hi all,
has anyone built a kernel with openmosix and win4lin support built in?
it's necessary to patch the kernel. i'm able to run both patches, resolve
conflicts and manually clean it up. it doesn't compile though. the
conflict is in some C that i don't understand and whacking is just
not good enough :).
http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/W/whack.html
i'll post details later if necessary, but i'd think this is not interesting
to the general list so i'd prefer to continue discussion with someone
who is trying to build a similar kernel or at least is building his own
win4lin kernels.
also, heh, i'm reminded of the filesystem discussion earlier. i have
a test box that (just for kicks) has jfs, ext2, ext3, reiser and xfs
partitions. i'm not going to do that again :). because i want
that to be the other box on my openmosix cluster and xfs is not in
the standard kernel. so if i want to make that run openmosix,
i need to patch with both openmosix and xfs patches, and
they don't play well. the conflicts are pretty easy to fix, but i don't
want to be doing that with every new kernel :).
man, and i was going to experiment too with encrypted loopback
filesystems. heh, more kernel patching. yech :). i think i'll wait
for a distro that has that built-in.
the problem with xfs (and other things not in the standard kernel)
isn't that it's not supported by distributions. mandrake has xfs support
built in, and has had it for a long time. the problem is when you need
to build your own kernels with weird patches. then it's best to stick
with vanilla stuff where possible.
tiger
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