Thanks Eli.
I was trying to build the server on Ubuntu and couldn't find much help. Yes. I agree that not much work is needed for client since the client module is already incorporated as part of the kernel.
Shifted to CentOS now due to time constraints for my project. If James could provide the details on how to do that, I would be glad to test during my spare time and post the details/results to the community.

Regards,
Akhilesh.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Akhilesh Gadde
<akhilesh.gadde@stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> Hi Rosenberg,
>
> I have been trying the entire weekend on how to do this. Not finding the
> right way to do that. :(
Sorry to hear :(

For clients you don't need anything special, the stock kernel should
suffice (though you may want a newer kernel for bugfixes etc).

For the servers I can't tell you (yet), but it seemed from James' post
that he built that successfully...

Regards,
Eli

PS: this is the ./configure we use to build our clients:

./configure --disable-modules --disable-server --enable-client
--prefix=/usr/local/lustre/[version]


>
>
> Regards,
> Akhilesh Gadde.
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:50 AM, E.S. Rosenberg
> <esr+hpdd-discuss@mail.hebrew.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Please report how it went, here we have an all Debian-client setup but
>> since we/the consultants on the project didn't want to be guinea pigs
>> we stuck with CentOS 6 servers....
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Simmons, James A. <simmonsja@ornl.gov>
>> wrote:
>> >>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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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