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  • Re: ocfs2_dlmfs missing from the cloud kernel

    From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to Thomas Goirand on Fri May 17 13:10:01 2024
    On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:31:51PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
    how do I change this?

    You install the non-cloud kernel.

    Bastian

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  • From Thomas Goirand@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 17 12:40:02 2024
    Hi,

    The module ocfs2_dlmfs may be use to have a filesystem shared with 2 VMs
    (using for example OpenStack Cinder multi-attach). It's there in Ubuntu,
    in the "normal" kernel, but not in the Debian cloud kernel.

    Would it be possible to *not* strip-down this module in the cloud kernel
    please ?

    In the source package of the kernel, I can read in:
    debian/config/config.cloud:

    ## file: fs/ocfs2/Kconfig
    ##
    # CONFIG_OCFS2_FS is not set

    how do I change this?

    Cheers,

    Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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  • From Bastian Blank@21:1/5 to Bastian Blank on Fri May 17 18:00:02 2024
    On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:44:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:31:51PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
    how do I change this?
    You install the non-cloud kernel.

    The cloud kernel is limited in scope. And the decision was that not
    everything you can do on platforms is in scope.

    So you can open a bug report, but for now I would say it is not in this
    scope. Cloud platforms tend to provide such things and you don't define
    them on your own.

    Bastian

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  • From Noah Meyerhans@21:1/5 to Bastian Blank on Fri May 17 18:20:01 2024
    On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 05:34:57PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
    how do I change this?
    You install the non-cloud kernel.

    The cloud kernel is limited in scope. And the decision was that not everything you can do on platforms is in scope.

    To clarify the scope a bit, historically the cloud kernels have
    specifically targeted Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. The rationale for
    this is that these providers present a consistent and reasonably well
    defined device model, meaning we can be sure what drivers and other
    kernel features are needed and which we can leave out. It is not
    intended to be usable on every cloud service.

    The module in question, ocfs2_dlmfs, is not, to my knowledge, generally
    useful in the cloud environments targeted by the cloud kernel.

    If we had the resources, it'd be great provide further optimized kernel
    builds, e.g. one for EC2 specifically, Azure specifically, GCP, and
    maybe some sort of OpenStack/QEMU VM definition. Unfortunately, we do
    not currently have those resources.

    So, IMO, a wishlist bug against src:linux asking for another build configuration would be a reasonable way to record an interest in such a
    change. The kernel team may be able to provide more context on which
    specific resources would be needed in order to support this. Maybe in
    the future it'll get implemented.

    noah

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