Re: Lustre on Debian ETCH with RHEL4 Kernel

"Mustafa A. Hashmi" <mahashmi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi all,
> We recently got some HP-DL365 machines with the p400i controller. This
> presented a problem for us on Debian ETCH when we rolled the kernel back to
> 2.6.12.6 as the cciss driver wasn't new enough, and the available ones from
> sf.net didn't work out either.
> Patching the 2.6.18 kernel, though I am sure will work, is probably not ideal
> for production environments.
> To not tell a very long tale (2 days long really) of trying various options,
> we decided to try and run the supplied lustre kernel for RHEL4 on
> Debian. Barring a few very minor notes, the kernel, lustre-modules as well as
> lustre package were converted to debs and installed.
> I am yet to run any proper tests, however, everything is up and running via
> the provided test scripts.
> If anyone is interested in further details or wants to throw a red flag up
> regarding such a deployment, please do let me know.
> Thanks,
> --
> Mustafa A. Hashmi
> mahashmi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I have patches for 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 for lustre 1.4.7 and 1.4.9 that
we use productively at work and there is a debian package for the
upcoming lustre 1.6 in Debian that makes building your own lustre
kernel easy as pie.

If anyone is interested then shout.

MfG
        Goswin