Maybe someone on the list has experience running on Debian and can add to this discussion.
I don't believe that OrangeFS has been formally tested on Debian. It has been tested at various times on Ubuntu, so it should be possible to make it work. There are sometimes header differences between distributions of the kernel or other issues that show up. What exactly do you mean when you say, "... the kernel itself at a previous step was not successfully built (some compile errors)"? What component were you building and what were the errors? Can you please confirm that the version of kernel headers you built against for Debian with the 2.6.7 kernel match the kernel version running on the server? If you can send the output of `uname -r` and config.log from your build we can look at that. If you could also send the config.log file produced when you tried building against the 2.6.28.1 kernel that should provide clues to help track down the "kzalloc" error message. Thanks for your patience, Elaine From: Dimokritos Stamatakis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:20 PM To: Elaine Quarles Subject: Re: [Pvfs2-developers] pvfs kernel at pvfs version 2.8.1 Also keep in mind that I was able to compile the 2.6.7 kernel using make kmod at pvfs (no compile errors like those we have with 2.6.28.1) , but the kernel itself at a previous step was not successfully built (some compile errors) . Se there was a pvfs2.ko produced , but when I was trying to load it it said unsupported format. What kernel, gcc did you use to build pvfs 2.8.1 with kernel module? Thanks, Dimos On 25 Ιουν 2013, at 10:54 π.μ., Elaine Quarles <[email protected]> wrote: So were there also problems when trying to compile with Debian 5 and 2.6.7 kernel? The error messages you sent are probably issues that have been fixed in point releases of OrangeFS. I can check on that. Thanks, Elaine On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Dimokritos Stamatakis <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, I wanted to keep you updated about the kernel module at the PVFS 2.8.1. I tried to do it with the kernel 2.6.28.1 and gcc 4.3.2, I bult the kernel normally , configured the pvfs with this kernel, but when I try to do make kmod to pvfs I get: data-server-client-i-8e3b05e0:~/pvfs2.8.1-original# make kmod CC [M] /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.o In file included from /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c:7: /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-kernel.h:1271: error: conflicting types for ‘kzalloc’ include/linux/slab.h:304: error: previous definition of ‘kzalloc’ was here /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c: In function ‘pvfs2_inode_removexattr’: /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c:1019: error: ‘XATTR_REPLACE’ undeclared (first use in this function) /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c:1019: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c:1019: error: for each function it appears in.) make[3]: *** [/root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/root/pvfs2.8.1-original/src/kernel/linux-2.6] Error 2 make[1]: *** [default] Error 2 make: *** [just_kmod] Error 2 Do you think I should upgrade to a newer gcc? Kernel? Thanks, Dimos
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