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

Andreas Dilger adilger at Sun.COM
Mon Jun 29 13:00:07 PDT 2009


On Jun 28, 2009  18:45 -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
>
> We tried building 1.8.0.1 patchless against 2.6.26 for Debian without any
> success, are you saying that the unreleased 1.8.1 will build? I would really
> like to use the stock kernel for the next release of our cluster due out
> shortly.

Kernels later than 2.6.22 are only supported in 1.8.1, not 1.8.0.1.
You can grab the 1.8.1 pre-release from CVS with the b_release_1_8_1
tag for testing if you like.

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




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