Elaine, All - We used debian exclusively at ameslab, and never really had any problems that werent also reproducible on other distros.
I feel like I've seen this XATTR_REPLACE error before, will have to check the archives, I thought it was patched already.. http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs2-users/2009-April/002761.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01735.html ~Kyle Kyle Schochenmaier On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Elaine Quarles <[email protected]> wrote: > 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**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > _______________________________________________ > Pvfs2-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-developers > >
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