CTA Dev Meeting

Friday 15 Sept 2023, 15:00 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

513/R-068 (CERN)

Michael Davis (CERN)

1 CTA Release Roadmap

Release 4.10.3-1 / 5.10.3-1

• Release date: 6 Sep
• Pre-prod deployment date: 8 Sep
• Prod deployment date: 13 Sep
• Cherry-picked commits:
• Fix device statistics from LTO drives
• Empty Tape Pool name crashing (4.10.3-1)

Release 4.10.4-1 / 5.10.4-1

• Release date: TBD
• Pre-prod deployment date: TBD
• Prod deployment date: TBD
• Only critical commits?
• EOS 4.8.105 / 5.1.29 ?

Public Release

• Latest version available on public repo: v4.8.7-1, v5.8.7-1.
• Versions v4.10.0-2, v5.10.0-2 will be publicly released.

2 CTA dev topics

Have additonal filters on 'cta-admin recycletf ls'

• Dev issue #462

Add new indexes to the FILE_RECYCLE_LOG catalogue table

• Dev issue #463

Re-work CTA log line format

• Dev issue #488

Check disk file metadata on delete requests

• Dev issue #485

Scheduler crashing when look for a Virtual Organization with empty Tape Pool Name

• Dev issue #470 (Closed)
• Ops issue #ops-1173: Problem reappeared
• At the time of the crash, some tape drive instances were still 4.10.1-1
• Any of them could have triggered the crash, so maybe this will not happen again

Modification of EOS command stagerrm to evict - impact on operational tools

• Dev issue #278 comment
• Decide next steps

"Needs discussion" topics

• Issues link

"Dev issue needed" topics

• Ops issues link

3 dCache Integration

4 AOB

5 CTA dev board review

Objective

• Look at the active issues in our CTA dev board.
• Decide if they should be kept, removed, reassigned, prioritised, etc.