[Lustre-discuss] Anyone built 1.8 or 1.6 on Fedora 12's 2.6.31 yet?

[Sébastien Buisson]

Hi,

Concerning the module loading issue you met, we hit the same while 
trying to compile and run Lustre 2.0 on 2.6.31 Fedora 12 kernel (see 
bugzilla https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21500 for details).

 From 2.6.28, CONFIG_KMOD was removed from the kernel, and the problem 
is that Lustre checks on this define to call request_module, thus 
dynamically loading kernel modules like mgc and lmv.

We have developed a patch to fix this issue, it is attachment 
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/attachment.cgi?id=27315 from bug 21500. 
Maybe the configure check is not optimal, but at least it is working for 
us :)

Cheers,
Sebastien.


Stephen Willey a écrit :
> I've got this morning's b1_8 branch to compile on Fedora 12.  For those interested, here are the steps.
> 
> (Disclaimer:  I am not a programmer and the below changes were hacks I made based on far too little knowledge.  If I've done something horribly wrong, please reply saying so).
> 
> 0) Just remembereed - I happened to symlink /usr/src/linux to kernels/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 - Just me being lazy when running configure too many times.
> 
> 1) /usr/src/kernels/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64/include/linux/posix_acl.h needs #include <linux/fs.h> adding to it.
> I don't know why and this is probably my hackiest hack, but if not, it fails to compile in the configure and causes problems later on.
> 
> 2) checkout the b1_8 tree and patch it with the attached.
> 
> 3) sh autogen.sh
> 4) ./configure --disable-server
> 
> 5) make rpms CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing
> I thought no-strict-aliasing was supposed to be picked up by default for kernel related builds, but I needed to add this.
> 
> Once they're built and installed, strangely, the mgc module will not load automatically.  I had to manually modprobe mgc before I could then successfully mount a Lustre FS.  If anyone knows why or if there's a fix, please let me know.
> 
> Hope it helps...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- "Andreas Dilger" <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2009-11-19, at 01:48, Stephen Willey wrote:
>>> https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21113 seems to suggest 
>>> that Sun/Lustre will be building it as F12 should be the base for  
>>> RH6 (please correct me if I'm wrong) but I was just wondering if  
>>> anyone was way ahead and had tried this already?
>> Some of our other customers are also interested in porting to FC12 as 
>>
>> a stepping stone to RHEL6.  We are getting closer on the client side, 
>>
>> but the server still needs work.  If anyone is interested to port the 
>>
>> server code, then I'd be interested to hear, because I'd prefer to  
>> spend any development effort to remove the server patches entirely.  
>>
>> Instead of reworking the patches yet again, this needs some effort in 
>>
>> the Lustre and ldiskfs code to allow it to use newer kernel APIs and 
>>
>> then (hopefully) we'll never need to patch for Lustre again.
>>
>>> https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21340 suggests I can use
>>  
>>> the 2.6.27 patches (are they rolled into 1.8.1.1??) plus the patch 
>>> in that thread to get it working.  Again, I'll give it a go but I  
>>> just figured I'd ask before possibly redoing work that's already  
>>> been done.
>>
>> The 2.6.27 support (both client and server) should be in 1.8.1.1  
>> AFAIK, because it runs on SLES11.
>>
>> Cheers, Andreas
>> --
>> Andreas Dilger
>> Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
>> Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
> 
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