[Lustre-discuss] Lustre, its ldiskfs Module and Debian Lenny

Andreas Dilger adilger at sun.com
Sat Jun 27 15:31:46 PDT 2009


On Jun 27, 2009  22:29 +0400, mozafar roshany wrote:
> I'm working on Lustre in Debian Lenny these days.
> The major problem is that the packages at sun websites are for RHEL
> and for the kernel versions lower than 2.6.22 ...
> 
> The lustre packages exist on debian mirror and I did used the
> lustre-source README file procedure to build lustre modules.
> 
> The linux-patch-lustre package contains the patches for 2.6.18 ,
> 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 , while my Lenny kernel verision is 2.6.26 . Any
> way, I did this dirty work and created a 2.6.26 symlink to apply patch
> to my kernel... Everything went well and I booted to new kernel and
> loaded "lnet" and "lustre" kernel modules successfully, but there was
> NO "ldiskfs" module which the mkfs.lustre utility complains about when
> creating lustre file systems.
> 
> So my question is: can one install lustre on new disros like lenny
> with such new kernels? what's the solution?
> 
> I said the main issues; if more infos needed, I'll write other details.

In CVS there is support for 2.6.27 SLES11 using ext4.  You can't really
use the ext4 in earlier kernels because it is broken.  I would suggest
to use this kernel instead.

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




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