Hello, Yesterday Red Hat released RHEL5U2 with OFED 1.3 support built in. Is there a plan to provide a Lustre patched kernel release of this, in coordination with Lustre 1.6.5, so that there is a prebuilt version of Lustre that would support OFED 1.3?
Thanks, Bob > On May 15, 2008 18:13 +0200, Papp Tam?s wrote: >> / What is the expected date when v1.6.5 arrives? > / > The 1.6.5 release is undergoing internal testing, and we hope to release > it in the next couple of weeks, but this is subject to successful testing > (or there is no point in doing the testing...). You can always grab it > from CVS if you are interested to see the current state and give it a > spin. > >> / What kernels (patchless clients) will be supported? > / > The lustre/ChangeLog reports: > > * version 1.6.5 > * Support for kernels: > 2.6.5-7.311 (SLES 9), > 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL (RHEL 4), > 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 (SLES 10), > 2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org) > * Client support for unpatched kernels: > (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client) > 2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org) > > lnet/ChangeLog reports: > * version 1.6.5 > * Support for networks: > socklnd - any kernel supported by Lustre, > qswlnd - Qsnet kernel modules 5.20 and later, > openiblnd - IbGold 1.8.2, > o2iblnd - OFED 1.1 and 1.2.0, 1.2.5 > viblnd - Voltaire ibhost 3.4.5 and later, > ciblnd - Topspin 3.2.0, > iiblnd - Infiniserv 3.3 + PathBits patch, > gmlnd - GM 2.1.22 and later, > mxlnd - MX 1.2.1 or later, > ptllnd - Portals 3.3 / UNICOS/lc 1.5.x, 2.0.x > > ... but I think building against OFED 1.3 is also working. > > 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
