Bug 77029
| Summary: | Editing kernel spec file for ext3 gives failed hunk errors | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <rolyv> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | yaneti |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-10-31 04:13:06 UTC
I got this to work by removing patches 55, 165 & 401. (linux-2.2.19-raid.patch, linux-2.2.17-scsi-exports.patch, linux-2.2.17-sard.patch) and using the latest available 0.0.7a ext3 patch slightly tweaked to build past the harmless (in my uninformed opinion) conflicts in fs/buffer.c The result appears to work on a test machine I have. Now I wonder if I should try and use the smp version on a production 6.2 server. Any hints on the chance of shooting myself badly in foot will be greatly appreciated. Any success stories documented somewhere, failures? the 2.2 kernel ext3 is very outdated and is lacking a boatload of serious bugfixes done to the 2.4 kernel ext3. Seriously if you use 2.2 for stability then don't do this; a 2.4 kernel will be more robust. Eek :( not encouraging at all. Thanks for your input. To make it clear what I am after: I want fast recovery from power failure with the minimal amount of changes to the server. I've not thought about upgrading the kernel because I don't know/understand how that affects the prebuilt 6.2 glibc. Changing the glibc it seems to me would be orthogonal to my initial intent to keep the changes minimal. yaneti, 2.4 kernel runs fine with Red Hat 6.2 glibc, on a test (non- production) box I've been experimenting with Red Hat 6.2 running Kernel 2.4.20- rc2 (/w Red Hat supplied glibc 2.1.3). So I actually tried putting the latest 8.0 kernel update (rebuilt) on this poor 6.x. It was a short stunt because the custom built apache and a radiusd-cistron-1.6.1-1 used here didnt manage to start properly for some reason. I had no time to investigate this because the server just had to be rebooted to operational status again. So...its not something that can always be done without problems it seems Yanko, Kernel 2.4 works fine on Red Hat 6.x if your build it from source, it stuffs up if you try to use the 8.0 Kernel RPM. Will you please share the changes you were able to do to make the ext3 build on 2.2 kernel RPM? rolyv: well, I said "latest 8.0 kernel update (rebuilt)" so it is rebuilt, and it works, but my immadiate problem was that some prebuilt on 2.2 software on top of it didnt work :) Unifortunately I nixed the ext3 patch + kernel from my 2.2 attempt after Arjan's message, so I dont have it now. Please read my first comment for a short description of what was done, no rocket science there.... Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |