[CentOS] ext4?

[Laurent Wandrebeck]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 18:55:35 +0100
James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 August 2010 17:41, Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > so a mount -t ext4 should work, as kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 provides /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko.
> 
> This is probably going ot provide the answer (to you atleast, its not
> so clear to me);
> 
> `uname -r` tells me I'm on kernel 2.6.18-92.el5.
> 
> Within /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/kernel/fs/ thers is no ext4, but I
> have do have a /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 folder and in there is
> kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko so a newer kernel is preset with the required
> module but its not active, or something? I'm going to say I need to
> recompile my kernel and include the module since its present on my box
> or work out why the newer kernel files are present but not in use?
You need to boot on the latest kernel. Or it is not 5.5 (nor 5.4 as far as I can remember - it looks like a 5.3 one). So ext4 is unsupported.
Laurent
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