[Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5.1 OSS crashes

[Mag Gam]

Robin,

Thankyou very much for helping with this.

I want to try kernel 2.6.25 or even 2.6.26. But its not a big deal, I
just patched my distro kernel and everything seems to work well.
I am hoping in the future lustre will become a deamon or a module
instead of patching the actual kernel source code. This is causing too
many pains




On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Robin Humble <robin.humble at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:46:24AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
>>Can you please provide some good instructions on how to patch a more
>>recent kernel, or if you are using Redhat provide a more recent kernel
>>:-)
>
> I don't work for Sun/Lustre, so I can't provide you with a more recent
> (fixed) spin of their kernel, if that's what you mean.
>
> clients:
> I'm using patchless clients with 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 kernels. standard
> lustre only supports 2.6.22 patchless clients, or using their distro
> kernels.
>
> servers:
> I'm using rhel5 and rhel4 kernels provided by lustre whenever possible.
>
> if you can do that too, it'd be the easiest thing. can you use a rhel5
> (centos5), sles10, or similar kernel?
> then you don't have to patch anything...
>
> I've had to patch both servers and clients over the years - clients
> mostly for bugs, and servers mostly to include infiniband support which
> is in there as standard now.
>
> let me know if you can't use a provided-by-sun kernel, or what sort of
> 'recent' kernel you'd like and I'll try to put together a recipe for
> patching for you...
>
> cheers,
> robin
>