[Lustre-discuss] vanilla kernel with 2.0 version

jherold at fh.com.pl jherold at fh.com.pl
Thu Oct 21 13:03:32 PDT 2010


Witam!

W liście datowanym 20 października 2010 (17:57:34) napisano:

> I assume your question is related to the server, since clients
> generally work with vanilla kernels.  

> We are working on the RHEL6 2.6.32 for Lustre 2.1 (available in
> bugzilla), and I'd hope that this will also work fairly well with the vanilla 2.6.32 kernel.

> There are no plans to add support for a particular vanilla kernel.
> That said, if you are interested to work on this then I'd recommend
> to look at the kernel patch reduction instead of just porting the
> existing patches. That will allow Lustre servers to work with any
> kernel instead of continuing the need for patches specific to each kernel.

> Cheers, Andreas

> On 2010-10-20, at 9:29, jherold at fh.com.pl wrote:
>> Will the vanilla kernels be supported with Lustre 2.0
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Jacek
>> 
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Thank You

If You are talking about kernel patch reduction what patches You mean
lustre patces or rather kerner (distro) patches?

Lustre server working with any kernel is my dream :)

Best regards
Jacek

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