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From: Jon Mason <jon-7bPotxP6k4+P2YhJcF5u+vpXobYPEAuW@public.gmane.org>
To: Craig Reese <cfreese-68lYvLNOm//YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: StorNext/OFED incompatible? (missing find_exported_dentry in exportfs.ko)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:10:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091106211004.GA14448@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF48157.904-68lYvLNOm//YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 03:04:39PM -0500, Craig Reese wrote:
>
>
> I've been running around in circles trying to get StorNext 3.5.1 working
> on a machine with OFED 1.4.1.  Until now StorNext always fails to
> start saying that its missing symbol 'find_exported_dentry".  I now think
> I've figured out that this is because OFED 1.4.1 (and it looks like 1.4  
> an 1.4.2)
> rebuilds its own exportfs.ko module and this is not a superset of
> the code in the RedHat 5u3 exportfs.ko module.
>
> Is there an easy fix for this?  In addition to leaving some things out,
> it appears that OFED changes some of the existing function signatures
> so I don't see a straightforward way to merge the two.
>

exportfs is needed by NFS.  Since OFED 1.4.1, 1.4.2, and 1.5 ship their
own version of NFS, you will have this issue.  You can work aorund this
by not building NFS when you build OFED.  

Thanks,
Jon

> Any help appreciated.
>
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 20:04 StorNext/OFED incompatible? (missing find_exported_dentry in exportfs.ko) Craig Reese
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2009-11-06 21:10   ` Jon Mason [this message]

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