On Feb 04, 2008 14:52 -0700, Craig Tierney wrote: > I am trying to lustre-1.6.4.2 with my system and I am reading through > the documentation to figure out how to it. I am reading version 1.6_man_v1.9 > of the Operations manual. > > On page 31, regarding compiler choice, it says: > > Compiler Choice > The compiler must be greater than GCC version 3.3.4. Currently, > GCC v4.0 is not supported. GCC v3.3.4 has been used to successfully > compile all of the pre-packaged releases made available by CFS, and it > is the only officially-supported compiler. Your mileage may vary with > other compilers, or even with other versions of GCC. > > NOTE: > GCC v3.3.4 was used to build 2.6 series kernels. > > > So, which is it? Is 3.3.4 the right compiler, or does it have to be > "greater than" 3.3.4?
The right answer today is "Lustre is built with the kernel shipped with the distro". The documentation needs to be updated. > Has anyone built Lustre using Centos 5.X? I am trying to get Lustre working > with 5.1, and have downgraded the kernel for simplicity. Using a vanilla > 2.6.18 kernel, I have been able to build lustre and mount some basic > filesystems, > but I have not tested it thoroughly enough to say it works. Why not use the RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
