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The Lustre filesystem software is build on-top of the Linux kernel. Because Lustre is designed for the most demanding high performance environments, optional modifications must can be made to a stock Linux kernel to create optimized Lustre servers, but is not required. On a client, a Lustre filesystem is mounted with a Linux kernel module – and this does not need a modified kernel.

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Lustre patches are readily applied to a number of stock kernels and versions, these include : CentOSRHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma, SLES, and Ubuntu/Debian. A complete list of the Whamcloud supported kernels is available on Lustre Support Matrix page.

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Lustre source code available from Whamcloud repositories contains both Client and Server code. The Whamcloud Lustre source code is available at Whamcloud git repository and contains 1.8 and Master all of the release and development branches.

Patch, build, and install the Linux kernel with Lustre

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