[Lustre-discuss] compiling lustre

[Harald van Pee]

But would it not be the easiest way to just use
an redhat update 5 kernel even one wants to stay
at update 4 for some reasons?

This is what I want to try next month.

Harald

On Thursday 10 January 2008 04:03 am, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 09, 2008  15:08 -0500, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > I'm trying to get lustre going on several redhat 4 update 4 x86_64
> > machines.
> >
> > i went to grab the lustre rpm's from sun, but it appears the kernel
> > rpm's are for redhat 4 update 5.
> >
> > so i in turn figured i'd compile the lustre sources against the
> > kernel-devel rpm's that came with rhel4ud4, however when i run through
> > the quilt process it appears that it's trying to use the 2.6.9-55
> > patches against my 2.6.9-44 patches.
> >
> > So the question is, am i doing something stupidly wrong here, or does
> > lustre 1.6.4.1 only support 2.6.9-55 kernels on redhat?
>
> Our policy is that the latest Lustre release works with the latest distro
> kernels.
>
> If you use the prepatched kernel from an older Lustre release, or the
> kernel patches if you want it against a different U4 kernel, it _should_ be
> possible to build the more recent Lustre release against it.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
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