[Lustre-discuss] Lustre and ext4

Brian J. Murrell Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM
Fri Aug 22 05:21:47 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 patches more of the kernel than just ext3/ldiskfs for servers.

b.

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