On Saturday 31 October 2009, Mag Gam wrote: > if I were to deploy a system now and I want to do the kernel compile > way, what kernel do you recommend? I prefer using 1.6.7.2 because of > its stability...
Sun is very helpful and provide distribution kernels as tar.bz2 on their download page: http://downloads.lustre.org/public/kernels/ So instead of going through the pain to get that yourself from the vendors src.rpm Sun already greatly helps (so far I have not found an easy how to do that myself, any hint from the guy providing the tar files would be highly appreciated). In a perfect world, this page also would state which kernel is suitable for which Lustre version, e.g. lustre-1.6.7.2 linux-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.tar.bz2 lustre-1.8.1.1 linux-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.tar.bz2 Also missing are the .config files. I usually extract these from the kernel binary packages - I need to download 150MB to get the 4KB config file *sigh*. And better don't try to change options in non-vanilla kernels, this very often fails, because the vendor doesn't support it and so also doesn't test it. Btw, of course these kernels also work for different distributions, so instead of going through the pain to port Lustre to Ubuntu or Debian kernels, I simply started to create debian packages for the RHEL5 kernels http://www.pci.uni-heidelberg.de/tc/usr/bernd/downloads/lustre/1.6/debs/lustre-clients/1.6.7.2-ddn2/ linux-image-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5_1_amd64.deb linux-headers-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5_1_amd64.deb Cheers, Bernd PS: Disclaimer: Whatever packages you may find on my home page, I won't provide support for these! -- Bernd Schubert DataDirect Networks _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
