[lustre-discuss] lustre 2.15.3

[Laura Hild]

I've done the sort of back-porting I described.  It was because the later version hadn't been released yet, rather than because I wanted to stay on an older release, but that's basically what I believe you'd have to do.  I'd be surprised if anyone's doing that routinely, but making such proclamations and having them contradicted is how I learn!

I think another way of looking at this is, Lustre is part of your kernel, and just like you frequently get other, non-security (but LTS-style, similar to the Lustre 2.15 series) patches in your kernel security update, Lustre updates may be wrapped up in that also, if you aren't effectively rolling your own custom releases.


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Od: Khoi Mai <khoi.mai2008 at gmail.com>
Poslano: petek, 29. marec 2024 11:31
Za: Laura Hild
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Zadeva: Re: [lustre-discuss] lustre 2.15.3

We may have a security update that is wrapped up in a kernel upgrade but we may not have tested the lustre upgrade yet to release into our production landscape.

Was curious if it’s possible if there were others in the community that managed their patches and upgrades that didn’t involving upgrading lustre while patching the os kernel.


Khoi


On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 8:24 AM Laura Hild <lsh at jlab.org<mailto:lsh at jlab.org>> wrote:
Hi Khoi-

You could probably back-port to 2.15.3 the specific patch or patches that give 2.15.4 support for EL8.9 kernels, while leaving out the other fixes in 2.15.4, but that raises the question of why exactly you don't want those other fixes but do want the newer kernel.

-Laura


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Zadeva: [lustre-discuss] lustre 2.15.3

Is there a pathway to compile and operate lustre version 2.15.3 on linux 8

kernel-4.18.0-513.18.1.el8_9.x86_64. Or must we upgrade our lustre package
to 2.15.4 ?

Thanks,

Khoi