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List:       lustre-announce
Subject:    Re: [Lustre-discuss] Kernels and compiling
From:       Andreas Dilger <adilger () clusterfs ! com>
Date:       2006-01-12 23:18:36
Message-ID: 20060112231836.GG3682 () schatzie ! adilger ! int
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On Jan 12, 2006  16:46 -0500, John R. Dunning wrote:
> What with distractions, it took me all day to work through trying
> this.  It turns out that I can't build the kernel from source
> (kernel-source-2.6.9-22.EL_lustre.1.4.5) because my machine is
> reiserfs, and attempting to enable that in the config causes the
> compile to die in reiserfs.  A bit of investigation reveals that there
> seems to be at least one definition (the return type of get_rkey)
> that's inconsistent between the headers and the reiserfs code,
> resulting in compile errors.  That definition is not inconsistent in
> the base 2.6.9 sources, nor does it seem to be in any of the patch
> sets that come with lustre, which leads me to believe that it's part
> of the diffs from 2.6.9 to RHEL2.6.9.

We had other problems compiling 2.6.9-22 with some non-RH-standard config
options that we fixed.  Our patches only touched the i386 arch code and
didn't do anything for reiserfs.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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