Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with debian for our calculation nodes if possible. So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a tall brick wall. Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don''t know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). Thanks, Eli
Hello Eli, there are no official Debian packages for Lustre 2.3/2.4/2.5. The instructions on http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Debian_Install are still working for 2.3/2.4/2.5 with some tiny tricks. You can either switch to the supported RH Kernel and use them in Debian, so you can apply the proper patch series. With Lustre 2.5 and configure settings --with-zfs --with-spl --disable-ldiskfs you can use it with the 3.6.11 vanilla Kernel and ZFS in Debian Wheezy. Regarding backward compatibility there is a post from Andreas Dilger http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2013-January/017075.html Cheers Thomas On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:> Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with > debian for our calculation nodes if possible. > So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they > more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a > tall brick wall. > > Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server > software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don''t > know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full > fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). > > Thanks, > Eli > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
You mean the 3.11 kernel right? On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Thomas Stibor <t.stibor-xgaYs6O1LGI@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Forgot to mention that: I have built Debian Wheezy packages which > are available at: > > http://web-docs.gsi.de/~tstibor/lustre/lustre-builds/ > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: >> Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with >> debian for our calculation nodes if possible. >> So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they >> more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a >> tall brick wall. >> >> Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server >> software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don''t >> know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full >> fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). >> >> Thanks, >> Eli >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
Forgot to mention that: I have built Debian Wheezy packages which are available at: http://web-docs.gsi.de/~tstibor/lustre/lustre-builds/ On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:> Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with > debian for our calculation nodes if possible. > So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they > more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a > tall brick wall. > > Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server > software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don''t > know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full > fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). > > Thanks, > Eli > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
Hmm I feel a bit stupid, but I''m going through the different menus in menuconfig and I''m pretty sure I combed through every option in the filesystems menu multiple times but I can''t find lustre... Am I missing something? (Downloaded a clean 3.12.1 kernel from kernel.org) Thanks, Eli On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:42 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+lustre-ed8gSyzkC85vlA8e7MYcDA@public.gmane.org> wrote:> You mean the 3.11 kernel right? > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Thomas Stibor <t.stibor-xgaYs6O1LGI@public.gmane.org> wrote: >> Forgot to mention that: I have built Debian Wheezy packages which >> are available at: >> >> http://web-docs.gsi.de/~tstibor/lustre/lustre-builds/ >> >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: >>> Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with >>> debian for our calculation nodes if possible. >>> So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they >>> more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a >>> tall brick wall. >>> >>> Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server >>> software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don''t >>> know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full >>> fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Eli >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lustre-discuss mailing list >>> Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org >>> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
Lustre is not (yet) part of the mainstream kernel so you are not going to find Lustre digging through the linux kernel build process. Thus you see the link below from Thomas on some lustre packages. Tim> -----Original Message----- > From: lustre-discuss-bounces-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org [mailto:lustre-discuss- > bounces-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of E.S. Rosenberg > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:50 AM > To: Thomas Stibor > Cc: lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] lustre on debian > > Hmm I feel a bit stupid, but I''m going through the different menus in > menuconfig and I''m pretty sure I combed through every option in the > filesystems menu multiple times but I can''t find lustre... > Am I missing something? > (Downloaded a clean 3.12.1 kernel from kernel.org) Thanks, Eli > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:42 PM, E.S. Rosenberg > <esr+lustre-ed8gSyzkC85vlA8e7MYcDA@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > You mean the 3.11 kernel right? > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Thomas Stibor <t.stibor-xgaYs6O1LGI@public.gmane.org> wrote: > >> Forgot to mention that: I have built Debian Wheezy packages which are > >> available at: > >> > >> http://web-docs.gsi.de/~tstibor/lustre/lustre-builds/ > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > >>> Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with > >>> debian for our calculation nodes if possible. > >>> So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they > >>> more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into > >>> a tall brick wall. > >>> > >>> Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server > >>> software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and > >>> don''t know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the > >>> full fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Eli > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Lustre-discuss mailing list > >>> Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org > >>> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
Note also that if there are fixes or patches for Debian builds, I''m happy to get patches to fix that. We do build Lustre clients (2.1-2.5) on Ubuntu 10, but I suspect that there may be some problems building on newer Ubuntu releases. Cheers, Andreas On 2013-11-25, at 9:38, "Thomas Stibor" <t.stibor-xgaYs6O1LGI@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hello Eli, > > there are no official Debian packages for Lustre 2.3/2.4/2.5. > The instructions on http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Debian_Install > are still working for 2.3/2.4/2.5 with some tiny tricks. You can either > switch to the supported RH Kernel and use them in Debian, so you can > apply the proper patch series. With Lustre 2.5 and configure > settings --with-zfs --with-spl --disable-ldiskfs > you can use it with the 3.6.11 vanilla Kernel and ZFS in Debian Wheezy. > > Regarding backward compatibility there is a post from Andreas Dilger > http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/2013-January/017075.html > > Cheers > Thomas > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:48:06PM +0200, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: >> Since in Linux we are mostly a debian shop we''d like to stick with >> debian for our calculation nodes if possible. >> So I wanted to ask the lustre 2.2 instructions for Debian are they >> more or less relevant to lustre 2.4/2.5 or am I going headlong into a >> tall brick wall. >> >> Also are newer clients backwards compatible with older server >> software? I am currently just setting up a demo environment and don''t >> know what version of lustre the vendor will install on the full >> fledged version yet (though I hope they''ll go with 2.4/2.5). >> >> Thanks, >> Eli >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss-aLEFhgZF4x6X6Mz3xDxJMA@public.gmane.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss