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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263