<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>If you are using HAL and D-Bus, you want sysfs enabled. I would be very surprised if CentOS does not use them.<br><br>I don't know why you mention a SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in the header. Is there a newer version in the kernel?<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "mike havlicek" <mhavlicek1@yahoo.com><br>To: clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:27:00 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain<br>Subject: [clue-tech] SYSFS_DEPRECIATED_V2<br><br>Hello,<br><br>I am building a v2.6.28.6 kernel for use with CentOS 5.2. In general whats a definitative way to determine if a distro needs this feature?<br><br>I have done a "find /sys/class | xargs ls -l | grep l" and get entries like<br><br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 19 08:10 \<br>device -> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.2<br><br>which leads me to believe the stock running kernel (2.6.18-92el5PAE) on <br>this machine has "some" SYSFS enabled. The question is whether it is necessary.<br><br>Ultimately I am trying to alleviate some more irritating problems that I see from this vanilla install:<br><br>- calls to hwclock fail<br>- kjournald eventually fails<br><br>I also get messages of the form:<br><br>EXT3-fs error (device dm-3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted<br><br>and from syslogd<br><br>kernel: journal commit I/O error.<br><br>Other than /boot being on /dev/sda2 (ext3), the rest of the system is installed on a single lvm2 volgroup with 5 logical volumes: all with ext3<br>except a swap.<br><br>When these things happen, I think methods of logging are confined to <br>stylo & papier ... and I haven't had that subsystem fully functioning.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>-Mike<br><br><br><br><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-tech mailing list<br>clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>http://www.cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br></div></body></html>