[Lustre-discuss] lustre and latest errata kernel

[Dimitris Zilaskos]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Mag Gam wrote:

> Dimitris,
>
> We are dealing it very similar to yours. We are using the beta version
> and patching it and rolling out the custom kernel. I am willing to
> volunteer and create kernels for lustre but we need equipment and
> testers.
>
>

Thank you for your reply. Have you introduced any automation in the 
process?



> Hope this helps!
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos
> <dzila at tassadar.physics.auth.gr> wrote:
>>
>>        Hi,
>>
>> We are investigating the possibility of deploying lustre in our clusters.
>> We are using RHEL4. An important issue we are facing is support for the
>> latest errata kernels. For example at the moment it is possible to download
>> lustre-patched 2.6.9-67.0.7 kernel, while the latest errata is 2.6.9-78.
>>
>> I have tried patching the kernels sources with cvs, but this means
>> maintaining our own kernel, which we would like to avoid. How others are
>> dealing with this issue?
>>

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