[Lustre-discuss] status of lustre 2.0 on 2.6.18-194.17.1.0.1.el5 kernels

[Michael Shuey]

What does that imply for sites migrating from 1.8 to 2.1?  Presumably
some sites will have both 1.8 and 2.1 filesystems; will those sites
need to run 2.0 on the clients to mount both FS versions concurrently?

--
Mike Shuey



On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger at whamcloud.com> wrote:
> While 2.0 was submitted to quite heavy testing at Oracle before it's
> release, it has not been widely deployed for production at this point. All
> of the develoment and maintenance effort has gone into the next release
> (2.1) which is not released yet. I think that 2.1 will represent a much more
> sustainable target for production usage, when it is released. Until that
> happens, I would only recommend 2.0 for evaluation usage, and especially for
> sites new to Lustre that they stay on the tried-and-true 1.8 code base.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> On 2011-01-11, at 12:56, Samuel Aparicio <saparicio at bccrc.ca> wrote:
>
> thanks for this note.
> is lustre 2.0 regarded as stable for production?
> Professor Samuel Aparicio BM BCh PhD FRCPath
> Nan and Lorraine Robertson Chair UBC/BC Cancer Agency
> 675 West 10th, Vancouver V5Z 1L3, Canada.
> office: +1 604 675 8200 cellphone: +1 604 762 5178: lab
> website http://molonc.bccrc.ca
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> On Jan 7, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Colin Faber wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've built several against 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 kernels without problem
> so I would think you can probably get away with 0.1 as well.
>
> -cf
>
>
> On 01/07/2011 06:05 PM, Samuel Aparicio wrote:
>
> Is it known if Lustre 2.0 GA will run with 2.6.18-194.17.1.0.1.el5
>
> kernels. The test matrix has only the 164 kernel as the latest tested.
>
> Professor Samuel Aparicio BM BCh PhD FRCPath
>
> Nan and Lorraine Robertson Chair UBC/BC Cancer Agency
>
> 675 West 10th, Vancouver V5Z 1L3, Canada.
>
> office: +1 604 675 8200 cellphone: +1 604 762 5178: lab website
>
> http://molonc.bccrc.ca <http://molonc.bccrc.ca/>
>
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