[Lustre-discuss] Which RHEL5 version for Lustre 1.8 GA release ??

Adeyemi Adesanya yemi at slac.stanford.edu
Thu Apr 30 14:45:53 PDT 2009


Hi Brian.

I was hoping that the 1.8 GA release would be based on  
2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 or newer. We have been informed of a root exploit  
in the earlier RHEL5 kernels. Should I consider grabbing a 1.8 release  
from CVS and start building against a more recent kernel?

------
Yemi

On Apr 30, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:18 -0700, Adeyemi Adesanya wrote:
>> We are patiently waiting for signs of the Lustre 1.8 GA release (last
>> day of the month)!
>
> And we are anxious to release it, but we don't want to release  
> something
> with serious bugs, so it's better to wait.  :-)
>
>> Can anyone tell me what RHEL5 kernel version will be used to build  
>> the
>> 1.8 patched kernel
>
> It appears from the source that it is 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5.
>
>> and RPMs when they become available for download
>> from the Sun website?
>
> When they pass all of our QA tests and show no serious regressions.   
> I'm
> afraid I can't give you a date when that will be because one never  
> knows
> what the results of an ongoing QA cycle will be until it's done.
>
> b.
>
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