kolab ready to with Kernel 2.6.5-8.26 (SuSE 9.1)?

[Thomas Lotterer]

On Tue, May 04, 2004, Martin Konold wrote:

> Am Wednesday 28 April 2004 01:20 pm schrieb Thomas Lotterer:
> 
> > like apache, postfix, imapd etc. have little if any relationship to the
> > kernel (keep in mind they run on non-Linux OSs as well).
> 
> Today it just came to my attention that Kolab 1.0.x does not          
> bootstrap on a SUSE 9.1 with the provided SUSE 9.1 kernel-2.6.        
> Downgrading to kernel 2.4.21 helped.                                  
> 
> The reason seems to be the outdated rpm in Kolab 1.0.x which uses a
> different incompatible O_DIRECT semantic with the db.
> 
This should not be a problem with the kolab package from OpenPKG 2.0.
I remember we debugged this issue down into the kernel sources to find
out O_DIRECT is fully broken in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. We found out that
RedHat completely ignores this flag to make software work. According to
the HISTORY [1] OpenPKG was patched on 15-Sep-2003, see [2] and read the
comment around O_DIRECT there.

Anyway we'll check this as soon as SuSE 9.1 is availabe for download
which I'm checking for bidaily.

[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/getfile?f=openpkg-src/openpkg/HISTORY
[2] http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=12237

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