beegfs-client failing to build on latest Rocky 9

[Tristan Pautsch]

Hello all,

With the release of the latest Rocky point release (9.5), there is seemingly another kernel incompatibility that is preventing beegfs-client from building. 

Some relevant error snippets (warnings/notes left out for brevity) from journalctl (can provide the full output if helpful):

• /opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/os/OsCompat.c:305:27: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_subdirs’
• /opt/beegfs/src/client/client_module_7/build/../source/os/OsCompat.c:309:72: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_child’; did you mean ‘d_children’?
• ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:320:27: error: expression in static assertion is not an integer

We're already having to comment out some lines in iov_iter.h (see previous discussions) to build the client.

Our workstations are running Rocky 9, with BeeGFS versions 7.3.4 - 7.4.2 attempted, and this same build error occurs. 

The current installed kernel is: 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64 

Any ideas (even hacky workarounds) would be greatly appreciated!

T

[Tristan P]

Self-bump to note that the generally accepted workaround for similar issues to these of downgrading the kernel and kernel-devel packages (in this case down to 5.14.0-427.42.1.el9_4.x86_64, the latest kernel from 9.4) does indeed allow beegfs-client to build; it's just obviously not a long-term solution.

T

[Michael Robbert]

Does anybody know when we'll see an update to BeeGFS that supports the Rocky 9.5 kernel? I'm looking to do OS patching in a couple of weeks and would love it if I could move to the latest one available.

Thanks,

Mike

[Toby Darling]

Hi Mike

On 16/01/2025 19:07, Michael Robbert wrote:
> Does anybody know when we'll see an update to BeeGFS that supports the
> Rocky 9.5 kernel? I'm looking to do OS patching in a couple of weeks and
> would love it if I could move to the latest one available.

Did you get a reply off-list to this? Or are you still waiting on an update?

Cheers
Toby
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Toby Darling, Scientific Computing (2N269)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
https://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scicomp/

[Michael Robbert]

No, I have not gotten any reply off-list. I am still waiting for somebody to respond.

Mike