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linux-lvm Jürgen Vollmer 5 participants 8 messages Jan 8, 2002 – Jan 11, 2002

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Hi everybody,

I follow this list a little, and have read that I have to apply some patches to the kernel in order to create snapshots with a reiserfs.

Now my question:

Could somebody send me some kind of HOWTO to update my kernel as as given by SuSe 7.3 (they always apply some patches to the kernel). Since I have applied kernel patches in earlier times (kernel 0.9x) and compilation quite often, I do not need a kernel-compilation HOWTO, but one which specifies which patches do I need (for a SuSe 7.3-SMP-kernel!), in which order should they applied, where do I get them etc.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for asking for a HOWTO, reading the list more closely whould help too (I think) but my business (as a freelance) is to write compilers, parsers etc....

With best regards

Jürgen

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I believe, if you check, that SuSE already has applied thispatch for you. If LVM snapshot fails with Reiser, then you should send an email to the SuSE list, as they would want to know that they left it out.

- Herman

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Hi everybody,

I follow this list a little, and have read that I have to apply some patches to the kernel in order to create snapshots with a reiserfs.

Now my question:

Could somebody send me some kind of HOWTO to update my kernel as as given by SuSe 7.3 (they always apply some patches to the kernel). Since I have applied kernel patches in earlier times (kernel 0.9x) and compilation quite often, I do not need a kernel-compilation HOWTO, but one which specifies which patches do I need (for a SuSe 7.3-SMP-kernel!), in which order should they applied, where do I get them etc.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for asking for a HOWTO, reading the list more closely whould help too (I think) but my business (as a freelance) is to write compilers, parsers etc....

With best regards

Jürgen

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Quoted 3 lines · On Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:00:54 AM -0800 Herman Knief <[email protected]>…

I believe, if you check, that SuSE already has applied thispatch for you. If LVM snapshot fails with Reiser, then you should send an email to the SuSE list, as they would want to know that they left it out.

Correct, the suse kernel supports lvm snapshots on reiserfs out of the box. I'd advise grabbing the suse kernel update, as it fixes a few security problems and updates things to 2.4.16 (+ most patches in 2.4.17).

-chris

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Hi,

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Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Correct, the suse kernel supports lvm snapshots on reiserfs out of the box. I'd advise grabbing the suse kernel update, as it fixes a few security problems and updates things to 2.4.16 (+ most patches in 2.4.17).

(may be a silly question) where do I find that kernel sources??

Jürgen

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Quoted 2 lines · Jürgen Vollmer

(may be a silly question) where do I find that kernel sources??

IIRC ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/
You just need to get the kernel RPMS and apply
eg.
rpm -Uvh k_deflt-2.4.16-22.i386.rpm
mk_initrd && lilo
reboot and that's it.

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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I'd advise grabbing the suse kernel update, as it fixes a few security problems and updates things to 2.4.16 (+ most patches in 2.4.17).

(may be a silly question) where do I find that kernel sources??

ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/kernel/ or ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/people/mantel/next/

Holger

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Holger Grothe  (Email: [email protected])
Fachbereich Mathematik, TU Darmstadt
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Quoted 8 lines · On Tuesday, January 08, 2002 07:34:03 PM +0100 Holger Grothe…
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I'd advise grabbing the suse kernel update, as it fixes a few security problems and updates things to 2.4.16 (+ most patches in 2.4.17).

(may be a silly question) where do I find that kernel sources??

ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/kernel/

[ Holger probably knows this, just a general reply ;-) ]

This gives you the latest update kernel for the 7.3 distro. It has been through many tests, and is considered an official release. This is the one to download if you want something stable.

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or
ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/people/mantel/next/

This gives you the latest beta kernel. These tend to track the pre releases closely, and are not as well tested as the update kernels. This is the one to download if you want the bleeding edge.

-chris

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Cris Mason <[email protected]>

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I'd advise grabbing the suse kernel update, as it fixes a few security problems and updates things to 2.4.16 (+ most patches in 2.4.17).

(may be a silly question) where do I find that kernel sources??

ftp://ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/kernel/

Thank's! Snapshots and reiserfs and SuSe 7.3 work fine now.

Jürgen

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Dr.rer.nat. Juergen Vollmer, Viktoriastrasse 15, D-76133 Karlsruhe
Tel: +49(721) 9204871 Fax: +49(721) 24874
[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]
www.informatik-vollmer.de