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Re: arla under FreeBSD 3.1-stable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Love)
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From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
To: koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: arla under FreeBSD 3.1-stable
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koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu writes:
> Howdy,
> I've [finally.. :-)] managed to coax the latest snapshot of arla to build
> correctly on my FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE machine.
Didn't it build cleanly ?
> All was going well until I tried
> to execute the modload command given in the INSTALL file (tweaked to /usr/local/
> arla/ from /usr/arla):
> modload -e xfs_mod -o /var/tmp/symbols -p /usr/local/arla/bin/xfs_makedev -v /usr/local/arla/bin/xfs_mod.o
>
> Now modload is complaining thusly:
> ld: /kernel: malformed input file (not rel or archive)
> modload: /usr/bin/ld: return code 1
>
> What sort of option do I need to compile my kernel with to allow this to
> succeed? I've been trying to get arla to work for a long time now, can someone
> please help me with these final steps?
Modload is for aout kernels only (there is elf patches, but that is for
NetBSD), and since FreeBSD 3.1 I think the kernel is ELF.
The answer is to use kld's. See $prefix/bin/startarla or the Makefile
in xfs/bsd (esp targets load,unload, mount,umount) how to use it.
On FreeBSD 3.0+ we build kld's by default in the snapshots (and 0.22 I
think). the problem with kld's is that you can create the device
automagicly like you can do with lkm's.
Love
