On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:42, Niklas Edmundsson wrote: > 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... > i basic it`s bugs - 11647, 11271, 10194. also nfs related bugs also addressed to patchless - 10796.
patchless client testing started by QA team and results can be published in near future. As for me - patchless client passed all basic tests and some stress testing and show it`s stable. My test run with 2.6.19, 2.6.20-rc7, RHEL5 beta2/FC6 kernel. -- Alexey Lyashkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Beaver team _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
