Re: [HPDD-discuss] Question to build lustre from source
No, zfs does not need any patches.
On Oct 10, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Jorge Ventura wrote:
Does the restriction apply if I am using Zfs/Spl?
On Oct 10, 2014 7:20 PM, "Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin(a)intel.com> wrote:
Hello!
On Oct 10, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Jorge Ventura wrote:
> I think that even to build the rpms, I have to be in a RedHat or Suse distribution.
I can't do that from any distribution starting from tarball.
>
> At configure time I have this message:
> checking for RedHat kernel release number...
> checking if Linux kernel was built with CONFIG_SUSE_KERNEL... no
>
> Because I am not in a RedHat distribution there is no way to decide what patch list
to apply.
>
> Question: What you call ldiskfs in reality is ext4 with the patches in the lustre
tarball. Is that right ?
Yes, This is correct.
Note this is only needed if you want to build server part.
Bye,
Oleg