Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-21 Thread Albert Everett
Excellent - thanks for letting us know. Thanks again to Tim Carlson for his OFED wiki, and to Terascala for help with building up the lustre client. Albert On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Arya Mazaheri wrote: > Thanks Albert, I really appreciate you... > Now everything is working... > > > On Mo

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-21 Thread Arya Mazaheri
Thanks Albert, I really appreciate you... Now everything is working... On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Albert Everett wrote: > Here's what's in our /etc/modprobe.conf related to IB and lustre: > > options ib_mthca msi_x=1 > options lnet networks=o2ib0(ib0) > options ko2iblnd ipif_name=ib0 > >

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-21 Thread Albert Everett
Here's what's in our /etc/modprobe.conf related to IB and lustre: options ib_mthca msi_x=1 options lnet networks=o2ib0(ib0) options ko2iblnd ipif_name=ib0 We have Mellanox Infinihost (III?) DDR cards and IPs defined for them. $ /sbin/ifconfig ib0 ib0 Link encap:InfiniBand HWaddr 80:00:04:

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-20 Thread Arya Mazaheri
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 wrote: > For lustre client, we did not need to alter our kernel at all. We just made > and installed lus

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-19 Thread Albert Everett
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 vend

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-19 Thread Arya Mazaheri
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 wrote: > Our kernel is also 2.6.18_194.17.4.el5. > > We installed OFED 1.5.2 from source, followin

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-19 Thread Albert Everett
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 handle

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-19 Thread Arya Mazaheri
Well, I want to install client module on rocks 5.5 x86_64. there are some packages in source section of lustre download area. I am confused which one to choose? what are the differences between them? lustre-client-source-2.0.0.1-2.6.18_164.11.1.0.1.el5_lustre.2.0.0.1.i686.rpm lustre-client-source-2

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Installing Lustre client on 2.6.18-194 kernel

2011-02-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-02-19 09:34 AM, Arya Mazaheri wrote: > > 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