Net Llama! wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sean Dogar wrote:
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>>I'm trying to get XFS support going on an ES 3 machine (it's actually
>>White Box Enterprise Linux, but the kernel source is the same). There
>>is no way to enable XFS support on the provided source and recompile
>>since the kernel revision is 2.4.21 (XFS not yet in the kernel). I
>>tried patching it with the 1.3.1 patches downloaded from SGI but there
>>are apparently enough differences between Red Hat's kernel and vanilla
>>to make the patch fail.
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>>I tried grabbing 2.4.29-vanilla, compiling, and running with that
>>kernel, but I quickly found out that the libs or other userland programs
>>in ES 3 must be dependent on some of the 2.6 kernel features that they
>>backported (I kept having programs go out to lunch or die; attaching an
>>strace showed that they were making kernel calls for things that weren't
>>there).
>>
>>Does anybody have XFS RPM's for 2.4.21-15smp or a newer RHES kernel?
>>I'd love to just be able to grab a precompiled module, drop it into
>>/lib/modules, and modprobe it.
>>
>>The only other option I see here is to try an upgrade to 2.6, which, if
>>experience is an indicator, could break things in the userland (assuming
>>I can get it to build). It would require an upgrade to module-utils,
>>which I'm not sure will leave my currently working kernel in a usable
>>state.
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>I'm successfully running 2.6.x on RHES3 without any noticable problems.
>XFS works great.
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>Sorry, i can 't help with playing the kernel SRPM dance. Redhat makes it
>sufficiently hard that its much faster easier to just use vanilla 2.6.x.
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Did you have to do anything other than upgrading the module-utils? Did
it break the 2.4 kernel?
-Sean
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