[Pkg-lustre-maintainers] Bug#651795: linux-3.1 is not supported by upstream

[Touko Korpela]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:26:17PM +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > Upstream support is irrelavant for this bug.
> Nope it is not..
> 
> in fact this situation was exactly the same for the last two debian
> releases... lustre didn't support the standard kernel in these
> releases. 
> this is not that bad than it sounds as lustre is a very very specific
> kind of software, which is rarely/not at all used by normal users. 
> 
> This specific package is needed to build the kernel modules for the
> server and the client servers of lustre - and for this you really need
> plain kernel.org kernels (or SLES ones). 
> 
> I would really appreciate if we could come to the agreement, as done for
> the last releases also, that the support of the standard debian kernel
> is no RC bug for lustre. Loosing this type of software in debian, would
> be not good. Citing wikipedia:
> 
> Because Lustre has high performance capabilities and open licensing, it
> is often used in super computers. At the present time, fifteen of the
> top 30 supercomputers in the world have Lustre file systems in them,
> including the world's fastest TOP500 supercomputer, IBM Sequoia.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(file_system))

I read some basic information from homepage and Wikipedia.
Looks like 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 versions have been released in last years.
Shouldn't Debian package been updated to 2.x as well?
If staying on 1.8, 1.8.6 and later clients can interoperate 2.x servers.
But Debian package is still at 1.8.5 with some bugs that are fixed in later
versions.
Maybe you should ask wider opinion what to do with Lustre in Debian.