[Lustre-discuss] lustre ofed compatibility

Kevin Van Maren kevin.van.maren at oracle.com
Wed Jun 1 10:36:21 PDT 2011


OFED 1.5.1 should work fine with Lustre 1.8.4, although I believe more 
people are using the in-kernel OFED now: Lustre (finally) defaulted to 
the in-kernel OFED for RedHat, so it is no longer _necessary_ to build 
either OFED or Lustre.

Kevin


Edward Walter wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> We're getting ready to upgrade the OS/software  stack on one of our 
> clusters and I'm looking at which Lustre and OFED versions will work best.
>
> It looks like the changelog for 1.8.4 and the compatibility matrix have 
> conflicting information.
>
> The Lustre compatibility matrix indicates that on Lustre 1.8.4; the 
> highest OFED revision with o2iblnd support is 1.4.2:
> http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Lustre_Release_Information
>
> The changelog for 1.8.4 indicates that o2iblnd is supported with OFED 1.5.1:
> http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Change_Log_1.8#Changes_from_v1.8.3_to_v1.8.4
>
>
> Can someone clarify whether 1.8.4 supports o2iblnd with OFED 1.5.1?  Are 
> there any pitfalls to this configuration?  Has anyone found any 
> instabilities with this configuration?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> -Ed Walter
> Carnegie Mellon University
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