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 Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr(a)cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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> 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
>
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