Hi, Thanks for the input. I made the changes as described below and was able to get lvm to build. On Tuesday 05 March 2002 12:08 am, Luca Berra wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:32:13PM -0800, John DeFranco wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having some problems building lvm (1.0 or 1.0.3) on a redhat7.2 > > system with kernel 2.4.9-21. I'm getting the following errors: > > > > drivers/md/mddev.o: In function `lvm_snapshot_alloc': > > drivers/md/mddev.o(.text+0xa881): undefined reference to `alloc_kiovec' > > <snip> > > > I've seen emails on this list saying that lvm only really works/qualified > > on vanilla kernel sources and not distro specific. I guess this is a good > > well, in this case the problem seems related to 2.4.9-ac10 patch not > specifically to red hat so we might be willing to help you. > (just kidding, i am glad you are testing a better kernel than 2.4.2 > for MC/SG) > > > example as to why. However there has to be some easy solution to this I > > would think/hope. At this point I need to use the redhat 2.4.9-21 kernel > > and lvm 1.0 since the version that is in this kernel is 0.9_beta1. So I > > don't have the option of going to 2.4.18 for example. > > i don't undestand this passage, > anyway: > looking at alan's patch yow will find the answer, besides from some fixes > taken from lvm cvs he adds: > int nbhs = KIO_MAX_SECTORS; > to both lvm_snapshot_alloc() and lvm_snapshot_release() > and changes > err = alloc_kiovec(1, &lv_snap->lv_iobuf); > to > ret = alloc_kiovec_sz(1, &lv_snap->lv_iobuf, &nbhs); > > and so on for other calls to alloc_kiovec and free_kiovec > > I don't have time and resources to actually produce a patch and test it > atm, but i believe it would work, please let us know how you fare > > regards, > Luca -- ========== Cheers -jdf _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html