[Lustre-discuss] Support for vanilla kernels in lustre servers

Andreas Dilger adilger at sun.com
Thu Oct 29 10:32:12 PDT 2009


On 2009-10-29, at 06:49, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote:
> I am using (now testing) lustre-1.8.0.1 with vanilla kernel  
> 2.6.22.14 on
> Ubuntu 8.04 (originally with 2.6.24 kernel), and starting from
> lustre-1.8.1, I can not see support for vanilla kernels:
>
> 2009-07-31 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>        * version 1.8.1
>        * Support for kernels:
>         2.6.16.60-0.39.3 (SLES 10),
>         2.6.27.23-0.1 (SLES11, i686 & x84_64 only),
>         2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 (RHEL 5),
>
> Does that means that vanilla kernel support for lustre servers is  
> over?


It means that 2.6.22 is very old and spending our tester's time on this
kernel is not very productive.  The patches are still in CVS.  We are
working on adding in support for FC11 (2.6.30 AFAIR), which is fairly
close to vanilla "stable" series, but it isn't finished yet.

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




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