Lustre 2.0.0 - Changelog

What's new in Lustre 1.8.3:

August 11th, 2010

· Lustre 1.8.3 provides support for OEL 5, RHEL 5, SLES 10 and 11, offers several minor improvements, and provides a number of bug fixes. Learn about the 1.8 family of features - Adaptive Timeouts, OSS Read Cache, OST Pools and Version-based Recovery and why you should upgrade.

What's new in Lustre 1.8.0:

June 18th, 2009

· Adaptive Timeouts
· OSS Read Cache
· OST Pools
· Version-based Recovery

What's new in Lustre 1.6.7.1:

April 17th, 2009

Support for networks:
· socklnd - any kernel supported by Lustre
· qswlnd - Qsnet kernel modules 5.20 and later
· openiblnd - IbGold 1.8.2
· o2iblnd - OFED 1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.5, and 1.3.1
· viblnd - Voltaire ibhost 3.4.5 and later
· ciblnd - Topspin 3.2.0
· iiblnd - Infiniserv 3.3 + PathBits patch
· gmlnd - GM 2.1.22 and later
· mxlnd - MX 1.2.1 or later
· ptllnd - Portals 3.3 / UNICOS/lc 1.5.x, 2.0.x

Support for kernels:
· 2.6.5-7.314 (SLES 9)
· 2.6.9-67.0.22.EL (RHEL 4)
· 2.6.16.60-0.31 (SLES 10)
· 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 (RHEL 5)
· 2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org)

What's new in Lustre 1.6.6:

January 8th, 2009

· This release adds support for downgrading pools-striped files.
· Distribution kernel support has been updated to RHEL5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 and SLES10 SP2 kernel-2.6.16.60-0.27.
· There are numerous bugfixes, including fixes for 8 TB systems with more than 65536 groups, machines with more than 1GB of RAM, and issues when mounting filesystems with the flock option.