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

Craig Tierney Craig.Tierney at noaa.gov
Wed Feb 13 15:44:28 PST 2008


Craig Tierney wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

Please ignore this last comment.  I see what needs to be done.

Craig

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Craig Tierney (craig.tierney at noaa.gov)



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