I have a new system with an Adaptec I2O RAID controller. I'd
really like to use XFS on this system, but I'm having a terrible
time getting it installed.
The RedHat 7.2 distribution doesn't ship with the Adaptec/DPT I2O
driver. Adaptec has a driver disk, but of course the kernel versions
differ between standard RedHat 7.2 and SGI 7.2+XFS, so the driver
doesn't match what anaconda looks for and doesn't work if loaded by
hand (doesn't load, actually; missing symbols). I tried downloading
the Adaptec driver sources and the XFS-patched RedHat kernel sources
but building a driver disk that actually works appears to be beyond
my abilities; adaptec's driver sources are distributed as a patch
against 2.4.6, so I have no idea how the 2.7-10 redhat kernel modules
were built. Later kernel versions have the dpti driver included in
the Linus sources, but not what RedHat uses on their install disks.
There's also an "updates" disk distributed with the RedHat 7.2 driver
disk; it includes a new "packages.py" but with no real knowledge of
Python I can't really see the difference, nor tell if it will work right
with the SGI anaconda.
What's the right thing to do here? If anyone cares to look at the
RedHat/Adaptec solution for stock RedHat 7.2, it's at
http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/dpt/; driver source tarball is down
at the bottom of the page.
I tried a stock RedHat install but ext3 leaves much to be desired. I
really want XFS on this box, but how?
Thor
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