On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Doug Benjamin wrote:
Hello,
Has anyone experienced this failure. xfs file system will not mount after a
kernel upgrade.
when SELinux is in permissive mode
Here are the details:
[r...@ascwrk0 ~]# uname -a
Linux ascwrk0.hep.anl.gov 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 18:44:51 EDT
2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[r...@ascwrk0 ~]# modinfo xfs
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
license: GPL
description: SGI XFS with ACLs, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
author: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
srcversion: CD41E32544B126D01477F5F
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1
The error is Operation not permitted when trying to mount the existing xfs
partition.
If I role back the kernel to
[r...@ascwrk0 ~]# uname -a
Linux ascwrk0.hep.anl.gov 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 00:57:09 EST
2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and using this kernel module -
[r...@ascwrk0 ~]# modinfo xfs
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
license: GPL
description: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block/inode
numbers, no debug enabled
author: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
srcversion: EB72D8E7117BE062A7B96A4
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1
module_sig:
883f3504b569fcd6ae2bfe7d51a34c11236e709d14c133b4bc8a959c91ef6630331b106c64cca97a09e2fed52ea7666ee49627c0342ef2e2e037723869
mount is successful.
When SELinux is set to disabled then the xfs filesystem mounts with the latest
kernel. Any suggestions how to fix the problem so that I
can set SELinux back to permissive mode
Where is the new xfs.ko comming from? I ask because I note that the
latest sl kernels also include an xfs module package even on x86_64 while
the recent previous versions have not since upstream include it xfs (on
x86_64 at least).
In the tree which includes the x86_64 versions of the updates I see:
$ rpm -qlvp kernel-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | grep -i xfs.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 54872 Mar 16 23:53
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5/kernel/fs/freevxfs/freevxfs.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 694824 Mar 16 23:53
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
$ rpm -qlvp kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5-0.4-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm | grep
-i xfs.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13023126 Mar 17 19:59
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
so it seems likely to cause problems for someone if both get pulled in.
Because we use xfs on top of md (raid5) we need to apply a patch to all
recent TUV/sl kernels - I don't bother to build the external xfs modules -
and it seems to work ok for me (in permissive mode), and I get:
$ dmesg | grep -i xfs
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block/inode numbers, no
debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
XFS mounting filesystem md0
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md0
SELinux: initialized (dev md0, type xfs), uses mountpoint labeling
and from modinfo
$ modinfo xfs
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.D1/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
license: GPL
description: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block/inode
numbers, no debug enabled
author: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
srcversion: EB72D8E7117BE062A7B96A4
depends:
vermagic: 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.D1 SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1
module_sig:
883f3504ba37a86402a1e72447a9a21112721909f70622edfb3f449efcf1edfdbb9caf8a0e89c2c960a08cfd4301f5a4679d1722966ad63a52b6c4d4c4
which apart from the .D1 om the release/path looks much more like the
output from the versions which work for you...
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