Hi Ted,

There was a regression when adding support for newer kernels that made it in
to the 2.8.4 release. I believe that's the issue you're seeing (a kernel
panic immediately on modprobe/insmod). The next release will include that
fix. Until then, if you can check out the latest version of the code from
CVS, it should resolve the issue. The CVS branch is Orange-Branch, full
directions for CVS checkout at http://www.orangefs.org/support/

We are currently running the kernel module with the latest code on CentOS 5
and SL 6 systems. Let me know how it goes.

For anyone interested, the commit to resolve the issue was:
http://www.pvfs.org/fisheye/changelog/~br=Orange-Branch/PVFS/?cs=Orange-Branch:mtmoore:20110530154853

Michael


On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Ted Hesselroth <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have built the kernel module from orangefs-2.8.4 source against a 64-bit
> 2.6.18-238.12.1 linux kernel source, and against a 32-bit 2.6.18-238.9.1
> source. In both cases, the kernel hung when the module was inserted with
> insmod. The first did report "kernel: Oops: 0000 [1] SMP". The distributions
> are Scientific Linux 5.x, which is rpm-based and similar to Centos.
>
> Are there kernels for this scenario for which the build is known to work?
> The server build and install went fine, but I would like to configure some
> clients to access orangefs through a mount point.
>
> Thanks.
>
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