Thank you for reply...<br><br>So you mean I will have no chance to use Lustre on Debian Lenny with 2.6.26 kernel version? <br><br>Thanks.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Andreas Dilger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adilger@sun.com">adilger@sun.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Jun 27, 2009 22:29 +0400, mozafar roshany wrote:<br>
> I'm working on Lustre in Debian Lenny these days.<br>
> The major problem is that the packages at sun websites are for RHEL<br>
> and for the kernel versions lower than 2.6.22 ...<br>
><br>
> The lustre packages exist on debian mirror and I did used the<br>
> lustre-source README file procedure to build lustre modules.<br>
><br>
> The linux-patch-lustre package contains the patches for 2.6.18 ,<br>
> 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 , while my Lenny kernel verision is 2.6.26 . Any<br>
> way, I did this dirty work and created a 2.6.26 symlink to apply patch<br>
> to my kernel... Everything went well and I booted to new kernel and<br>
> loaded "lnet" and "lustre" kernel modules successfully, but there was<br>
> NO "ldiskfs" module which the mkfs.lustre utility complains about when<br>
> creating lustre file systems.<br>
><br>
> So my question is: can one install lustre on new disros like lenny<br>
> with such new kernels? what's the solution?<br>
><br>
> I said the main issues; if more infos needed, I'll write other details.<br>
<br>
</div></div>In CVS there is support for 2.6.27 SLES11 using ext4. You can't really<br>
use the ext4 in earlier kernels because it is broken. I would suggest<br>
to use this kernel instead.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Andreas<br>
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Andreas Dilger<br>
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group<br>
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.<br>
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