[PVFS-users] builing packages.

[Don Porter]

AiChee,

pvfs.o is the kernel module that allows your linux box to mount a pvfs
volume.  This needs to go with the other filesystem modules for the
kernel it was built against.  Usually this is /lib/modules/<version
number, such as 2.6.8>/kernel/fs/, and under the fs directory you will
see things such as ext3, vfat, etc.  Make a directory called pvfs, and
put pvfs.o in there.

mount.pvfs is the command that 'mount' falls through to when you call
'mount -t pvfs'.  This usually lives in /sbin (once again, depending on
distribution).  You might see things similar utilities like mount.smbfs.

I hope this helps.  If not, rephrase the question and I'll try again.

Good luck,
Don

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 02:38, Ai Chee Sin wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I had follow the quick start on http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/quick.html. 
> I had reach step 2.3 which is building the packages.
> I reached
> [root at frontend-0 pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-linux-2.4]# ./configure 
> --with-pvfs=../pvfs/
> [root at frontend-0 pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-linux-2.4]# make
> [root at frontend-0 pvfs-kernel-1.6.3-linux-2.4]# make install
> It returned me the following:
> install -c -d /usr/local/sbin
> install -c mount.pvfs /usr/local/sbin
> install -c pvfsd /usr/local/sbin
> NOTE: pvfs.o must be installed by hand
> NOTE: install mount.pvfs by hand to /sbin if you want 'mount -t pvfs' to 
> work.
> 
> What's wrong with the setup? What should i do now? Sorry i am a newbie to 
> Linux, therefore there are alot of things which i don't understand.
> 
> AiChee
> Nanyang Polytechnic
> Singapore
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