Re: [HPDD-discuss] 'lustre-dkms' (skeleton) package for Debian/Ubuntu available

We had stability issues with 3.12.x of lustre, we are now using 3.13 (custom built with lustre as module from the kernel source) On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Cédric Dufour - Idiap Research Institute <cedric.dufour(a)idiap.ch&gt; wrote: > Hello all, > > Newly subscribed to the list, I've been going through the archives and > seen some questions about Lustre client support on recent versions of > Debian/Ubuntu distributions. > > We have addressed that issue by: > - building a custom kernel with Lustre client *disabled*, based on > Ubuntu's latest available kernel + latest stable patchsets, 3.12.8 for us > so far (PS: './debian/rules editconfigs' to disable Lustre) > - having a separate (easily upgrade-able) 'lustre-dkms' package based on > Lustre in-kernel client code + our patches, 3.14rc1~patched for us so far > > We use that 3.12.8 kernel + lustre-dkms (3.14rc1~patched) package without > any problem on: > - Ubuntu/Quantal (~100 workstations and computation nodes) > - Debian/Wheezy with the few libc (>= 2.14) dependencies pulled from > Debian/Testing (a few servers requiring Lustre access) > - (hopefully Ubuntu/Trusty 14.04 in a few weeks) > (against a Lustre 2.6.32/2.4.2 cluster) > > I have tarball-ed the required resources at > http://www.idiap.ch/~cdufour/download/lustre-dkms.tar.bz2 . It contains > the skeleton directory and HOWO.TXT file that should get going those of you > who are interested to follow the same path. > > Hope it helps. > > Best regard, > > Cédric > > -- > > Cédric Dufour @ Idiap Research Institute > > _______________________________________________ > HPDD-discuss mailing list > HPDD-discuss(a)lists.01.org > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/hpdd-discuss > >