[CentOS-devel] Re: Updated xfs-kmod?

Fri Nov 14 20:47:05 UTC 2008
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
>> I notice that there is a more recent 'test' xfs-kmod for CentOS5/RHEL5 at:
>>
>> <http://sandeen.net/rhel5_xfs/xfs-kmod-0.5-2.2.6.18_88.el5.testing.src.rpm>
>>
>> It looks like this is based on XFS code from the 2.6.25 kernel
>>
>> The SRPM has been there for 6 months, so I was wondering how much 
>> testing has been done with the code and CentOS5/RHEL5 ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> James Pearson
> 
> You probably don't actually want to use that kmod... it is a very rough
> backport, and it's not complete and has a few errors, I believe.  I
> should probably take it down.
> 
> If you sit tight for a while, (less than the 6 months or so mentioned
> above I hope), I may be able to point to a better tested, updated kmod.

Thanks

James