[Lustre-discuss] What do I need if I want to install lustre on ubuntu 8.04

[Brendan P. Caulfield]

I just went down this road and ended up reverting back to a 2.6.22 kernel 
and using the patchless client.  Below are the steps I have used to get 
this working successfully.

1. Install the following packages: kernel-package, module-assiatnt, 
dpatch, libncurses5-dev, lustre-source, lustre-utils.

- there may be more packages necessary but I use a preseeded install and 
these were the packages I was missing.

2. Download the 2.6.22-19 kernel source from kernel.org and untar into 
/usr/src.

3. Copy the running config to the 2.6.22 kernel directory - "cp 
/boot/config-`uname -r` /usr/src/<kernel_source_dir>/.config"

4. run "make menuconfig" from with the kernel source directory and make 
any changes that you need.  You do not need any modifications for lustre. 
Save the config.

5. Build the kernel packages:

- make-kpkg clean
- make-kpkg --append-to-version=-<whatever_you_want> kernel_image --initrd 
binary

6. You will now have several new .deb packages in /usr/src.  Install them. 
You can use these packages on other Ubuntu boxes and skip steps 1 - 5 on 
subsequent servers. Don't forget to update /boot/grub/menu.lst if you want 
to boot this kernel by default.

7. Reboot

8. Now build the lustre modules:

- m-a update
- m-a a-i lustre

9. Reboot and mount your filesystems (i.e. mount -t lustre 
server at tcp0:/location/of/filesystem /local/mount/point)

Building the lustre modules (step 8) will also create a .deb in /usr/src. 
You can use this on subsequent server build as well thus eliminating the 
need for step 8 in future installs.

Hope this helps. I spent a lot of time getting the client working the way 
I wanted and this is working for me.

Thanks,

-brendan

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Robert LeBlanc wrote:

> On 6/10/08 9:34 AM, "Jmlover" <Jmlover at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I input the command " apt-cache search lustre ", it gives me the
>> list of the package names including   liblustre, linux-patch-lustre,
>> lustre-dev, lustre-source and lustre-utils. Do these packages enough
>> for me to install both Lustre server and client??
>>
>> Thank you!
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>
> The procedure is much the same as Debian, but the documentation is horrible.
> Here is the idea, we've had to edit some patches at times to make it work
> because things were missing.
>
> Apt-get all the luster packages, the kernel-source package, module-assistant
> (should be already installed), kernel-package, fakeroot, and
> build-essentials.
>
> A kernel tar will be in /usr/src, untar it and run make menuconfig, or
> whatever to configure your kernel. I usually just copy my old config from
> /boot/<kernel-version>.conf to .config.
>
> Then compile your kernel with something like:
>
> CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=10 fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --with-patches lustre
> binary
>
> *I would not recommend using --append-to-version as the lustre patches can
> not handle finding the right kernel patches with stuff appended to the
> version. This is a bug and I asked one of my workers to file a Debian bug
> for it. The best place to fix it would be upstream though.
>
> CONCURRENCAY_LEVEL is the same as make -j and will use multiple processors
> to compile the kernel. I highly recommend using that to cut your compile
> time down. After your kernel builds fine install the new kernel package that
> is in /usr/src and reboot. Once you have rebooted then run module-assistant
> to build the Lustre modules.
>
> m-a auto-install lustre
>
> This will build the modules and install them for you. Now follow the
> instructions on the Lustre website to set up your servers and clients. Since
> we built a nice deb package for the kernel, we usually install it on all of
> our clients, but you could get away with a patchless config (haven't done it
> though).
>
> There may be some errors in my instructions above as it has been many months
> since I've done it. Also Open-IB is a pain in the neck to get to work since
> the whole project is Red Hat based. We usually cheat by getting their source
> RPM with all the patches already done, get a Debian kernel with the same
> version and make a patch file, then apply that to the kernel source right
> before make-kpkg command.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Robert
>
> -- 
> Robert LeBlanc
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> Brigham Young University
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