All the nodes have to run the same network type, so they can talk to one another. If client is runnng<div>Infiniband, server must also run Infiniband, in most cases. See the Lustre Manual for information on</div><div>Lustre Routing. </div>
<div>Clients and server can run different versions of Lustre. </div><div>You need to run a version of the kernel supported by Lustre, even with patchless clients. </div><div>See Lustre release notes for kernel versions.</div>
<div>cliffw</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:54 PM, vilobh meshram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meshram.vilobh@gmail.com">meshram.vilobh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Hi,</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Is this setup possible.I want to install a patchless client on the client nodes.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Following are details :-</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br>
</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">1) Server has no OFED ; client has OFED 1.5.2.</font><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">2) Client / Server has Lustre 1.8.3.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">3) Client Linux version : 2.6.30</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"> Server Linux Version : 2.6.18-164.11.1</font></div>
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<font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Is it possible that if I install different Linux version of Client/Server but same Lustre version on Client/Server the things will work fine.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Also since I want to install patchless client on the client side do I need to restrict the Lustre setup to some specific version of the Linux Kernel.</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Thanks,</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#3333FF">Vilobh</font></div>
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