[Lustre-discuss] 1.8/2.6.32 support

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-03-31, at 10:16, Stephen Willey wrote:
> Obviously there is no RH-6.0 just yet (at least not beta or release) and as such 2.6.32 is not on the supported kernels list - obviously fair enough.
> 
> There are bugzilla entries with patches for 2.6.32 but these all apply to HEAD as opposed to the b1_8 branch.  Particularly all the stuff that applied against libcfs/blah/blah.m4
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> I'm trying to build an up-to-date patchless 1.8 client for Fedora 12 (2.6.32) and given a few hours to mash patches from HEAD into b1_8, it's doable, albeit hacky (I'm not a programmer) whereas I can compile HEAD almost without modification.
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> Is it the intention to backport these various changes into b1_8 or is that more or less as-is now until the release of 2.0?  We're in a bit of an awkward place since we can't compile 1.6.7.2 on 2.6.32 and 2.0 is still not in a production state.

There is work going on in bugzilla for b1_8 SLES11 SP1(?) kernel support, which will hopefully also be usable for RHEL6, when it is available.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.