From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GsjUN-00073E-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:26:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB8HPV2X024230; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:25:31 GMT Received: from ece06.nas.nasa.gov (ece06.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.139.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB8HPTao002665 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:25:30 GMT Received: from ece06 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ece06.nas.nasa.gov (8.13.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kB8HFs1V025892 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:15:54 -0800 Message-Id: <200612081715.kB8HFs1V025892@ece06.nas.nasa.gov> To: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] examples of (large) Gentoo clusters In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:18:37 EST." <17785.29757.683233.632715@gs105.sicortex.com> X-url: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~bgreen/ Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:15:54 -0800 From: Bryan Green Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-cluster@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: ee258cd2-ce36-41bb-9570-f1ab9a9feaba X-Archives-Hash: 4f8b6edd4c6f89a955715bb1d9a97c79 "John R. Dunning" writes: > From: Bryan Green > > I was able to patch the kernel, but the server was somewhat unstable. > > Do you remember how it was unstable? That's the kind of thing I'd very much > like to understand, as we're proposing to depend heavily on it. If there are > issues, whether specifically tied to our patches or not, I'd love to know > about them. I remember the system was stable until we tried to shut it down. It would lock up while shutting down, possibly while unmounting filesystems. I also did not get to do extensive testing of the system, so I don't know if it would have been stable under real use of the Lustre filesystem. > I also tried to make a custom kernel for > lustre 1.4, but ultimately hit too many roadblocks. I did learn a bit about how > to use 'quilt' though. > > Hmmm. Maybe not. Our stuff ditches quilt. I just used quilt when working with 1.4. I did not have an ebuild for that. -bryan -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list