[Lustre-discuss] Selective e2fsprogs installation on Ubuntu

[Guy Coates]

On 01/06/10 08:23, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote:
> Hi everybody:
>
> I've just compiled the last patched e2fsprogs (1.41.10) package suitable
> for the last lustre version (1.8.3) and I had some booting problems when
> overriding some existing files in original packages (Ubuntu LTS 10.04),
> so I thought it would be better to install only the needed programs from
> patched e2fsprogs:
>
> Clients:
> --------
>

Have you tried the package from backports? That will save yourself alot 
of grief.

http://pkg-lustre.alioth.debian.org/backports/ldiskfsprogs-1.41.10/


I suspect your problem is that the e2fsprogs build process will try and 
install  binaries into /usr/sbin.  Unfortunately debian/ubuntu expects 
most of the e2fsprogs binaries to be in /sbin.

On debian, that causes the system boot scripts to fail to find fsck.extX 
and findfs, which results in the init scripts  not being able to find 
the root filesystem, or deciding that the filesystem is catastrophically 
broken. (Yes, I did find that out the hard way...)


Cheers,

Guy


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