[CentOS] broken GFS

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Martyn Drake <martyn at drake.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM, js <security at air-austral.com> wrote:
>
>  > Maybe, because XFS seems to be important, is it  possible to build xfs right
>  > after the kernel src build?
>  >
>  > Is this far more longer than only build the kernel?
>
>  Assuming that you've set it up as a module rather than actually
>  compiling it into the kernel itself, it should be a case of just
>  doing:
>
>  cd $KERNEL_SOURCE_TREE
>  make fs/xfs/xfs.ko
>  mkdir /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/fs
>  cp fs/xfs/xfs.ko /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/fs/xfs
>
>  which will build the XFS module and stick it in the right place.  Note
>  that all that does not include the XFS userspace tools...

Making kernel modules is a bit more involved than that.  Please see:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules

if you really feel like building modules yourself.

Akemi