Arla 0.26/27pre4 vs. Linux 2.2.10 on SparcUltra 5

[Tobias Grundmann]

Hello,

finally I succeeded in compiling the xfs kernel module for Linux
2.2.10 on a Sparc Ultra 5. System is Debian 2.1 with some updates from
unstable. Arlad seems to run ok (arlad -t).

Now, after mounting arla on /afs I get the following:

<0> iterator(ROOT) %ls -l /
total 49
?---------   1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 afs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul 27 16:52 bin/

After unmounting /afs as a directory is back again:

<0> iterator(ROOT) %ll /
total 50
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  2 16:54 afs/

Any hints ?

The xfs kernel module was compiled with the following compiler/flags
(same as used for the minix kernel module):

sparc64-linux-gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DDEBUG
-I. -I. -Wall -m64 -pipe -mno-fpu -O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -mcmodel=medlow
-Wstrict-prototypes -ffixed-g4 -fcall-used-g5 -fcall-used-g7
-Wno-sign-compare -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src/linux/include/
-I./../include -I../../include -I./../../include
-I/home/cake/krb4-0.9.9/include xfs_syscalls.c ld -m elf64_sparc -r -o
xfs.o xfs_load.o xfs_dev.o xfs_common.o xfs_vfsops.o xfs_node.o
xfs_message.o xfs_inodeops.o xfs_deb.o xfs_cache.o xfs_syscalls.o

sparc64-linux-gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc64-linux/egcs-2.92.11/specs
gcc version egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)

The rest of the arla distribution was compiled with the flags
./configure figured out i.e.:

gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/arla/etc\"
-DARLACACHEDIR=\"/usr/arla/cache\"
-DARLACONFFILE=\"/usr/arla/etc/arla.conf\"
-I. -I. -I./.. -I/home/cake/arla-0.27pre4/xfs/linux -I../include
-I./../include -I./../xfs/include -I../rxdef -I./../rxkad
-I/home/cake/krb4-0.9.9/include -DDEBUG -g -Wall -DRXDEBUG bsd-subr.c

gcc -o arlad adir.o arla.o arladeb.o cmcb.o conn.o cred.o darla.o
discon_log.o dynroot.o fcache.o fprio.o inter.o kernel.o messages.o
reconnect.o volcache.o xfs.o bsd-subr.o -L../lib/bufdir -lbufdir
-L../rxdef -lrxdefclient -L../rx -lrx -L../lwp -llwp -L../lib/sl -lsl
-lreadline -lcurses -L../lib/ko -lko -L../util -lutil -L../lib/roken
-lroken -L../rxkad -lrxkad -L/home/cake/krb4-0.9.9/lib -lkrb -ldes
-L/home/cake/krb4-0.9.9/lib -lkafs -lresolv

gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/2.7.2.3/specs
gcc version 2.7.2.3

Is this maybe a 32/64-bit issue? Should the compiler be the same? Gcc
2.95 doesn't compile here for some reasons I wasn't able to figure out
yet. This sparc64-linux-gcc thing is AFAIK a debianism which can't
create executables. Kernel compiles without problems. I know this is
not something a developer likes to hear as a bug report, but maybe
this is a known problem with a short answer.  

Thanks for your time,
     
     Tobias