[elrepo] Testing kmod-ufs?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Timothy Boyden <tboyden at supercoups.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I installed the elrepo kmod-ufs driver and I'd like to test it before
> hooking up my production external SCSI arrays.
>
> To test it, I wanted to create a file-based virtual file system formatted as
> UFS. I found the following command to create the 1 GB file:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=ufs-image count=2097152
>
> I then went to format it with the mkfs command, but CentOS 5.5 doesn't have
> mkfs.ufs.
>
> Where can I get the UFS progs/tools so I can format this file and test the
> kmod-ufs support?

I could not find any rpm package for that. You can probably install
from a tarball (ufs-tools ?).

> Am I wrong to assume that with this module that I would have full read/write
> support for a Solaris UFS file system?

Not that I have done it myself, but I tend to believe it is possible.

Akemi