[HPDD-discuss] Lustre 2.4.0 released

We are pleased to announce that the Lustre 2.4.0 Release has been declared GA and is available for download<http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-feature-r... . You can also grab the source from git<http://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commit;h=d3f91... The major release includes a number of new features including: DNE Phase 1 (LU-1187<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-1187>;) Network Request Scheduler (LU-398<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-398>;) ZFS Support(LU-1305<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-1305>) see zfsonlinux.org<http://zfsonlinux.org/> for details on how to build this option Fuller details can be found in the change log<https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Changelog+2.4>;, the scope statement<https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Lustre+2.4+Scope+Sta... and the test matrix<https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Lustre+2.4> The following are known issues in the Lustre 2.4 Release: LU-3430<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3430> : A rare race can result in an LBUG on an OSS while running the orr policy for NRS LU-3415<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3415>;: An LBUG hits the MDS when upgrading from 1.8.x to 2.4.0 with quotas enabled <https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3420>L<https://jira.hpdd.inte...;: OI scrub not engaged after a file level backup running with DNE <https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3421>L<https://jira.hpdd.inte...;: OSTs can erroneously report ENOSPC L<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3305>U-3305<https://jira...;: Metadata performance drop running with quotas Work is in progress for these issues. Please log any issues found in the issue tracking system<https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/> We would like to thank OpenSFS<http://www.opensfs.org/> for their contributions towards the cost of the release and also to all Lustre community members who have contributed to the release with code and/or testing.