[OpenAFS] Linux Kernel change disables AFS

[dave first]

(Sorry, the List got left out of this discussion between Simon and
myself.  Cc'ing now.)

Version 1.4.7 worked well with the installed "plus" kernel, no
difficulties were reported.  And, I wasn't aware that there could be
difficulties.  I will look into that!  It could be that from a client
point of view there is no difficulty.  I suspect that if CentOS plus
were used on a server, there could be issues.

Thanks for the link.  I went to the parallel 1.4.7 site and I do see
the .22 kmod RPM.

Once I get the RPM, what is the recommended method for integrating
with the kernel?

 - dave


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 20 Jan 2009, at 20:15, dave first wrote:
>
>> I see now that there is no all ready compiled kmod available for
>> kernel .22.  We do not have a AFS auto-configured.  I believe others
>> in my group had early issues with that, so opted for the available
>> kmods.
>
> There is a kmod available, it's just not publicly listed (updating the HTML
> on the OpenAFS website is significantly harder than just updating rpms in
> the repository, so the website is updated less regularly than the
> repository).
>
> Go to http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.4.8/rhel5/ and you can download
> modules for all RHEL5/CentOS5 kernels.
>
> However, you said in your message that you were using
> 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus, which is a centos plus kernel module. I'm
> not sure whether the OpenAFS modules will work with these kernels or not.
> Unless you require features that are only compiled into Centos Plus, I'd
> strongly recommend just using the standard CentOS kernels.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Simon.
>
>