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Andreas Dilger

2006-May-19 07:36 UTC

[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Question

On Nov 16, 2005  10:51 -0700, Jon Scottorn wrote:>    I have been  interested in using lustre for some time and have tried
> the public version out a bit.  I am wondering if the paid version of
> lustre is redesigned to have a clean patch set with user space tools.
> The reason why I am asking is that I need lustre to patch into the
> kernel so that I can also patch in other kernel patches of other items I
> need available and currently when I install Lustre and try to patch my
> other patches in there are conflicts with the items that Lustre has
> added in and it is making it very hard to get the two pieces working
> together.  If you are wondering what it is I have to have linux-vservers
> software and we are trying to get a network filesystem that is fast.
> Currently I am using GFS but it is slow.  I like Lustre and how fast it
> is.  Is it in the plans to create a patch set that will work like this?
The latest release versions of Lustre still have a significant number of
kernel patches.  I''m not sure what you mean by "clean patch
set" though.
Whether patches conflict really depends on what the other patches are
changing.

We ARE working to reduce the size of some of the major patches (VFS in
particular) but other patches will likely remain for a long time (exports,
some ext3 (ldiskfs) patches) because there is no way around them.

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

Jon Scottorn

2006-May-19 07:36 UTC

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Hi,

   I have been  interested in using lustre for some time and have tried
the public version out a bit.  I am wondering if the paid version of
lustre is redesigned to have a clean patch set with user space tools.
The reason why I am asking is that I need lustre to patch into the
kernel so that I can also patch in other kernel patches of other items I
need available and currently when I install Lustre and try to patch my
other patches in there are conflicts with the items that Lustre has
added in and it is making it very hard to get the two pieces working
together.  If you are wondering what it is I have to have linux-vservers
software and we are trying to get a network filesystem that is fast.
Currently I am using GFS but it is slow.  I like Lustre and how fast it
is.  Is it in the plans to create a patch set that will work like this?

Thanks,

Jon Scottorn
Systems Administrator
The Possibility Forge, Inc.
http://www.possibilityforge.com
435.635.0591 x.1004

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&nbsp;&nbsp; I have been&nbsp; interested in using lustre for some
time and have tried the public version out a bit.&nbsp; I am wondering if
the paid version of lustre is redesigned to have a clean patch set with user
space tools.&nbsp; The reason why I am asking is that I need lustre to patch
into the kernel so that I can also patch in other kernel patches of other items
I need available and currently when I install Lustre and try to patch my other
patches in there are conflicts with the items that Lustre has added in and it is
making it very hard to get the two pieces working together.&nbsp; If you are
wondering what it is I have to have linux-vservers software and we are trying to
get a network filesystem that is fast.&nbsp; Currently I am using GFS but it
is slow.&nbsp; I like Lustre and how fast it is.&nbsp; Is it in the
plans to create a patch set that will work like this?<BR>
<BR>
Thanks,<BR>
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