Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-12-16 Thread Jon Zhu
Hi, Oleg I just rebuilt the SUSE Lustre 2.1 client under xen kernel environment, no problem with the rebuild process, but I installed the package on the build machine got the following errors: ip-10-32-62-48://usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64 # modprobe lnet FATAL: Error inserting lnet

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-12-07 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! Yes, we do plan to have 3.x support. The 2.6.38 support is almost finished and we will start looking at 3.x next. Bye, Oleg On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Hi, Oleg Does Lustre 2.1 support Ubuntu client? From the following build map I can see only ubuntu 10.04

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Zhu
Hi, Oleg Does Lustre 2.1 support Ubuntu client? From the following build map I can see only ubuntu 10.04 client is supported but kernel needs to be patched. Is there any plan to support patchless kernel client on Ubuntu? The new Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 release kernel 3.0 is being used, any plan to

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-11-29 03:11 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Hi, Oleg I'm not Oleg but hopefully I can be of help. Does Lustre 2.1 support Ubuntu client? It builds. I'm not sure that any actual QA has been done on it though as I believe it's provided on an as is basis. From the following build map I can see only

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Zhu
Thank you for the reply, Brian. BTW, what does ofa and inkernel label at the build board actually mean? http://build.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-b2_1/ Regards, -Jon. On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Brian J. Murrell br...@whamcloud.comwrote: On 11-11-29 03:11 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Hi, Oleg I'm

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-11-29 03:48 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Thank you for the reply, Brian. NP. BTW, what does ofa and inkernel label at the build board actually mean? ofa == build with OFED I/B from OFA inkernel == build with I/B in the upstream kernel Cheers, b. -- Brian J. Murrell Senior Software

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Zhu
Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre client driver from source, just like what's been described in following: http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Rebuilding+the+Lustre-client+rpms+for+a+new+kernel If that's possible, where to grab the kernel source .src.deb? Thanks again! -Jon.

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-11-29 03:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre client driver from source, Sure. just like what's been described in following: http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Rebuilding+the+Lustre-client+rpms+for+a+new+kernel Well, not exactly. RPM != DEB. If

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Zhu
Very cool, thanks a lot, Brian! -Jon. On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell br...@whamcloud.comwrote: On 11-11-29 03:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre client driver from source, Sure. just like what's been described in following:

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Richard Henwood
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell br...@whamcloud.com wrote: On 11-11-29 03:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre client driver from source, Sure. just like what's been described in following:

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Zhu
Thanks, Richard, I will give it a shot. Regards, -Jon. On Nov 29, 2011, at 19:14, Richard Henwood rhenw...@whamcloud.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell br...@whamcloud.com wrote: On 11-11-29 03:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Cool. BTW, is it possible to rebuild the Lustre

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Zhu
Yes I confirm Ubuntu 10.04 has the same issue, need to run make right after configure, when building the Lustre 2.1 client package. Thanks -Jon. On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Richard Henwood rhenw...@whamcloud.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell br...@whamcloud.com

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-10-02 Thread Jon Zhu
Hi, Oleg I encountered the following error while building Lustre 2.1 release on Redhat 2.1, do you have any idea on this error? make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/build/lustre-release/ldiskfs/Module.symvers', needed by `Module.symvers'. Stop. Full build log : +

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-10-02 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! Last time I hit this (some years ago), a simple touch ldiskfs/Module.symvers helped. I don't remember what the issue was or how it was properly fixed, though. Bye, Oleg On Oct 2, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Hi, Oleg I encountered the following error while building

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-10-02 Thread Jon Zhu
Thanks a lot, the work around works. -Jon. On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Oleg Drokin gr...@whamcloud.com wrote: Hello! Last time I hit this (some years ago), a simple touch ldiskfs/Module.symvers helped. I don't remember what the issue was or how it was properly fixed, though.

