Kaitlin Rupert wrote:
Osier Yang wrote:
> Hi kaitlin.
> I tested on three machines.
>
> ===Machine A===
> [root@dhcp-66-70-159 ~]# ls -laut /boot/ | grep vmlinuz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2045656 Jan 14 08:40 vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5xen
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Jan 14 06:15
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5.hmac
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1953468 Jan 8 14:28 vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161 Dec 21 18:51
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5xen.hmac
>
> [root@dhcp-66-70-159 ~]# find /boot/ | grep vmlinuz | egrep -v 'xen'
> | tail -n1
> /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5.hmac
>
> ==Machine B====
> [root@dhcp-66-70-128 tmp]# ls -laut /boot/ | grep vmlinuz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 15 10:52 vmlinuz ->
> vmlinuz-2.6.18-160.el5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1931964 Dec 23 13:44 vmlinuz-2.6.18-160.el5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1931580 Aug 1 05:02 vmlinuz-2.6.18-158.el5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2029233 Aug 1 05:02 vmlinuz-2.6.18-158.el5xen
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Jul 28 05:41
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-160.el5.hmac
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161 Jul 14 2009
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-158.el5xen.hmac
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Jul 14 2009
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-158.el5.hmac
>
> [root@dhcp-66-70-128 tmp]# find /boot/ | grep vmlinuz | egrep -v
> 'xen' | tail -n1
> /boot/.vmlinuz-2.6.18-160.el5.hmac
>
> ======Machine C===============
> [root@amd-4450b-4-1 ~]# ls -laut /boot/ | grep vmlinuz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1953468 Jan 12 21:29 vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2045656 Jan 12 21:29 vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5xen
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161 Dec 22 07:51
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5xen.hmac
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 Dec 22 07:43
> .vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5.hmac
>
> [root@amd-4450b-4-1 ~]# find /boot/ | grep vmlinuz | grep -v 'xen' |
> tail -n1
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-183.el5
>
> so, the result depends on the access time of ".vmlinuz-*.hmac".
Ah, good call! Thanks for tracking this down.
>
> that means the patch is not useless. :)
Yep, agreed. I've applied your patch.
Thanks!
Thanks. :)
>
> Thanks and Regards
> osier