Peter, Andreas, Thank you both for your assessment.
I decided to proceed conservatively with 1.8.7 on el5. I'll take the opportunity to get more comfortable with 2.x on el6 in a test system on the earlier server nodes. Best, Michael On January 5, 2012, at 12:12 , Peter Jones wrote: > inline > > On 12-01-05 9:21 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote: >> On 2012-01-05, at 3:29 AM, Michael Sternberg wrote: >>> I am wondering about the release matrix for Lustre vs. RHEL/CentOS. >>> [..] >>> It appears that the current recommended production release is Lustre-1.8, >>> and, since there is no server for el6 I take that as a strong hint to stick >>> to el5. >> For new deployments the recommended version is 2.1.0 with RHEL6.1. We are >> starting work on a 2.1.1 maintenance release for the spring. > While it is not often that I would disagree with Andreas, I would say > that the answer on this point depends upon your timing. Right now, if > stability is your primary driver (and it sounds like it is) then I would > recommend 1.8.7-wc1. The early feedback from 2.1 is very encouraging, > but I think that we need a little more production feedback before we > could confidently assert that 2.1.x is the default option. >> >>> Is there some more information public? I was planning to upgrade a cluster >>> to el6. Ideally, I'd like to have servers and user nodes all on the same >>> major OS release. However, stability will trump that. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
