[UFO Chicago] Has FreeBSD 10 Dropped Support For XFS?

[Brian Sobolak]

On Sun, October 27, 2013 2:10 am, Jay F Shachter wrote:
> Gentlemen:
>
> My FreeBSD 10.0 system is failing to recognize my XFS filesystem,
> and "kldload xfs" fails.  Behold:
>
>
> [root at landru ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD landru 10.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 #0 r256420: Sun Oct 13
> 03:46:18 UTC 2013 root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> [root at landru ~]# mount -r -t xfs /dev/linux_lvm/landruvg-ubuntu /ubuntu
> mount: /dev/linux_lvm/landruvg-ubuntu: Operation not supported by device
> [root at landru ~]# kldload xfs
> kldload: can't load xfs: No such file or directory
> [root at landru ~]# echo /boot/kernel/*xfs*
> /boot/kernel/*xfs*
>
>

10.0 is still BETA.  Issues like this should be sent to the freebsd
mailing lists where you can get an answer.  questions at freebsd.org is the
one I used to use when I ran Freebsd regularly.

> Yes, I did build and install the sysutils/xfsprogs port.
>
> Thank you in advance for any and all replies.
>
> P.S. On FreeBSD 10.0 /usr/bin/cc is clang 3.3, not gcc, which is way cool.
>

Because of gpl 3.0, there has been a concerted effort to get away from any
gnu tools in the core build of the kernel in FreeBSD to prevent issues for
those that want BSD for its BSD license.

brian


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