>Hi Simmons,

>Thanks for the response. Now I got the confidence that I could deploy Lustre servers on Ubuntu nodes. :)

>I am planning to use ZFS as the backing store. So as you mentioned, I should not be having a problem with that. Also, I am planning to use the latest Lustre version - 2.7. 

>In Lustre.org downloads section for 2.7 release, I see the below:

>Can I go with the packages in el6.6 for my deployment?

>(I am guessing that 'el' implies Enterprise Linux and 'sles' implies Solaris enterprise Linux)

There is no prebuilt versus. You need to build yourself. To work with the latest code do a

git clone git://git.hpdd.intel.com/fs/lustre-release

cd lustre-release

sh ./autogen.sh

./configure –with-spl=/where/spl/is  -–with-zfs=/where/zfs/lives

dpkg-buildpackage -us –uc