NFS Oops in 2.6.8

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Don't know...

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:00 +0100, peter.g.harper at magnox.co.uk wrote:
> 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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> Subject:    Re: NFS Oops in 2.6.8
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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
> 
> ===============================================================================
> 
> 
> 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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