Am Mittwoch 19 Mai 2010, um 10:33:04 schrieben Sie: > On 2010-05-19, at 01:40, Heiko Schröter wrote: > > we would like to know which way lustre is heading. > > > >> From the s/w repository we see that only redhat and suse ditros seems to > >> be supported. > > > > Is this the official policy of the lustre development to stick to (only) > > these two distros ? > > On the client side, we will support the main distros that our customers are > using, namely RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5.x (and 6.x after release), and SLES 10/11. > We make a best-effort attempt to have the client work with all client > kernels, but since our resources are limited we cannot test kernels other > than the supported ones. I don't see any huge demand for e.g. an > officially-supported Ubuntu client kernel, but there has long been an > unofficial Debian lustre package. > > On the server side, we will continue to support RHEL5.x and SLES10/11 for the > Lustre 1.8 release, and RHEL 5.x (6.x is being worked on) for the Lustre 2.x > release. Since maintaining kernel patches for other kernels is a lot of > work, we do not attempt to provide patches for other than official kernels. > However, there have in the past been ports of the kernel patches to other > kernels by external contributors (e.g. FC11, FC12, etc) and this will > hopefully continue in the future.
The server side is the more critical part as we are using gentoo+lustre running a vanilla kernel 2.6.22.19 with the lustre patches version 1.6.6. As far as we are concerned it would be nice to have the pathces for the "vanilla-kernels" in 1.8.3+. This would be just fine. On the other hand if maintaining is the key problem on your side what would be a major argument against using a patched sles/rhel on a lustre server not running the sles/rhel distro ? I know a lot of things can happen but are these rhel/sles patches do brake some key features of the kernel which would only work under that specific distro ? I've positivley tested a lustre client with a sles patched kernel on a gentoo distro. But i'am a bit nervous about testing it on our live lustre server system. > > > If not, then the sun src patches are still missing in the lustre AND > > e2fsprogs branches. > > I'm not sure what you mean. The e2fsprogs patches have always been in a > separate repository from the core Lustre code, and all of the Lustre/ldiskfs > kernel patches are in the Git repository. I know. But the patches are missing for 1.41.10 in that repo. i.e. as this here "e2fsprogs-1.41.6.sun1-patches.tgz" Thanks very much for your help. Regards Heiko _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
