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Running 'yum upgrade spl-dkms' package could appear to work properly and still leave you with no spl modules installed. This will occur when only the spl release, and not the version, are incremented. This may be the case for a fast moving spl-testing repository. During the upgrade process DKMS will realize that spl-x.y.z is already installed and remove it. DKMS then correctly builds the new modules for spl-x.y.z. However, as a final step when the old spl-x.y.z-r is removed the %preun script runs and removes the newly build modules. To handle this case the %preun script has been updated to only run when the installed version exactly matches the full spec file version. This change also updated ChangeLog section based on the DKMS reference spec file. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> |
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README.markdown
The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially released tarball you will need to generate the configure script. This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing the GNU autotools for your distribution.
To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation:
$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
The SPL comes with an automated test suite called SPLAT. The test suite is implemented in two parts. There is a kernel module which contains the tests and a user space utility which controls which tests are run. To run the full test suite:
$ sudo insmod ./module/splat/splat.ko
$ sudo ./cmd/splat --all
Full documentation for building, configuring, testing, and using the SPL can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org