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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:33:22 -0500
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
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To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
CC: Manoj Kumar Pradhan <manojkp80@gmail.com>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS DMAPI support for RHEL4
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Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Manoj Kumar Pradhan wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running RHEL with kernel 2.6.9-42ELsmp x86_64. I got the xfs module
>> from http://sandeen.net/rhel4_xfs/ and did a rpmbuild as instructed there, I
>> got the xfs.ko and the module-xfs rpm for the running kernel too but modinfo
>> shows me that the xfs module hence created is not dmapi enabled.
>>     
>
> Right, the dmapi module isn't included in that.  As far as I can recall,
> the necessary bits to support DMAPI are not present in the RHEL4 kernel,
> so this is probably not going to work.  Perhaps the sgi guys can chime
> in if I'm off base.
>
> -Eric
>
>   
Isn't there a rhel4 patch floating around someplace? :-)

>> [root@asher RPMS]# modinfo xfs
>> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
>> license:        GPL
>> description:    SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large
>> block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
>> author:         Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>> depends:
>> vermagic:       2.6.9-42.ELsmp SMP gcc-3.4
>>
>> When I run a simple app which tries to init dmapi for XFS it fails with
>> ENOSYS.
>> Did I miss anything here? How do I enable DMAPI on this XFS module?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Manoj
>>
>>
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