[OpenAFS] openafs 1.4.2: 'klog -setpag' doesn't work on rhel4

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:19:27 -0800


Robert Banz <banz@umbc.edu> writes:
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 15:33, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Correct.  klog -setpag doesn't work with OpenAFS 1.4.2 and current
>> kernels.  The code required to support the -setpag feature is hideous and
>> breaks all sorts of kernel abstractions, and in 1.4.2 it was deemed too
>> dangerous to continue to attempt since it can lead to race conditions.
>> 
>> This really should have been in the release notes; sorry about that.

> Is that just in Linux?

Yes, so far as I know (at least right now).

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>