[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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