Bug#1053214: RFP: lustre -- distributed parallel, scalabe, high-performance, high-availability file system

[Christopher Huhn <c.huhn@gsi.de>]

Hi Ole,

more than a decade ago we (GSI IT) funded an effort by a commercial 
supporter (Credativ) to get Lustre in shape for inclusion in Debian.
This effort unfortunately went nowhere, but its remains can still be 
found on snapshot.debian.org [1].
AFAICT the current upstream packaging has been derived from this project.

The main culprit was that the Lustre development focuses on rather old 
enterprise (ie. RHEL) kernels and the newest Lustre did not work with 
the latest kernels in Debian upstream which regularly broke the package 
in Debian unstable until it was finally removed.

My impression is that this situation has not improved much and you will 
end up in a similar situation again.
The development models of Debian and Lustre seem to be too incompatible.

Best

Christopher

[1] https://snapshot.debian.org/package/lustre/