On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Tomas Kouba wrote:
>
>>  Hi everybody,
>>
>>  I am looking for updated package with xfs kernel module. My system is
>>  SL5.2 64bit version
>>  and kernel version is 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen (it's a virtual machine).
>
> # locate /xfs.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
> # rpmquery -f /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.x86_64
>
> So the xfs module is included with the 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen kernel package.
>
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>
> Before Scientific Linux 5.4, xfs was an SL addition.
> Red Hat included it in Enterprise Linux 5.4

Red Hat only included it for x86_64, so the i386 version is still an SL 
addition...

Note that the RH xfs doesn't play nice with MD RAID-5 though there is an 
unofficial patched kernel floating about which seems to fix it...

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