On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:10, Niklas Edmundsson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> > Note that in 1.6 one of the major motivations for having a Lustre FUSE
> > is going away - kernels 2.6.16 and beyond can run Lustre clients without
> > any patches.  While there is still some benefit to patching the kernel
> > (improved performance for a few use cases, better diagnostics, etc) this
> > is not required on the client.  You do still need to compile Lustre modules
> > against the currently installed kernel.
> 
> >From some earlier posts I recall that 2.6.15 plus one patch (I don't 
> remember which, but I poked at the Ubuntu guys so it got included in 
> the Ubuntu Dapper 2.6.15 kernel back then) would be enough to use
> patchless client, is this still true?
> 
some info can be found in bugzilla (this general place for posting
patches). support for for build with 2.6.18-2.6.19 vanila kernel
currently in tree.
support for build with 2.6.20 and RHEL5/fc6 kernels in bugzilla
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11647


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Alexey Lyashkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Beaver team

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