[Lustre-discuss] Anybody have a client running on a 2.6.37 or later kernel?

[Carlson, Timothy S]

And of course an hour after I sent this message I got a working RHEL 6 kernel (2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64)  on my RHEL 5 system, replaced OFED to get XRC support, rebuilt Lustre (1.8.6-wc1) and am now testing this configuration. It's not the prettiest setup in the world but it seems to be working so far.

Thanks

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-discuss-
> bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Carlson, Timothy S
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:19 PM
> To: 'Kevin Van Maren'
> Cc: Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Anybody have a client running on a 2.6.37 or
> later kernel?
> 
> I'm trying that path as well but getting the RHEL 6 kernel going on my
> machine has proven a bit hard. I got 2.6.37.6 going on the first try but the
> RHEL 6 kernel is having a problem finding my root partition. This is usually a
> driver not getting loaded into the initrd. I  build the kernel just  fine, it looks
> like I have the correct modules to support booting from my IDE (exposed as
> a SCSI) drive, but I get the dreaded "can't find /" and then an init panic.  It's a
> pretty basic system, with no LVM or other complications. I'll figure it out
> eventually, but I've had to use my IPMI console way too much in the past
> day to boot back into working kernels. :)
> 
> Tim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Van Maren [mailto:KVanMaren at fusionio.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:24 AM
> > To: Carlson, Timothy S
> > Cc: Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Anybody have a client running on a 2.6.37 or
> > later kernel?
> >
> > Why not use the RHEL6 kernel on RHEL5?  That's probably much easier.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:50 PM, "Carlson, Timothy S"
> > <Timothy.Carlson at pnnl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > I've got a need to run a 2.6.37 or later kernel on client machines in order
> to
> > properly support AMD Interlagos CPUs. My other option is to switch from
> > RHEL 5.x to RHEL 6.x and use the whamcloud 1.8.6-wc1 patchless client (the
> > latest RHEL 6 kernel also supports Interlagos). But I would first like to
> > investigate using a 2.6.37 or later kernel on RHEL 5.
> > >
> > > I have a running kernel and started down the path of building Lustre
> > against 2.6.37.6 and ran into the changes that have been made wrt to
> ioctl(),
> > proc structures, etc.  I am *not* a kernel programmer would rather not
> mess
> > around too much in the source.
> > >
> > > So I am asking if anyone has successfully patched up Lustre to get a client
> > working with 2.6.37.6 or later.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Tim
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