[Lustre-discuss] Future of lustre 1.8.3+

[Andreas Dilger]

The SLES11 kernel is at 2.6.27 so it could be usable for this. Also, I  
thought that there were Debian packages for Lustre, why not use those?

Cheers, Andreas

On 2010-05-20, at 9:48, Ramiro Alba Queipo <raq at cttc.upc.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:43 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
>
>> That is what I would recommend and what several groups do (usually  
>> with
>> Debian, though).
>>
>>> not running the sles/rhel distro ? I know a lot of things can  
>>> happen but
>>> are these rhel/sles patches do brake some key features of the  
>>> kernel which
>>> would  only work under that specific distro ? I've positivley  
>>> tested a
>>> lustre client with a sles patched kernel on a gentoo distro. But  
>>> i'am a
>>> bit nervous about testing it on our live lustre server system.
>>
>> The only thing that really might cause trouble is udev, since sysfs
>> maintainers like to break old udev versions. I think upcoming  
>> Debian Squeeze
>> requires 2.6.27 at a minimum.
>
> Argg!!!, I think I am stacked with this situation. I compiled
> linux-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.tar.bz2 under Ubuntu 10.04 (from Debian
> Squeeze) using make-kpkg and after dealing with postinst.d hooks to
> create initrd image (not created by default!!!), I tried to boot and
> then I got the following before dropping into a initramfs shell:
>
> --- 
> --- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
> Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
> Done.
> libudev: udev_monitor_new_from_netlink: error getting socket: Invalid
> argument wait-for-root[431] : segfault
> Gave up waiting form root device. Common problems:
>  - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
>    - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
>    - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
>  -Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/0cff75ed-ba7f-4799-b596-cf2b214b9768 does not
> exist. Dropping to a shell!
>
>
> BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) buit-in shell (ask)
> Enter 'Help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
> (initramfs)
> --- 
> --- 
> --- 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Is this the problem you are talking about? Could you give me some  
> ideas
> of how can be solved?
>
> Regards
>
>
> -- 
> Ramiro Alba
>
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