[Lustre-discuss] Patchless client support for lustre 1.4.11

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:22 +0530, ashok bharat bayana wrote:
> My project requires to work with lustre 1.4.11(both client(patchless
> client) and server).

Why do you require 1.4.11?  And why 1.4.11 on the client?

> But I came to know that patchless client support is not there for
> luistre 1.4.11.  My task here is to make lustre 1.4.11 client give
> patchless client support.for this I hav to go through the lustre 1.6
> source code(as 1.6 has patchless client support) and figure out the
> differences between the two and make 1.4.11 to support patchless
> clients. I dont know how to proceed in this aspect.

Unless (and even if) you are a proficient kernel/filesystem/vfs hacker I
think you have a very steep uphill battle in front of you, which is why
I am exploring your requirement to use 1.4.11,

b.

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