[ATrpms-users] Re: XFS support for EL4 and clones

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:30:34PM -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 30 May 2005 20:18, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> > I see that you have xfsprogs and xfsdump for EL4.  However it was
> > my understanding that Redhat's kernel for EL4 did not have support
> > for XFS And I didn't see a corresponding kernel module. Am I
> > totally off-base?
> 
> Nope, that's my understanding too. I scrapped an initial pass at CentOS 4 for 
> my master backend right after it was available because of this. Hadn't 
> realized until trying to mount my XFS-formatted drive array that there was no 
> XFS support. Oops! Quick about-face back to FC3 for me.
> 
> > I want to use Centos4 for a dedicated mythtv backend and use XFS.
> > Centos has a "centosplus" kernel with XFS and other modules enabled, but
> > I believe my use of it would preclude me from using your other wonderful
> > kmdl's (ivtv,lirc,nvidia,alsa).
> 
> Also correct. The lack of XFS and v4l support in the kernel (though the latter 
> is available via kmdls) is what has at least temporarily halted my efforts to 
> switch my doc from FC over to EL4. (Well, that and a serious lack of spare 
> time).

XFS can also be packaged as separate modules, but that requires quite
a bit of effort and is best discussed on the xfs list.

Adding support for any enhanched Centos kernel would certainly also be
an option.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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