Folks:
I think this is a FAQ but it isn't in the FAQ as far as I can tell. I
am also not sure who owns the problem in reality, as it appears to be
more of a devfsd setup than an XFS problem. But it is worth working up
an answer to, as I am sure that it is a FAQ (and will be for new folks
doing devfsd on a distro to get XFS).
I just downloaded the 7.1 installer, and installed the XFS with RedHat
7.1 to my laptop (erasing an older Mandrake 7.2 install). In the older
install, my audio and cdrom worked fine. With the new install on there,
they do not work, and from what I can see, it is a devfsd issue.
Looking at the hardware tree for the drive, and the /etc/devfsd.conf
file, I cannot really figure out how to force the CDROM to be visible.
I have added some LOOKUP lines to the devfsd.conf file, that seem to
work when I force a modprobe of sound. I would like the CD to be
visible too. This is an IDE CD ( /dev/hdb in the old nomenclature).
What I cannot tell from the /etc/devfsd.conf file is how it mapped the
tree to the /dev/hda in the first place. I am sure that the solution to
my problem is very much related to this. If someone could point me to a
document which explains this mapping (specific to the 1.0 XFS installer
for RedHat) and where to look to add to it (specifically so I can set up
a mapping for my CD) I would appreciate it.
Note: I did look in /dev/cdroms/ and there was no entry for cdrom0.
This is where the problem is. I need to get the cdrom0 noticed in the
first place in order to make this work. Clues/hints are requested.
The suggestion: The installer gets you to a screen giving you the
ability to partition using one of three methods. Two of the three
methods do not give you the ability to create an XFS partition (I tried
them). It would be nice if you added the ability to create an XFS
partition (or filesystem) on top of the existing fdisk/disk druid
system, or somehow specifically indicated which partition to use (both
say linux native). There wasn't an indication of how to go about
creating any particular file system atop the linux native partition.
Words to that effect would have been helpful. Looking at my "xfs
partition" (xfs file system atop a linux partition) makes me wonder
whether or not the disk druid/fdisk would have worked.
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Joe Landman,
landman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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