[CentOS] kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-4 (Was: Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem)

Mon Jun 15 07:08:30 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Akemi Yagi<amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tru Huynh <tru at centos.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:16:42AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>> Here is the updated version:
>>>
>>> http://centos.toracat.org/kmods/CentOS-4/xfs/SRPMS/
>>>
>>> Please discard the obsoleted ones (I did not bump the version/release
>>> number).  Let me know when your binaries are ready for testing.
>>>
>> rebuilds and uploaded.
>
> * Downloaded from http://people.centos.org/tru/kABI/4/RPMS/ and did
> some test installs.
>
> First, installed the kernel version specific
> kmod-xfs-0.4-1.el4.2.6.9_78.0.22 to the test box and then installed
> the current kABI-tracking kmod-xfs-0.4-2.el4.  It successfully
> replaced the xfs.ko installed by the former and created symlinks to
> other installed kernels correctly.
>
> Second, installed the current kmod-xfs to an older kernel and then
> updated the kernel.  Upon reboot, a new symlink was created for the
> newly installed kernel successfully.
>
> Third, confirmed that the kABI-tracking kmod-xfs recognized centosplus
> kernels as expected (even -vm kernels).  One example of such symlinks:

Tru,

I vaguely remember that you were planning on releasing this on or
around June 15 (?).  Maybe it's time?  I don't think we are getting
any more response here.

Akemi