Re: Where do I get the rpm or source to build support for xfs?

On 10/25/14 05:28, Georgios Magklaras wrote:
> On 24/10/14 20:16, Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
>> I have a Rhel 6.6 system.  I want to add a large terabyte array to the
>> system, so I need xfs support for it.
>>
>> I have downloaded a couple of xfsprogs rpm which are supposed to work on
>> rhel 6, but the glibc library they need is incompatible with that on the
>> system.
>>
>> I have installed all the updates available to the system.
>>
>> rpm -qa glibc
>> glibc-2.12-1.149.el6.i686
<snip>
>>
>> Same results when I try to install xfsprogs-3.1.1-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
> I wrote about this issue in 2011:
>
> http://epistolatory.blogspot.no/2011/11/rhel-6-part-iv-placing-xfs-into.html
>
> However, you CAN install the xfsprogs and xfs* packages from the CentOS
> repositories. The downside, every time you like to update the system, you will
> have to update manually. The way we solved this was to make our own repo for
> the xfs utilities and we always snap them from CentOS.
>
> I can also confirm, as already pointed out, that RHEL7 has it by default as
> part of the rhel-7-server-rpms/7Server/x86_64 repo.
>
A simple followup: install the CentOS repo, then edit it to include *only* 
xfsprogs. That way, when you do a yum update, it will get only that from the 
CentOS mirror.

	mark

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