Re: MOSIX
one idea would possibly be even to wait until the MOSIX
team has a release for 2.4 as there is meant to be a few changes
based around this release, one main plus is the removal of versionating.
either way it might save some timewasting on quirks and whatnot.
-Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
To: <debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: MOSIX
> >> Fabrice Lorrain <Fabrice.Lorrain@univ-mlv.fr> writes:
>
> > > and it's in general a PITA to work with because of
> > > the way the process migration is envisioned by the MOSIX developers.
>
> > Can you explain a bit more ??
>
> Oh. I should have said 'a PITA to work with from the point of view
> of Debian packaging'. Basically you have to fiddle with inittab,
> which is bad, then you have to fiddle with the scripts in
> /etc/init.d/, which is amazingly bad, and then you have this
> versionate thing, which is just evil.
>
> If you just say 'the hell with it, someone installing this package
> will have to/wants to do all that anyway' you end up with something
> which might break easily.
>
> Right now I'm not working with distributed stuff, so the time I spend
> with MOSIX is basically nil. But I'd love to hear ideas regarding
> the packaging of MOSIX for Debian.
>
> > > If you check WNPP you'll see there's no entry for MOSIX. I
> > > really don't want to discourage anyone else from starting this
> > > work.
>
> > What's that (WNPP) ??
>
> Work Needing and Prospective Packages, it's linked from the
> Developer's Corner at http://www.debian.org/
>
> > > AFAIK, they do. They should work with 2.2.15 and 2.2.16, too.
>
> > Not completely, work with 2.2.15 but doesn't compil with 2.2.16 AND
> > gcc-2.95.2-12 (last night tests).
>
> Oh. That's bad. I remember something about 2.95 breaking some
> compilations, but that's really old and I can't find anything on the
> gcc docs. The only thing that pops up is the -fstrict-aliasing
> problems, but strict aliasing is disabled by default. IF strict
> aliasing is the problem, then the MOSIX code is broken (see the gcc
> docs).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcelo
>
>
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- Re: MOSIX
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