[Lustre-discuss] OFED 1.5.1 on Clients

[Roger Spellman]

Jason,
Thanks for this response.  This brings up another question:

The bug number you referred to mentions an LBUG in OFED 1.4.1.  Are you
saying that the same LBUG would occur with OFED 1.5.1 too without the
patch?

-Roger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Rappleye [mailto:jason.rappleye at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:02 PM
> To: Roger Spellman
> Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] OFED 1.5.1 on Clients
> 
> 
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Roger Spellman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Can anyone share their experiences using OFED 1.5.1 on Lustre
> > Clients?  This is needed because RHAT 5.5 does not support OFED
1.4.2.
> 
> We're using it with ~9300 clients running Lustre 1.6.6 and haven't
> identified any OFED 1.5.1-specific issues. If you're using 1.6.x and
> haven't done so already, you'll want to apply bug 19520 attach 23498.
> 
> We just deployed 1.8.2 on a separate cluster with ~130 clients and
> haven't seen any OFED-specific issues there, either. While we did see
> some failures when running acc-sm with the stack of software we use
> here, none of those had anything to do with the version of OFED we
> were running.
>