[Pvfs2-users] Kernel Module - Compilation error

[Number Cruncher]

Now that Linux kernel 2.6.17 is released, and the last pvfs2-compatible 
kernel was 2.6.15 (released over six months ago), I'm faced with (a) 
foregoing all driver and security kernel fixes or (b) losing pvfs2 FS 
access.

To avoid this, I'm planning to fix up kernel compilation against a clean 
pvfs2-1.4.0 distribution. Since this has already been done in CVS, my 
two questions are:

(1) has anyone already done this as a single patch (i.e. aside from the 
1.5.0 major changes) and
(2) will 1.5.0 be released in the next month, making such an effort 
rather pointless :-) ?


Rob Ross wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> It will be a 1.5.0 release, because we are making some major changes 
> in the metadata storage organization in order to obtain some rather 
> substantial speedups. This necessitates some significant testing 
> before the release.
>
> We're working out the last few known bugs now. We were hoping that the 
> kernels would stay consistent for a while and let us subsist on 1.4.0, 
> but as usual that didn't work out :).
>
> Soon!
>
> Rob
>
> Number Cruncher wrote:
>
>> How long until a 1.4.1 release? I'm reluctant to use CVS stuff since 
>> downtime/corruption would inconvenience a bunch of other people, yet 
>> only 2.6.16 kernels contain a bugfix which prevents my dual opteron 
>> systems occasionally locking up.
>>