[OpenAFS] Re: 1.4.2 client on RHEL5 beta 2

[Axel Thimm]

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:39:56PM +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Again, kind of a success report:
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> The only major build problem (kernel 2.6.18-1.2747.el5) was the return of=
=20
> tasklist_lock (SGI need it, et voila...) - alas, GPL-only:
>=20
>   LD [M] =20
>   /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/openafs-1.4.2/src/libafs/MODLOAD-2.6.18-1.2747.el=
5-MP/libafs.o
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module libafs.ko uses GPL-only symbol=20
> 'tasklist_lock'
> make[6]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

I rebuilt the 1.4.2 packages for beta2 (kmdl) and didn't stumble over
it (?). Does that need explicitely turning on?

> I removed all uses of tasklist_lock, leaving only the else-branches=20
> calling rcu_read_[un]lock in place. 1.4.2 then builds and works.
>=20
> Other observations:
>  - df -H shows "0.0k" on my amd64 system, and "166Y" on x86 (I now learned
>    that a Yottabyte is 1k Zetabytes...)
>  - "umount /afs" takes unusually long, maybe 30 or 60 seconds - sometimes
>=20
> Any comments on those? (preferrably like "don't worry, that's ok" ;-) ?

Could you please test the packages at http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/openafs/?

Thanks!
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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