[olug] Patching the kernel

[Nick Walter]

Well, you could download the latest ext3 patch and use the 'patch' utility
to patch your kernel source tree.  However, I believe if you are using the
2.4.7-10 kernel that came with Red Hat 7.2 then the support for both NAT and
ext3 should be fully available.  I know I've done both with a default Red
Hat 7.2 install without needing to recompile anything.

Here's a fun Red Hat fact.  In /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs (or
/usr/src/linux/configs for older Red Hat's) you can find the kernel build
config files that redhat uses to build their kernels.  If you look through
the file that matches your kernel version you can see exactly what was
compiled in and what wasn't.

Nick Walter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Kauffman" <dkauffman at tconl.com>
To: "OLUG" <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: [olug] Patching the kernel


> I tried to compile the Redhat Linux kernel (2,4,7) for nat support  but
> found out that I didn't have native ext3fs support. Apparently it has to
> be patched into the kernel. Now I am having a problem patching ext3fs.
> There's no real good documentation on patching except for the man page.
> Is there a later kernel that is already patched with ext3fs support? Or
> does some one know of a good source for this documentation?
>
> Here's where I've looked.
> Linux Kernel  Howto. Has soime documentation on patching. but it's kinda
> skimpy.
> Did a Google on ext3fs  AND Kernel 2.4.7. This brought back some useful
> stuff but again the howto's were fairly skimpy. I think it assumes a
> greater level of knowledge than I possess at this point.
>
> Scanned the documentation on the Redhat CD. It's surprising that there's
> nothing much on it about ext3fs support.
>
> If any one has any ideas about documentation on patching or Source with
> ext3fs support already in it, please let me know.  The latter is
> preferable.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Don Kauffman
> Email: mailto:dkauffman at tconl.com
>
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