Reiserfs support in 2.4.21 stock redhat kernel

Féliciano Matias feliciano.matias at free.fr
Sat Jul 26 10:54:28 UTC 2003


Le sam 26/07/2003 à 12:13, Eduardo Silva a écrit :
> I've just installed the latest Severn Beta, and have noticed that the compile 
> kernel included in that distro kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl doe snot have 
> reiserfs support included. As I have my /home partition in resiserfs it is a 
> problema 

install kernel-unsupported from severn.
> for me.
> 
> As a temp solution I have installed the 2.4.20-19.9 Redhat 9 kernel which is 
> compiled with reiserfs, and also installed the kernel source for the 
> 2.4.21-20 kernel to try to recompile reiserfs support.
> 
> Is the fact that these new stock kernels from Redhat does not support reiserfs 
> a move from Redhat away from support of this fs type, or is this just a 
> product of being a beta kernel (also the rawhide kernel also does not have 
> reiserfs support)?
> 
> Also, what is the best way to recompile the kernel using the kernel sources?
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> * copy configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config to .config
> * This config to my surprise already has reiserfs module support (I thought 
> Redhat used this configs to do every kernel)

As the severn kernel.

> * then do a make rpm
> 
> The make rpm is failing due to some modules compile, such as :
> 
> make[4]: *** [libata.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom/drivers/scsi'
> make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom/drivers/scsi'
> make[2]: *** [_subdir_scsi] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom/drivers'
> make[1]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.2120.1.2024.2.1.nptlcustom'
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56165 (%build)
> 
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56165 (%build)
> make: *** [rpm] Error 1
> 
> By enabling and disabling certain drivers I can get around that issue (before 
> it was failing due to the I2C driver, disbled that in .config and now it's 
> this), but I wonder whether this is the best option, as I would presume that 
> Redhat's .config and kernel source should give no issue at all...
> 
> Anyways, thanks a lot for any help,
> 
> BR, 
-- 
Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias at free.fr>
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