Ashok,

If you are trying to setup lustre (with all the servers MDS, OSS.. etc) 
building only the patchless client wont help you.

You will have to build lustre as described here : 
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_Howto

thanks,
Amit.

ashok bharat bayana wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> the kernel version I used is 2.6.20.15 and the distro is Ubuntu 7.10
> The steps so far I have done are:
> 1)I have downloaded the sources lustre(1.6.4.2) from CFS
> 2)I tried to build lustre for a patchless client in which i triggered 
> the command,
> [lustre]$ ./configure --with-linux=/unpatched/kernel/source
> 3)then I build it using make and then installed the modules using make 
> install commands
> (I'm not sure whether the modules are installed correctly or not.Isn't 
> the modules are installed using make install cmd)
> 4)Now in /usr/lib there is a lustre folder created.
> (Can we setup all MDS,client and OST's on a single system? my system 
> configuration is Intel Pentium 512 MB RAM 1.6 GHz)
> Could you please tell me how to mount lustre fs in my laptop.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ashok Bharat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amit Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Fri 2/29/2008 12:03 PM
> To: ashok bharat bayana
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Configuration of lustre FS on single node
> 
> Ashok,
> 
> Could you let us know what are the modules that you have installed on
> the system. The linux version on your system. And the steps that you
> have done so far.
> 
> thanks,
> Amit
> ashok bharat bayana wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello,
>  > I successfully build lustre(1.6.4.2) on my system for a patchless client
>  > But I dont know how to proceed in configuring the file system.
>  >
>  > I'm trying to build all MDS,client and MDT's on a single node.
>  >  >From the tutorials I came to know that
>  >
>  > First, create an MDT for the "spfs" file system that uses the /dev/sda
>  > disk. This MDT also acts as the MGS for the site.
>  >
>  > $ mkfs.lustre --fsname spfs --mdt --mgs /dev/sda
>  >
>  > But by triggering this command my system crashed in which the whole data
>  > is lost and again I need to install the OS.
>  > I want help in proceeding of mounting a lustre file system.
>  >
>  > Thanks and Regards,
>  > Ashok Bharat
>  >
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>  >    1. Multiple NICs per OST (Joshua Bower-Cooley)
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>  > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:55:19 -0800
>  > From: Joshua Bower-Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  > Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Multiple NICs per OST
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>  > Hi-
>  > I've had lustre running happily for some time over a single 10g 
> ethernet NIC
>  > per node. After switching to dual 10g and creating a new filesystem
>  > (1.6.4.2), I'm seeing nothing but keep-alive packets with bad checksums.
>  >
>  > What is the current "correct" way to do this now? The manual suggest not
>  > using
>  > bonding, but several list postings now reccommend it. Without 
> bonding, do I
>  > need to have my 2 switches stacked, or will Lustre recognize the 
> division in
>  > my subnet?
>  >
>  > LNET module options I've tried are:
>  > 1) networks="tcp0(eth2,eth3)"
>  > 2) ip2nets="tcp(eth2,eth3); tcp(eth2) 10.9.[1-4].*; tcp(eth3) 
> 10.9.[5-8].*;"
>  > and many other variations
>  >
>  > All other services are functional on both interfaces.
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance,
>  > J Bower-Cooley
>  > Scientific Systems Engineer
>  > Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope
>  >
>  >
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>  > Message: 2
>  > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:50:08 -0600 (CST)
>  > From: "Jeremy Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  > Subject: [Lustre-discuss] obd error on MGS/MDT node
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>  > Today we are starting to see obd_change_cbdata errors on our MGS/MDT 
> node.
>  > What does this error mean?
>  >
>  > Version of lustre and kernel is:
>  >
>  > 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL_lustre-1.6.0.1smp X86_64
>  >
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata()) Skipped 1
>  > previous similar message
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata())
>  > obd_change_cbdata: NULL export
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata()) Skipped 1
>  > previous similar message
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata())
>  > obd_change_cbdata: NULL export
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata()) Skipped 2
>  > previous similar messages
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata())
>  > obd_change_cbdata: NULL export
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata()) Skipped 4
>  > previous similar messages
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata())
>  > obd_change_cbdata: NULL export
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>  > previous similar messages
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata())
>  > obd_change_cbdata: NULL export
>  > LustreError: 65:0:(obd_class.h:1171:obd_change_cbdata()) Skipped 1
>  > previous similar message
>  >
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> --
> Amit Sharma
> Lustre Engineering
> Sun Microsystems, Bangalore.
> 


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Lustre Engineering
Sun Microsystems, Bangalore.
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