[gpfsug-discuss] GPL compilation failure
Uwe Falke
uwe.falke at kit.edu
Thu Aug 17 19:38:54 BST 2023
thanks for that, so it is clear RHEL 8.7 won't get any more updates.
Uwe
On 17.08.23 20:08, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> I cannot speak for Redhat, but the RHEL release cycles are documented:
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#RHEL8_and_9_Life_Cycle
>
> The rule of thumb for Scale is that a new RHEL minor release will
> likely be supported in the Scale release or PTF following the RHEL
> release. There might be exceptions dending on the timing of the
> release dates, possible problems found in testing, etc.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christof
>
> On Thu, 2023-08-17 at 19:58 +0200, Uwe Falke wrote:
>>
>> thanks, ryan.
>>
>> I would have loved to stay with RHEL 8.7, however RHEL chose to not
>> patch the RHEL8.7 Kernel line it seems ...
>>
>> Uwe
>>
>> On 17.08.23 18:53, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>>> Sorry, one more thing: while you can often upgrade from say
>>> 3.10.0-1160.92.1 to 3.10.0-1160.95.1, like the kind of upgrade you’d
>>> see within an RHEL point release — and you’ll often see an older
>>> version get updated to list support for those kinds of version
>>> increments — you should definitely expect to potentially need to
>>> upgrade GPFS if you’re going between RHEL point releases, like 8.7
>>> to 8.8 — those ones that change from, say, 4.18.0-425.x to
>>> 4.18.0-477.x.
>>>
>>> Sometimes unsupported versions will work, but often times they will
>>> not, and if you have a support contract, that difference is sort of
>>> meaningless since you wouldn’t want to run an unsupported version
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>>> On Aug 17, 2023, at 12:38, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not supported on that GPFS version; probably need a 5.1.8.x —
>>>> definitely supported on 5.1.8.1.
>>>>
>>>> Always check here before upgrading the kernel:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale?topic=STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 17, 2023, at 11:54, Uwe Falke <uwe.falke at kit.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, just to let you know:
>>>>>
>>>>> building the 5.1.7.1 GPL layer for Linux Kernel
>>>>> 4.18.0-477.21.1.el8_8.x86_64 failed for me:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> In file included from /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cfiles.c:87,
>>>>> from /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cfiles_cust.c:54:
>>>>> /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cxiCache.c: In function 'pcache_nfs_have_rdirplus':
>>>>> /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cxiCache.c:4011:31: error: 'NFS_INO_ADVISE_RDPLUS' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'NFS_INO_ODIRECT'?
>>>>> && test_bit(NFS_INO_ADVISE_RDPLUS, &NFS_I(inodeP)->flags)
>>>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>> NFS_INO_ODIRECT
>>>>> /usr/lpp/mmfs/src/gpl-linux/cxiCache.c:4011:31: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone managed to build that, a message would be nice, else you
>>>>> should expect problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> I opened a case with IBM but it is caught in the call entry ...
>>>>> (SF TS013920636, in case any supporter wants to look after it).
>>>>>
>>>>> Uwe
>>>>>
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>> Uwe Falke
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>> D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
>> Tel: +49 721 608 28024
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Uwe Falke
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D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
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