Hi, I've initial packaging done for 1.5.91 (alias 1.6 beta 4). This is for kernel 2.6.16; I'm porting it to 2.6.17, but have work to do for this, because of the changes for 2.6.17 in ext3; now is a good time to put it up and merge our work :-)
The 2.6.16 code I have works for light use: survives some tests such as bonnie, etc. but hangs in large workloads: I'm debugging this, but would prefer to target 2.6.17 for Etch. (even if we don't get in the Etch release, I'd like to support the stable kernel.) Some patches ported to 2.6.17. I've asked the alioth admins to create a subversion repo to upload this to. At the moment it can be reached on my home system where I was working on it: http://www.scealnetworks.com/projects/lustre/trac.cgi login as "lustre" password "lustre" I'll upload as soon as the alioth repo is ready. The packaging uses dpatch, and builds: linux-patch-lustre: the patch needed for the server. lustre-utils: the utilities supplied by lustre, for servers and clients lustre-ldap: LDAP config files for servers. lustre-dev: Devel files. liblustre: not currently tested. linux-modules-2.6.16-lustre: The modules for the client. As of 1.5.91, "patchless client" officially works, so this is the test ... I plan to move to using 'lustre-source' built with module-assistant instead. None of this is set in stone, of course, comments and additions welcome. We should also investigate CFS e2fsprogs and check if we should get their changes into the Debian package. Regards Alastair Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I see from 237713 that you ITP'd lustre. Are you still actively working >>> on packaging Lustre? >>> I am packaging it as part of work, and have been porting it forward to >>> 2.6.16 (amd64) >>> - currently building and testing it (the 1.5.91 beta build). >>> Do you have any work in progress, so should I upload if ready? >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Alastair McKinstry >>> >> >> I have 1.4.6.1 ported to 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 and the same for 1.4.6.94. >> >> I'm currently stuck at porting it to kernel 2.6.18 since there was a >> large change in ext3 in 2.6.17. I'm also trying out several revision >> control systems (arch, git, quilt) to see which one I like best and >> which one makes porting to new kernel and lustre versions the easiest. >> >> That has left me no time to do the actual debianization yet so if you >> have any of that done that would be more than welcome. >> >> There is already a project on Alioth >> >> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-lustre/ >> >> setup by Andreas Salomon (dilinger) which is probably a good place to >> merge our efforts. We should ask him to add us there. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> MfG >> Goswin >> > This sounds like a good idea. I've cc:'d Andreas: Andres, > could you add us to the alioth project? Our usernames are "mckinstry" > and "goswin-guest". > > > Regards > Alastair > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
