Installing from the Source

In this procedure, you start with a "vanilla" linux-2.4.x tarball (linux-2.4.x.tar.gz, or linux-2.4.x.tar.bz2) and apply patches to obtain an XFS-capable kernel.

• Obtain a vanilla linux-2.4.x tree from a kernel.org mirror and unpack it into wherever you'd like to perform the build.
• Download the latest patch files and place them in the the top-level directory of your unpacked 2.4.x kernel (i.e. linux/). The most recent patches available for download are provided here.

• Uncompress each patch with gunzip patchfile_name.gz
• For each patch, run patch -p1 < patchfile_name  in the top directory of your linux source tree.

After you have downloaded the XFS Linux patches, you will then need to configure and install the kernel, as described in Configuring and Installing the XFS Linux Kernel.