FAI 2.6.3/kernels1.8 2.6.8 XFS problem

[Steffen Grunewald]

Hi Cyril,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:15:53PM +0300, Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> > some days ago I reported XFS-related problems on this list: if I use the
> > prebuilt fai-kernels_1.8 2.6.8 kernel, my machines choke when FAI tries
> > to mount XFS file systems.
> > (modprobe oopses when trying to load xfs.ko - and then hangs.)
> I had the same problem with XFS and kernel-image-2.6.8-fai_1_i386.deb.

So I'm not too stupid. Big relief :-)

> XFS seems broken with this kernel, nobody seems to be using XFS and
> FAI on Linux 2.6. :(

Unfortunately not...

> I have no idea where this can come from because
> when I recompiled my own kernel with the same configuration to add an
> ethernet module I needed, XFS worked.

I hesitated to do so since in the past I managed to break things
completely.

> Maybe 2.6.8-fai has been compiled on a buggy OS (weird gcc, or
> something...).

Thomas declared himself "not guilty" ...

> For your information, kernel-image-2.4.27-fai_1_i386.deb works fine
> with XFS; I'm now using it for my installations.

I know. I had to switch to 2.6 kernels to have support for 3ware 9000
series controllers (4 disk RAID5 acting as system disk... no room for
another disk in the 1U box).

Since I don't have to do anything with the XFS filesystems (just prepare
them - or leave them alone if they are already there) for now I can live
with it. But this may change in the near future.
Perhaps 2.6.10 will be out before?

Cheers,
 Steffen