Okay, I think I need lustre-1.8.4.tar.gz. Will try building the client with it and install my own ofed package. Hope this works.
Thanks, -J On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jagga Soorma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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