[Lustre-discuss] lustre 1.8.3 upgrade observations

[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?

b.