On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:15:00PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>
>> I created a new ext4.ko via "make M=fs/ext4" in the build-dir and
>> copied the the kernel-module to /lib/modules/$(uname
>> -r)/kernel/fs/ext4/, is that not enough?
>
> It might not be. ÂSome distributions include modules in the initial
> ramdisk, and load the module from the initrd, simply dropping the
> module in /lib/modules/<kver>/... might not be enough. ÂSo recreating
> the initrd and then rebooting might be enough.
>
> Certainly if you drop it there on a running kernel, if you don't
> unload the module (before unmounting all of your ext4 file systems),
> and then reload the module, *definitely* just copying a module into
> /lib/modules.... without making sure the module is reloaded, you'll
> still have the old module.
>
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â- Ted
>
Grrr, did not think of ext4 kernel-module be in initrd.img.
OK, I have recreated a new one:
$ update-initramfs -k 2.6.36-git11.sd.1-686 -c
I could copy a complete linux-2.6 GIT tree within my $HOME/src, looks good.
Any other test-case you can suggest to be sure things work as expected, now?
BTW, feel free to add:
Reported-andtested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
- Sedat -
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