Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Graichen <> | Subject | Re: how to actually build SGI's xfs? | Date | 6 Aug 2000 12:41:02 GMT |
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Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxedgexx.com> wrote:
> I've actually had great success with most other journal systems available, > including IBM's and Steven Tweedie's ext3. I'd like to try XFS but I seem > to be missing something somewhere on how to actually DO THAT. Didn't know > where else to turn really and figured people on linux-kernel have to be > playing with it, so...
as keith already mailed - there is a mailinglist at sgi for xfs (all that you can find behind http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/)
ok - and now in short form: to try it is quite simple - just checkout the cvs tree from oss.sgi.com - you need to checkout two things:
linux - a complete linux kernel tree (currently up to 2.4.0-test5) cmd - the userland tools
then just build a kernel from that tree (don't forget to enable xfs under filesystems) and go to cmd/xfs and do a make and maybe make install there - reboot the new kernel and use
mkfs_xfs /dev/xxx
to create a filesystem and
mount -t xfs /dev/xxx /somewhere
to mount it
now some words about my impression of it so far: i is quite useable now (i think it is not ready for production yet - but not that far away from that) - i am running a squid for about 50 users on a system with only xfs (except /boot) to test it a bit in a more real situation and did not have any problems yet - also i am currently trying to help getting it to work on ppc and alpha (i can at least mount it now on both machines :-) ... so if you are interested and/or want to help just go ahead ...
t
p.s.: one more note - how to checkout the tree is also ducumented at the above mentioned site ...
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