[Lustre-discuss] 1.6.5

Kossey, Robert bob.kossey at hp.com
Thu May 22 07:18:07 PDT 2008


Hello,

Yesterday Red Hat released RHEL5U2 with OFED 1.3 support built in.  Is 
there a plan to provide a Lustre patched kernel release of this, in 
coordination with Lustre 1.6.5, so that there is a prebuilt version of 
Lustre that would support OFED 1.3?

Thanks,
Bob
> On May 15, 2008  18:13 +0200, Papp Tam?s wrote:
>> / What is the expected date when v1.6.5 arrives?
> /
> The 1.6.5 release is undergoing internal testing, and we hope to release
> it in the next couple of weeks, but this is subject to successful testing
> (or there is no point in doing the testing...).  You can always grab it
> from CVS if you are interested to see the current state and give it a 
> spin.
>
>> / What kernels (patchless clients) will be supported?
> /
> The lustre/ChangeLog reports:
>
>       * version 1.6.5
>       * Support for kernels:
>        2.6.5-7.311 (SLES 9),
>        2.6.9-67.0.7.EL (RHEL 4),
>        2.6.16.54-0.2.5 (SLES 10),
>        2.6.22.14 vanilla (kernel.org)
>       * Client support for unpatched kernels:
>         (see http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client)
>         2.6.16 - 2.6.22 vanilla (kernel.org)
>
> lnet/ChangeLog reports:
>       * version 1.6.5
>       * Support for networks:
>        socklnd   - any kernel supported by Lustre,
>        qswlnd    - Qsnet kernel modules 5.20 and later,
>        openiblnd - IbGold 1.8.2,
>        o2iblnd   - OFED 1.1 and 1.2.0, 1.2.5
>        viblnd    - Voltaire ibhost 3.4.5 and later,
>        ciblnd    - Topspin 3.2.0,
>        iiblnd    - Infiniserv 3.3 + PathBits patch,
>        gmlnd     - GM 2.1.22 and later,
>        mxlnd     - MX 1.2.1 or later,
>        ptllnd    - Portals 3.3 / UNICOS/lc 1.5.x, 2.0.x
>
> ... but I think building against OFED 1.3 is also working.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> -- 
> Andreas Dilger
> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
>
>




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