On 2009-10-31, at 11:37, Bernd Schubert wrote: > Sun is very helpful and provide distribution kernels as tar.bz2 on > their download page: > > http://downloads.lustre.org/public/kernels/ > > So instead of going through the pain to get that yourself from the > vendors src.rpm Sun already greatly helps (so far I have not > found an easy how to do that myself, any hint from the guy > providing the tar files would be highly appreciated). > > In a perfect world, this page also would state which kernel is > suitable > for which Lustre version, e.g. > > lustre-1.6.7.2 linux-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.tar.bz2 > lustre-1.8.1.1 linux-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.tar.bz2 > > Also missing are the .config files. I usually extract these from the > kernel > binary packages - I need to download 150MB to get the 4KB config > file *sigh*. > And better don't try to change options in non-vanilla kernels, this > very often > fails, because the vendor doesn't support it and so also doesn't > test it.
You can get the config files from CVS, in lustre/kernel_patches/ kernel_configs directory. > Btw, of course these kernels also work for different distributions, > so instead > of going through the pain to port Lustre to Ubuntu or Debian > kernels, I simply > started to create debian packages for the RHEL5 kernels Yes, I also use different kernels on different distros (SLES10 kernel on FC6 for instance) without problems. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss