GFS2 in RHEL5.x is currently unable to use named pipes, refer to: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/4/17/1458204 This has been resolved in the upstream kernel (see links below). Please backport this capability in to RHEL5.x. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d83225d45d2b76175279abb2a3d7ee325a09aba8 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43a33c53cc9131a537522ab9736c6e4c03ddf57a http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=fs/gfs2/inode.c;hb=43a33c53cc9131a537522ab9736c6e4c03ddf57a http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=fs/gfs2/inode.c;h=09453d057e4126535ab0c1641c75b4d6fa7b3808;hb=HEAD The above shows: Linux 2.6.26-rc5 [linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git] / fs / gfs2 / inode.c 2008-05-12 Bob Peterson [GFS2] filesystem consistency error from do_strip 2008-04-10 Josef Bacik [GFS2] fix GFP_KERNEL misuses 2008-03-31 Cyrill Gorcunov [GFS2] possible null pointer dereference fixup 2008-03-31 Denis Cheng [GFS2] re-support special inode ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 2008-03-31 Denis Cheng [GFS2] remove gfs2_dev_iops ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bumping the priority, we should have this for 5.3
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Created attachment 310297 [details] Patches merged and ported from upstream
ACKs please.
in kernel-2.6.18-97.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
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