On Jul 15, 2009 09:51 -0400, Craig West wrote: > I have noticed that there are currently no "supported" vanilla kernels > listed in the 1.8.1 RC. > > Are we going to see a new vanilla kernel supported in Lustre 1.8? > As someone who doesn't run RHEL or SLES, I found the vanilla kernels useful.
The 1.8.1 release will add support SLES11 (2.6.27-based) so it seems fairly likely that the patches for this kernel will also work on 2.6.27 vanilla kernels. We are also working on adding client-side support for 2.6.29/2.6.30 kernels (see bugzilla for patches). Supporting a new kernel is added work for us and is not undertaken lightly. I would also like to investigating patchless server support, but I'm not sure whether that is possible yet, though newer kernels make this easier. 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
