[CentOS] XFS and CentOS 4.3

[Karanbir Singh]

Mark Strong wrote:
> Hi All, after looking around for info on XFS(the filesystem) and its use
> on CentOS and/or RHEL 4.  There seems to be a lot of noise about 4K
> Stacks (especially on linux-xfs at oss.sgi.com).

you might want to dig into that noise...


> 
> So what is the best way to get XFS working with CentOS 4.3 ? And not
> have something like this happening.

follow the centos-xfs-kernel-rpm process, you already highlighted.

>> You don't want to use the XFS in the centosplus kernel. It has major
>> known issues with 4K stacks (leading to overflows). Use the
>> kernel-module-xfs (or somesuch) RPM instead, and you should have better
>> luck.
> 
> Do I need a kernel with 8K stacks?

thats a decisions for you to take :)

> 
> and is this
> 
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-34.ELsmp-0.1-3.i686.rpm
> 
> the "kernel-module-xfs" RPM he was talking about (or equivalent for
> `uname -r` equals 2.6.9-34.ELsmp).
> 
yes


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