Lustre discuss - Sep 2011 - a version of lustre that works with RHEL55

Hi

for reasons of QLogic HCA OFED+ compatibility I need to find a version 
of lustre that that will work with the RHEL55 2.6.18-194 kernel.

The version on downloads wants 238-12-1(RHEL5.6) but Qlogic say their 
drivers don''t support that.

I can''t find *anything* useful on oracle/sun

I guess I need to build lustre myself.

So first I have a couple of questions.
-will the latest lustre src release work with rhel55?(2.6.18-194)
-how do I add OFED to the git build tree? NB I''ll be adding  
QLogic-Basic OFED+

The last time I built lustre was for 1.6.

I have been following the CentOS55/56 walk though on the wiki

http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Wiki+Front+Page

Just adding RHEL55 in place of Centos56 fails at the kernel ''make
rpm''
build stage

...
drivers/net/pppoe.c: In function ''pppoe_recvmsg'':
drivers/net/pppoe.c:941: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types 
lacks a cast
   CC [M]  drivers/net/8139cp.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/8139too.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/tun.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/dl2k.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/r8169.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/amd8111e.o
drivers/net/r8169.c: In function ''rtl8169_init_one'':
drivers/net/r8169.c:3171: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from 
pointer target type
   CC [M]  drivers/net/s2io.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/netconsole.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/niu.o
   CC [M]  drivers/net/virtio_net.o
   LD      drivers/net/built-in.o
   LD [M]  drivers/net/bnx2x.o
   LD      drivers/built-in.o
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build)

RPM build errors:
     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build)
make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
make: *** [rpm] Error 2
[build at cslab2 linux-2.6.18.x86_64]$

I''ll keep trying..

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Hello!

On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Brian O''Connor
wrote:
> for reasons of QLogic HCA OFED+ compatibility I need to find a version 
> of lustre that that will work with the RHEL55 2.6.18-194 kernel.
That was kernel of choice for 1.8.5
> I guess I need to build lustre myself.
> 
> So first I have a couple of questions.
> -will the latest lustre src release work with rhel55?(2.6.18-194)
No.
> -how do I add OFED to the git build tree? NB I''ll be adding  
> QLogic-Basic OFED+
There is a configure option for out of tree ofed path.
> Just adding RHEL55 in place of Centos56 fails at the kernel ''make
rpm''
> build stage
> 
> ...
> drivers/net/pppoe.c: In function ''pppoe_recvmsg'':
> drivers/net/pppoe.c:941: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types 
> lacks a cast
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/8139cp.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/8139too.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/tun.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/dl2k.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/r8169.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/amd8111e.o
> drivers/net/r8169.c: In function ''rtl8169_init_one'':
> drivers/net/r8169.c:3171: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from 
> pointer target type
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/s2io.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/netconsole.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/niu.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/net/virtio_net.o
>   LD      drivers/net/built-in.o
>   LD [M]  drivers/net/bnx2x.o
>   LD      drivers/built-in.o
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build)
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.61639 (%build)
> make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
> make
These are just warnings, I guess you skipped the errors.
I would expect the patches won''t apply, and thus it fails.

Bye,
    Oleg
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Oleg Drokin
Senior Software Engineer
Whamcloud, Inc.