Lustre Client Installation in Servers.

Lustre Client installation
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As luster is not available on different kernel versions, we have to rebuild the rpm for a specific kernel. the steps are given below.



1)FIrst download the lustre source RPM from the site link http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.1.1/el6/client/SRPMS/

You can download according to different version of lustre. Here I need lustre-2.1.1

2)Then rebuild the RPM using the command

rpmbuild --define 'kversion 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64' --define 'kdir /usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64/' --rebuild lustre-client-2.1.1-2.6.32_220.el6.x86_64.src.rpm

it will build the new RPM for the desired kernel you want.

The new RPM will be in /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64

3)There will be 5 rpms in that location
lustre-2.1.1-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
lustre-debuginfo-2.1.1-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
lustre-modules-2.1.1-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
lustre-source-2.1.1-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm
lustre-tests-2.1.1-2.6.32_279.el6.x86_64.x86_64.rpm

There might get some dependancy problem while installing the packages l


For that install with out any dependancies

rpm -ivh --nodeps package.rpm


4)After that load the module using the command

modprobe lustre

5) Then you will be able to mount the llustre file systems using the commands

mount -t lustre .....

Regards
Syamkumar.M