On Jun 28, 2009 09:22 +0400, mozafar roshany wrote: > So you mean I will have no chance to use Lustre on Debian Lenny with 2.6.26 > kernel version?
You can use 1.8.1 on the client without much effort, but having this kernel version on the server would involve some significant work on your part. > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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
