[Gluster-devel] compiling fuse

[Marian Marinov]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:16:37 Krishna Srinivas wrote:
> Albert,
>
> --enable-kernel-module indicates whether fuse.ko should be build which
> would be "insmod"ed into the kernel. It is need if you want to take
> advantage of certain performance features that are there in fuse-glfs.
> Also you will have to build fuse.ko yourself and use it in case you want to
> NFS export the glusterfs mounted directory.
>
> It looks like there is some incompatibility with your kernel version
> because of
> which compilation is failing. What kernel are you running?
>
> Krishna

Krishna he is using 2.6.23.1 and 2.6.23.x don't build with FUSE 2.7.0
I wrote a patch for fuse and for fuse-glfs which fixes that issue.

The patches can be found here:
  http://hydra.azilian.net/blog/patches/

However I don't remember seeing a patch from fuse-2.7.1 to fuse-glfs. 
Is there one?

Best regards
  Marian Marinov
  System Architect at Siteground.com

>
> On Dec 20, 2007 4:35 PM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm trying to make up2date version of fuse and glusterfs.
> >
> > For that I try to follow the instruction find
> >
> >
> > http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Install_and_run_GlusterFS_v1.3_in_1
> >0mins
> >
> > On fuse-2.7.0-glfs7 when I try
> >
> >        ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-kernel-module
> >        make
> >
> > I've got :
> >
> >        <quadri11> /usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7# make
> >        Making all in kernel
> >        make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7
> > /kernel'
> >        make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.23.1 SUBDIRS=`pwd`  modules
> >        make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.23.1'
> >          CC [M]  /usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7/kernel/dev.o
> >        /usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7/kernel/dev.c: In function
> > 'fuse_dev_init':
> >        /usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7/kernel/dev.c:1098: error: too many
> >        arguments to function 'kmem_cache_create'
> >        make[3]: *** [/usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7/kernel/dev.o] Error
> > 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7/kernel] Error 2
> >        make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.23.1'
> >        make[1]: *** [all-spec] Error 2
> >        make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7/kernel' make: *** [all-recursive] Error
> > 1
> >        <quadri11> /usr/local/tmp/fuse-2.7.0-glfs7#
> >
> > But it's working when I don't put the option --enable-kernel-module.
> > What's
> > that mean if I don't use this option ? Is that mean I use the new version
> > of the client but old version of the kernel module ?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Albert SHIH
> > Observatoire de Paris Meudon
> > SIO batiment 15
> > Heure local/Local time:
> > Jeu 20 déc 2007 11:59:03 CET
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Gluster-devel mailing list
> > Gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-devel mailing list
> Gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel