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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060526/ae87f35e/attachment-0004.sig>