On Jun 27, 2009 22:29 +0400, mozafar roshany wrote: > I'm working on Lustre in Debian Lenny these days. > The major problem is that the packages at sun websites are for RHEL > and for the kernel versions lower than 2.6.22 ... > > The lustre packages exist on debian mirror and I did used the > lustre-source README file procedure to build lustre modules. > > The linux-patch-lustre package contains the patches for 2.6.18 , > 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 , while my Lenny kernel verision is 2.6.26 . Any > way, I did this dirty work and created a 2.6.26 symlink to apply patch > to my kernel... Everything went well and I booted to new kernel and > loaded "lnet" and "lustre" kernel modules successfully, but there was > NO "ldiskfs" module which the mkfs.lustre utility complains about when > creating lustre file systems. > > So my question is: can one install lustre on new disros like lenny > with such new kernels? what's the solution? > > I said the main issues; if more infos needed, I'll write other details.
In CVS there is support for 2.6.27 SLES11 using ext4. You can't really use the ext4 in earlier kernels because it is broken. I would suggest to use this kernel instead. 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
