Akemi Yagi wrote:
After a successful installation of CentOS5 beta, I "successfully" crashed the system twice already. This is caused by a known bug in the cifs kernel module. The patch became available in January:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commitd...
FC5 and FC6 are running the patched kernel but, unfortunately, RHEL5 will not. Steve Dickson of RedHat says:
"I will not be able to get these in the initial RHEL5 release, since that is currently lock down... very tightly... so I will try to get them in early in the 5.1 pool..."
I am wondering...if it is possible for the CentOS team to apply the patch ahead of the upstream. Or I would have to wait for CentOS5.1? In that case, I will need to compile the cifs module with the patched file.
if you expect something to happen - open an issue report with max details at http://bugs.centos.org/ While the chances for including a patch like that in the distro kernel are absolutely zero, we do have some flexibility with the CentOSplus kernel(s).
- KB