Brian, While I agree with the question - some of us have user facing machines that we've chosen to use the patched lustre kernel on for clients -- we see a 50-300MB/s bump from using a patched client. Those machines are user facing and while we've put in a workaround, having a patched client + kernel that does not require the workaround is something we'd like to get to. So while I don't think most of the coummunity would have user accounts on their lustre servers - the packages provided by Oracle are not solely used for server purposes.
Yes, we could undertake building kernels ourselves. We're working on an effort to do so - so don't take this as me adding to the list of people who would like this done "real soon now", just another point of view. Thanks, -- -Jason ------------------------------------------------- // Jason J. Hill // // HPC Systems Administrator // // National Center for Computational Sciences // // Oak Ridge National Laboratory // // e-mail: [email protected] // // Phone: (865) 576-5867 // ------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 03:25:01PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 13:05 -0500, Mike Hanby wrote: > > Are there any plans to build new Lustre 1.8.4 patched kernel packages for > > EL5 kernel 2.6.18-194.11.4 > > > > This kernel has the patch that prevents the much talked about privilege > > escalation CVE-2010-3081: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0704.html > > Without commenting one way or the other about whether we will produce a > 1.8.4.1 to deal with this kernel issue (because I don't know), I'd ask > do you have other (i.e. network) services or non-privileged user > accounts on your Lustre servers? > > b. > Content-Description: ATT00001..txt > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
