[Lustre-discuss] lustre + debian

[Patrick Winnertz]

Hello,

On Thursday 14 August 2008 18:57:52 Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> It's easy and then it's not. The Debian way is to download the Lustre
> kernel packages and the Lustre binary packages. You build a kernel using
> make-kpkg the --with-patches Lustre option, we found a bug when trying to
> use the --append_to_kernel option so unless that got fixed, don't use it,
Thanks for this informations, I'll have a look on it. 

> them up. You are now ready to use Lustre Debian style. If deploying this on
> a cluster, just install your ready made .debs for the kernel and modules.
> None of this was explained in the README in /usr/share/doc/Lustre so we had
> to figure it out ourselves. Hopefully the Debian folks have fixed that.
Could you please have a look on our Readme.Debian. I've attached the current 
version of this README.


>
> Do not use a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, only use the kernel source
> from the Debian repository as the Lustre kernel packages are tested against
> them.
Vanilla kernels should be supported.. We've only packaged the upstream patches 
and modified them a bit for the debian kernels. So vanilla kernels should work 
as usual. 

Greetings
Patrick Winnertz