I know that the official Lustre support matrix does not show support for Lustre 1.8 on SLES 11 SP2, but I was wondering if anyone has had "unofficial" success making this work? Probably a long shot, but just thought I would ask... -- Rick Mohr Senior HPC System Administrator National Institute for Computational Sciences http://www.nics.tennessee.edu
On 2013/08/05 12:28 PM, "Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)" <rmohr-PW9W3dvnVcw@public.gmane.org> wrote:> >I know that the official Lustre support matrix does not show support for >Lustre 1.8 on SLES 11 SP2, but I was wondering if anyone has had >"unofficial" success making this work? > >Probably a long shot, but just thought I would ask...This would need a large number of patches on the client to work with the 3.0 kernel that SLES is using for SP2. There were large VFS changes in Linux 2.6.38, and that is just too much risk to add to Lustre 1.8. It is sad that SLES is changing the kernel version in an "Service Pack" release, unlike RHEL which keeps the same major kernel version (2.6.32) for all RHEL6.x releases. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Lustre Software Architect Intel High Performance Data Division
On Aug 6, 2013, at 7:31 PM, "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> This would need a large number of patches on the client to work with the > 3.0 kernel > that SLES is using for SP2. There were large VFS changes in Linux 2.6.38, > and that > is just too much risk to add to Lustre 1.8.I suspected as much....> It is sad that SLES is > changing the > kernel version in an "Service Pack" release, unlike RHEL which keeps the > same major > kernel version (2.6.32) for all RHEL6.x releases.Tell me about it :-) I appreciate the information. Thanks. -- Rick Mohr Senior HPC System Administrator National Institute for Computational Sciences http://www.nics.tennessee.edu