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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-15 12:16:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-15 12:16:18 -0700
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.14-ofs2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux
Pull orangefs updates from Mike Marshall: "Some cleanups and a big bug fix for ACLs. When I was reviewing Jan Kara's ACL patch, I realized that Orangefs ACL code was busted, not just in the kernel module, but in the server as well. I've been working on the code in the server mostly, but here's one kernel patch, there will be more" * tag 'for-linus-4.14-ofs2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux: orangefs: Adjust three checks for null pointers orangefs: Use kcalloc() in orangefs_prepare_cdm_array() orangefs: Delete error messages for a failed memory allocation in five functions orangefs: constify xattr_handler structure orangefs: don't call filemap_write_and_wait from fsync orangefs: off by ones in xattr size checks orangefs: documentation clean up orangefs: react properly to posix_acl_update_mode's aftermath. orangefs: Don't clear SGID when inheriting ACLs
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.txt14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.txt
index 1dfdec7..e2818b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.txt
@@ -45,14 +45,11 @@ upstream version of the kernel client.
BUILDING THE USERSPACE FILESYSTEM ON A SINGLE SERVER
====================================================
-When Orangefs is upstream, "--with-kernel" shouldn't be needed, but
-until then the path to where the kernel with the Orangefs kernel client
-patch was built is needed to ensure that pvfs2-client-core (the bridge
-between kernel space and user space) will build properly. You can omit
---prefix if you don't care that things are sprinkled around in
-/usr/local.
+You can omit --prefix if you don't care that things are sprinkled around in
+/usr/local. As of version 2.9.6, Orangefs uses Berkeley DB by default, we
+will probably be changing the default to lmdb soon.
-./configure --prefix=/opt/ofs --with-kernel=/path/to/orangefs/kernel
+./configure --prefix=/opt/ofs --with-db-backend=lmdb
make
@@ -82,9 +79,6 @@ prove things are working with:
/opt/osf/bin/pvfs2-ls /mymountpoint
-You might not want to enforce selinux, it doesn't seem to matter by
-linux 3.11...
-
If stuff seems to be working, turn on the client core:
/opt/osf/sbin/pvfs2-client -p /opt/osf/sbin/pvfs2-client-core
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