[3160] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: nfs installer trouble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Oct 31 12:39:44 2000
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Oct 2000 12:39:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:24:24 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjmsnpcsyec.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
For the record, I downloaded Ted's packages.. I can attempt to build
a boot disk using that kernel (I've got most of the code necessary, I
think, to actually update the kernel). However, I really don't want
to lose my current build environment, in case I want to back out the
changes. I can either go ahead and lose my current environment, or I
can make yet another copy of the bootdisk tree.
Also, many things depend upon being able to find "../../../RedHat/instimage"
which doesn't exist in my tree (for obvious reasons). I haven't fixed
all of these, yet, so it probably wont work out-of-the-box.
If I do build a new bootdisk, I suspect that it will require changes
to instimage (modules.cgz and module-info, in particular) on the
install server... I don't think we could have both the "new" bootdisk
and the current bootdisk work together.
-derek
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:04:11 EST
> From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
>
> There was some discussion on -c sipb today about the
> current problems with NFS and the installer. It
> was debated for a bit whether or not it was possible
> to use the kernel from the 7.0 installer with our
> 6.2 install. The question no one seemed to have the
> answer to was whether or not the kernel in the 7.0
> installer has the appropriate patches to fix the NFS
> problem. Can anyone shed any additional light on this?
>
> What is the specific NFS problem? (Besides "too flakey for production
> use"?) We're using it for production use (home directories, et. al.)
> at VA Linux, and haven't been having any problems.
>
> I am not sure exactly which Red Hat kernels have the correct NFS
> patches. I can point folks at a specific kernel that I know has the
> latest patches, though:
>
> ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/kernel/2.2.18-beta
>
> There are 6.2 and 7.0 RPM's. It would be really useful if someone could
> try out that particular kernel RPM, and let me know if they're still
> seeing whatever NFS problems that they've been trying to deal with. If
> they are seeing the problem, it would be nice to get more details about
> exactly that the problem is, and I can feed it back to the NFS
> developers.
>
> One of the main Linux NFS developers, Dave Higgen, was hired by VA to
> take care of all of the Linux NFS problems, and as far as I know, we
> haven't seen any stability problems for quite some time. If there are
> problems, we'd like to know about them.
>
> - Ted
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