Re: supported os's

What's actual project status?
Missing developers?



On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:57 AM, John Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Shane wrote:
>
> I was reading in the notes on the 'downloads' section of the website
> that OpenSSI is only good for Fedora, Debian, and Red Hat 9. Are those
> set in stone or would it run on other linux flavors as well? I have 3
> small clusters that I've been using for a while for my software and
> none of them are of the supported flavors listed by OpenSSI. (I have
> OSX, RHE, and Gentoo).
>
>
>  OpenSSI uses some modified versions of the base packages of the OS (for
> example, I've attached the list for Debian Sarge).
>
> If you want to install OpenSSI on some other OS you have to port the
> OpenSSI changes to the other OS.
>
> The hard part is dealing with the cascading dependencies - The "official"
> OpenSSI kernel is based on 2.6.11, and so can't use a udev newer than 0.056
> or so.  I've ported the OpenSSI patches to 2.6.14 (with some known bugs), so
> we can use up to udev 0.80.   The version of udev in Debian Lenny requires
> at least kernel 2.6.18.
>
> Many packages require a more modern udev - as I downgrade the Debian Lenny
> version from 0.125 to 0.80 I have to provide a few out of date packages to
> make Lenny work - see
> http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-lenny-preview/extras
>
> If you want to try OpenSSI I seriously recommend using one of the supported
> distributions.  Personally I think that the Debian version is the easiest to
> install, and the Debian Lenny based distribution is the most "up to date".
>
> If you want to get an idea what OpenSSI is like without messing up one of
> your working clusters try installing OpenSSI under a virtual monitor: KVM,
> QEMU, Xen (HVM only at the moment).
>
> (I'm writing this message from an OpenSSI cluster where some of the nodes
> are running in Xen HVM virtual machines.  I do most of my testing in
> clusters built from QEMU virtual machines).
>
> OpenSSI packages for Debian Sarge:
>
>   am-utils_6.0.9-3.2.ssi1.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/am-utils_6.0.9-3.2.ssi1.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:24 1.4M  cluster-tools_1.9.3-0.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/cluster-tools_1.9.3-0.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 08:38 278K  devfsd_1.3.25-19.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/devfsd_1.3.25-19.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:17  65K  dpkg_1.10.28.ssi1.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/dpkg_1.10.28.ssi1.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:21 2.1M  drbd0.7.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/drbd0.7.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:23 126K  drbd_0.7.24-1.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/drbd_0.7.24-1.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:23 287K  e2fsprogs_1.37-2sarge1.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/e2fsprogs_1.37-2sarge1.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:17 3.4M  initrd-tools_0.1.81.1.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/initrd-tools_0.1.81.1.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:21  33K  kernel-ssi-latest-2.6-i386_102.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/kernel-ssi-latest-2.6-i386_102.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:27 3.6K  logrotate_3.7-5.ssi1.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/logrotate_3.7-5.ssi1.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:21  50K  netdump_0.6.11-1.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/netdump_0.6.11-1.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:23  40K  nfs-utils_1.0.6-3.1.ssi1.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/nfs-utils_1.0.6-3.1.ssi1.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:23 263K  openssi-tools_1.9.3-3.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/openssi-tools_1.9.3-3.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:17 541K  portmap_5-9.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/portmap_5-9.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:23  27K  procps_3.2.1-2.ssi3.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/procps_3.2.1-2.ssi3.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:22 289K  strace_4.5.8-1.2.ssi2.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/strace_4.5.8-1.2.ssi2.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:22 631K  sysvinit_2.86.ds1-1.ssi3.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/sysvinit_2.86.ds1-1.ssi3.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:20 176K  udev_0.056-3.ssi1.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/udev_0.056-3.ssi1.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 09:27 500K  util-linux_2.12p-4sarge1.ssi3.tar.gz<http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-sarge/openssi/source/util-linux_2.12p-4sarge1.ssi3.tar.gz> 12-Oct-2008
> 10:48 2.0M
>
>
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