Thanks Michael for your response. So if I understand correctly, you have not had any issues running the stock kernel with the sun/oracle provided lustre client rpms and instead of using the kernel-ib package you install your own ofed packages. <br>
<br>Also, I have the new intel 8 core cpu's and would prefer to go to sles 11 sp 1 instead of sles 11. However, this is not supported by the lustre client yet. What has your experience been with building your own lustre rpm's from source using a different kernel? Do you still have to patch the kernel? I am also thinking about installing sles 11 sp1 and just building the lustre client rpm's from source. Not sure if it is required to patch the kernel if I use the most updated version provided my sles 11 sp1.<br>
<br>Thanks again,<br>-J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Michael Barnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.Barnes@jlab.org">Michael.Barnes@jlab.org</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;">
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On Oct 27, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Jagga Soorma wrote:<br>
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> I have been having a lot of trouble with the sles 11 kernel that lustre 1.8.4 supports. I tried downgrading the kernel and the lustre client (1.8.1.1) but the kernel-ib provided modules had some problems with my hca. The newer kernel-ib package that comes with lustre client 1.8.4 did not have any issues. Would it be possible for me to build/install my own ofed package and install just the lustre client rpms? Do you see any issues with this setup? Or should lustre be built from scratch all together?<br>
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</div>Jagga,<br>
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We use our own OFED RPMs with Lustre clients using the Lustre client RPMs. We also have some clients compiled from source due to the fact that we can't run stock kernels on some of our hardware.<br>
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Both work fine.<br>
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-mb<br>
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