On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 15:33 +0200, Harald van Pee wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:23 pm, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> > On 5/15/07 1:17 AM, "Harald van Pee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 08:23 am, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > >> On May 14, 2007  07:09 -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote:
> > >>>> 3. applied all patches from
> > >>>> lustre-1.6.0.1/lustre/kernel_patches/series/2.6.18-vanilla.series
> > >>>> lustre-1.6.0.1/lustre/kernel_patches/series/ldiskfs-2.6.18-vanilla.ser
> > >>>>i es
> > >>
> > >> You shouldn't really apply the ldiskfs patches to your kernel ext3.
> > >> Instead let the lustre build process build a new ldiskfs module with the
> > >> patches.
> > >
> > > o.k. thank you!
> 
> I think the hint above concerns just the case if you will apply the patches 
> by 
> hand with patch than you should not use the ldisk patch series, because its 
> just needed for building the ldiskfs module and done during make if I 
> understand it correct.
> 

Yes, you do not need to apply the ldiskfs patches by hand. The make
command applies the ldiskfs patches using quilt (use --disable-quilt if
you wish) to create the ldiskfs modules from the ext3 sources present in
the kernel source.

Thanks,
Kalpak
> Harald
> 
> >
> > Is this different then what is in the documentation? All I have been doing
> > in creating symlinks for series and patches in the kernel source tree root.
> > I then run quilt and apply all the patches and build the kernel. I don't
> > link to the ldiskfs series because I didn't read that in the Install file.
> >
> > I then reboot with the new kernel and compile Lustre with just configure,
> > make, make install (well a little different to make Debian packages). So I
> > guess I'm not patching ext3 (although there still is a couple of patches
> > applied) and building a new ldiskfs module.
> >
> > Robert LeBlanc
> > BioAg Computer Support
> > Brigham Young University
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (801)422-1882
> >
> >
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