On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Jim Perrin wrote:
Okay. Why are you rebuilding, rather than use the already compiled version in the repository?
Especially with such crucial things like kernel I like to be able to react on my own if there are arising security issues not fixed by the upstreram distro in time. Therefore I like the idea of at least beeing able to rebuild the kernel on my own if I have to.
While you should in theory be able to rebuild the module and have it work just fine, sometimes there are issues with the build environment that are difficult to track down.
That's strange because we didn't change anything regarding the build environment. It is a plain Centos 5 installation from scratch using the DVD iso image. Beside some configuration regarding iptables and NFS service NOTHING was been changed.
Do you get the same results with the precompiled modules?
I will try it tomorrow evening because we need the image server today for a bunch of new installations. Luckky us that ext3 is working ;-) As soon as the student rooms are installed I will test the precompiled module and come back to the list with the results.
I don't use xfs that extensively on i686 hardware because I don't trust the 4k stack limitation issue, but a quick run-through with the pre-built modules, and I don't seem to have this issue. (moved a bunch of copies of the centos-5 dvd around, on and off the fs, md5suming each time)
That doesn't make me feel better ;-) We wanted to migrate a machine with almost 7000 user homes on XFS to CentOS 5 and I'm now a "little" bit scared unless we can't track down the problem.
Thanks for your hints, Gernot