Re: DazukoFS 3.0.0-rc2 posted

Ann Davis <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:03:03 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.dazuko.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ann Davis wrote:
> Ann Davis wrote:
>> jim burns wrote:
>>> On Thu October 30 2008 6:12:46 pm you wrote:
>>>  
>>>> I don't know if this will be helpful to you, but there is a 
>>>> dazuko-2.3.6
>>>> version for openSUSE 11.0 available on
>>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/andavis/openSUSE_11.0/
>>>>   This version includes and uses the redirfs (www.redirfs.org) module.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Thanx for trying to help. I'm running into a couple of problems I 
>>> had with other versions. Here's my console session:
>>>
>>> root@Dell4550 10/30/08  
>>> 7:18PM:/etc/yum.repos.d                               [543] > rpm 
>>> -Uhv /var/cache/yum/home_andavis/packages/*
>>> Preparing...                
>>> ########################################### [100%]
>>>    1:dazuko-kmp-xen         
>>> ########################################### [ 50%]
>>> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-xen/weak-updates/redirfs.ko 
>>> needs unknown symbol 
>>> rfs_flt_type                                                               
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-xen/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_delete_filter                                                
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-xen/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_set_operations                                               
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-xen/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_unregister_filter                                            
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-xen/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_register_filter                                              
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-xen/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_set_path                                                     
>>>    2:dazuko-kmp-pae         
>>> ########################################### [100%]  WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-pae/weak-updates/redirfs.ko needs unknown 
>>> symbol 
>>> rfs_flt_type                                                               
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-pae/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_delete_filter                                                
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-pae/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_set_operations                                               
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-pae/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_unregister_filter                                            
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-pae/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_register_filter                                              
>>> WARNING: 
>>> /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-pae/weak-updates/dazuko/dazuko.ko needs 
>>> unknown symbol 
>>> redirfs_set_path                                                     
>>> root@Dell4550 10/30/08  
>>> 7:19PM:/etc/yum.repos.d                                 [544] > 
>>> lsmod|egrep daz\|redir
>>> [1]    29160 done       lsmod |        29161 exit 1     egrep 
>>> daz\|redir
>>> root@Dell4550 10/30/08  7:20PM:/etc/yum.repos.d
>>> [545] > modprobe dazuko
>>> root@Dell4550 10/30/08  7:20PM:/etc/yum.repos.d
>>> [546] > lsmod|egrep daz\|redir
>>> dazuko                 51544  1 redirfs                60696  1 
>>> dazuko,[permanent]
>>>
>>> As you can see, the install complains of unsatisfied symbols. 
>>
>> Hmm, I added the 
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:andavis/openSUSE_11.0 
>> repository then installed dazuko-2.3.6 and dazuko-kmp-pae-2.3.6 
>> without any warnings about unresolved symbols.
>>
>> <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:andavis/openSUSE_11.0>
>>> The dazuko-kmp 2.3.4.4 packages from the main openSuSE repo had 
>>> those same unknown symbols on trying to modprobe dazuko (since 
>>> redirfs won't load, dazuko won't load). Here, tho', dazuko 
>>> modprobes, but gets the following syslog errors when antivir starts, 
>>> similar to when I tried to compile dazuko 2.3.6-pre2 with redirfs 
>>> 0.3 myself:
>>>
>>> Oct 30 19:20:56 Dell4550 kernel: Redirecting File System Framework 
>>> Version 0.3 <www.redirfs.org>
>>> Oct 30 19:20:56 Dell4550 kernel: dazuko: loaded, version=2.3.6-pre2
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29199]: excluding "/sys/" from scan 
>>> (special file system)
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29199]: excluding "/proc" from scan 
>>> (special file system)
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29199]: excluding 
>>> "/var/lib/ntp/proc" from scan (special file system)
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29199]: Information: Dazuko kernel 
>>> module version 2.3.6-pre2 detected
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29201]: Error: Unable to setup 
>>> Dazuko parameters
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29203]: Error: Unable to setup 
>>> Dazuko parameters
>>> Oct 30 19:22:12 Dell4550 antivir[29199]: Error: Unable to setup 
>>> Dazuko parameters
>>>   
>>
>> I have heard from another person about this problem ( see 
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401920 ).  It appears 
>> that there is some change in the dazuko 2.3.6 interface which is 
>> causing problems for AntiVir.  As noted in the bug, this version of 
>> dazuko does seem to work fine with clamav.  Also, I have run the 
>> dazuko tests on 2.3.6 and those seem to work fine as well.
>>
>> So I think the main question is whether Avira AntiVir supports dazuko 
>> 2.3.6 with redirfs.  My understanding is that Avira has done some 
>> testing w/ dazuko 2.3.6 but I don't know their official position on 
>> it.  I believe Avira is also looking at supporting dazukoFS so it may 
>> be that they decide to concentrate their testing efforts there 
>> instead of on dazuko-2.3.6.  Have you contacted Avira about whether 
>> they support dazuko-2.3.6?
>>
>> In the meantime, I will download antivir and duplicate this problem 
>> to see if I can tell what is happening.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> 1)  Installed openSUSE-11.0.
> 2)  Used YaST2->"Software Repositories" to add 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:andavis/openSUSE_11.0
> 3)  Used YaST2->"Software Management" to install dazuko-2.3.6 and 
> dazuko 2.3.6-kmp-pae
> 4)  Started dazuko with "/etc/init.d/boot.dazuko start"
> 5)  lsmod shows the dazuko and redirfs modules are loaded
> 6)  Downloaded AntiVir personal
> 7)  Installed AntiVir personal using the its install script
> 8)  The installation gave three options for avguard:  1) have avguard 
> load dazuko, 2) have avguard assume dazuko is already loaded, 3) don't 
> install avguard.  I selected option 2.
> 9)  The installation proceeded w/o errors and antivir and avguard 
> started.
> 10)  /etc/init.d/avguard status shows that it is running.
>
> Please let me know how this differs from your configuration.  Did you 
> select to have avguard load dazuko?

Wait, nevermind.  Now that I look at /var/log/avgaurd.log, I see the 
same messages you do.  But "/etc/init.d/avguard status" outputs:

AntiVir Status:  avguard-workstation (Dazuko available, 1 daemons)   running

Hmm, guess we have to dig deeper.

Ann


>
> Thx,
>
> Ann
>
>
>
>
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