[Lustre-discuss] 1.8.x server for el6

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2012-01-05, at 3:29 AM, Michael Sternberg wrote:
> I am wondering about the release matrix for Lustre vs. RHEL/CentOS.
> 
> ==============================================
> Lustre		lustre.org	whamcloud
> Release		------------	------------
> 		el5	el6	el5	el6
> ----------------------------------------------
> 1.8.7 client	yes	no	yes	yes
> 1.8.7 server	yes	no	yes	no
> 
> 2.0		(discontinued)	    n/a
> 
> 2.1   client	     n/a	yes	yes
> 2.1   server	     n/a	yes	yes
> ==============================================
> 
> http://downloads.lustre.org/public/lustre/v1.8/lustre_1.8.7/
> http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-1.8.7-wc1/el6/
> http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.1.0/
> 
> 
> It appears that the current recommended production release is Lustre-1.8, and, since there is no server for el6 I take that as a strong hint to stick to el5.

For new deployments the recommended version is 2.1.0 with RHEL6.1.  We are
starting work on a 2.1.1 maintenance release for the spring.

> Is there some more information public? I was planning to upgrade a cluster to el6. Ideally, I'd like to have servers and user nodes all on the same major OS release. However, stability will trump that.


Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger                       Whamcloud, Inc.
Principal Engineer                   http://www.whamcloud.com/