[Lustre-discuss] Vanilla Kernel support in 1.8 series

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 15, 2009  09:51 -0400, Craig West wrote:
> I have noticed that there are currently no "supported" vanilla kernels 
> listed in the 1.8.1 RC.
> 
> Are we going to see a new vanilla kernel supported in Lustre 1.8?
> As someone who doesn't run RHEL or SLES, I found the vanilla kernels useful.

The 1.8.1 release will add support SLES11 (2.6.27-based) so it seems
fairly likely that the patches for this kernel will also work on 2.6.27
vanilla kernels.

We are also working on adding client-side support for 2.6.29/2.6.30
kernels (see bugzilla for patches).  Supporting a new kernel is added
work for us and is not undertaken lightly.  I would also like to
investigating patchless server support, but I'm not sure whether that
is possible yet, though newer kernels make this easier.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.