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

[mozafar roshany]

Thank you for reply...

So you mean I will have no chance to use Lustre on Debian Lenny with 2.6.26
kernel version?

Thanks.


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com> wrote:

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