[CentOS] CentOS 4.3 x86_64 xfs module rpm

Fri May 26 10:01:31 UTC 2006
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

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.

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