On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:29:27 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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=commitdiff;h=8e6f195af0e1f226e9b2e0256af8df46adb9d595 >> >> 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 Thanks for the reply. Just filed a report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1776 Akemi