Ahh, so there's no actual "patching" that needs to be done. This is where
I was confused, plus I see what looks like the spec file to build an
rpm. I though the linux tree just got dump on top of the vanilla test5
source...plus freshmeat posting has a patch you can download. I didn't
see any docs that pointed these things out so I was a bit cornfoozed.
Thanks.
-jeremy
> Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm confused as to how to actually build xfs.
>
> > How do I actually get xfs to build. I checked the code out of cvs, but it
> > leaves me rather confused. There's supposed to be a README.build file in
> > the top level, but that doesn't exist. It looks like it's support to
> > build into an rpm from a spec file, but the spec file is looking for
> > linux-2.4.0-test5-xfs-alpha.patch which does exist from the cvs tree.
>
> > I'm just confused and I'd like to try xfs out.
>
> > Thanks for any help. The Linux-xfs faq doesn't seem to exist.
>
> don't know if there is any doc there (i think somewhere it is) but
> it is quite simple: you have to checkout the linux and the cmd tree
> from cvs - the linux tree is a kernel source tree you have to build
> your kernel from (enable xfs under filesystems) and in the cmd tree
> just go to the xfs subdir and enter make (and maybe make install)
> this will build you the tools like mkfs_xfs etc. - then (after
> booting the xfs kernel) you may create an xfs filesytem
>
> mkfs_xfs /dev/xxx
>
> and mount it
>
> mount -t xfs /dev/xxx /somewhere
>
> thats it - also keep in mind it most probably still has some bugs in
> it - but it works quite well so far for me (i am running our company
> squid for about a week now on an xfs only system - except /boot) and
> had so far _no_ problems with it - so it's really useable but you
> shouldn't at the current point setup any real production systems with
> it (but i am quite optimistic that it will be there really soon)
>
> i hope this helps
>
> t
>
>
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