[Lustre-discuss] Lustre install

Jagga Soorma jagga13 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 11:46:00 PDT 2010


Just out of curiosity, how come you are using the --disable-readline option?

Thanks,
-J

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jagga Soorma <jagga13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> |
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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