Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-12 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi Alastair, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:59:39PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi Jimmy, > > Thanks, I saw that and am using gcc-3.3 at the moment. I will try to > enforce 3.3 in > the packaging (Depends: on gcc, then gcc-3.3 in the Makefiles, etc.) > > Regards > Alastair ---end quoted text

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-11 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi Alastair, just poking through the package so far, and i noticed that etch is using gcc4.1 and cross referencing the lustre-discuss list, i noticed that even though 4.x is targetted but isnt working right, 3.3 / 3.4 seems to be a better choice for compilers for lustre (at least for now) if one w

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi Jimmy, Thanks, I saw that and am using gcc-3.3 at the moment. I will try to enforce 3.3 in the packaging (Depends: on gcc, then gcc-3.3 in the Makefiles, etc.) Regards Alastair Jimmy Tang wrote: > Hi Alastair, > > just poking through the package so far, and i noticed that etch is using > gcc

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jimmy Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess i didnt phrase my initial mail too well, but yes openib2 in the > vanilla kernel + lustre it is something I would like to test. though we havent > sucessfully gotten openib2 to work correctly on our compute systems so > we havent looked at lustre +

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-08 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi Goswin, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:34:40PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > >> The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as > >> bonnie, etc. > >> but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to > >> target 2.6.17 for Etch. > >> (even

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jimmy Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Alastair, > >> The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as >> bonnie, etc. >> but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to >> target 2.6.17 for Etch. >> (even if we don't get in the Etch release, I

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-08 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi Alastair, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:24:44PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > None at the moment; we've a small test cluster that had driver issues up > to 2.6.17, and so i'm trying out 2.6.17. ah okay, i think i know the problem you may be refering (to the e326 sata disks and control

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-08 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Jimmy Tang wrote: > Hi Alastair, > > >> The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as >> bonnie, etc. >> but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to >> target 2.6.17 for Etch. >> (even if we don't get in the Etch release, I'd like to suppor

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-08 Thread Jimmy Tang
Hi Alastair, > The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as > bonnie, etc. > but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to > target 2.6.17 for Etch. > (even if we don't get in the Etch release, I'd like to support the > stable kernel.) Some p

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-09-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Hi, >> >> I've initial packaging done for 1.5.91 (alias 1.6 beta 4). This is for >> kernel 2.6.16; I'm >> porting it to 2.6.17, but have work to do for this, because of the >> changes for 2.6.17 in ext3; >> now i

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-08-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've initial packaging done for 1.5.91 (alias 1.6 beta 4). This is for > kernel 2.6.16; I'm > porting it to 2.6.17, but have work to do for this, because of the > changes for 2.6.17 in ext3; > now is a good time to put it up and merge our wo

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-08-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I've initial packaging done for 1.5.91 (alias 1.6 beta 4). This is for kernel 2.6.16; I'm porting it to 2.6.17, but have work to do for this, because of the changes for 2.6.17 in ext3; now is a good time to put it up and merge our work :-) The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-08-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 14:54 +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] > > There is already a project on Alioth > > > > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-lustre/ > > > > setup by Andreas Salomon (dilinger) which is probably a good place to > > merge our efforts. We

Bug#273713: Lustre packaging

2006-08-01 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, I see from 237713 that you ITP'd lustre. Are you still actively working on packaging Lustre? I am packaging it as part of work, and have been porting it forward to 2.6.16 (amd64) - currently building