Re: [Aoetools-discuss] AoE Tools malfunction following aoe6-85 drive compilation

[Keri A. <k.a...@sy...>]

Unless I'm mistaken, it seems that some kernel updates are also helping.


On 08/28/2014 05:28 AM, Keri Alleyne wrote:
> It would appear that a new udev package has appeared within the last 24
> hours or so. While it's a little preliminary...I think that it's
> helping...something was corrected. I'll confirm some of this within the
> next few tests.
>
> So the basic steps:
>
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> make && sudo make install
>
>
> On 08/27/2014 07:57 PM, Ed Cashin wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I will respond between selected quotes below.
>>
>> On 08/27/2014 08:24 PM, Keri Alleyne wrote:
>> ...
>>> [  109.114933] aoe: module verification failed: signature and/or
>>> required key missing - tainting kernel
>>> [  109.132450] aoe: AoE v85 initialised.
>>> [  109.134865] aoe: e0.0: setting 1024 byte data frames
>>> [  109.135635] aoe: 00e04cd770c5 e0.0 v4014 has 20480000 sectors
>>> [  109.138386]  etherd/e0.0: unknown partition table
>>
>> So far so good.  You have AoE going on.  You might consider using jumbo
>> frames when you get the device nodes issue sorted out.
>>
>> That's what's going on with the aoetools commands:
>>
>> ...
>>> sudo aoe-discover
>>> aoe-discover: /dev/etherd/discover does not exist or is not writeable.
>>>
>>> sudo aoe-flush
>>> aoe-flush: /dev/etherd/flush does not exist or is not writeable.
>>
>> That probably means that udev didn't create the device files for the aoe
>> driver.  Ubuntu 14.04 might have a udev that's new enough to have
>> stopped supporting the udev rules that the aoe makefile installs.  You
>> probably just need to adjust the rules based on udev's complaints in the
>> system logs in light of the udev man pages.
>>
>> You're not alone, though, so I'll probably take a stab at updating the
>> aoe makefile to support the Ubuntu 14.04 udev, unless you beat me to
>> it.  (Or anyone else here does.)
>>