We are working to release 2.9.5 (2.9.4 was a release we did in conjunction
with EMC and the 2TIERS project, so was not a fully tested public release).
  We are getting extremely close to 2.9.5, so you can grab a copy of trunk
out of svn and it should have what you need.

-b

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:19 AM David Humphreys <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have become aware of orangefs only as a result of its integration with
> the latest kernel release.
> I have been tracking ceph for a long time, but have not found it to be
> very user friendly: difficult to manage and difficult to make work in a
> robust way.
> Orangefs seems to provide some similar functionality, and my initial
> experiments yesterday seemed to confirm usability.
> The problem that I find is that the latest release (2.9.3) does not seem
> to contain kernel module code that will build with current kernels (my
> attempts failed, and references are made to 2.6.x series, and stuff has
> changed, I think, at 4.0).
> This shouldn't matter with 4.6, because orangefs is included by Linus.
> However when trying to mount an orangefs share the mount command hangs, and
> dmesg shows that the kernel is complaining that userspace declares version
> 20903,  but 20904 is required.
> (those numbers from memory of yesterday, and not on the screen in front of
> me now, but I'm sure that I have not misremembered).
> It looks like we might need a 2.9.4 release? I tried compiling the svn
> version, but couldn't overcome the lack of an 'autogen.sh' to do the
> right autotools suff to make a working 'configure'.
> I hope someone can help me put the 4.6 kernel orangefs to the test.
> Thank you in anticipation.
> David
>
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