Lustre on Raspberry Pi

lks_20 · July 6, 2021

I know this sounds crazy and it kind of is. I'm trying to get the Lustre file systems running on an Raspberry Pi for research purposes but that's a lot more difficult than expected.

Do you know anyone who has ever done this?

As far as I know the problem lies in the raspi specific Kernels but that's about it what I found out. Maybe someone of you has any ideas for this project.

Master Disaster · July 6, 2021

Doesn't seem to be possible since Lustre only support X64 architectures and requires RHEL or SLES.

You can run CentOS on a Pi 4 but you cannot get around the X86-64 dependency (unless you want to pull the source and do a port job or try to cross compile it).

People have Gluster running on Ras Pi's though.

Edit - So after looking through the Lustre download server it looks possible to run the client on other architectures, you can also run the client on Ubuntu. The issue is the server which has a strict RHEL/SLES and X86-64 requirement. You could potentially connect a Pi to an existing pool but you cannot run one.