Re: How to test Hammer fs

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Damian Lubosch wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to check out the HAMMER filesystem on my own, but I am having
> trouble to make it work. I downloaded the ISO-images of the daily
> distribution 1.13 (from 14.5 and 15.5). I am able to newfs_hammer -L
> Test /dev/da1 and it is creating the filesystem. The problem is that I
> cannot mount it. Using mount_hammer /dev/da1 prints out an error message
> like vfsload(hammer): No such file or directory (or the like). I
> searched for hours in the archives but it seems that nobody have had
> this kind of problem before. First I used a VMWare machine within Linux,
> later I also tried to use real hard disks on real PCs but the same
> problem persists.
> Could somebody give me a hint how to make it work?

You have to recompile your kernel adding "options HAMMER" to the config
file.

Regards,

  Michael