[Linux-cachefs] using cachefs

[Shaya Potter]

Shaya Potter wrote:
> Shaya Potter wrote:
>>
>> i figured that :)  I was just stating my experience so other's don't 
>> have to ponder why its not building.
> 
> to continue my experience.  I now have a kernel w/ cachefs and 
> cachefilesd compiled, but when I run I get a kernel error
> 
> "CacheFiles: Failed to register: -95"
> 
> what appears to be happening is that the program opens 
> /proc/fs/cachefile as fd3
> 
> it then tries
> 
> write(3, "bind", 4) and gets an -ENOTSUPPORTED returned.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> from what I can tell this is returned in cf-bind.c and is because 
> kmem_cache_alloc() fails in cachefiles_proc_add_cache().  I have no idea 
> what or why.

to respond ot myself.  it doesn't seem to like ext2.  with ext3 it seems 
I make progress and get a "Can't set xattr" error (and now off to look 
how to mount fs w/ xattr support)