On 4/9/07, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Mustafa A. Hashmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > We recently got some HP-DL365 machines with the p400i controller. This > presented a problem for us on Debian ETCH when we rolled the kernel back to > 2.6.12.6 as the cciss driver wasn't new enough, and the available ones from > sf.net didn't work out either. > Patching the 2.6.18 kernel, though I am sure will work, is probably not ideal > for production environments. > To not tell a very long tale (2 days long really) of trying various options, > we decided to try and run the supplied lustre kernel for RHEL4 on > Debian. Barring a few very minor notes, the kernel, lustre-modules as well as > lustre package were converted to debs and installed. > I am yet to run any proper tests, however, everything is up and running via > the provided test scripts. > If anyone is interested in further details or wants to throw a red flag up > regarding such a deployment, please do let me know. > Thanks, > -- > Mustafa A. Hashmi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss I have patches for 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 for lustre 1.4.7 and 1.4.9 that we use productively at work and there is a debian package for the upcoming lustre 1.6 in Debian that makes building your own lustre kernel easy as pie. If anyone is interested then shout.
Shouting ... :) If you could kindly e-mail me the 2.6.18 patch for 1.4.9, it would be much appreciated. Regards, Mustafa. -- Mustafa A. Hashmi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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