[Lustre-discuss] patchless kernel

[Andreas Dilger]

On Mar 25, 2008  15:16 +0100, Papp Tam�s wrote:
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.70444 (%build)
> make[1]: *** [rpms-real] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/lustre-1.6.4.3'
> make: *** [rpms] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
>  ./configure --with-linux=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.23.15-80.fc7-x86_64/ 
> --disable-server --disable-tests --disable-doc
> 
> 
> kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7

The unfortunate thing with "patchless" clients is that this is only
patchless on behalf of the kernel, and not of Lustre.  There are
always a slew of undocumented[*] changes in every kernel release
that we have to patch lustre to match in order to have it work.

Cheers, Andreas

[*] unless you consider wading through the 10000 emails every month
    to linux-kernel@ mailing list as "documentation"
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.