Just out of curiosity, how come you are using the --disable-readline option?
Thanks, -J On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jagga Soorma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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