Re: [Vserver] Using the latest Vserver patch with a 2.6.12 kernel?

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Mon 10 Apr 2006 - 19:45:23 BST
Message-ID: <20060410184523.GH11430@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:59:10AM -0700, EKC wrote:
> HI,
>
> I would like to use the latest vserver release
> (http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-2.6.16-vs2.1.1-rc15.diff)
> with a 2.6.12 vanilla kernel. However, the latest vserver patch fails
> to apply to the 2.6.12 kernel. Does anyone have any advice on getting
> the latest vserver experimental release to work on a 2.6.12 kernel?
>
> My motivation for doing this is that I want to use DRBD
> (http://www.drbd.org) and the Lustre cluster filesystem
> (http://www.clusterfs.com) with Vserver. However, the latest Lustre
> filesystem release supports only the 2.6.12 kernel. I've tried porting
> the Lustre kernel patch to the 2.6.16 kernel, but I'm running into
> memory leak issues. Therefore, I want to investigate backporting the
> latest vserver release.

well, as you did 'forward port' the lustre stuff, you have
to backport the vserver stuff to 2.6.12 (which will be
non trivial IMHO)

best,
Herbert

> Thanks in advance
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