[gpfsug-discuss] Ubuntu 24.04

[Norbert Schuld]

Current plan is to support Ubuntu 24.04 with our 4Q release later this year.

Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Kind regards
Norbert Schuld

Software Engineer, Release Architect IBM Storage Scale
IBM Systems / 00E636

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Any indication when it might be supported?

The reason I ask is that we have an issue with Microsoft DFS shares. 
Basically the University provides shared space which under the hood is a Hitachi VSP. We have code that lets the user mount this shared space to move data on/off the HPC system. The issue is two levels of DFS
redirects(*) which works fine in RHEL7, but is broken in RHEL8, RHEL9, Ubuntu 20.04LTS and 22.04LTS.

However today I took a punt and tried with a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS install and woohoo it works. So somewhere between 3.10 and 4.18 it was broken and not fixed till somewhere between 5.15 and 6.8.

Obviously I only have a couple weeks left on RHEL7 but was going to flip the server we put in place to support this to CentOS 7 ELS from TuxCare while looking for a solution. So having now identified Ubuntu 24.04 as a potential solution I just need GPFS support. I presume that 24.04 will be supported in due course but just trying to gauge roughly how long, a month, six months etc. to make plans.


JAB.


* You mount the shared space which is a DFS share on a Windows 2019 server. You see a list of faculties. You change directory into the faculty and historically these where a share for each faculty on the VSP. However some faculties now store more data than can be accommodated on a single share from the VSP, so now when you change directory into the faculty the list of departments is another set of DFS redirects and trying to change into these does not work.

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Jonathan A. Buzzard                         Tel: +44141-5483420
HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.
University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG

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