[Lustre-discuss] patchless client on kernel 2.6.25

[Alex Lyashkov]

Saber,

support for 2.6.27 patchless client is landed to b1_6 short after 1.6.7
release. You can download sources from cvs and compile himself.

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 16:30 -0500, Saber Feki wrote:
> Thank you Tamas,
> 
> Actually, I'm trying to compile the lustre patchless client version 1.6.5.1.
> Was is the same for you or you did it on a different lustre version.
> 
> I downloaded 2.6.27.tar.gz which contains all the patches I guess and
> then used quilt to apply them and this is what I got.
> 
> node01:~/lustre-1.6.5.1 # quilt push -afqv
> The topmost patch patches/loop-cleanup.diff needs to be refreshed first.
> node01:~/lustre-1.6.5.1 # quilt refresh
> Nothing in patch patches/loop-cleanup.diff
> 
> This patch (/loop-cleanup.diff) is just one line of code, so I did it
> manually.
> Still got errors in the compilation.
> 
> Then, I realized that some of the patches in the tar.gz are posted again
> in new versions?
> Should I updates then the patches in the patch directory with the newest
> ones ?
> Should I after that apply the other patches which comes after in the
> bugzilla page ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Saber
> 
> 
> Papp Tamás wrote:
> > Papp Tamás wrote, On 2009. 04. 13. 18:21:
> >> Saber Feki wrote, On 2009. 04. 13. 18:15:
> >>  
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm currently trying to compile and install the lustre patchless
> >>> client on
> >>> our cluster nodes running OpenSuse 11.0 with the kernel version 2.6.25.
> >>> Looking at the mailing list and in the lustre wiki, I was pointed to
> >>> bug
> >>> 14250. There, I find a large list of patches and comments, some of them
> >>> are for kernels 2.6.26 and 2.6.27.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any procedure on which patches to apply and in which order
> >>> to be
> >>> able to compile the patchless client for 2.6.25 kernel ?
> >>>
> >>> If someone succeeded to compile it for this configuration, please
> >>> let me
> >>> know how ?
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>
> >> We use it on b1_8 and it works.
> >>   
> >
> > I mean the patches can be applied without tricks.
> >
> > tamas
> 
> 
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Alex Lyashkov <alexey.lyashkov at sun.com>
Lustre Group, Sun Microsystems