[Lustre-discuss] Lustre and ext4

[Girish Shilamkar]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:45 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> 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.
Here is the bug for this task.
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15976

Regards,
Girish
> Thanks,
> Kalpak
> 
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