[Lustre-discuss] Lustre and ext4

Kalpak Shah Kalpak.Shah at Sun.COM
Fri Aug 22 05:15:58 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 07:42 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> It seems Lustre uses ext4 on its backends (OST/MDS) and I was curious
> if kernel patching will be required in the future releases? I would be
> nice to just compile the modules and be gone with it. But, I suppose
> there are other technical issues that need to be ignored out for this
> to work?

Lustre currently uses ext3+ldiskfs patches. When we start using the
newer kernels for Lustre which have ext4 support we do plan to start
using ext4.

Thanks,
Kalpak




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