[Lustre-discuss] "Building Lustre, Protocol Basics, and Debugging" presentation

[Mag Gam]

Thanks for the response John.



On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Johann Lombardi <johann at sun.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Mag Gam wrote:
>>
>> What is the purpose of these extra kernel patches?
>
> Add things (ability to register journal callbacks, export some symbols which
> are not available to
> modules by default, ...) which are needed by Lustre.
>
>> I was under the impression on Lustre patch for the kernel is needed for
>> the MDS/OSS.
>
> Yes, those patches are needed on the server side (OSS/MDS) only.
>
>> Where can I find a full list the patches I need to "enchance" our OSS/MDS?
>
> hm, not sure to understand what you mean by "enchance", but those patches
> are listed
> in the series files, under lustre/kernel_patches/series.
>
> Johann
>