Re: XFS DMAPI support for RHEL4

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Manoj Kumar Pradhan wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running RHEL with kernel 2.6.9-42ELsmp x86_64. I got the xfs module
> > from http://sandeen.net/rhel4_xfs/ and did a rpmbuild as instructed there, I
> > got the xfs.ko and the module-xfs rpm for the running kernel too but modinfo
> > shows me that the xfs module hence created is not dmapi enabled.
> >     
>
> Right, the dmapi module isn't included in that.  As far as I can recall,
> the necessary bits to support DMAPI are not present in the RHEL4 kernel,
> so this is probably not going to work.  Perhaps the sgi guys can chime
> in if I'm off base.
>
> -Eric
>
>   
Isn't there a rhel4 patch floating around someplace? :-)

> > [root@asher RPMS]# modinfo xfs
> > filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
> > license:        GPL
> > description:    SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large
> > block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
> > author:         Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> > depends:
> > vermagic:       2.6.9-42.ELsmp SMP gcc-3.4
> >
> > When I run a simple app which tries to init dmapi for XFS it fails with
> > ENOSYS.
> > Did I miss anything here? How do I enable DMAPI on this XFS module?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Manoj
> >
> >
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