Re: XFS file system

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Francois Chenais wrote:

> what's the best way to add XFS support in the Linux 2.4.20 kernel ?
> Can I use the kernel-patch-xfs or do it by myself using tools from sgi ?

The easy way is to use the kernel-patch-xfs (in testing for 2.4.20 now), I
think.

Last time I build 2.4.20 that was not available and I used the kernel
source from SGI's cvs.  That was also quite easy to build.  Here's my
notes.  I had a few questions about lm_sensors, but it all seems to work.
   

Building 2.4.20-xfs from CGI cvs sources
---------------------------------------

    Get 2.4 kernel source directly from SGI via cvs:

    $ cd /usr/src
    $ cvs -d:pserver:cvs@oss.sgi.com:/cvs login
    cvs  (is password)
    $ cvs -z3  -d:pserver:cvs@oss.sgi.com:/cvs checkout linux-2.4-xfs
    $ rm linux
    $ ln -s linux-2.4-xfs/linux

    Now apply i2c and lm_sensors patches.  There's some question if I need to
    update i2c for 2.4.20, but I'll patch anyway.

    $ cd ~/build/i2c-2.7.0/
    $ mkpatch/mkpatch.pl . /usr/src/linux | patch -p1 -E -d /usr/src/linux
    $ cd ../lm_sensors-2.7.0/
    $ mkpatch/mkpatch.pl . /usr/src/linux | patch -p1 -E -d /usr/src/linux

    $ cd /usr/src/linux
    $ make menuconfig

    I import from the current /boot/config file

    Character Devices -> Hardware sensors support  ->
       <M>   VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors (NEW)

    (although sensors-detect and lspci says VT8233 - is that i2c-viapro? )

    Try and compile and see if viapro is build...
   
    Set the extraversion for this kernel
    $ nano Makefile
    EXTRAVERSION = -xfs-athlon
    (can also use --append_to_version flag to make-kpkg

    Now, build the kernel
    $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 kernel_image

    (8 minutes!)

    $ cd ../linux-2.4-xfs
    $ su

    # dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.20-xfs-athlon_custom.1.0_i386.deb


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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org