[Lustre-discuss] lustre + debian

[David Brown]

Lustre developers only support vanilla 2.6.22.x ish (iirc). I don't
think they've tried pushing forward the support to newer vanilla
kernels. I think its about time for them to push forward their support
for newer kernels. I'm sure the lustre package maintainers for debian
would appreciate the effort. They do have patch sets for 2.6.23 but
I'm unsure how stable they really are.

However, with my repository you should be able to install the
pvfs-source then use module-assistant to build the pvfs client against
the lustre kernel.

So, something like:

apt-get install linux-image-2.6.22.19-lustre-amd64 pvfs-source
m-a a-i -k 2.6.22.19-lustre-amd64 pvfs

(the dependencies for pvfs-source should pull down module-assistant
and module-assistant if called like above should auto pull down the
kernel headers to build against also).

Thanks,
- David Brown

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
> I was wondering what kernel works.. it looks like you are using 2.6.18,
> correct?
>
> What needs to happen to get 2.6.25 to work? I'd really like to have
> lustre and PVFS coexist on the same box.
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:33:40PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Robert LeBlanc <robert at leblancnet.us> wrote:
>> > You should be able to use official Debian mirrors, that is all that we used,
>> > you don't have to build your own packages from scratch either as the
>> > packages are already in Lenny. Just apt-get the packages that he built:
>> >
>> > lustre-utils        #Userspace lustre util
>> > lustre-dev          #Development headers
>> > lustre-source       #Source for the kernel module
>> > lustre-tests        #Test suite
>> > linux-patch-lustre  #Patch for the linux kernel.
>> >
>> > And the kernel-source and just skip down to where he builds his kernel.
>> >
>> > Robert
>>
>> Just thought I'd mention the package repository that I maintain as
>> well for debian/ubuntu lustre packages
>>
>> http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/repository/debian
>> http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/repository/ubuntu
>>
>> I rebuild the latest packages from debian and build them for all
>> distributions (except for ubuntu/intrepid and debian/experimental) of
>> debian and ubuntu.
>>
>> If you don't want to build everything on your own using mine is what
>> its there for.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - David Brown
>>
>> > On 8/15/08 10:38 AM, "Troy Benjegerdes" <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm about to try this, and figured it would be worth documenting on the
>> >> wiki..
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Debian_Install
>> >>
>> >> so far the only issue is debian.internal.sanger.ac.uk is not visible to
>> >> us outsiders ;)
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Robert LeBlanc
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>> > Brigham Young University
>> > leblanc at byu.edu
>> > (801)422-1882
>> >
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>
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> software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer:
>
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