Bryan Green wrote:
Yes, I actually used those ebuilds to test Lustre on our "mini" 3x3 hyperwall which runs Gentoo. I was able to get it working, but over here they want the supported, released version, whereas those ebuilds are for the beta. I tried to install the released version, but eventually ran into problems. Also, since getting support from CFS is a requirement, that restricts the OS choice to specific versions of Suse or Redhat.
I guess that means we should get in touch with them to get on the supported systems list. =)
I'd very interested in the different approaches here. I had thought about a static portage tree, but that left the problem of getting needed updates, especially GLSA's. Your suggested approach sounds very interesting. How big of an extra administrative burden does that create? Maintaining our own version controlled portage tree might be a hard sell. Thanks for the script - I'll take a look at it. Is there any documentation out there about a static portage tree?
The OSL (Open Source Lab), which hosts much of the Gentoo infrastructure and runs a lot of other projects on Gentoo boxes, takes a similar approach to what I mentioned above. I think you already know Corey Shields, so you could ask him about it.
You may also want to take a look at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43984 -- it's from one of our developers who's deployed fairly decent-sized clusters.
Thanks, Donnie -- [email protected] mailing list
