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This walk-thou has reportedly been used successfully on CentOS 6.0. One significant difference is that CentOS 6.0 replaces /etc/modprobe.conf with a directory: /etc/modprobe.d/. For CentOS 6.0 clients, the advice is to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf to contain Lustre specific module configurations.

Prerequisite

• A newly installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64 machine with the hostname: client-10.
• EPEL Repository: this is a convenient source for git.

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  # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh ./epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Overview

Lustre 1.8 servers require a patched and compiled kernel. Patches are readily available in the Whamcloud git source repository. A test suite is included with the Lustre 1.8 source. This document walks through the steps of patching the kernel, building Lustre and running a basic test of the complete system.

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