On 15/11/07 14:00, James Stewart wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm hoping you can help me with something. I need to install XFS support
> on a RHEL3 server, running kernel 2.4.21-52.
> 
> I see that Scientific Linux has an xfs kernel module package:
> 
> kernel-module-xfs-2.4.21-52.EL.cernsmp-1.3.3-2.slc3.i686.rpm
> 
> With SL being a rebuild of RHEL, will I be able to use this xfs module
> package with RHEL3? 

No - note the "cern" and "slc" in the kernel version. Our kernel is not 
a straight rebuild of RHEL3, so the module should (rightfully) fail to 
load. Perhaps the module in the Fermi "contrib" area would work.

If not, is there a src.rpm available that I could
> rebuild for RHEL?

Sure:
http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/scientific/309/x86_64/contrib/SRPMS/xfs/kernel-module-xfs-2.4.21-37.EL.XFS-1.3.3-1.SL.src.rpm
(any other SL mirror should have that as well, just happen to have the 
URL at hand).

Regards
jan