[Unionfs] corruption of rpm database with unionfs (and ldconfig)

[Urs Beyerle]

Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <47FF0FE1.3010505 at psi.ch>, Urs Beyerle writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I still see the same problem (or a similar one) on Scientific Linux 4 
>> (RHEL Kernel 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL) with latest unionfs-2.3.2_for_2.6.9-final. 
>> Did the fix also went to unionfs-2.3.2_for_2.6.9-final?
>
> Hi Urs,
>
> No, the recent changes we've made to unionfs which had fixed a number of
> problems, including Olivier Blin's RPM database corruption, applied only to
> unionfs versions for kernels 2.6.23 and higher.  The reason for this
> kernel-version cutoff is that in kernels prior to 2.6.23, the vm_operations
> API was different and more complex.
>
> We can investigate the earlier vm_ops API and what it'd take to use it for
> kernels before 2.6.23, but you have to do something for me first: open a
> bugzilla report with *all* the gory details. :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Erez.

Hi Erez,

Thanks for the info! I will stay with unionfs-1.1.5 for the moment.

Cheers,

    Urs