On Monday 14 May 2007 04:04 pm, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > I've compiled and ran lustre with vanilla kernel 2.6.12 and SUSE 2.6.16 > with e2fsprogs-1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 without any problems or > issues. > I tried installing the Lustre debs on etch, but there were broken > dependencies and there is no way I'm going to run unstable in my production > environment. Our NFS server was too hammered and I had to put something in > quick to relieve the NFS server and keep our jobs from going to pot. I > tried to download the source packages, but getting them to compile seemed > more difficult then getting the lustre tar to compile, or even aliening the > SUSE packages that had everything patched already. Now that the fire is put > out, I'll look more into building from source. > > I've been running beta5 and 1.6.0 on etch for a couple of weeks. I've only > been working with lustre for a couple of weeks so far though. Seems solid > and we haven't run into any problems thus far.
You are running lustre 1.6.0 with SuSE 2.6.16 kernel on debian etch without any problems? Sounds interesting! Do you also use infiniband right now or is this just planned? Harald > > Robert > > On 5/14/07 7:38 AM, "Harald van Pee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 14 May 2007 03:09 pm, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > >> You have gotten lustre to build and run with 2.6.18.8? > > > > Yes! Indeed I run lustre 1.5.95 with kernel 2.6.18.6 since two monthes in > > a test environment > > (3xost, 1mds/mdt, 20 cpu-cores as clients) > > without any serious problems > > (beside of the known problems of the lustre beta 5). > > Unfortunately I just can use gigabit ethernet at the moment. But I plan > > to use etch with infiniband at least as a client in the near future. > > > > Is it possible to use the etch e2fsprogs-1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.1 > > or is it better or necessary to use > > e2fsprogs-1.39.cfs7 > > ? > > > > There exists an debian package in the unstable branch > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lustre.html > > but its still on version 1.5.97, does anybody know if there are problems > > with 1.6.0 and etch? > > > > Harald > > > >> I tried doing that > >> on etch with no luck. I applied the same patches, and lustre would build > >> but would not run. I didn't have time to work on it so I just repackaged > >> SUSE kernels and source. I really will need to get to a >2.6.18 kernel > >> in the next month when we get our new Infiniband cluster in. If you > >> don't mind, keep me posted if you run into any troubles. I will try to > >> disable quilt and rebuild lustre (about the only step you did > >> differently). > >> _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
