Re: [HPDD-discuss] Latest Lustre on 32Bit
Dilger, Andreas wrote:
It should be possible in theory, but we haven't been testing this
for the past few releases (maybe 2.5 and later) due to non-existent user demand for 32-bit
clients. Several bugs for 32-bit clients were fixed the last year, and I _think_ the
current master branch compiles on 32-bit CPUs.
I don't know about the 2.x branches, but not long ago, jenkins kindly
informed me that I broke i686 builds in a patch I submitted for
lustre-master patch. So I can confirm that they are building and tested
for el6 with lustre-master ;-) The real target is Intel's MIC platform,
but the automated build and testing appears identical to the x86_64
platforms. It may not get any additional testing or real hardware
testing, but there is still some usage, and I would expect it to mostly
work.
I'm open to landing patches to fix such issues if you find them.
You might be better off just spending $60 for a 64-bit CPU :-).
More like $25... Unless this is a specialized processor like MIC, I
have to agree.