[Lustre-discuss] Trying to build lustre with unsupported kernel

[Craig Tierney]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2008  14:49 -0700, Craig Tierney wrote:
>> I am trying to build lustre against and unsupported
>> kernel (2.6.20.20).  I am having some issues with it.
> 
> Do you really need this kernel on the servers, or could it be a
> supported patched kernel on the servers (e.g. RHEL5 2.6.18) and
> the 2.6.20.20 kernel patchless on the clients?
> 
> Making new kernel patch series is not for the faint of heart,
> and is generally not worthwhile for an "older" kernel like this.
> We have patches for 2.6.22 in our CVS and in bugzilla, so any
> work to get 2.6.20 on the server would be lost effort.
> 

Thanks for all of the quick replies.  I am happy to try 2.6.22.
Redhat kernels don't work for me (or at least, debugging their
problems isn't worth the effort).

However, if I patch a 2.6.22 kernel from CVS, wont I have to
be using the CVS tree for the latest Lustre dev version?  IE
I cannot just use the patches against 1.6.4.2 because I would
be dealing with the same problem as before (autogen.sh).

Thanks,
Craig





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