[Lustre-discuss] building lustre-client rpms

[Alessandro Luccaroni - Diennea]

Hello,
in the last few days i have installed a HA lustre cluster for testing 
purpouse.
Everything goes smooth with the patched kernel 
(kernel-2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5_lustre.1.8.3.x86_64.rpm) but i can't 
find a way to mount the filsesystem with the patchless rpms:

[root at lustreclient2 mnt]# mount -t lustre lustremds02 at tcp0:/lustre 
/mnt/lustre
mount.lustre: mount lustremds02 at tcp0:/lustre at /mnt/lustre failed: No 
such device
Are the lustre modules loaded?
Check /etc/modprobe.conf and /proc/filesystems
Note 'alias lustre llite' should be removed from modprobe.conf

In /proc/filesystems i can't find the "lustre" row.

[root at lustreclient2 src]# uname -r
2.6.18-164.el5

[root at lustreclient2 mnt]# ls -l /lib/modules/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul  7 17:57 2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul  7 17:58 2.6.18-164.el5

I think the problem is the different kernel revision, but i can't find 
on the Red Hat Network the 2.6.18_164.11.1.0.1.el5 kernel; the closest 
one is kernel-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.x86_64.rpm.


I have also tried to build the client rpm from source but in the 
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/ directory i can only find the server-side 
rpms (lustre, lustre-debuginfo, lustre-modules, lustre-source, lustre 
tests):

cd /usr/src/lustre-1.8.3
./configure --with-linux=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5-x86_64
make rpms

Sure I'm missing something, can someone help me or point me to some 
documentation about building the patchless rpms from source?