-Here is an short explanation what to install on your Servers to set up lustre quickly.
-Be aware that this doesn't replace the Documentation and Installation Howtos from Lustre.
+Here is an short explanation what to install on your Servers to set up
+Lustre quickly. Be aware that this doesn't replace the Documentation
+and Installation Howtos from Lustre.
#1. Building the kernel and the modules
- You've to download the linux-source-2.6.18|21|22 package and the linux-patch-lustre package.
+ You've to download the linux-source package for your kernel and
+ the linux-patch-lustre package.
- Then patch your kernel with the correct patch file. Build and install it. (Use make-kpkg)
- To patch the kernel automatically use --added-patches=lustre as build option.
+ Then patch your kernel with the correct patch file. Build and install
+ it. (Use make-kpkg) To patch the kernel automatically use
+ --added-patches=lustre as build option.
- Here is the full line how I build my kernel (for those who are not familiar with make-kpkg)
- make-kpkg --added-patches=lustre --initrd --append-to-version "-quota-enabled-lustre-1.6.4.1" --revision credativ.1 kernel_image
+ Here is the full line how I build my kernel (for those who are not
+ familiar with make-kpkg):
+ make-kpkg --added-patches=lustre --initrd --append-to-version "-my-version" --revision 1 kernel_image
- Now reboot into this new kernel and install the lustre modules with:
+ Now reboot into this new kernel and install the Lustre modules with:
- m-a auto-install lustre
Then the kernel and the modules should be there.
In the next step install:
- lustre-utils
- Then load the kernel modules with:
- - modprobe lnet
- - modprobe lustre
- - modprobe ldiskfs
-
This have to be done on every server system.
#3. Creating partitions on the OST/MDT/MGS Servers
#4. Using the filesystem
- In order to use the FS, you'll have to mount it on a client. Please note that this client also
- needs the lustre-modules to be installed. (You can install lustre-source and build the module
- as described in 1.)
+ In order to use the FS, you'll have to mount it on a client. Please note
+ that this client also needs the lustre-modules to be installed. (You can
+ install lustre-source and build the module as described in 1.)
- mount -t lustre mgsnode@tcp0:/spfs /mnt
-#4.1 Using Quota:
+#5. Building client modules with DKMS
- The binaries and drivers for lustre in debian are compiled with enabled-quota.
- So if you like to use quota this is quite simple:
- - lfs quotacheck -ug $path/to/mounted/lustre/fs
- - lfs setquota -u $user 1000 2000 10000 20000 $path/to/mounted/lustre/fs
- - lfs quota -u $user $path/to/mounted/lustre/fs
+ Lustre client-only kernel modules can built against non-patched, vanilla
+ kernels. This may be more convenient than installing the patched kernel
+ and server modules.
- If you want to reset this quota informations for a given user, you'll have first to
- set every value to zero, and then give the new informations:
- - lfs setquota -u $user 0 0 0 0 $path/to/mounted/lustre/fs
- - lfs setquota -u $user 2000 3000 3000 4000 $path/to/mounted/lustre/fs
+ Installing the lustre-client-modules-dkms package will automatically
+ build modules for all currently installed kernels using DKMS
+ (http://linux.dell.com/dkms/) for which you will need to have the relevant
+ linux-headers packages installed. When a new kernel is installed on the
+ machine, DKMS will automatically build a new set of Lustre client modules.
- This behaviour is reported as lustre bug: https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14513
+ You can also use DKMS to create a new deb containing the pre-built kernel
+ modules, suitable for installing on other machines which may not have a
+ full build environment.
+ - dkms build -m lustre-client-modules -v <version> -k <kernel-version>
+ (repeat the above step for all required kernel versions)
+ - dkms mkdeb -m lustre-client-modules -v <version>
+ - dkms mkdsc -m lustre-client-modules -v <version>
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-Please have also a look into the official documentation for lustre available at:
+Please have also a look into the official documentation for Lustre available at:
-http://manual.lustre.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
+https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Documentation
-- Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org> Thu, 28 Dec 2007 14:53:25 +0200