Re: not able to create XFS filesystem

[Alexander Apprich <a.apprich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

chandrasekar mahalingam wrote:
> Hi
>    my RHEL 4 machine (Linux spea44 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1
> SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
> GNU/Linux) has the rpm installed for XFS . 
>
> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36 and
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36
those packages have nothing to do with the XFS filesystem :-)

> when i try to create a file system using
>  "mkfs -t xfs /dev/sekarvg/simple1" it says "mkfs.XFS:
> No such file or directory" . "lsmod|grep -i xfs " does
> not list xfs . 
AFAIK the XFS filesystem isn't officially supported by
RedHat. You might get them from someplace else like

http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/

But the kernel also need to support xfs.


Hth

Alex