[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.8.1 distribution missing kernel source?

[Kevin Van Maren]

Yes, those look to be the _unpatched_ rhel RPMs.

Try under Platform "Source" (rather than RedHat/x86_64) this package:

    Lustre-patched kernel source (installable RPM)
kernel-lustre-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5_lustre.1.8.1.src.rpm

Kevin


Richard Smith wrote:
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>
>   
>> Nope.  rpmbuild -bb should have built the lustre kernel RPMs.  What did
>> get created?
>>     
>
> Here's the list of artifacts that was created in 
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64:
>
> kernel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-debug-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-xen-debuginfo-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm
>
> I was concerned when I didn't see something named
> kernel-lustre-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5_lustre.1.8.1.x86_64.rpm
>
> Checking the contents of both the original binary rpm, and the kernel rpm
> I freshly compiled, they have different module directories:
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.1.14.el5_lustre.1.8.1 vs
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.1.14.el5
>
> So may be I have to use an intermediate step and copy over the appropriate
> config file from /boot. It left a question in my mind about whether the two
> rpms were compiled from the same patched source, or whether there are 
> additional
> patches that should be applied as part of the process of creating 
> kernel-lustre
> rpm.
>
> For the moment I'm ok, because with kernel-devel I've been able to compile
> the drivers I needed. I'm still interested in the steps required to compile
> a lustre-patched kernel though, in the pursuit of MB-sized i/o.
>
>