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&gt; 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 > > _______________________________________________ > HPDD-discuss mailing list > HPDD-discuss(a)lists.01.org > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/hpdd-discuss > >