Lustre discuss - Jan 2010 - Lustre SLES 11 Clients - How to deal with updates

Hi Guys,

I am building our sles 11 lustre clients and was wondering how people deal
with updates.  Here are some options I was thinking about:

1) Build the systems and patch everything except the kernel.  Then install
the lustre client and kernel-ib rpm''s.  In the future we would upgrade
everything except the kernel.  Not sure about future dependency issues with
upgrading everything except the kernel.

2) Build the systems and patch everything.  Then compile the lustre-client
lustre-modules and kernel-ib instead of using the sun provided rpm''s. 
We
will have to compile every time we upgrade our servers.

How do people handle updates on the client side.  Is it easy to compile and
maintain the lustre client?  Where can I find detailed instructions on
compiling the client?

Thanks in advance,
-J
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Hi,
Jagga Soorma wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am building our sles 11 lustre clients and was wondering how people 
> deal with updates.  Here are some options I was thinking about:
>
> 1) Build the systems and patch everything except the kernel.  Then 
> install the lustre client and kernel-ib rpm''s.  In the future we
would
> upgrade everything except the kernel.  Not sure about future 
> dependency issues with upgrading everything except the kernel.
>
> 2) Build the systems and patch everything.  Then compile the 
> lustre-client lustre-modules and kernel-ib instead of using the sun 
> provided rpm''s.  We will have to compile every time we upgrade our
> servers.
>
> How do people handle updates on the client side.  Is it easy to 
> compile and maintain the lustre client?  Where can I find detailed 
> instructions on compiling the client?
Take a look in the manual, installation from source. The example there 
is from Redhat, but I had only very few things to tweak to get 
everything to compile and create rpms for me with the SLES-11 XEN kernel.

cheers,
Sebastian

On 2010-01-30, at 20:01, Jagga Soorma wrote:
> I am building our sles 11 lustre clients and was wondering how  
> people deal with updates.  Here are some options I was thinking about:
>
> 2) Build the systems and patch everything.  Then compile the lustre- 
> client lustre-modules and kernel-ib instead of using the sun  
> provided rpm''s.  We will have to compile every time we upgrade our
> servers.

You don''t need to patch the kernel to build clients.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.