Lustre discuss - May 2006 - lustre 1.2.4 and which linux kernels?

On Apr 19, 2005  15:17 +1000, jm wrote:
> Thanks to a blatant hit from yfyoufeng I got the correct version of the 
> kernel (2.6.6). The patches now apply cleanly. I then proceed as 
> follows, after running make to generate version.h and everything is 
> correct,
The only supported 2.6 kernel is the SuSE SLES 2.6.5 kernel, which already
has the Lustre kernel patches applied.
> $ ./configure --with-linux=../linux-2.6.6 
> --with-kernel-source-header=../linux-2.6.6/include/linux/kernel.h 
> --with-linux-config=../linux-2.6.6/.config
For 2.6 you also need to supply "--enable-ldiskfs".

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

Thanks to a blatant hit from yfyoufeng I got the correct version of the 
kernel (2.6.6). The patches now apply cleanly. I then proceed as 
follows, after running make to generate version.h and everything is 
correct,

$ cd lustre-1.2.4
$ ./configure --with-linux=../linux-2.6.6 
--with-kernel-source-header=../linux-2.6.6/include/linux/kernel.h 
--with-linux-config=../linux-2.6.6/.config
[output removed]

$ make installMaking install in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4''
perl ./scripts/version_tag.pl . . > tmpver
echo "#define LUSTRE_RELEASE 2.6.6_200504191440" >> tmpver
cmp -s ./include/linux/lustre_build_version.h tmpver \
                 2> /dev/null &&
    \
                 rm -f tmpver ||                                         
    \
                 mv tmpver ./include/linux/lustre_build_version.h
make sources -C ldiskfs
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4/ldiskfs''
rm -rf linux-stage linux sources
mkdir -p linux-stage/fs/ext3 linux-stage/include/linux
cp    linux-stage/fs/ext3
cp: missing destination file
Try `cp --help'' for more information.
make[2]: *** [sources] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4/ldiskfs''
make[1]: *** [ldiskfs-sources] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4''
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Same error as before. I did a make distclean and repeated the precess 
with the same results. I must be over looking something. Is there 
anything that should be set in the kernel options that may have been 
missed? I''m using a vanilla 2.6.6 kernel with the config from 
/proc/config.gz on gentoo 2005.0

Looking back though the output of configure I noticed

checking for /boot/kernel.h... no
checking for /var/adm/running-kernel.h... no
./configure: line 5335: ,: command not found           <-----*****
checking if you are running user mode linux for i686... no (asm doesn''t
point at asm-um)
checking for ../linux-2.6.6/include/linux/namei.h... yes
checking if you are using Linux 2.6... yes
checking for patch... /usr/bin/patch

this is '','' (comma) on a line by itself. re-running configure
and make
after removing this comma doesn''t fix the problem. Didn''t
think it
would, but it was worth a try.

Jeff.

I''ve download lustre 1.2.4 and attempted to compile it against linux 
2.6.11.7, but have run headlong into some problems. Some of the patches 
didn''t apply cleanly and when I go to make lustre I get

$ make install
Making install in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4''
perl ./scripts/version_tag.pl . . > tmpver
echo "#define LUSTRE_RELEASE 2.6.11.7_200504181633" >> tmpver
cmp -s ./include/linux/lustre_build_version.h tmpver \
                 2> /dev/null &&
    \
                 rm -f tmpver ||                                         
    \
                 mv tmpver ./include/linux/lustre_build_version.h
make sources -C ldiskfs
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4/ldiskfs''
rm -rf linux-stage linux sources
mkdir -p linux-stage/fs/ext3 linux-stage/include/linux
cp    linux-stage/fs/ext3
cp: missing destination file
Try `cp --help'' for more information.
make[2]: *** [sources] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4/ldiskfs''
make[1]: *** [ldiskfs-sources] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeffm/lustre-1.2.4''
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

After a bit of search it seems that lustre 1.2.6 or 1.2.8 may be needed 
which is not publicly available. As I don''t think I''d be able
to
convince anyone to pay for support for the small set up this is going 
to be used for (2 file servers with 5 or so front end servers), 
especially if I can''t even get it to compile. I was wondering which 
subversions of linux 2.6 are supported with lustre 1.2.4?

Jeff.