever is now working on the NEW queue - Lustre 1.5.95 is now in Debian. Please report any issues you see with this package, but don't trust it with production data just yet - 1.5.95 is also known as 1.6beta5, a BETA release.
I am presently working on backporting kernel fixes for kernel 2.6.18 from version 1.4.9, which has recently been released.
Wed, 07 Feb 2007
Just to keep anyone who's following up-to-date, Lustre 1.5.95 (alias 1.6beta5) is currently in the Debian New Queue. Its been there two weeks; looks like NEW processing has slowed down again. It was rejected the last two times due to inadequate copyright / licensing documentation; this and other issues have been fixed.
1.5.95 seems stable enough; I've had corruption issues on one filesystem (the main one on my test cluster, unfortunately), so try, but don't rely on it.Meanwhile 1.5.97 has come out, and is now in the repository. This builds and runs, but seems to have many problems on 2.6.18 kernels. These are known issues, apparently; there are bugfixes for some of them in the debian/patches directory that could be ported forward, but fortunately the nice folks at clusterfs plan on doing a release supporting 2.6.18 in the next week or so, so I'll hold off until then.
Wed, 18 Oct 2006
Playing with the blog ... Some CSS hacking due.
Firstly, down to real bugs. See DebianBug392987 to see the priority in Debian land, or LustreScratchPage to see where I'm at with Lustre.