[PVFS2-users] PVFS2-client crash

[neillm at mcs.anl.gov]

Hello Paulo (and all other redhat 9.0 users),

I've setup a redhat 9.0 test machine and made may changes to make sure
that pvfs2 works "out of the box" on it.  Be sure to test either
current CVS, or the next release of PVFS2, as I'm confident that it
will work properly for you.


Best regards,
-Neill.

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:34:52AM -0600, neillm at mcs.anl.gov wrote:
> Hello Paulo,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:02:57PM +0000, Paulo Quaresma wrote:
> > I'am using pvfs2 with redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4.20-8 and until
> > pvfs2-version 0.7.0 everything appears to be all right.
> 
> There of couse have been pvfs2 kernel code changes between the two
> versions.  If you get a chance, can you test a 'stock'
> (i.e. kernel.org) 2.4.x kernel on your setup and let us know if that
> works?  Redhat tends to change a lot of code in their 2.4.x kernels so
> that it more closely resembles 2.6.x, which have plenty of
> incompatibilities.  We code for 2.4.x and 2.6.x, but redhat is always
> 'somewhere in between'.  Add to that the fact that I don't have redhat
> machines to test on, it's very difficult to diagnose the problem.  If
> you absolutely can't upgrade to a normal kernel, let me know and I'll
> send a patch for your testing.  I have my theories ...
> 
> -Neill.