Re: [lustre-discuss] patchless server vs. patched server

2020-06-05 Thread Andreas Dilger
Pascal, Thanks for taking the time to update the wiki, every contribution helps. Note that the need for patches kernels for project quotas will also go away with newer kernels, but Red Hat just couldn't make that feature work with the RHEL7 kernel without breaking the ABI. Cheers, Andreas On Jun

Re: [lustre-discuss] patchless server vs. patched server

2020-06-02 Thread Pascal Suter
Hi George that used to be the case until before 2.10.1, but since 2.10.1 even ldiskfs does not require a patch anymore. I have actually updated from a patched 2.10.3 to 2.12.4 patchless and i am using ldiskfs for my MDTs  and ZFS for the OSTs but i think i just found out why there are still

Re: [lustre-discuss] patchless server vs. patched server

2020-06-02 Thread George Melikov
IIRC "patchless server" can only serve ZFS based backends.So, it you really need ldiskfs - you're stuck with patched kernel for now. 27.05.2020, 18:41, "Pascal Suter" :Hi alli am currently upgrading a lustre 2.10.3 to 2.12.4 on CentOS 7.7 and Iam unsure if I should use the patchless or patched serv

[lustre-discuss] patchless server vs. patched server

2020-05-27 Thread Pascal Suter
Hi all i am currently upgrading a lustre 2.10.3 to 2.12.4 on CentOS 7.7 and I am unsure if I should use the patchless or patched server version. what is the advantage of still using the patched server version over using the patchless variant? From an linux sysadmin point of view I prefer to u