On Jun 22, 2023, at 06:58, Will Furnass via lustre-discuss <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi, I imagine that many here might have seen RedHat's announcement yesterday about ceasing to provide sources for EL8 and EL9 to those who aren't paying customers (see [1] - CentOS 7 unaffected). For many HPC sites using or planning to adopt Alma/Rocky 8/9 this prompts a change of tack: - buy RHEL 8/9 - switch to CentOS 8/9 Stream for something EL-like - switch to something else (SUSE or Ubuntu) Those wanting to stick with EL-like will be interested in how well Lustre works with Stream 8/9. Seems it's not in the support matrix [2]. Have others here used Lustre with Stream successfully? If so, anything folks would care to share about gotchas if encountered? Did you used patched or unpatched kernels? For clients I don't think it will matter much, since users often have to build their own client RPMs (possibly via DKMS), or they use weak updates to avoid rebuilding the RPMs at all for client updates. The Lustre client code itself works with a wide range of kernel versions (3.10-6.0 currently), and I suspect that relatively few production systems want to be on the bleeding edge of Linux kernels either, so the lack of 6.1-6.3 kernel support is likely not affecting anyone, and even then patches are already in flight for them. Definitely servers will be more tricky, since the baseline will always be moving, and more quickly than EL kernels. [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream [2] https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Support+Matrix Cheers, Will -- Dr Will Furnass | Research Platforms Engineer IT Services | University of Sheffield Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Principal Architect Whamcloud
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