Re: XFS over LVM over md RAID

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Scobie wrote:

> I did build 3.1.3. Is libblkid preferable?  I note it is defaulted off
> in configure and I used the default configuration.
> 
> l appear to have e2fsprogs and devel packages installed (Fedora 11), for
> libblkid, but when I enable and try to build, it fails:
> 
>     [CC]     xfs_mkfs.o
> xfs_mkfs.c: In function ‘check_overwrite’:
> xfs_mkfs.c:298: error: ‘blkid_probe’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)

yup F11 doesn't have all the nice blkid topology bits; F11 still has
libblkid in e2fsprogs, from before it was liberated to util-linux-ng.

(I wonder if we shouldn't just convert xfsprogs over to use the ioctls...)

-Eric