Jeremy, On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Connie Sieh wrote: > > > Only problem with changing the default kernel from the standard redhat is > > that many just want it to be standard redhat. That is why we provide the > > alternate kernels in contrib. Users who want default redhat get that and > > other users who want alternate kernels can install them if needed. > > 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. > > > It is easy to make a site that has a alternate default kernel if you > > really need the alternate kernel as the default with out having to install > > it yourself. Note that the installer does NOT know how to make xfs > > filesystems during the install. > > Isn't it true that Fedora allows the "xfs" kernel boot line on the > installer, which enables xfs filesystems? If so it may be simple to enable > these options in SL. > > See http://www.fedorafaq.org/#reiserjfs Yes it does and RedHat took all that code out of the installer. Please research how much work it would be to put it back. > > >> As xfs is included in upstream 2.6 kernels, I would naively think that > >> enabling it would be fairly easy and would not clash with RedHat's > >> modifications. Is this a correct assumption? > > > > Have not tried it. If you could try it and let us know if this is true > > or not that would be very useful. > > Looking at the source rpms, it was very easy to get xfs, reiserfs and jfs > filesystems to be built from the rpm. All I did was to add > > 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'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? > > 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. > > Thanks > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Sanders <[log in to unmask]> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ > X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. > Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053 > -Connie Sieh