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 -- Gernot Stocker, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics(IGB) Petersgasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: ++43 316 873 5345 http://genome.tugraz.at -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20070424/9027b374/attachment-0007.sig>