[Linux-cachefs] vmware on an nfs export backed by fs-cache oopses

Shaya Potter spotter at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Aug 30 19:42:11 UTC 2006


Shaya Potter wrote:
> David Howells wrote:
>> Shaya Potter <spotter at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> So as an experiment, I was trying to run a vmware vm stored on an nfs 
>>> server
>>> w/ a fs-cache backing store (to make it easier on the server, 
>>> especially after
>>> a reboot).
>>
>> Can I suggest that you update your kernel patches from:
>>
>>     http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/nfs/nfs+fscache-13.tar.bz2
>>
>> And grab cachefilesd-0.6 from:
>>
>>     http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefilesd/
>>
>> I've fixed some bugs in both.
> 
> ok.  should my utils-linux still work?  or has the that kernel interface 
> changed?

it doesn't apply to 2.6.17.  It seems I need a specific git tree?




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