Thanks Michael for your response. So if I understand correctly, you have not had any issues running the stock kernel with the sun/oracle provided lustre client rpms and instead of using the kernel-ib package you install your own ofed packages.
Also, I have the new intel 8 core cpu's and would prefer to go to sles 11 sp 1 instead of sles 11. However, this is not supported by the lustre client yet. What has your experience been with building your own lustre rpm's from source using a different kernel? Do you still have to patch the kernel? I am also thinking about installing sles 11 sp1 and just building the lustre client rpm's from source. Not sure if it is required to patch the kernel if I use the most updated version provided my sles 11 sp1. Thanks again, -J On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Michael Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jagga Soorma wrote: > > > I have been having a lot of trouble with the sles 11 kernel that lustre > 1.8.4 supports. I tried downgrading the kernel and the lustre client > (1.8.1.1) but the kernel-ib provided modules had some problems with my hca. > The newer kernel-ib package that comes with lustre client 1.8.4 did not > have any issues. Would it be possible for me to build/install my own ofed > package and install just the lustre client rpms? Do you see any issues with > this setup? Or should lustre be built from scratch all together? > > Jagga, > > We use our own OFED RPMs with Lustre clients using the Lustre client RPMs. > We also have some clients compiled from source due to the fact that we > can't run stock kernels on some of our hardware. > > Both work fine. > > -mb > > -- > +----------------------------------------------- > | Michael Barnes > | > | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility > | Scientific Computing Group > | 12000 Jefferson Ave. > | Newport News, VA 23606 > | (757) 269-7634 > +----------------------------------------------- > > > > >
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