Comments on: Enabling ReiserFS, XFS, JFS on RedHat Enterprise Linux

By: vlad

vlad — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:46:56 +0000

After
# make menuconfig
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# make

By: Costyn

Costyn — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:21:54 +0000

Thank you so much!!! This howto was a lifesaver.

By: Prentice

Prentice — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:37:33 +0000

You also need to install this rpm (and it’s dependencies) to create the /usr/src/redhat directory hierarchy and install the tools you need to build the RPMs (including rpmbuild itself):

rpm-build

By: John-Isaac

John-Isaac — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:10:24 +0000

GREAT GUIDE! Saved my rear. Was so helpful, I wrote up a quick post about my experiences.

http://www.john-isaac.com/2009/01/xfs-support-for-rhel5/

Thanks man!

By: Drunk Genius

Drunk Genius — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:25:54 +0000

AWESOME article. This saved me trying to get xfs working on an EC2 AMI from Oracle that, for some reason, was lacking it. Perfect instructions.

By: ScientificLinux user

ScientificLinux user — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:19:10 +0000

Just to say, months after the original article, that some more recent clone distros now have XFS support (but not the others) built in: see https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/rnotes/SL.releasenote.5.2.i386

By: animeboy

animeboy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:12:55 +0000

If you just need kernel modules for a non boot drive, the following will work too, and doesn’t require you to replace your existing kernel (You don’t even need to reboot)

Works for JFS too, just replace XFS with JFS (Or copy the lines)

# uname â€“r
NOTATE THE NUMBERS ( ie 2.6.X.X) Change X.X to whatever your kernel version is
# mkdir /usr/src/sources # cd /usr/src/sources
GET THE SRC RPM FROM ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/VERSION DIRECTORY]/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.X.X-EL.src.rpm
# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.X.X-EL.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/redhat
# rpmbuild -bp SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec # cp -r /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/fs/xfs/. /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/fs/xfs/
# cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
# make menuconfig
ADD XFS SUPPORT
# cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build
# make SUBDIRS=fs/xfs/ modules
# cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)
# mkdir kernel/fs/xfs
# cp build/fs/xfs/xfs.ko kernel/fs/xfs/
# chmod 744 kernel/fs/xs/xfs.ko
# depmod
# modprobe xfs

By: Bonzo

Bonzo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:53:53 +0000

I just needed a quick fix for temporary access to a reiserfs disk. This did the trick. Thanks for taking the time to share this.

By: Luis Perez

Luis Perez — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:53:11 +0000

Can you please provide pointers as to where I can find info to create RPM’s for the reiserfs utilities?

By: Kolesar

Kolesar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:37:49 +0000

Hi,

I get error on make:

[root@testni 2.6.18-8.el5-i686]# make ./fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `fs/reiserfs/bitmap.o’, needed by `fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o’. Stop.
make: *** [fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko] Error 2

Please help.

With regards.
Kolesar