[Lustre-discuss] Patchless server

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Fri Oct 10 10:51:17 PDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:40:07AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:03 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > is there any chance to see patchless server similarly to the client?
> 
> Maybe some day.  We seem to be eliminating patches from the kernel
> little by little, but by no means at a break-neck pace.
> 
> > I like Lustre but I dislike the need for patched kernel on the server.
> 
> You are not the first person to express this desire, by a long shot, but
> I wonder, given that the servers are supposed to be dedicated Lustre
> servers, why are the already-patched binary kernel packages that we
> supply not sufficient for you?

While I think I understand why you say this, it very easily can sound 
like a monopolistic tactic to sell more Sun hardware. 

You start with "Well, aren't our binary kernels good enough" .. which 
next turns to "Well we don't support vendor X's raid controler with our
binaries".. next on the list is "Well, we QA everything on Sun hardware"

I think you will have a defensible case for "Use our binaries" when you
can support patched Debian and Ubuntu kernel packages, and there's been
discussion on the debian-kernel list about the merits of the patches.




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