[Lustre-discuss] Lustre version for patched kernel

Johann Lombardi johann.lombardi at oracle.com
Fri Oct 1 07:46:49 PDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:15:57AM -0400, Charland, Denis wrote:
> But I compiled a server version of Lustre, not a client version, and I'm running it

Yes, but this also includes the client component, although you don't use it.

> on a Lustre server. Does it mean that the server considers that it's running on
> an unpatched kernel?

No, not at all. It just means that the VFS intent patches are not applied, which
is totally expected. We don't support patchless server yet.

> I'm running Lustre 1.6.3 on an older FC4 cluster running a patched version of kernel
> 2.6.12 and I get 47 for "Kernel" in /proc/fs/lustre/version.

The VFS intent patches have only be removed for kernels >= 2.6.16.

Johann



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