On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:

> > It would be nice if the xfs modules could be packaged as a separate rpm, 
> > and not as a whole new kernel. I wonder if this is possible without 
> > affecting the rest of the kernel?
> 
> It might be.  If you want to research this then please do.

Did anything ever come of this?  I can possibly help test if needed.  I'm
about to start looking at moving to SL41 for a few systems where SL3 isn't
suitable -- in preparation for upgrading the rest of our systems later.

> > CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
> > CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m
> > CONFIG_JFS_FS=m
> > 
> > to the end of each of the kernel-*.config files in the source rpm. This 
> > made each of the file systems as modules.
> > 
> > If people are interested, they can get RPMS with xfs, reiser and jfs 
> > enabled here:
> > 
> > http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/data/rpms/

I see that this no longer exists...

> > I've also rebuilt the utility packages from Fedora which allow fsck, and 
> > making the file systems (xfsprogs, reiserfs-utils and jfsutils).
> 
> Thanks very much for researching and making these rpms available.
> These can be included in contrib now.  Is that ok with you?

In my rsync'd copy of the SL41 tree I see binary contrib rpms for x86_64
of kernel with xfs but nothing for any of the other platforms and no
srpms.  Of course my mirror might be broken...

i386/contrib/SRPMS/xfs/ (etc) exists but only seems to contain xfsprogs 
and I'm not really sure why those srpms are not under the toplevel SRPMS 
tree (is contrib really special?)

> > Presumably building these as modules should not affect the rest of the 
> > kernel if they are unused, although the kernels haven't gone through QA... 
> > It would be nice if the modules could be built as kernel addon packages, 
> > though I don't know it this is possible yet.
> 
> If you could research this it would be appreciated.

By me too!

> > Jeremy Sanders <[log in to unmask]>   http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/
> > X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK.

Hmm, the UCS Unix Support keep trying to convince me that we are the only
SL users in Cambridge (but they possibly just don't know any better)...

-- 
Jon Peatfield,  Computer Officer,  DAMTP,  University of Cambridge
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