Fails to build with module-assistent against 2.6.20

[Egon Willighagen]

Binary package hint: shfs-source

I ran module-assistent, and selected the shfs module, but the compile fails with this trace:

/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6/shfs_debug.h:35: warning: ‘kmem_cache_t’ s deprecated
/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6/dir.c: In function ‘shfs_create’:
/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6/dir.c:305: error: ‘struct inode’ has no member named ‘u’
/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6/dir.c:306: error: ‘struct inode’ has no member named ‘u’
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6/dir.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-12-386'
make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/shfs/Linux-2.6'
make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/shfs'
make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2

[Thorsten B (thorsten-osev)]

Same here....the module-assistant fails to built the kernel module. Worked fine on older kernel, however.

[Marc Messing (launchpad-mxxxa)]

I have the same Error.

[da1l6 (da1l6)]

Same thing here.

I investigated a little bit and the shfs kernel module seems to unmaintained since 2004.
There are at least 2 kernel changes that make 2.6.20 incompatible with the module.

However, there is a package sshfs which provides equivalent functionality using fuse.
Install it and add your user to the fuse group, then do
sshfs <Host>:<RemotePath> <LocalMountPoint>

Unfortunately mount -t sshfs ... does not seem to be supported.

Conclusion: Use sshfs, shfs-source is unmaintained, broken and should be removed.

da1l6

[DJP (djp-launchpad)]

A patch is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=420770 which compiles, installs and works on Edgy.

[DJP (djp-launchpad)]

Sorry, meant to say Feisty.