Hello and thanks for your response,
so you mean I have to download a patch for the PVFS 2.8.1 from the cvs 
repository, or to upgrade to a newer PVFS version?

Many thanks,
Dimos


> 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
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
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