Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760456AbZDBMv5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753374AbZDBMvp (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:51:45 -0400 Received: from gw-ca.panasas.com ([209.116.51.66]:25911 "EHLO laguna.int.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbZDBMvo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:51:44 -0400 Message-ID: <49D4B461.1070603@panasas.com> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:49:37 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090315 Remi/3.0-0.b2.fc10.remi Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik 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> <49D4092D.5050503@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <49D4092D.5050503@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Apr 2009 12:51:41.0392 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5063D00:01C9B391] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2362 Lines: 63 On 04/02/2009 03:39 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. > This is precious information for me, I'll have a look and copy above procedure for open-osd, thanks, Next beer is on me. > >> 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 > Thank you Boaz -- 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/