[LU-11310] support for SLES 15

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.14.0
• Assignee: Jian Yu
• Reporter: Brad Hoagland (Inactive)

Description

Ticket to coordinate testing of SLES 15:

Beta: January 23, 2018

GA: June 2018 

https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15/

Issue Links

• duplicates: LU-11295 Add ldiskfs patch series for SLES 15
• is related to: LU-13187 sanity test_129: current dir size 4096, previous limit 20480
• is related to: LU-13177 add e2fsprog support for SLES15SP1
• is related to: LU-13405 kernel update [SLES15 SP1 4.12.14-197.37.1]
• is related to: LU-10560 Fixes for 4.14 kernel
• is related to: LU-13204 sanity test 100: netstat: command not found on SLES15 SP1
• is related to: LU-12137 update client to use iterate_shared

Comments

[Jian Yu]

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes:
http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2019-December/006269.html

Kernel version is 4.12.14-197.29.1. I'm updating https://review.whamcloud.com/32693 to support client first.

[Cory Spitz]

The LWG is in the process of re-vamping kernel support guidelines. So, as opposed to my comment from July 25, we'll be contributing these patches for review. However, per the new LWG policy under consideration, patches are contributed without obligation to fully vet any test current or future failures (and SLES 15 servers aren't in the the auto test framework anyway). We can provide test results as landing collateral, if needed.

[Gerrit Updater]

Shaun Tancheff ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/36094
Subject: LU-11310 ldiskfs: Support for sle 4.12 r23 and r25 releases
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: 51e381b837f06ee305dd9072f1c23ae60ceca442

[Cory Spitz]

Cray has some additional patches in this area that could be landed, but that remains difficult while we lack SLES 15 servers in the test matrix.

We talked about it at today's LWG and we decided that it would be best to keep SLES 15 servers out of the mix as there is non-trivial amount of work and resources needed to get it to fly.

[Peter Jones]

Chris 

We haven't really talked about 2.13 and beyond in much detail at the LWG yet. Obviously we're still rather focused on closing out on 2.12 ATM but we could certainly discuss this at the next call in the new year.

Peter

[Chris Horn]

Is there any plan/ETA on adding SLES 15 to the build/test matrix?

[Gerrit Updater]

Bob Glossman ([e-mail]) uploaded a new patch: https://review.whamcloud.com/32693
Subject: LDEV-645 kernel: add sles15gmc support
Project: fs/lustre-release
Branch: master
Current Patch Set: 1
Commit: 7e1f2d3229f5795186b5236e9422815885cb9e2a

[Bob Glossman (Inactive)]

for unknown reasons lustre rpms generated by lbuild are now broken. The kmp rpms have no ksym() or kernel() entries in their Provides lists and are therefore not installable due to not satisfying any of the Requires that they should. lustre .rpms produced in a manual build are fine, they have full sets of Provides.

The install time "Broken Pipe" errors mentioned in earlier comments still happen.

[Bob Glossman (Inactive)]

GMC is now available on Intel mirror.
kernel version is 4.12.14-23-default.

[Bob Glossman (Inactive)]

due to recent changes in osd-ldiskfs https://review.whamcloud.com/32621 is now needed for server builds on sles15.

This is a new mod in flight, not landed yet.

[Bob Glossman (Inactive)]

GMC for sles15 is now available on suse.com