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<br><div><div>On Mar 20, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Joe Landman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 03/20/2012 02:42 PM, Samuel Aparicio wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for this.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">we have zero experience of patching lustre 1.8.7 against newer kernels,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are there any known pitfalls we should avoid.<br></blockquote><br>I just completed a (completely untested at the moment) build of <br>2.6.32.59.scalable with 1.8.7 patches. We'll do some testing here <br>first, but if it looks like it works well, we'll put a pointer to the <br>RPM. Or if you want to risk your dog biting you while your servers <br>possibly exploding, strafing your data center with untold numbers of <br>bits, and a diskful or two of lost metadata, I'd be happy to make it <br>available before our testing (we don't care if we lose data on our test <br>rigs) begins.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Joe<br><br><br><br>-- <br>Joseph Landman, Ph.D<br>Founder and CEO<br>Scalable Informatics Inc.<br>email: <a href="mailto:landman@scalableinformatics.com">landman@scalableinformatics.com</a><br>web : <a href="http://scalableinformatics.com">http://scalableinformatics.com</a><br> <a href="http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster">http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster</a><br>phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121<br>fax : +1 866 888 3112<br>cell : +1 734 612 4615<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>