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New XFS code for the CentOS-4 Kernel from SGI
by Johnny Hughes 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

The new XFS file system code from SGI is now available on the CentOS-4 Developer's testing site. You can install the dev-testing repo from here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/ And putting the CentOS-Testing.repo file in your /etc/yum.repo.d/ directory. You can then install the new xfs module on the standard centos i686 or x86_64 kernels. You have to pick the proper kernel that you are running. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the command that would install the XFS module and the minimum required XFS tools: yum install dmapi xfsprogs xfsdump kernel-module-xfs-`uname -r`-0.1-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- This will install the just released XFS code from SGI. BUT ... this code is still not 100% working with 4K stacks (which all EL 4 and FC 3/4/5 kernels currently use). A note from SGI on this code: ################################################################# # # # NOTICE # # This xfs module rpm has been provided for testing purposes # # only. It is believed to be functional, but it has not been # # heavily tested. In particular, you may have issues with the # # 4KSTACKS option on RHEL4 ia32 kernels, depending on your IO # # hardware, layering, nfs usage, etc. # # # # Please do NOT report any problems with this module, or with # # the kernel when this module is loaded, to Red Hat. # # You may report issues to the linux-xfs(a)oss.sgi.com list. # # (Please also report successes!) # # # ################################################################# You may also report successes and failures to the CentOS-Devel list. I installed this and ran 15 full tests with Bonnie++ on the XFS partition without any errors. I was using a PATA drive and a pIII 800 Mhz PC. ------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: This will not run currently with the CentOS Plus kernel, as XFS is already compiled as a module on that kernel. After some testing here (if all goes well), a new CentOS Plus kernel w/out XFS will be compiled and this code will also be moved (with instructions) to the CentOSPLus repo. ------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: After completing the install of the XFS code, you should edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo and set the line: enabled=1 TO enabled=0 to turn off the testing repository for CentOS-4 until you want to upgrade items from it again. This repo will get other Alpha/Pre Release type code in it and you would not want to accidentally overwrite stable CentOS packages during updates. --------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS-4 Lead Developer

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Re: src.rpm contributions for warewulf and company... updates
by Galitz... Geoff Galitz 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Hi folks, The src.rpms and specfiles at: http://unix.cchem.berkeley.edu/downloads have been updated to the latest versions and the centos-4 versions have been added. -geoff

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RHEL4 2.6.9-22EL xfs module src.rpm for testing
by Eric Sandeen 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hey, let's give it a whirl. No promises, but please do let me know how it works out. I've also sent this out to the linux-xfs list. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/testing/RHEL4/ ################################################################# # # # NOTICE # # This xfs module rpm has been provided for testing purposes # # only. It is believed to be functional, but it has not been # # heavily tested. In particular, you may have issues with the # # 4KSTACKS option on RHEL4 ia32 kernels, depending on your IO # # hardware, layering, nfs usage, etc. # # # # Please do NOT report any problems with this module, or with # # the kernel when this module is loaded, to Red Hat. # # You may report issues to the linux-xfs(a)oss.sgi.com list. # # (Please also report successes!) # # # ################################################################# To rebuild, do something like this: rpmbuild --rebuild --target i686 --define "kernel_topdir /lib/modules/2.6.9-22.EL/build" kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-22.EL-0.1-1.src.rpm where the --target should match your architecture (actually not needed for x86_64 or ia64, it just affects the rpm name), and the kernel_topdir is /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build for the RHEL4 kernel you wish to build against. I have tested this xfs codebase a little bit with the xfs qa tests from xfs-cmds cvs with the 2.6.9-22.ELsmp kernel on ia32. It should work on other architectures and flavors (bigmem, non-smp, etc), and it may work with other RHEL4 kernel versions, but no guarantees on that. -Eric

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src.rpm contributions for warewulf and company.
by Galitz... Geoff Galitz 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

