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List:       npaci-rocks-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Rocks-Discuss] Switching to the xfs filesystem
From:       Werner Saar <wernsaar () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2012-05-24 21:50:31
Message-ID: 4FBEAD27.1080308 () googlemail ! com
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On 24.05.2012 22:56, Bart Brashers wrote:
> Rocks 5.4.3 x86_64.
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> Currently I have ext4 partitions on my frontend.  If I wanted to re-format one of \
> those (it's empty) to xfs for testing purposes, I'd need to install some packages: 
> kmod-xfs
> xfsdump
> xfsprogs
> dmapi
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> Doing a "yum deplist: on the above packages gives many lines that say I need the \
> kernel from kernel.x86_64 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5.centos.plus.  I suspect that's \
> because of the kmod-xfs kernel module. 
> Do I still need kmod-xfs on a stock CentOS-based Rocks 5.4.3 install?
> 
> If I do need the kernel module kmod-xfs, then I'll need to switch to a new kernel, \
> which will require a reboot.  Have to wait until the cluster's idle for that... 
> Bart
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Bart,

You don't need kmod-xfs and dmapi with Rocks 5.4.3.
Install only xfsprogs and xfsdump, create the filesystem and mount it

Werner


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