[CentOS] CentOS 4.3 x86_64 xfs module rpm

[James Pearson]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 03:56 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:42 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
>>
>>>On 25/05/06, Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>The xfs kernel modules at dev.centos.org are very handy.  There are a
>>>>couple of xfs modules in the 4.3 x86_64 directory, but I don't think
>>>>it's for the x86_64 4.3 kernel (2.6.9-34).  The latest ones in that
>>>>directory is for the -22 kernel (I believe this came with CentOS 4.2).
>>>
>>>Get one of the kernel-module-xfs SRPMS (doesn't matter which one, they
>>>are the same), install it and then edit the kernel-module-xfs.spec
>>>file and comment out the line:
>>>
>>>%patch6 -p1
>>>
>>>(or, use the patch to the spec file attached)
>>>
>>>and then build the RPM using something like:
>>>
>>>rpmbuild --target x86_64 --define "kernel_topdir /lib/modules/2.6.9-34/build" \
>>>kernel-module-xfs.spec
>>>
>>>see: ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/testing/RHEL4/README
>>>
>>>I was given these instructions by Eric Sandeen @ SGI
>>>
>>>I've been using 2.6.9-34 with XFS compiled in this way ...
>>>
>>>James Pearson
>>
>>Dang ... did I not publish those?
>>
>>I will check now, and if they are not published, then I will do so.
>>
> 
> 
> OK ... should be some good xfs kernel modules for all the kernels now.

The spec file still applies %patch6 for the 2.6.9-34 kernels - I was 
under the impression that this patch was not needed with the RHEL4U3 
(and above) kernels ... although this may now not be the case.

James Pearson