[CentOS] kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4 not working properly(2.6.9-34.108.plus.c4

Thu Sep 7 14:00:22 UTC 2006
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:27:30PM +0530, Alok Garg enlightened us:
> >On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 09:48 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >> Alok Garg wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >    I installed kernel version 2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4 a few days ago .my
> >> > home partition is formatted with xfs .But this version is refusing to
> >> > recognize xfs filesystem.the version before that(2.6.9-34.108.plus.c4)
> >> > is working fine. Do anyhave any idea what is going on.Arent all centos
> >> > plus kernel supposed to have support for xfs and ntfs etc.
> >> >
> >>
> >> xfs is now only available as an additional rpm, which can be used with
> >> either the plus or the distro kernel
> >
> >The file you are looking for is in:
> >
> >http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/i386/RPMS/
> >
> >(or substitute x86_64 for i386)
> >
> >and named:
> >kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4-0.1-3.?????.rpm
> 
> 
> I installed kernel-module-xfs-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-0.1-3.i686.rpm from the site
> you mentioned . But it is still unable to mount xfs filesystem at boot
> time.It gives following error.
> 
> mount: fs type xfs not supported by kernel
> 
> after booting up in 2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4 if i issue command "modprobe xfs"
> it gives an error about module not found.But following files are present on
> system.
> 
> /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL/extra/xfs.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL/extra/xfs_quota.ko
> 

You will notice that 2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4 is not the same as 2.6.9-42.0.2.

If all you needed the plus kernel for was xfs, then I would recommend you
use the standard kernel alongside the standard-kernel-xfs-module package you
already have installed.

Matt

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