Re: 2.6.32-5-openvz: Broken CIFS
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:47:18PM +0300, Stanislav Klinkov wrote:
> Hello, Debian Kernel Team.
>
> I have found a minor inconsistency in the package
> "linux-image-2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64", "Squeeze" repository.
> The module "cifs.ko" included in mentioned kernel is incompatible with
> the "mount.cifs" tool (cifs-utils).
>
> So, if I take packages "cifs-utils", "samba", "samba-common", "smbfs"
> from the "lenny-backports" distributive, then everything works OK with
> the 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 kernel. If I take everything from stable
> ("Squeeze") distributive, then "mount.cifs" command always fails with
> the same kernel. If I take a kernel without OpenVZ support, everything
> is allright.
>
> The next issue is the bug, being present in 2.6.32.5-openvz kernel:
> http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1626
> It was fixed only in "042test006.1" build. It will be very nice to have
> a revised kernel version in the distributive.
Please test latest images of the openvz patch:
http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/linux-image-2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64_2.6.32-31_amd64.deb
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http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/linux-image-2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64_2.6.32-31_amd64.deb.sha512sum.asc
They should have the fix.
> And another wish. The 2.6.32.5-openvz is not stable enough yet. May be,
> does it make sense to include 2.6.26-openvz kernel into "Squeeze" as an
> option?
No we do not shipp muliple linux-2.6 version in a release, this would
be a securty nightmare.
> Thank you for your job.
>
Aboves image will land soon in the next update, it missed squeeze shortly
as openvz hadn't synced their git tree with upstream stable releases.
Anyway next release will focus on in tree linux containers.
kind regards
--
maks
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