Hm, ok. (Unfortunately the bigendian server is where I'm going with this, but it will be useful to get things going with the intel hardware first, make sure I know what I'm doing).
I'd love to go to the newer kernel, thought we were stuck at 2.6.18 with the vanilla series patches - is that not the case? thanks, --bob On Nov 13, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 14:55 -0600, Robert Olson wrote: >> Since I've got my shiny new PPC64-based Debian Etch installation >> going, I decided to give Lustre another shot on my mac cluster (no >> cross-compilers required). > > As a starting point - we basically never test Lustre with a big-endian > server, so while it works in theory I would instead suggest starting > with a big-endian client and little-endian servers first, get that > working, > and then tackle the big endian server separately (likely using > something > like 2.6.22 ext4 as the starting point for ldiskfs, since the > extent code > has proper endian swabbing already). You could also try without > mballoc > and extents on the OSTs. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
