I have done what you said. I will test my client to the server tomorrow. but would you tell me the tweaks you have done on /etc/modprobe.conf ?
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Albert Everett <aeever...@ualr.edu> wrote: > For lustre client, we did not need to alter our kernel at all. We just made > and installed lustre-1.8.5 and lustre-modules-1.8.5 rpms. /etc/modprobe.conf > needs a tweak. > > For lustre server, I believe you will need to deal with a patched kernel. > We have not been down this road yet since our vendor includes lustre server > software with their hardware. > > Albert > > > On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Arya Mazaheri wrote: > > Hi Albert, >> It seems that you have made a new kernel in order to run lustre on >> clients. Am I right? >> I don't want to change kernel on clients at all... >> >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Albert Everett <aeever...@ualr.edu> >> wrote: >> Our kernel is also 2.6.18_194.17.4.el5. >> >> We installed OFED 1.5.2 from source, following this guide: >> >> >> https://wiki.rocksclusters.org/wiki/index.php/Install_OFED_1.5.x_on_a_Rocks_5.3_cluster >> >> ... which left us, among other things, a folder /usr/src/ofa_kernel. >> >> Lustre on the server side is handled by our vendor, so all we needed to >> worry about is the client. >> >> To build a lustre client, we then installed lustre-1.8.5.tar.gz from >> source, not from rpms. Our first compile produced the error you show below. >> # ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build >> # make rpms >> >> To get the lustre installation to use our new OFED, we tried this and it >> worked. >> >> # ./configure --with-o2ib=/usr/src/ofa_kernel >> --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build >> # make rpms >> >> RPMs showed up in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64, and we are using >> lustre-1.8.5*.rpm and lustre-modules-*.rpm on our client machines. >> >> Albert >> >> >> On Feb 19, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Arya Mazaheri wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have installed lustre client packages on a client node. But it doesn't >> mount the lustre file system from lustre server. It gets the following >> famous error: >> >> $ mount -t lustre 192.168.0.1:/lustre /mnt/lustre >> mount.lustre: mount 172.16.113.232:/lustre at /mnt/lustre failed: No such >> device >> Are the lustre modules loaded? >> Check /etc/modprobe.conf and /proc/filesystems >> Note 'alias lustre llite' should be removed from modprobe.conf >> >> >> As I was searching through the mailing list, I have noticed that lustre.ko >> should be present in this directory: >> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.4.el5/kernel/fs/lustre/lustre.ko >> >> My current kernel is 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5. but lustre.ko is in >> 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 instead. So I guessed that this may be the source of >> problem. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> >> >> >
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