I’m sure that Aldous Huxley would have approved of the recent announcement concerning our first Lustre 2.x maintenance release. To date, Lustre 1.8.x had been our maintenance release stream but, although the majority of Lustre users are still running Lustre 1.8.x releases, we recently decided to designate Lustre 2.1.x as our maintenance release stream. We hope [...]
Peter Jones
Peter is the Support Manager at Whamcloud - a role that he has formerly served for the Lustre teams at CFS, Sun and Oracle. He was the release manager for the Lustre 2.1 release and for numerous 1.6.x and 1.8.x Lustre releases over the years. He lives in BC, Canada.
Lustre Development in High Gear
As it appeared during the bustle of SC11, this press release slipped under the radar for many, but its implications are huge. OpenSFS has already been active in funding future Lustre development but this latest contract acknowledges the amount of work it takes to integrate features developed in parallel, keep current with the latest Linux [...]
Lustre 1.8.7-wc1 released
With all the excitement around the recent Lustre 2.1 release it would be easy to forget that the majority of production Lustre sites are still running Lustre 1.8.x releases. Lustre 1.8.x is still Whamcloud’s designated maintenance release stream and we have just issued our latest bugfix release – Lustre 1.8.7-wc1. This release removes the potential [...]