On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alexey Lyashkov 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
Searching for patchless in the bugzilla doesn't that much useful
information...
Seriously, this habit of saying "it's in the bugzilla" as an excuse
for not documenting stuff is getting a bit annoying. The thing closest
to an effort of collecting various information in a usable manner
seems to be the wiki, and even though it should be rather easy to edit
it seems to be hopelessly out of date. The front page shows all sorts
of stuff that's probably obsolete, but useful stuff that's actually up
to date (like the mountconf docco) isn't listed there.
Yes, it will take some efforts to get the wiki up to speed but I
think it will be worth the effort.
/Nikke
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