[Lustre-discuss] Has anyone built 1.8.5 on Centos 5.6?

[Mark Nelson]

Hi Michael,

We are one of the customers using it, and so far (about 2 weeks) it's 
been stable on a ~8700 core cluster.  fragmentation statistics as 
reported by brw_stats look much better than 1.8.2 as an added bonus.

Mark

On 06/13/2011 03:11 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 04:07 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
>> Joe,
>>
>> I'm trying to compile 1.8.5 i686/x86_64 on RHEL5.6 with 2.6.8-238
>> kernel.  Did you happen to hit this error with your compile?  If so
>> how did you fix it?  Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>>     CC [M]  fs/jbd2/journal.o
>> fs/jbd2/journal.c:94: error: redefinition of ‘__kcrctab_jbd2_log_start_commit’
>> fs/jbd2/journal.c:80: error: previous definition of
>> ‘__kcrctab_jbd2_log_start_commit’ was here
>> fs/jbd2/journal.c:94: error: redefinition of ‘__kstrtab_jbd2_log_start_commit’
>> fs/jbd2/journal.c:80: error: previous definition of
>> ‘__kstrtab_jbd2_log_start_commit’ was here
>> fs/jbd2/journal.c:94: error: redefinition of ‘__ksymtab_jbd2_log_start_commit’
>> fs/jbd2/journal.c:80: error: previous definition of
>> ‘__ksymtab_jbd2_log_start_commit’ was here
>> make[3]: *** [fs/jbd2/journal.o] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [fs/jbd2] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [fs] Error 2
>> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>>
>
> Hi Michael:
>
>     I had tried 1.8.5 against the newer kernels and ran into problems.
> So I pursued using the updated bits.
>
>     For our successful build, I used the updated Centos 5.6 kernel, and
> the git repository.  You can pull our build from here:
> http://download.scalableinformatics.com/lustre/1.8git_build/ if you
> wish.  Customers are using it, and so far, its looking pretty good.
>
>     Regards,
>
> Joe
>
>


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