[CentOS] Re: XFS Issues

Mon Nov 20 21:48:20 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:14 +0000, James Pearson wrote:
> James Pearson wrote:
> > On 08/11/06, Stephen C. Rigler <srigler at marathonoil.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:06 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> >> > > Is there any chance that the fix will make it into the centosplus
> >> > > kernel-module-xfs?
> >> > Why not try installing 2.6.9-42.0.3 and see if maybe it is fixed?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I installed it on a different system and the modinfo for xfs still gives
> >> the same information:
> >>
> >> description:    SGI-XFS CVS-2004-10-17_05:00_UTC
> >>
> >> Has the module been updated since 2.6.9-34.0.1?
> > 
> > 
> > The kernel-module-xfs code hasn't changed in a while - that date stamp
> > is incorrect, but the code is more like a year old.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the person at SGI that packaged up the code in the XFS
> > module for RHEL4/CentOS4 no longer works for SGI (I believe he now
> > works for RedHat).
> > 
> > So, I guess, unless someone else at SGI (or elsewhere) back ports the
> > more recent XFS code to the RHEL4 kernel, you are out of luck ...
> 
> Eric Sandeen has updated the kernel-module-xfs RPM - see:
> 
> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=116396539431794&w=2>
> 
> James Pearson

Those RPMS are now in the CentOSPlus repo.
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