[Lustre-discuss] 2.6 Kernel Support

Pavlica, Nick
2006-05-19T07:36:33Z

Phil,
  Thanks for the update!  Hopefully all the resources needed to finish
the port come together soon.  I wounder if there is enough community
interest in this to help the porting process along?

Thanks!
--Nick


On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 00:21, Phil Schwan wrote:
> Hi--
>
> Pavlica, Nick wrote:
> > All,
> >   Now that the 2.6.0 final kernel is out, I was wondering how the
Lustre
> > port to it was coming along.
>
> Lustre for 2.6 is functional, but not fully debugged, and has not yet
> been updated to 2.6.0 final.  It lags behind the 2.4 port mainly because
> we do not have a customer for this work.
>
> I would estimate that about 80% of the Lustre code is the same between
> 2.4 and 2.6.  Most of the hard work is in cross-platform code, and will
> not have to be redone.
>
> Thanks--
>
> -Phil