Hi Brian, For RHEL 5.3, yes I was attempting to use the 1.8.2 lustre modules with kernel 2.6.18-128.el5. I have not thought of upgrading the -128 kernel to 2.6.18_164.11.1.el5 as you have suggested. I shall experiment on that and see how it works. Thanks for the reminder.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: Brian J. Murrell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] 1.8.2 Patchless Client On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:18 -0500, CHU, STEPHEN H (ATTSI) wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi, > We are using RHEL 5.3 kernel-2.6.18-128.el5. Since we are not using the > latest kernel, we have, in the past, used rsync to reconcile the differences > and it worked fine. So just to be clear, you are attempting to use the lustre modules built for RedHat kernel 2.6.18_164.11.1.el5 with kernel 2.6.18-128.el5, right? > This is how we can get the patchless clients to work between out of sync > kernel and the patchless client modules. Sometimes, perhaps. I don't think there are any guarantees though, and you appear to have run into a case where it just isn't going to work. > We will have to go with the patched clients if this is not working out. TBH, I'm not sure how patched clients are going to help here either given that you seem to have a need to remain on kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 (or else you would have just upgrade it to match the 1.8.2 lustre modules) and the kernel that was released with 1.8.2 is 2.6.18_164.11.1.el5 for both patched and patchless releases. If you are willing to upgrade the kernel to our patched 2.6.18_164.11.1.el5 (which you MUST do to use the patched client) why not just upgrade to the stock RH 2.6.18_164.11.1.el5 and use the 1.8.2. patchless client modules with the kernel they were meant for? b. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
