Is there a belief that Lustre 2.2 is any less stable than Lustre 2.1.0? IOW, are the new features introduced in 2.2 believed to introduce more risk?
On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > I guess the new Lustre release process is similar to how Ubuntu is released. > While we do our best to make each release as stable as possible, there is a > different expectation for long-term updates of the feature releases and the > maintenance releases. > > Cheers, Andreas > > On 2012-06-09, at 16:05, Wojciech Turek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for a quick reply Andreas. I slightly misunderstood the lustre >> release process and thought that the next stable/production version is >> 2.2 >> >> I am then interested in the experience of people running Lustre 2.1 >> >> Cheers >> >> Wojciech >> >> On 9 June 2012 21:52, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think you'll find that there are not yet (m)any production deployments of >>> 2.2. There are a number of production 2.1 deployments, and this is the >>> current maintenance stream from Whamcloud. >>> >>> Cheers, Andreas >>> >>> On 2012-06-09, at 14:33, Wojciech Turek <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I am building a 1.5PB storage system which will employ Lustre as the >>>> main file system. The storage system will be extended at the later >>>> stage beyond 2PB. I am considering using Lustre 2.2 for production >>>> environment. This Lustre storage system will replace our older 300TB >>>> system which is currently running Lustre 1.8.8. I am quite happy with >>>> lustre 1.8.8 however for the new system Lustre 2.2 seem to be a better >>>> match. The storage system will be attached to a university wide >>>> cluster (800 nodes), hence there will be quite a large range of >>>> applications using the filesystem. Could people with production >>>> deployments of Lustre 2.2 share their experience please? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Wojciech Turek >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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