>> >> Hi folks. I have src.rpms for warwulf (clustering software), >> mezzanine (development utility) and perl-Term-Screen (perl module) >> that I would like to contribute to Centos 3 and 4. How do I do this? >> > > put the files up somewhere, post an email to centos-devel(a)centos.org ( > http://lists.centos.org/ ) with a URL pointing at the SPEC file. > > { we spoke about this on IRC a few days back } > Howdy. At http://unix.cchem.berkeley.edu/downloads/centos-3-repo you will find the src.rpm and spec files for warewulf, mezzanine and perl-Term-Screen. I will make the same available for centos 4, shortly. -geoff

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A patched kdepim package(for CentOS 4.2) for CJK user
by dlion 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hi, all I have build a patched kdepim package for CJK user. More specifically, Knode is patched to support locale-dependent groupname encoding. CJK means Chinese, Japanese and Korean. They all need multi-byte charset(MBCS). A RFC requires that all newsgroup groupnames are encoded in UTF-8. Most newsreaders under UNIX are designed this way. But due to Microsoft products' feature(or call it bug), locale-dependent groupname encoding is the de facto standard in some CJK area. This package changes knode's behavior from UTF-8 to locale-dependent encoding, and will be helpful to CJK users. Non-CJK users probably will not need this package. And this package replaces the official kdepim package. Therefore, I think this package should go to centosplus directory. The knode patch is not written by me. I only build this kdepim package. It is from a chinese Linux distribution called Magic Linux. You can get the original patch from http://www.magiclinux.org/dev/old-1.2/cd1/SRPMS/kdepim-3.3.2-1mgc.src.rpm The original package is GPLed. So this patch is available under GPL. I, and some other users, have tested this patch, and it works. I hope this package can be merged into the CentOS repository(centosplus directory). And, I do not have a stable and secure space to store this package, I request a space(for example, a ftp account or a web space) at least 15M bytes large, so I can upload the SRPM.

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3.6 Delay?
by C.M. Connelly 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

What's the status of CentOS 3.6? Red Hat released their update 6 to RHEL 3 on September 28. I updated our RHEL box a couple of weeks ago and things seem to be running acceptably well. The last thing I see in the archives is Johnny Hughes talking about mirror load from October 13 (and pointing out that the 4.2 release was well within the two-week time limit promised in the CentOS FAQ; the 3.6 update has clearly missed that deadline). I;m not expecting anything earthshaking in 3.6, but I am curious about whether the delay is due to no one remembering to flip the symlink or something more serious. If you need more testing, let me know and I can update some of my lab machines manually and listen for complaints. In any case, your work is much appreciated, especially as it's allowed me to stick with a Red-Hat--based distro and not redo all the work I'd done to handle installs. Claire -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc(a)math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

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Firebird RDBS for CentOS
by Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi all, i recently decide to use CentOS 4.1 and i find out that there isn't a Firebird RPM. So, i volunteer to make and maintain Firebird RPM's for the CentOS. Currently i am working ( among others ) in IBPhoenix www.ibphoenix.com, which provides commercial support for the Firebird and Interbase RDBMS's, and i participate as an administrator on the Firebird Project www.firebirdsql.org. If you agree, can you inform me with the procedures i need to follow to accomplish that ? Regards, -- Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis

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CSGFS Updates
by John Newbigin 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

There are updates for CS & GFS for the new kernel and I guess for U6. I am still building GFS but the others are ready. http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/noarch/redhat-config-cluster-1.… http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/piranha-0.7.11-1.1.i386.rpm http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/csgfs/i386/clumanager-1.2.28-1.i386.r… There are signed with my jnewbigin-csgfs(a)ict.swin.edu.au and need to be resigned with the CentOS-3 key. The GFS will be there once build. I will send the URL when it is ready. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Kernel FC and RHEL
by Lercio Teotonio Gontijo 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Sory my bad english. :-( What is diff on Kernel FC and RHEL (CentOS) ??? Tks.

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Mirror mirror on the wall...
by John Newbigin 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

I am getting errors when I try and upload to the centos-2 mirror (rsync://jnewbigin@master.centos.org/centos-2/): rsync: readlink "/HEADER.html" (in centos-2) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links (40) rsync: readlink "/HEADER.images" (in centos-2) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links (40) rsync: readlink "/FOOTER.html" (in centos-2) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links (40) IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion I have made some local changes because I had a disk fail, but I don't think that is the cause of the problem. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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