Hi, Ken. Thanks for putting in this effort. I think that others would be interested (I am). Perhaps you could share your work at github or post to lustre-devel ahead of LUG?
Thanks, -Cory On 02/21/2011 02:56 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: >> Yes, that is what Oracle had announced in the roadmap. >> >> SLES servers are still supported on Lustre 1.8.x, but Oracle announced >> plans to not support them with Lustre 2.x. Given the similarities >> between the RHEL6 and SLES11 kernels, I am sure someone could bring SLES >> support back when RHEL6 is supported, if enough people were willing to >> pay for it. > > If anyone cares ... > > I did the mechanics of getting Lustre 2.0.0.1 compiled and running > under SLES11SP1 (I first tried just SLES11, but it was too hard; > the kernel was just too old to make bringing the ext4 patches forward > feasible, at least for me). I have it working right now in a small > test filesystem I use for non-production work. It was a pain (the > major problems were in ldiskfs), but MOST of the pieces were there; > it was mostly a matter of shuffling things around and figuring out > what went where (I don't want to say it was EASY; it took a while. > But it wouldn't call it _hard_; it was mostly annoying, especially > since I wasn't that familiar at the time with ext4/ldiskfs). > > I've been thinking of working with the open-source Lustre groups to get > this into a future release; perhaps I'll talk with some of them at the > upcoming LUG. > > --Ken > _______________________________________________ > 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
