[Lustre-discuss] Lustre on Debian

[Mario Benitez]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to set up Luster on Debian (server & clients). Any hints out there?

Thanx in avance.

Marinho.-

[Kevin Van Maren]

Save yourself pain: use a supported RedHat kernel on the server.

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[Andreas Dilger]

On the client we build packages for Ubuntu, but not on the server. The client packages should build with "make deb(s)" (can't remember with s or not).

Cheers, Andreas

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[Chris Jewell]

On 1 Apr 2012, at 15:08, Mario Benitez wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to set up Luster on Debian (server & clients). Any hints out there?

Hi Mario,

My solution for the server was to use 'alien' to convert the rpm packages for a) a supported RHEL kernel (eg from CentOS), b) the Lustre packages. I then installed these on my Ubuntu 10.04 servers. Everything appears to work well.

Do note, however, that it's probably a good idea to 'hold' the kernel package to prevent Ubuntu updates from switching over to a newer (Ubuntu) kernel.

Chris

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[Guy Coates]

On 01/04/12 15:08, Mario Benitez wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to set up Luster on Debian (server & clients). Any hints out
> there?
>

Hi Mario,

It can be done, but be prepared to jump through a few hoops for the
server side.

Client side is pretty straight forward;

make debs

should give you some userspace debs and a module-assistant package for
the client kernel modules.

The simplest thing to do for server kernel & modules is to grab the
redhat kernel sources and use those to build the server kernel, as
detailed here.

http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Walk-thru-+Build+Lustre+MASTER+on+RHEL+6.1+from+Whamcloud+git

I could not get the rpmbuild -bp step to work correctly using rpm under
debian (although I didn't try very hard), so you might want to do that
on a centos machine.

Once you've patched the kernel you can generate a deb with make-kpkg.
I am not sure whether the debian build targets can cope with the server
modules at the moment; you might have to install those by hand...

Cheers,

Guy

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