Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g42BWkwJ004707 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 04:32:47 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g42BWkvZ004706 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 2002 04:32:46 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from chaos.egr.duke.edu (chaos.egr.duke.edu [152.3.195.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g42BWewJ004680 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 04:32:41 -0700 Received: from localhost (jlb@localhost) by chaos.egr.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g42BXc022276; Thu, 2 May 2002 07:33:38 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: chaos.egr.duke.edu: jlb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 07:33:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Baker-LePain X-X-Sender: jlb@chaos.egr.duke.edu To: Jean-Luc Gason cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Problem Installing XFS support into my kernel.... In-Reply-To: <006b01c1f1c1$ddba97e0$4332a8c0@Gehirn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 May 2002 at 12:12pm, Jean-Luc Gason wrote > Well, before going on, I apologize asking perhaps a dumb question, but > I'm not realy a programmer, i'm a compositing artist who has to > implement XFS support into his linux workstation to be hable to share a > fiberchannel raid with octanes.... > > I'm going to do you a quick history of my attempt to compile XFS > support into my kernel. *tale of woe snipped* Since you're on redhat, why not just use the RPMs? Download the Release 1.1 RPMS, install those (kernel upgrade via RPM instructions are on RedHat's site) and then add the FC support to the running kernel. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University