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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