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Re: XFS & ADSM

To: "Bernhard R. Erdmann" <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS & ADSM
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 23:23:58 +0200
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, "Marcelo E. Magallon" <marcelo.magallon@xxxxxxxxxxx>, werner maes <werner.maes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3B40E5E3.CE1F0D6F@xxxxxxxxxxx>; from be@xxxxxxxxxxx on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:21:39PM +0200
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:21:39PM +0200, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
> > It's unfortunately not even an ADSM only problem. e.g. Arkeia has the
> > same one and even VMWare checks file system types for some unknown
> > reason.
> 
> VMWare checks for locking capabilities - it doesn't know anything about
> XFS as a filesystem but it prints a helpful error message to add
> something to your blah.cfg and that helps.
> 
> # Locking on XFS
> host.FSSupportLocking1 = 0x58465342

They fixed that when reiserfs became popular. Older vmware wasn't that helpful.
It is the wrong way anyways to check for locking, instead they should just
do a autoconf style runtime check if it works and be generic.


-Andi

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