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

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