Re: [lustre-discuss] KMOD vs DKMS

2017-07-19 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
dkms is much more convenient if you plan to stay up to date with kernel patching. You do not need to rebuild a new kmod rpm every time yum upate will upgrade your kernel to latest patch level, also I do not like that weak-updates kernel module solution (with symbolic links). I am using dkms

Re: [lustre-discuss] KMOD vs DKMS

2017-07-18 Thread Rick Wagner
Hi Brian, I consider build processes somewhat fragile, especially when you expect to get the same results across a large number of hosts, like a set of Lustre servers. As a result, I favor building a single set of RPMs, testing them, and then pushing an update to the production servers. So

[lustre-discuss] KMOD vs DKMS

2017-07-18 Thread Brian Andrus
All, I have been watching some of the discussions/issues folks have with building lustre and I am wondering what the consensus is on the two approaches. Myself, I have been building my own RPMs for some time and it seemed to me that the general direction of linux was to move toward kmod and