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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 05:13:06PM -0500, Vic Kass wrote: > I have just installed coda on two Redhat 6.1 systems. Both > are running the 2.2.14 kernel. When both systems boot up, > the following message is displayed: > > kernel: coda_psdev_write: downcall, no SB! That's not a problem, the client is just very eager to make sure the kernel doesn't have bad state cached and starts chattering before the mount has completed. > I've checked numerous sources, including the coldalist archives, > and found no reference to the above message. The message > occurs as venus.init is starting. Both the 5.3.5-1 server and > client were installed. Another message that came up was: > > Kernel version ioctl failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device)! That is another non-problem, the initial linux-2.3 kernel needed some special downcalls for which we needed to be able to detect whether the kernel supports them. We added an ioctl to check for these features. Linux-2.2 kernels do not have the ioctl (and don't support the new downcalls) and this message is displayed. Recently the address-space changes have allowed us to fall back to the previously used methods and there is no difference between the kernels anymore, expect this message to disappear. JanReceived on 2000-03-20 17:53:56