[Fwd: Re: [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS and PaX]

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

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Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] GlusterFS and PaX
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:06:14 +1000
From: Geoff Kassel <address@hidden>
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To: Anand Babu Periasamy <address@hidden>
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Hi Anand,

> It think it will be useful if you add it to FAQ.
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_FAQ

Okay, I've added this to the FAQ now.

> If there  are lot more steps to be done to get it to
> work, you can contribute an article on it.

No, that's all it takes to get the daemon running with the PaX kernel 
patches.
PaX is very simple to use, for the protections it gives.

> Please let us know if you are struck anywhere..

Thank you. It's more a function of time and effort, rather than being 
stuck. I
haven't even begun to dive the mailing list archive yet :)

Cheers,

Geoff Kassel.

On Monday 06 August 2007 06:04, you wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> It think it will be useful if you add it to FAQ.
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_FAQ
> OR
> If there  are lot more steps to be done to get it to
> work, you can contribute an article on it.
>
> Please let us know if you are struck anywhere..
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> Geoff Kassel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    Just a FYI for people planning to use GlusterFS on systems using PaX
> > (i.e. Gentoo Hardened, Adamantix, Hardened Debian) - you need to
> > run 'paxctl -E /path/to/glusterfsd' before using the GlusterFS daemon,
> > otherwise PaX will kill the process.
> >
> >    The glusterfs mount tool seems to work okay without this, although I'm
> > still trying to get my volume configuration working.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Geoff Kassel.
> >
> >
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