[Lustre-discuss] Compiling Lustre 2 on SLES10

[Cory Spitz]

Hi, Ken.

Thanks for putting in this effort.  I think that others would be
interested (I am).  Perhaps you could share your work at github or post
to lustre-devel ahead of LUG?

Thanks,
-Cory

On 02/21/2011 02:56 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> Yes, that is what Oracle had announced in the roadmap.
>>
>> SLES servers are still supported on Lustre 1.8.x, but Oracle announced 
>> plans to not support them with Lustre 2.x.  Given the similarities 
>> between the RHEL6 and SLES11 kernels, I am sure someone could bring SLES 
>> support back when RHEL6 is supported, if enough people were willing to 
>> pay for it.
> 
> If anyone cares ...
> 
> I did the mechanics of getting Lustre 2.0.0.1 compiled and running
> under SLES11SP1 (I first tried just SLES11, but it was too hard;
> the kernel was just too old to make bringing the ext4 patches forward
> feasible, at least for me).  I have it working right now in a small
> test filesystem I use for non-production work.  It was a pain (the
> major problems were in ldiskfs), but MOST of the pieces were there;
> it was mostly a matter of shuffling things around and figuring out
> what went where (I don't want to say it was EASY; it took a while.
> But it wouldn't call it _hard_; it was mostly annoying, especially
> since I wasn't that familiar at the time with ext4/ldiskfs).
> 
> I've been thinking of working with the open-source Lustre groups to get
> this into a future release; perhaps I'll talk with some of them at the
> upcoming LUG.
> 
> --Ken
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