On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sean Dogar wrote:
> I'm trying to get XFS support going on an ES 3 machine (it's actually
> White Box Enterprise Linux, but the kernel source is the same). There
> is no way to enable XFS support on the provided source and recompile
> since the kernel revision is 2.4.21 (XFS not yet in the kernel). I
> tried patching it with the 1.3.1 patches downloaded from SGI but there
> are apparently enough differences between Red Hat's kernel and vanilla
> to make the patch fail.
>
> I tried grabbing 2.4.29-vanilla, compiling, and running with that
> kernel, but I quickly found out that the libs or other userland programs
> in ES 3 must be dependent on some of the 2.6 kernel features that they
> backported (I kept having programs go out to lunch or die; attaching an
> strace showed that they were making kernel calls for things that weren't
> there).
>
> Does anybody have XFS RPM's for 2.4.21-15smp or a newer RHES kernel?
> I'd love to just be able to grab a precompiled module, drop it into
> /lib/modules, and modprobe it.
>
> The only other option I see here is to try an upgrade to 2.6, which, if
> experience is an indicator, could break things in the userland (assuming
> I can get it to build). It would require an upgrade to module-utils,
> which I'm not sure will leave my currently working kernel in a usable
> state.
I'm successfully running 2.6.x on RHES3 without any noticable problems.
XFS works great.
Sorry, i can 't help with playing the kernel SRPM dance. Redhat makes it
sufficiently hard that its much faster easier to just use vanilla 2.6.x.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
|