XFS again

[Andrew Mathews]

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I'll be installed RH 7.3 Pro on a server and 7.3 desktop on two systems 
> soon and have some more questions.
> 
> 1.  Does RH plan to include XFS in their standard release soon?  I have the 
> XFS modified iso for 7.3 so I can use that to install 7.3 with XFS.

Not yet according to a RH representative on another mailing list.
Perhaps once it becomes part of the "official" kernel release, but even 
then it's not guaranteed.

> 2.  However, if I use the XFS install and setup a XFS system what does that 
> do to updates I get from RH?  I assume I would ignore any kernel updates 
> and just not apply them but would anything else be affected?

Nothing. It works as expected. Only the kernel updates would have any 
effect and those are marked as "manually select" by up2date.

> 3.  One I get an XFS system running and want to update my kernel do I just 
> download the desired kernel from kernel.org, tell it to use XFS when I 
> build it and then everything should work?

I would imagine that you will need the XFS sources to build a new 
kernel, but I defer on this one.

> 4.  I plan on using GRUB as my bootloader - will that be a problem with XFS?

Nope.

> Thanks.
> 

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