>>>>> "AG" == Akhilesh Gadde <akhilesh.gadde@stonybrook.edu> writes:

Hi Akhilesh,

if you want to make your life simple use Qlustar (qlustar.com). It has
ready to use ZFS Lustre (currently 2.6, soon 2.7) based on Ubuntu
14.04.

Best,

Roland

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

    AG> Regards, Akhilesh.

    AG> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, E.S. Rosenberg

    AG> <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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    >> >
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