[Lustre-discuss] Lustre install

Jagga Soorma jagga13 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 11:41:41 PDT 2010


Okay, I think I need lustre-1.8.4.tar.gz.  Will try building the client with
it and install my own ofed package.  Hope this works.

Thanks,
-J

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jagga Soorma <jagga13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Which source should I be downloading from oracle's site?  There seem to be
> different client source RPM's based on the distribution.  I would have
> expected just a single source tarball or src.rpm but that does not seem to
> be the case.
>
> My apologies for the n00b question but I have not built the lustre client
> from src before.
>
> Thanks,
> -J
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Michael Barnes <Michael.Barnes at jlab.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Jagga Soorma wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Thats correct.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> No. Lustre client kernel modules are self-contained aka "patchless"
>> clients.  Its been a while since I made the RPMs, but I found this laying
>> around:
>>
>> ./configure --disable-server --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-2.6.22-pfm-xeon
>> --with-o2ib --enable-quota --disable-readline
>>
>> Then I believe 'make rpms' does the right thing.
>>
>> Now that I said how easy it was, there is a caveat.  Now, there may be
>> issues with specific kernels, but this worked for us.  The linux-2.6.22
>> kernel is a kernel.org kernel with pfm patches (performance monitoring)
>> and this kernel also has a NDAed patch from AMD because there are bugs in
>> the CPUs and the patches are workarounds for the bugs in the CPU.
>>
>> It works for us, YMMV.
>>
>> -mb
>>
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