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" <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
