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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Good Afternoon Everybody,<br>
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We are about to build a web10g server for some researchers. We are typically a RHEL/CentOS shop so kernel wise we would be behind the times on recent web10g patches. As an example PerfSonar is based on CentOS and has a kernel version of something like 2.6.32-358
while the web10g patches are way into the 3.x (and the oldest web10g patch is 2.6.38).<br>
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It looks like the best fit for a distro would be Fedora 18 as it is still RH and uses the 3.6 kernel train based upon this wiki:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_versions#Version_history" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_versions#Version_history</a><br>
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We are proposing:<br>
1. install FC 18<br>
2. d/l base kernel.org 3.6.0-ish source<br>
3. d/l web10g 0.6.2 or newer patch<br>
4. figure out where patch applies in kernel.org source<br>
5. d/l fedora 3.6.0-ish kernel source<br>
6. modify web10g 0.6.2 patch into fedora source<br>
7. compile new fedora source based patched kernel and cross fingers<br>
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I know documentation says that a raw ".0" kernel.org source is the supported method and that using other sources *may* work, but we are thinking it may pay off to use distro source to keep things in line with what is expected and configured in the distro.
On this path, are there any recommendations or experiences that would give this the best chance to pay off with a reasonably reliable system for our researchers?<br>
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Have other folks done anything like this successfully?<br>
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What are the plans with respect to working with the PerfSonar/NDT/NPAD folks especially since they are Cent based? I understand a patch for 2.6.32-358 would seem like a step backwards.<br>
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Thank You!<br>
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Kevin Kawaguchi<br>
UCDavis Network Operations Center<br>
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