Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758604AbZDBAjg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:39:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753327AbZDBAjX (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:39:23 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:52692 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752758AbZDBAjX (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:39:23 -0400 Message-ID: <49D4092D.5050503@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:39:09 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boaz Harrosh CC: Avishay Traeger , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel , open-osd , Evgeniy Polyakov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel , FUJITA Tomonori Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/8 version 4] exofs for kernel 2.6.30 References: <49C1331D.1080805@panasas.com> <49D332A0.5080107@garzik.org> <49D34E33.5060700@panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <49D34E33.5060700@panasas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-3.6 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2109 Lines: 59 Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 04/01/2009 12:23 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> If anyone wants to actually run this code and test it >>> then please start reading at: >>> http://open-osd.org >>> You will need to checkout the out-of-tree git (below) for the user-mode utilities. >>> Also the exofs.txt file in patch 7/8 should help >> >> hum... trying to play with this. If you want exofs to go upstream, I >> think you should have a release tarball containing the user-mode utils >> posted somewhere. Would make life a lot easier, both on early adopters >> and also on distribution packagers. >> >> Jeff > > You are absolutely right, once 2.6.30 will be out there will not be a need > to compile Kernel modules. > > About the binary package. I must admit I'm a total novice. What do I need to do? All you need on your end is a sane setup for installation, including building of shared libraries and installing necessary headers for userland programs. Each individual distribution can easily package your exofs-utils into a deb or RPM. Some of my projects have to do this. Here is one way, the highly standardized GNU autotools. Take a look at autogen.sh, configure.ac, Makefile.am, include/Makefile.am and lib/Makefile.am from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/daemon/distsrv/chunkd.git That demonstrates how to handle building and installing a shared library, header files and programs. A lot of people dislike GNU autotools, but it's main benefit here is that Debian/Red Hat/Novell/Canonical/etc. are well-versed in creating .deb or .rpm from GNU autotools builds. It makes integration into a Linux distribution much easier. > BTW: > Source tar balls are available from the gitweb GUI by pressing on the > "snapshot" link next to any commit. I should link to it from the WiKi Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/