On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 21:01, David Hallman wrote:
>
> I came across this thread
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=99552661303036&w=2 from almost a
> year ago. I don't see that any conclusion was reached. Has anyone been
> sucessful in getting ClearCase MVFS working with xfs or found some other
> solution?
>
> We are trying to use RedHat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.18), SGI xfs 1.0.2 and ClearCase
> 4.2. Everything seems to work except the MVFS will not load.
>
> I'm desperate for this to work since all our development is moving to this
> platform in the very near future (like now) and limiting development to
> snapshot views will be a huge problem for us - we can barely get our
> developers to do merges much less keep snapshot views up-to-date... :(
I presume you are getting the same sorts of errors from the clearcase
module that this message describes. Basically clearcase is a binary
module built against specific kernel headers, and it appears to have
checks built in which ensure it is being used in a compatible kernel.
Their technique basically limits the range of kernels the module will
build into.
I doubt clearcase will rebuild you a special version, which means the
only way to get this to go any further is to fix up the structure
sizes which XFS changes. There should be less of these than there
used to be, and if my memory serves me correctly, DMAPI and extended
attributes are the only things which make things non-standard
sizes. It would be possible to get XFS to work without these
extensions in the kernel without too much work.
Steve
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