NFS Oops in 2.6.8

[peter.g.harper at magnox.co.uk]

Joseph:

I did all that, although I used make xconfig as menuconfig doesn't want to
work for me.

I had to do the same for 2.6.8, the relevant lines from the .config file
are

CONFIG_FUSION=y
CONFIG_FUSION_MAX_SGE=40
# CONFIG_FUSION_CTL is not set

It all worked as it should for the 2.6.8 that came with 4.0 but it just
hangs with 2.6.10.

Peter






"Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> on 16/05/2005 15:49:01

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Peter:

You will need to rebuild the 2.6.10 kernel.

To see why:

* Goto the source directory,

      /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1

* run:

      make menuconfig

* Navigate to Device Drivers -> FUSION MPT device support

You will find that the device driver was not included in the
configuration.


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 15:05 +0100, peter.g.harper at magnox.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed 4.0 onto dual G5 Xserves and these are connected to a
RAID
> box
> using the Fusion Fibre Channel Cards. All seemed to be going well until I
> discovered
> that there were real problems using these machines as NFS servers.
>
> After some investigation it seems that there was an Oops in file.c for
nfs
> which causes
> the server to stop after certain file operations. A one line patch was
> given for file.c but
> the code given doesn't match the source supplied with 4.0, which claims
to
> be 2.6.8.
>
> I then tried to use 2.6.10 as these kernels are now available, and that
> does indeed solve
> the nfs problem, but unfortunately the Xserve now doesn't seem to be able
> to use the Fusion
> Card any more and just hangs when I try to reboot with a kernel in which
> the fusion device
> is enabled.
>
> Does anyone know how to get 2.6.10 to use the Fusion Cards?
>
> Does anyone know which release of source is actually used for 4.0?
>
> Peter Harper
>
>
>
>
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