On Nov 13, 2007 15:37 -0600, Robert Olson wrote: > 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?
There is a kernel patch series for 2.6.22 in Bugzilla, but it hasn't been tested yet. > 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. >> 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
