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

[Mag Gam]

if I were to deploy a system now and I want to do the kernel compile
way, what kernel do you recommend? I prefer using 1.6.7.2 because of
its stability...



On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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