Wed, 07 Feb 2007
Lustre on Debian
Just to keep anyone who's following up-to-date, Lustre 1.5.95 (alias 1.6beta5) is currently in the Debian New Queue. Its been there two weeks; looks like NEW processing has slowed down again. It was rejected the last two times due to inadequate copyright / licensing documentation; this and other issues have been fixed.
1.5.95 seems stable enough; I've had corruption issues on one filesystem (the main one on my test cluster, unfortunately), so try, but don't rely on it.Meanwhile 1.5.97 has come out, and is now in the repository. This builds and runs, but seems to have many problems on 2.6.18 kernels. These are known issues, apparently; there are bugfixes for some of them in the debian/patches directory that could be ported forward, but fortunately the nice folks at clusterfs plan on doing a release supporting 2.6.18 in the next week or so, so I'll hold off until then.