Andy, OK, so I RTFM'd and have the LVM2 patch created against the vanilla kernel.org 2.4.20. Sorry for asking such a dumb question. Also, just got the latest xfs patch from sgi too, and am awaiting your instructions on what to change before applying either. Patiently Yours, -- Christopher Barry Manager of Information Systems InfiniCon Systems http://www.infiniconsys.com -----Original Message----- From: Barry, Christopher Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:30 PM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] Core questions from a LVM neophyte... Andy, Cool! I wanted to use 2.4.20, but had trouble finding the correct patches for it. Could you send to me - or better, post - the XFS patch you hacked to work? I'll pull down 2.4.20 now as a package from debian.org (it likely has some fixes from vanilla). Also, if you have a link to the 2.4.20 device-mapper patch, that would be appreciated as well. As far as make-kpkg goes, it's fairly easy, and very slick. I use it all the time, however this is the first time I've used it to apply patches. I recommend it highly. And yes, I do get the same 'resource collision' error, which I have not even bothered to research yet. But otherwise, the Tyan board is sweet. Once I get this up and running, my plan is to create a how-to site with pictures of the construction, links to vendors, and configuration info so others can get a great big storage device for minimal cost too. Thanks, -- Christopher Barry Manager of Information Systems InfiniCon Systems http://www.infiniconsys.com -----Original Message----- From: Andy Francke [mailto:afrancke@cisco.com] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:44 AM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] Core questions from a LVM neophyte... > Thanks for the quick reply. It seems that my patching was > incorrect. I did not get the device-mapper option in menuconfig. > Not sure if you are aware of Debian's make-kpkg program, but here > is the command I used to construct my (apparently not very well) > patched kernel: > > make-kpkg --added_patches=xfs,device-mapper --config=menuconfig > kernel_image modules > > If anyone sees an error in this please let me know. If I was to > bypass the make-kpkg method of adding patches, what would be the > command to apply the patches directly? > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Hi Christopher, I constructed the "baby brother" of your NAS box a few months ago (great minds think alike - or it was just a coincidence :)): - Tyan 2721 ThunderPro i7500 w/single 2.4 CPU - 1GB RAM - 3ware 7500-8 - 4 Maxtor 80GB drives - 9 drive hotswap case (looks just like yours, only 3U) I am running Debian 2.4.20 unstable + XFS + LVM2 I had a hell of a time getting XFS and device-mapper to apply (because I am new to Linux and because I am naturally leery of manually editing things to make them work). Specifically, XFS and device-mapper did NOT apply cleanly - they both touched the same area of fs.h (as I recall). Since they were each interested in extending the same enum list, I simply modified the XFS patch to make it work. If anybody on this list is interested in seeing the required change, I would be happy to forward it so that XFS and LVM2 will play better on 2.4 in their stock configurations. I don't use make-kpkg (in part because I don't understand it). If you go to your kernel source tree and run /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/apply/<patch name> you will be manually patching your tree. Be sure to tar your vanilla tree first - I made all sorts of mistakes while attempting to patch and I wanted to be able to revert at a moment's notice. I'm glad I got the 2.4 Xeon rather than using some older CPU & MB because I had to rebuild so many times! Now I am happy (apart from a weird error at Linux boot that I have variously seen attributed to the i7500 chipset - do you see "PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions" in your boot messages?) Also, there are the multiple mysterious "invalidate: busy buffer" messages, but I gather from searching the LVM lists that this is a known issue, not an error, and may be safely ignored. Andy _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
