Michael, Which source should I be downloading from oracle's site? There seem to be different client source RPM's based on the distribution. I would have expected just a single source tarball or src.rpm but that does not seem to be the case.
My apologies for the n00b question but I have not built the lustre client from src before. Thanks, -J On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Michael Barnes <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Jagga Soorma wrote: > > > 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. > > Thats correct. > > > 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. > > No. Lustre client kernel modules are self-contained aka "patchless" > clients. Its been a while since I made the RPMs, but I found this laying > around: > > ./configure --disable-server --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-pfm-xeon > --with-o2ib --enable-quota --disable-readline > > Then I believe 'make rpms' does the right thing. > > Now that I said how easy it was, there is a caveat. Now, there may be > issues with specific kernels, but this worked for us. The linux-2.6.22 > kernel is a kernel.org kernel with pfm patches (performance monitoring) > and this kernel also has a NDAed patch from AMD because there are bugs in > the CPUs and the patches are workarounds for the bugs in the CPU. > > It works for us, YMMV. > > -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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