[OpenAFS] Open AFS on RedHat Enterprise Linux WS....

[Jason McCormick]

> This doesn't really make sense. It's possible that one or more of these
> threads is actually blocked on a lock (which running 'cmdebug <client>'
> will reveal if it is the case)

I've attached a text file with a pre and post AFS write output of 'cmdebug
localhost'.

 

> b) build afs with
> the following change. On or around line 206 of
> src/afs/LINUX/osi_machdep.h, change '#if defined(__KERNEL__) &&
> defined(CONFIG_SMP)' to '#if defined(__KERNEL__)'. also change line 27 of
> src/rx/LINUX/rx_kmutex.h to '#if 1', and line 357 of
> src/rx/rx_prototypes.h to '#if defined(KERNEL) &&
> defined(AFS_LINUX20_ENV)'

I tried this patch first but I get odd results:

$ klog 
Password:

Unable to authenticate to AFS because a pioctl failed.

I'm going to get the SMP kernels now and rebuild for those w/o the patch.

-- 
Jason McCormick <jasonmc@cert.org>
CERT Infrastructure Team