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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.clusterfs.com/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
