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).
On 25/05/06, Fong Vang sudoyang@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
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:42 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
On 25/05/06, Fong Vang sudoyang@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.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:42 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
On 25/05/06, Fong Vang sudoyang@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.
I don't think SGI have 'officially' (not that they officially support it anyway) released an updated XFS RPM for U3
The above is taken from email conversations with Eric.
James Pearson
James Pearson wrote:
I've been using 2.6.9-34 with XFS compiled in this way ...
James Pearson
Dang ... did I not publish those?
I don't think SGI have 'officially' (not that they officially support it anyway) released an updated XFS RPM for U3
The above is taken from email conversations with Eric.
Eric has been working with us on the CentOS project for xfs support from this end..... We're not tracking their code releases upstream.
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@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.
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@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
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:40 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
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@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.
It works this way, though if upstream has properly patched up fs/direct- io.c it may no longer be required.
I have contacted SGI and asked for any other mods that they might have too.
If they give me any, I'll rebuild the modules.
Thanks for the input ...
-- Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:40 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
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@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.
It works this way, though if upstream has properly patched up fs/direct- io.c it may no longer be required.
I have contacted SGI and asked for any other mods that they might have too.
If they give me any, I'll rebuild the modules.
Thanks for the input ...
This is from an email from Eric Sandeen:
I put this blurb into the spec so it will build against both eras of EL4 kernels:
# Updated dio locking scheme appeared in RHEL4U3; so did DIO_CLUSTER_LOCKING, # which we can use as a marker. # (actual changes we need were in direct-io.c, it's not in kernel-dev package) # "older_dio_locking" is then 1 if we're building against an un-updated kernel %define older_dio_locking %(grep -q DIO_CLUSTER_LOCKING %{kernel_topdir}/include/linux/fs.h; echo $?)
and then wrapped the proper patch:
Patch6 : xfs_direct_io_locking.patch
...
%if %{older_dio_locking} %patch6 -p1 %endif
I included this as a patch to the spec file eariler in this thread
James Pearson
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:28 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:40 +0100, James Pearson wrote:
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@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.
It works this way, though if upstream has properly patched up fs/direct- io.c it may no longer be required.
I have contacted SGI and asked for any other mods that they might have too.
If they give me any, I'll rebuild the modules.
Thanks for the input ...
This is from an email from Eric Sandeen:
I put this blurb into the spec so it will build against both eras of EL4 kernels:
# Updated dio locking scheme appeared in RHEL4U3; so did DIO_CLUSTER_LOCKING, # which we can use as a marker. # (actual changes we need were in direct-io.c, it's not in kernel-dev package) # "older_dio_locking" is then 1 if we're building against an un-updated kernel %define older_dio_locking %(grep -q DIO_CLUSTER_LOCKING %{kernel_topdir}/include/linux/fs.h; echo $?)
and then wrapped the proper patch:
Patch6 : xfs_direct_io_locking.patch
...
%if %{older_dio_locking} %patch6 -p1 %endif
I included this as a patch to the spec file eariler in this thread
James Pearson _______________________________________________
James,
For the record, this patch is indeed removable from builds newer than 2.6.9-34.EL
It has been tested and rolled in the latest kernel-module-xfs files in
http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing
(the versions kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-34.EL-0.1-3 and kernel-module- xfs-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL-0.1-3 ... also smp, hugemem, largesmp of the same versions)
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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