[Lustre-discuss] problem with installing lustre and ofed

[Michael Shuey]

RedHat's OFED tends to lag Mellanox's.  They're pretty current on
bugfixes, but support for the latest hardware is usually 3-6 months
behind - it took about 4 months to bring in drivers for our most
recent FDR system.  Also, support for Mellanox's advanced features
(e.g., MXM, FCA) is often missing.

--
Mike Shuey


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Brian J. Murrell
<brian.murrell at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:54 -0800, Jason Brooks wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi,
>
>> I am having trouble installing the server modules for  lustre 2.1.4
>> and use mellanox's OFED distribution
>
> Is there a particular need for the Mellanox OFED distribution?  The
> Redhat EL 6 kernel comes stock with the inifiniband drivers and stack
> already baked in and we leverage that and build our Lustre modules RPM
> against it.
>
> So unless there is something particular that you need that is only in
> the Mellanox OFED distribution and is not already in EL6's kernels, you
> should be able to just use the binary kernel and lustre-modules RPMs
> that we supply and have working inifiniband support.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
>
>
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