Russell Cattelan wrote:
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> Ric Tibbetts wrote:
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> > Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > >
> > > Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > > If you don't mind, I'll will put this link in our "news" segment on our
> > > > web page?
> > >
> > > Sure.
> > >
> > > > > > I've build a patch against the 8.0 kernel src rpm, haven't tested
> > > > > > it
> > > > > > yet but it does compile.
> > > > > > Anybody want help finish it.?
> > > > > Could you send me the patch, i had a lot of conflict and i did the
> > > > > kernel-xfs on a vanilla 2.4.4 generated patch from cvs.
> > > > ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/testing/mdkl2.4.3-xfs.patch
> > > > this was a real quick attempt to get it to compile, area that are
> > > > suspect
> > > > and may not be right :
> > > > dquot.c
> >
> > To anyone that's interested. I applied this patch to a clean Mandrake 2.4.3
> > kernel last night.
> > It applied cleanly, and the resulting code compiled without error. The
> > system
> > booted normally, and all "looked" well. BUT: I have not done any testing!
> > It was
> > late when the build finished. I will be doing more with it over the
> > week-end.
> >
>
> Note if you want quotas to work right grab the patch Nathan send out recently
> it was for the RH build but the same error exists in the Mandrake build.
>
I wasn't planning on putting it in. I really don't use/need it on that system. I
may however put it in later, just for testing.
> >
> > But the preliminary view of it is: It works.
>
> If your testing goes well I will spin a set of mandrake rpm and
> put them up on the ftp site as "experimental"
Thanks Russell
Give me a couple of days to beat it up ;) I'll throw some loads on it (both
local, and nfs), and see if it squeals.
I was impressed that it came up clean on the first try.
Also, as a bonus, this brought back my frame buffer! (This is as a result of
using the Mandrake kernel, which has some extra drivers). So there's been some
side benefit to this.
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> > Ric Tibbetts
> > Boeing Shared Services Group
> > UNIX System Administration
> > Seattle Server Operations
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> Russell Cattelan
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> Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
> Linux XFS core developer.
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Seattle Server Operations
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