Hi, Jagga Soorma wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am building our sles 11 lustre clients and was wondering how people > deal with updates. Here are some options I was thinking about: > > 1) Build the systems and patch everything except the kernel. Then > install the lustre client and kernel-ib rpm's. In the future we would > upgrade everything except the kernel. Not sure about future > dependency issues with upgrading everything except the kernel. > > 2) Build the systems and patch everything. Then compile the > lustre-client lustre-modules and kernel-ib instead of using the sun > provided rpm's. We will have to compile every time we upgrade our > servers. > > How do people handle updates on the client side. Is it easy to > compile and maintain the lustre client? Where can I find detailed > instructions on compiling the client? Take a look in the manual, installation from source. The example there is from Redhat, but I had only very few things to tweak to get everything to compile and create rpms for me with the SLES-11 XEN kernel.
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