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Lustre Quality

In the past Lustre had a reputation for being fast, but unstable. The reason for this was that changes to the code were made with insufficient thought and testing ahead of time.

A lot of work has been put into stabilizing Lustre over the years and we have evolved processes to ensure we maintain the stability that so many sites worldwide now rely on operationally.

The processes below are the same that we follow internally at Whamcloudensure that careful attention to detail is paid prior to proposed changes being permitted to land whether the engineer works for Whamcloud or some other community organization.

This presentation by Eric Barton (from SC10) elaborates on these themes.

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