[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Patchless Client

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 27, 2008  20:57 +0300, Ender G�ler wrote:
> I'm new to lustre community and lustre software as well. I have question
> regarding to patchless lustre client installation. The OS is Redhat EL 5.1.
> I'm using voltaire gridstack v5.1.3 for infiniband software stack. I
> installed the lustre-1.6.5.1 servers without any problem. The client and
> server OSes are same. The problem is installing patchless client. Are there
> any howto or guide for that. I googled but got nothing about it. Just the
> link http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client . When i tried
> the things which i read on that page, no modules were build. Are there
> anything that must be done for the patchless client installation.
> 
> I ran the following command for configuration:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lustre --enable-uoss --enable-bgl
> --enable-posix-osd --enable-panic_dumplog --enable-quota
> --enable-health-write --enable-lru-resize --enable-adaptive-timeouts
> --enable-efence --enable-libwrap --enable-snmp --with-o2ib=/usr/src/openib
> --with-linux=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> 
> Then ran make && make install. None of the above steps returned error
> messages. So I assumed that the compilation and installation is successful.
> But when i try to mount the server the following error message returned:

There are actually patchless client RPMs available for download at the
same place as the server RPMs.  They are called "lustre-client" or similar.

Note that it is also possible to run the same "server" kernel and Lustre
RPMs on the client nodes, since the lustre RPM also contains the client.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.