Re: Kernel on OM nodes

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 10:13 -0400, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> We've been having a conversation here locally about 'mixing' kernels on 
> OpenMosix nodes. We have 5 slightly different machines in our cluster 
> (Dell 1850, SC1425, 2600, 6600, and IBM Blades). All run 32 bit Intel 
> processors of slightly varying types. At the moment I have precisely the 
> same kernel binary (Debian 2.4.27 kernel + OM) on almost all the nodes, 
> but a few have another compilation from the same sources, but a slightly 
> different configuration.
> 
> I've been told you must have precisely the same kernel binary on every 
> OM node.  I claim all you need a kernel made from the same kernel 
Where's that written ?   I hope I cleaned up that stuff from all the
existing documentation but it might still be out there somewhere.

The key is in the internal version that is being used by openMosix.

> sources, perhaps made with slightly different config files. As long as 
> the OM settings are the same, we're OK.


-- 
Kris Buytaert <mlkb-1zPVpAQ/[email protected]>


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