[Lustre-devel] Question of transplanting Lustre to a non-x86 arch

[Christopher J. Morrone <morrone2@llnl.gov>]

Just FYI, we have been successfully using Lustre clients on PowerPC 
architectures at LLNL for years, and PowerPC has a different default 
page size and endianness than x86.

On 12/05/2012 12:22 AM, Light&ColoR wrote:
> Big thx to you Andreas!
>
> At 2012-12-05 11:20:17,"Andreas Dilger" <adilger@whamcloud.com> wrote:
>
>     On 2012-12-04, at 0:02, Light&ColoR <eternalregion@163.com
>     <mailto:eternalregion@163.com>> wrote:
>>     I am a newbie, I have a little bit of experience in linux kernel,
>>     but not transplanting Lustre. How should I identify which part of
>>     source code in Lustre is architecture specified?
>
>     There is not much architecture-specific code in Lustre, and the less
>     the better...
>
>     Probably the easiest is to just try compiling it and seeing where
>     the issues are. Some are in the build system -we don't have configs
>     for server kernels. That isn't needed on the client though.
>
>     Big endian severs are not really supported as we have no ability to
>     test or fix them.
>
>     Please keep the list updated with your progress, since this has been
>     asked a couple of times here recently.
>
>     Cheers, Andreas
>
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