Hello Eli, there are no official Debian packages for Lustre 2.3/2.4/2.5. The instructions on http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Debian_Install are still working for 2.3/2.4/2.5 with some tiny tricks. You can either switch to the supported RH Kernel and use them in Debian, so you can apply the proper patch series. With Lustre 2.5 and configure settings --with-zfs --with-spl --disable-ldiskfs you can use it with the 3.6.11 vanilla Kernel and ZFS in Debian Wheezy.
Regarding backward compatibility there is a post from Andreas Dilger http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2013-January/017075.html Cheers Thomas On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we'd like to stick with > debian for our calculation nodes if possible. > So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they > more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a > tall brick wall. > > Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server > software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don't > know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full > fledged version yet (though I hope they'll go with 2.4/2.5). > > Thanks, > Eli > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
