[Lustre-discuss] Lustre SLES 11 Clients - How to deal with updates

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,
Jagga Soorma wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am building our sles 11 lustre clients and was wondering how people 
> deal with updates.  Here are some options I was thinking about:
>
> 1) Build the systems and patch everything except the kernel.  Then 
> install the lustre client and kernel-ib rpm's.  In the future we would 
> upgrade everything except the kernel.  Not sure about future 
> dependency issues with upgrading everything except the kernel.
>
> 2) Build the systems and patch everything.  Then compile the 
> lustre-client lustre-modules and kernel-ib instead of using the sun 
> provided rpm's.  We will have to compile every time we upgrade our 
> servers.
>
> How do people handle updates on the client side.  Is it easy to 
> compile and maintain the lustre client?  Where can I find detailed 
> instructions on compiling the client?
Take a look in the manual, installation from source. The example there 
is from Redhat, but I had only very few things to tweak to get 
everything to compile and create rpms for me with the SLES-11 XEN kernel.

cheers,
Sebastian