compiling on redhat 7.1

[Harald Barth]

> what exactly did you see?  messages in /var/log/messages or something?
> please let me know.  so far, it works ok for me.

This was my setup:

Version arla-0.35.4pre3 på 
Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
Kernel 2.4.2-2smp on a 2-processor i686

I did

strace cp fileonlocaldisk fileinafs

open("/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/arla-2.4.2-2smp-0.35.4pre3-1.i386.rpm", O_RDONLY
|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
open("./arla-2.4.2-2smp-0.35.4pre3-1.i386.rpm", O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE) = 
4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3582348, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\355\253\356\333\4\0\0\0\0\1arla-2.4.2-2smp-0.35.4"..., 4096) = 4096
write(4, "\355\253\356\333\4\0\0\0\0\1arla-2.4.2-2smp-0.35.4"..., 4096) = 0
write(4, "\355\253\356\333\4\0\0\0\0\1arla-2.4.2-2smp-0.35.4"..., 4096) = 0
write(4, "\355\253\356\333\4\0\0\0\0\1arla-2.4.2-2smp-0.35.4"..., 4096) = 0

And so on. If you turn on arla's debugging, you get:

May  3 14:12:58 dhcp-221-139 kernel: xfs_write_file: error = 0
May  3 14:12:58 dhcp-221-139 kernel: xfs_write_file: tokens: 0xd4

We traced it down to be a problem with the underlying file system and
upgraded the kernel. It might be a SMP problem, who knows?

Harald.