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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>I am still having problem of loading certain kernel
modules when unionfs is compiled into the kernel.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=936175523-26062008><FONT
face=Arial>My system is RHEL5.0, kernel is 2.6.18-8.el5. When patched
with unionfs 2.3.3 (source :</FONT><A
href="http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pipermail/unionfs/attachments/20080611/12d89889/unionfs-2.3.3_for_2.6.18.8.centos5.diff-0003.bin"><FONT
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size=4>http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pipermail/unionfs/attachments/20080611/12d89889/unionfs-2.3.3_for_2.6.18.8.centos5.diff-0003.bin</FONT></A>),
<FONT size=4>certain modules such as iscsi_initiator_mod, ics625, wrifx modules
can not be loaded into kernel. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>For example: when attempting loading the
iscsi_initiator_mod with the "modprobe iscsi_initiator_mod" command, Error
"FATAL: Error inserting iscsi_initiator_mod
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/iscsi_initiator_mod.ko): Invalid
module format" occurred.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>The /var/log/messages added a new entry:"kernel:
iscsi_initiator_mod disagrees about version of symbol
struct_mod"</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>When I compile the kernel without patching with the
above unionfs patch, all the modules can be successfully loaded into
kernel.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>Does the above unionfs patch really mean to be used by
the kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 (RHEL5.0)? or is it designed to be used with a
slightly different version of 2.6.18-8? Please
confirm.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>Also, if anyone out there know how to resolve my kernel
loading problem, please advise. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=936175523-26062008>Andy Ngo</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
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class=936175523-26062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Ngo, Andrew <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday,
June 12, 2008 10:53 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
'unionfs@mail.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu'<BR><B>Cc:</B> Ngo, Andrew; Johnson,
Je<BR><B>Subject:</B> Unable to load aacraid when kernel is compiled with
unionfs<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=573414202-13062008>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=573414202-13062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=573414202-13062008>My sytem (RHEL5,
kernel 2.6.18-8.el5) used to be able to install the aacraid.ko module, but has
failed to do so ever since I compiled unionfs (2.3.3) as module in the
kernel.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=573414202-13062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=573414202-13062008>The "modprobe
aacraid" command generated error: "FATAL: Error inserting aacraid
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/updates/aacraid.ko): Invalid module
format".</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=573414202-13062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=573414202-13062008>The /var/log/message
generated error: "aacraid: disagree about version of symbol
struct_module"</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=573414202-13062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=573414202-13062008>Has anyone seen this
before? Any help/suggestion is greatly appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=573414202-13062008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=573414202-13062008>Andy
Ngo</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>