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-09-29 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! There is nothing special, same as rhel6.1: unpack the lustre source, run autogen.sh, run configure and provide the path to the linux kernel source for your distro (need to patch first too), make. Bye, Oleg On Sep 29, 2011, at 11:21 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Hi, Oleg Do we have a

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hwllo~ On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:51 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: I still got some crash when further run some I/O test with the build, here's some system message containing call stack info maybe be useful to you to find the bug: Jun 23 21:46:12 ip-10-112-59-173 kernel: [ cut here

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Jon Zhu
Yes this is a Redhat 6.1 xen kernel, it works with this warning message, but well, I found under /var/spool/abrt/kerneloops-1308854953-1114-9 directory, there is a file called backtrace: [root@ip-10-83-7-78 kerneloops-1308854953-1114-9]# cat backtrace WARNING: at kernel/sched.c:7087

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Jon Zhu
Agree with you. But here comes the real problem, when I'm running a program called fileop to benchmark the Lustre file system from one client, the other client failed to list file in the directory where the fileop generates files on the mounted Lustre volume. Is this a known issue? [root@test1

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Jon Zhu
Do you mean if this directory is continuously being deleted and re-created during the test so that's why the other client cannot list file inside it? I guess so, after I stopped the fileop test program I can get into the directory and there is nothing in it. Thanks, -Jon. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Oleg Drokin
Yes, in case of a patchless client I expect you'd get something like what you see. I expect that if you cd into the dir after the test is started it might work, though. On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Do you mean if this directory is continuously being deleted and re-created

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Jon Zhu
Got it. Right now the client is running the same patched Redhat 6.1 xen kernel as MGS and OSS node, I guess that's not the **patchless** client you mentioned. Does patchless client means client running on un-patched kernel? Is there a way to build such client from the latest v2.1 code base? Or I

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Got it. Right now the client is running the same patched Redhat 6.1 xen kernel as MGS and OSS node, I guess that's not the **patchless** client you mentioned. Well, lately all clients are patchless meaning we no longer ship a lot of vfs

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-24 Thread Jon Zhu
Great, thanks a lot. -Jon. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Oleg Drokin gr...@whamcloud.com wrote: Hello! On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Got it. Right now the client is running the same patched Redhat 6.1 xen kernel as MGS and OSS node, I guess that's not the **patchless**

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Zhu
Thanks, Peter. The procedure has a step to create initrd: # /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install 2.6.32lustre21 It doesn't work so I used this command instead: mkinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.lustre21.img 2.6.32.lustre21 Looking forward to get the new

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Henwood
Hi Jon, Can you provide the lustre-release git checkout you used - from your attached lustre2.1-rhel61-error.txt it looks like the issue may be related to kernel/lustre versions and I will try to reproduce you work exactly. I'm going to refresh the walk through to add in RHEL 6.1 - and I

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Zhu
Hi, Richard I just ran the following command according to the Wiki guide at approximately 11:00AM EST yesterday. git clone git://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git Thanks for the quick reply, and let me know if you need any other information. Regards, -Jon. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:36

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-23 Thread Jon Zhu
The problem disappeared after I disable SELinux with the following steps, it works very well. Maybe we need to mention disabling SELinux and probably creating extra firewall policy to enable Lustre inter-node communication in the setup guide. Edit /etc/selinux/config and make sure the following

[Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-22 Thread Jon Zhu
Hi, all As a fan of Lustre file system, recently I got a chance to try to build Lustre whamcloud code v2.1 branch from scratch, the following build guide works pretty well: http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Walk-thru-+Build+Lustre+2.1+on+RHEL6+from+Whamcloud+git Everything works well until

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre v2.1 RHEL 6.1 build does not work

2011-06-22 Thread Peter Jones
Jon It seems that the instructions (written at the end of May) have grown stale since the recent realignment on RHEL6.1. We'll get the instructions updated. Peter On 11-06-22 6:03 PM, Jon Zhu wrote: Hi, all As a fan of Lustre file system, recently I got a chance to try to build Lustre