On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:57:13PM -0400, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> How would one go about compiling the XFS modules for the stock RHEL4
> kernel? Redhat decided not to include it for whatever reason.
>
More precisely, RedHat decided it couldn't support any filesystem
other than Ext3 (hint, if you paid for RHEL 4 and want XFS, you could
complai^H^H^H^H ask RedHat to reevaluate their choices of supported
filesystems)
On to the (possibly) useful portion of this post,
You need to get the kernel source RPM and use the rpmbuild command to
setup the kernel tree appropriately.. I believe the command is
"rpmbuild -bp" for "prep" which means untar and apply patches in
RPM-speak. This will put the kernel tree in the "BUILD" directory
where you can then go in and theoretically change whatever kernel
options you want and rebuild. If you want the module to load into the
supplied kernel, you should start with their config file and just
build the XFS module. There could be other steps I'm missing (like
adding the proper extraversion junk to the Makefile, possibly) because
I haven't had the misfortune of doing this in a while, but that should
get you started.
And don't forget to let them hear your opinion on this subject :-)
Sonny
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