I suspect the big problem being, when you modify the kernel you lose support from vendors. Thats alteast our case.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 08, 2008 07:51 -0500, Josh Abadie wrote: >> Excellent question. In our particular situation, we have all of our servers >> running OFED 1.2 and the redhat kernel 2.6.9-55. In order to get more >> stability, we would like to upgrade to the latest lustre verstion, but that >> is not possible without upgrading the kernel, infiniband stack and all IB >> dependent libraries. In essense, we have to rebuild our entire cluster to >> do that because the latest lustre does not support our kernel, and the >> kernel it does support is not supported by our infiniband stack. It's very >> annoying, actually. It would be awesome if Sun supported a few kernels >> behind the latest and greatest. > > Why not just rebuild Lustre against your current 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 > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
