Kevin.Wilson@comtrol.com writes:
3ware was unable to get their 9500S SATA RAID Controller module source in the 2.6 kernel x86_64 tree in time. As a result I have a unsupported external module compiled from their sources using the kernel-syms to thwart kernel version dependence.
I placed the module in the /lib/modules/<kernel version>-override directory since I cannot have a kernel update render my RAID array inaccessible. I could not find any detailed information relating to the use of this directory but I would hope someone here could inform me of the implications of doing so.
The override will be used any time modprobe looks for a module. But if the module does not work anymore with an updated kernel, you might have a problem.
Essentially this will be a production database server (very soon) and I need to be able to keep the system up to date using Y.O.U., will I have to bypass the kernel updates and do them manually in conjunction with the raid module rebuild?
The kernel updates never reboot the machine - and do not delete the override directory. You have to check that the new kernel works with the module - but that's it. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126