Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:26 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:13 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> I sent this to kernel newbies first, and while I got one response there, >> it answered a different question than the one I was asking... > > Are you

Re: Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:13:41 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I sent this to kernel newbies first, and while I got one response there, > it answered a different question than the one I was asking... > > I'm on a SuSE system. > > I'm working on automating the insta

Building a kernel-source RPM (not a kernel RPM)?

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Stromberg
I sent this to kernel newbies first, and while I got one response there, it answered a different question than the one I was asking... I'm on a SuSE system. I'm working on automating the install of said system, but it needs a Linus kernel - 2.6.21.7 specifically, and it needs kernel source too s

ifconfig changing a routing table?

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Stromberg
If I "ifconfig eth1 down", a rogue route disappears. If I "ifconfig eth1 up" or "ip link set dev eth1 up", the rogue route comes back. The route in question is for 10.3/16, and it's breaking some of my communications that should be handled by my default route. I'm not accustomed to ifconfig c

AOE and large filesystems?

2005-04-05 Thread Dan Stromberg
Some questions for the list: 1) Is anyone on the list using AOE in production? 2) Is anyone on the list using AOE in combination with md and/or LVM2? 3) Is anyone on the list using AOE on a 64 bit platform? Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

huge filesystems

2005-03-09 Thread Dan Stromberg
The group I work in has been experimenting with GFS and Lustre, and I did some NBD/ENBD experimentation on my own, described at http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/nbd.html My question is, what is the current status of huge filesystems - IE, filesystems that exceed 2 terabytes, and hopefully also ex

Loopback mounting from a file with a partition table?

2005-01-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
Has anyone tried loopback mounting individual partitions from within a file that contains a partition table? When I mount -o loop the file, I seem to get the first partition in the file, but I don't see anything in the man page for mount that indicates a way of getting any other partitions from a