2011/7/22 Luk Claes <[email protected]>: > On 07/22/2011 10:19 AM, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: >> Hello, > > Hi > >> I hope that this mailing list is the right one for that kind of questions. >> >> I am investigating the availability of packages for de IBM General >> Parallel File System (GPFS) [1] for Debian. It seems that this kind of >> distributed filesystem is of 1st importance for an European institut to >> migrate most for their desktop and serveur to a Debian Solution. >> >> So I am asking here, to know if someone already has got experience with this >> kind of >> installation, and if some one already packages it. > > We (at my university) experimented with GPFS on some Debian systems > quite recently. There are some issues though: some of the code can not > be distributed freely (one needs GPFS licenses) and the other issue is > to get the GPFS driver to compile one needs to cheat (we disguised us as > Ubuntu so the kernel headers could be found by the build process, but > had to remove Ubuntu specific parts as the number of arguments to the > kernel functions was unlike Ubuntu). > > Cheers > > Luk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
At EDF S.A. we are using GPFS on one of our production cluster (based on Debian squeeze, > 200 Tflops, > 1Po, #43 at TOP500 : http://www.top500.org/system/10804) This is working pretty well but cannot distribute freely the package because of GPFS licences. -- Stéphan Gorget -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM-kX-6O9the2vhn=qutj57a53e6whjk9meojsbzi_dvjbb...@mail.gmail.com
