[Ocfs2-users] RH4 EL and the latest ocfs2 source

[Chapman, Kyle]

good info...

-----Original Message-----
From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:Sunil.Mushran at oracle.com]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 6:32 PM
To: Chapman, Kyle
Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] RH4 EL and the latest ocfs2 source


Infact there is another fix, "JBD hang on recovery fix" which falls
under the same category.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162728

Both fixes have been accepted upstream. Both Red Hat and SuSE
are aware and will be releasing the fixes with some kernel hotfix.

Chapman, Kyle wrote:

>it would seem that the future ocfs2 (0.99.16>) builds will not support =< 2.6.12 kernels "out of the box" or am i missing something?  0.99.13 will build with a RHEL4 kernel, but later vers fail with the configure check on generic_drop_inode.  the patch to fix it seems simple enough, however it seems that even if this was an rpm, youd have to rebuild your kernel before proceeding.  
>
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