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

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jun 28, 2009  09:22 +0400, mozafar roshany wrote:
> So you mean I will have no chance to use Lustre on Debian Lenny with 2.6.26
> kernel version?

You can use 1.8.1 on the client without much effort, but having this
kernel version on the server would involve some significant work on
your part.

> 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.
> >
> >

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