From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kBFEvhqw022241 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:57:44 -0800 Message-ID: <4582B7B4.9070803@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:56:52 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: not able to create XFS filesystem References: <743683.94860.qm@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4582AE73.9080409@science-computing.de> In-Reply-To: <4582AE73.9080409@science-computing.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Alexander Apprich Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Alexander Apprich wrote: > Hi, > > chandrasekar mahalingam wrote: >> Hi >> my RHEL 4 machine (Linux spea44 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 >> SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 >> GNU/Linux) has the rpm installed for XFS . >> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36 and >> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36 >> > > those packages have nothing to do with the XFS filesystem :-) *nod* that's xwindows. >> when i try to create a file system using >> "mkfs -t xfs /dev/sekarvg/simple1" it says "mkfs.XFS: >> No such file or directory" . "lsmod|grep -i xfs " does >> not list xfs . > > AFAIK the XFS filesystem isn't officially supported by > RedHat. You might get them from someplace else like It's not officially or unofficially supported. It's completely not supported and not present. If you really need supported xfs in RHEL you'll have to ask Red Hat for that, and I wish you luck. :) > http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/ Or http://sandeen.net/rhel4_xfs that contains a module rpm so you can run xfs in the stock RHEL kernel. you'll need userspace too, probably simplest to get a recent xfsprogs src.rpm from FC6 and the rpmbuild --rebuild xfsprogs-.src.rpm The above combination should work well for you. -Eric > But the kernel also need to support xfs. > > > Hth > > Alex > >