[Lustre-discuss] Is patchless ok for EL4 now?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 06 November 2008, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 16:54 +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> > After reading http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Patchless_Client it
> > is my understanding that it is now (2.6.9-78.0.5.EL and lustre-1.6.6) ok
> > to run patchless client on EL4 (64-bit).
>
> Yes.
>
> > This based on the fact that the problems described on the wiki-page were
> > fixed in versions older than mentioned above (last bug/comment was for
> > -55).
>
> Fixed in versions newer.  If my recollection of the RHEL kernel release
> schedule is right, -67 and newer are good to use.  Or maybe it's -55 and
> newer.  In any case, your -78 is in the safe zone.

Great that it should work now :-)

Maybe this could be cleared up on the wiki? The wiki says >=-55 is ok. You 
said in July:

>> Does anyone know if  patchless clients are available in lustre
>> 1.6.5.x.  We want to use 2.6.9-67-redhat.  Thanks for your help.
>
> No.  The 2.6.9 kernel is too old to support the patchless client.  You
> need to upgrade to either RHEL5 or SLES10 on the clients for patchless
> clients.

I'm certainly not trying to be difficult here, just wanting to clear the fog.

/Peter
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