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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:34:17 -0500
From:   Juan Casero <casero@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: RedHat Linux 7.0 with SGI XFS
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Hi -

I have installed the modified version of RedHat 7.0 downloaded from your
web site that uses
the SGI XFS driver.  I have been anxious to test the XFS for a long time
so I made all of my
linux partitions to be XFS file systems.  There are some problems that I
am experiencing though
and I thought maybe you could help me with them.

1.  For some reason when the system boots there is no device file for my
IDE cdrom.  This unit is
the slave device on the secondary IDE channel.  Browsing through the
contents of the /dev directory
I was able to figure out how the device files are laid out in this
distribution.  Further I am able to use the
mknod command to create the /dev/cdrom (/dev/hdd) file and then I can
mount the cdrom just fine but a reboot of the machine clears out
/dev/cdrom.  This tells me that the /dev entries are being dynamically
created when
the system boots and for some reason the kernel doesn't see my cdrom
hardware.  Any ideas how I can
fix this?

2.  If I download a plain vanilla 2.4.0 kernel and then apply the XFS
patch available the kernel compile will
die with an error.   In fact I even tried to generate the kernel
binaries that came on the cdrom you provide using the source rpms but
the compile process also died.  If you like I can send you a copy of the
error output
from my attempt to compile the plain vanilla 2.4.0 kernel with the patch
applied.

3.  Trying to compile the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6 driver from RPMS succeeds
on this modified redhat 7.0
distribution but trying to load the modules fails and I get an error
message about unresolved symbol
irq_stat.

After much fiddling I was finally able to integrate this installation
using XFS into my multi boot SMP
system.   Right now what concerns me most is being able to compile a
plain vanilla 2.4.0 kernel with
the XFS patch applied.  If I could do this then I am pretty sure the
other problems would go away or I
can at least make them go away by working around them.   Could you help
me out with this?


Thanks,
Juan Casero

By the way.....when do you expect that the source code for XFS will
integrated into the mainstream kernel sources?   That is when is it
likely that we will be able to download a plain vanilla linux kernel
source and
compile it with native support for XFS without having to apply patches?