[Unionfs] RHEL 2.6.9 hangs with unionfs-1.1.5

Josef Sipek jsipek at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Thu Nov 30 20:30:01 EST 2006


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:14:54PM +0100, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hrm. About a month ago I made fixed copyup of files > 4GB (or was it 2?) -
> > an obvious overflow. I guess I forgot the patch 1.1.5. I want to release
> > 1.1.6 anyway (in addition to 1.5 for 2.6.19).
> 
> I also have observed kernel panics running unionfs 1.1.5 on RHEL4. But I
> had no time for debugging. So I would be very interested in version
> 1.1.6. Do you have a "pre-release snapshot" that can be tested? And when
> do you plan to release 1.1.6?

Tonight, I am going to submit unionfs to the kernel folks - yet another
attempt. I would like to make 1.1.6, 1.4.1 (some silly things didn't get
noticed when 1.4 was made), and 1.5 for the freshly released 2.6.19. I'd
like to make all these releases soon.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

-- 
It used to be said [...] that AIX looks like one space alien discovered
Unix, and described it to another different space alien who then implemented
AIX. But their universal translators were broken and they'd had to gesture a
lot.
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