[Lustre-discuss] lustre 1.8.3 upgrade observations

[Heiko Schröter]

Am Freitag 30 Juli 2010, um 17:23:09 schrieb Brian J. Murrell:
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:37 +0200, Heiko Schröter wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 1) when compiling the lustre modules for the server the ./configure script behaves a bit odd.
> > The --enable-server option is silently ignored when the kernel is not 100% patched.
> > 
> > Unfortunatly the build works for the server, but during the mount the error message claims about a missing "lustre" module which is loaded and running.
> > What is really missing are the ldiskfs et al module(s).
> > 
> > My feature request is that "./configure --enable-server" should fail when it is not able to build the server modules, instead of printing the following message:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > checking if kernel defines unshare_fs_struct()... no
> > checking for /usr/src/linux-2.6.27.39-0.3/include/linux/lustre_version.h... no
> > configure: WARNING: Unpatched kernel detected.
> > configure: WARNING: Lustre servers cannot be built with an unpatched kernel;
> > configure: WARNING: disabling server build
> 
> Hrm, yes, I agree, if you specify --enable-server and the kernel is
> found to not have the patches applied, configure should error out.  Can
> you please file a bug on this issue?

Done.

Regards
Heiko