[ale] Loading kernel modules at boot

[Stephen Cristol]

On Mar 19, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Benjie wrote:
> the easiest thing to do would be to add " modprobe fuse"  to /etc/ 
> rc.local.  That should load the module every time your system  
> boots.  If the module has been compiled, has its dependencies  
> defined, and is aliased in modules.conf, I would think it would  
> load automagically when you use the fusermount command.

Benjie,

Thanks for this suggestion. I added "/sbin/modprobe fuse" to /etc/ 
rc.local and it does load the fuse module at boot, though it loads it  
after all services have started. Here's what I did immediately after  
boot:

[sc ~]$ sudo /sbin/service condor status
webdavfs is stopped
[sc ~]$ sudo /sbin/service condor start
Mounting (starting) webdavfs:                              [  OK  ]
[sc ~]$

Adding "/sbin/service condor start" after the modprobe in /etc/ 
rc.local should make this work. I'm still curious why I can't get  
fuse to load some other way at boot, but your suggestion gets this  
project working.

Thanks again,
S


> On 3/19/06, Stephen Cristol <stephen at bee.net> wrote: I've installed  
> the fuse kernel module [1] from source and would like
> to load it at boot time.
>
> I can successfully load it manually using:
>
>    sudo /sbin/modprobe coda
>
> Running "/sbin/modinfo fuse" gives me the following information:
>
>    filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.EL/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko
>    alias:          char-major-10-229
>    author:         Miklos Szeredi <miklos at szeredi.hu>
>    description:    Filesystem in Userspace
>    license:        GPL
>    vermagic:       2.6.9-34.EL 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
>    depends:
>
> Based on that, I added the line "alias char-major-10-229 fuse" to /
> etc/modprobe.conf (under CentOS 4.2). This has not had the desired
> effect. I am not sure if it had any effect. Typing either "dmesg |
> grep fuse" or "dmesg | grep char" produces no output.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get the fuse module to load at boot?
>
> If I can't get it to load via this mechanism, is there an alternative
> that would load early enough for it to be available to a service (in /
> etc/rc.d/init.d)?
>
> Thanks,
> S
>
>
> [1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
>
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