On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:27:05AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Kai Leibrandt wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just got the 2.4.20-19.9_XFS1.3.0.src.rpm from oss.sgi.com and after
> > building, installing and rebooting I noticed the same issue with rpm that
> > hit me with 2.4.20-18.9... Of course after adding patch 1300 back in all is
> > fine again, so just a quick question; is this going to be the standard way
> > the .src.rpm are packaged, or am I doing something else wrong?
>
> Boy, that's an annoying bug... it's somewhere in the guts of Red Hat's
> kernel + nptl patches + O_DIRECT + rpm.
This also bit me with the 20.9 kernel patched to XFS 1.3.0. It seems
100% reproducible. :(
Why doesn't this show up with the binary kernels for 19.9? Or does it
but nobody reported it yet? It also didn't show up with XFS 1.2.0.
> I think that Red Hat will eventually have a new version of RPM that
> works with this kernel. In the meantime, I'd either:
>
> a) rebuild with patch 1300 in place, if you don't care about using O_DIRECT
> or
> b) set up an alias for "rpm" to prefix it with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
What are the drawbacks of these methods? Simply performance? a) seems
bad, because it will degrade overall system performance, b) is
difficult, because the used rpm application is not under control of
the kernel packager. :(
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