[CentOS] Re: NFS filesystem recommendations please (and problems with XFS)

[Kay Diederichs]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Kay Diederichs wrote:
>> [root at turn29 ESRF]# uname -a
>> Linux turn29.biologie.uni-konstanz.de 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 
>> 06:39:17 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus for 
>> package: kmod-xfs
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus is 
>> needed by package kmod-xfs
>>
>> So it appears like it _does_ need the plus kernel. Or am I doing anything 
>> wrong here?
> 
> Try 
> 
> yum install kmod-xfs-0.4-1.2.6.18_8.1.8.el5.x86_64.rpm
> 
> instead (with centosplus enabled). 
> 
> .el5.centos.plus probably looks newer to the dependency resolver in yum.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ralph

Thanks, Ralph -

yum  --enablerepo=centosplus install kmod-xfs-0.4-1.2.6.18_8.1.8.el5

worked (with .x86_64.rpm appended, it didn't).

I also did "yum  --enablerepo=centosplus install xfsprogs"
and
/sbin/mkfs.xfs /dev/md4
which is a RAID0, and am now happily testing XFS.

thanks to the CentOS developers for making it so easy to try things out!

Kay