[Lustre-discuss] Lustre install

[Jagga Soorma]

Thanks Michael for your response.  So if I understand correctly, you have
not had any issues running the stock kernel with the sun/oracle provided
lustre client rpms and instead of using the kernel-ib package you install
your own ofed packages.

Also, I have the new intel 8 core cpu's and would prefer to go to sles 11 sp
1 instead of sles 11.  However, this is not supported by the lustre client
yet.  What has your experience been with building your own lustre rpm's from
source using a different kernel?  Do you still have to patch the kernel?  I
am also thinking about installing sles 11 sp1 and just building the lustre
client rpm's from source.  Not sure if it is required to patch the kernel if
I use the most updated version provided my sles 11 sp1.

Thanks again,
-J

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Michael Barnes <Michael.Barnes at jlab.org>wrote:

>
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jagga Soorma wrote:
>
> > I have been having a lot of trouble with the sles 11 kernel that lustre
> 1.8.4 supports.  I tried downgrading the kernel and the lustre client
> (1.8.1.1) but the kernel-ib provided modules had some problems with my hca.
>  The newer kernel-ib package that comes with lustre client 1.8.4 did not
> have any issues.  Would it be possible for me to build/install my own ofed
> package and install just the lustre client rpms?  Do you see any issues with
> this setup?  Or should lustre be built from scratch all together?
>
> Jagga,
>
> We use our own OFED RPMs with Lustre clients using the Lustre client RPMs.
>  We also have some clients compiled from source due to the fact that we
> can't run stock kernels on some of our hardware.
>
> Both work fine.
>
> -mb
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