XFS again

[Bob Raymond]

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 01:28, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> And one other question:
> 
> The sytems I'll be installing on are AMD.  The XFS iso for 7.3 is for i386 
> - will that work and run on my AMD Athlons and then I can build a Athlon 
> specific kernel later?

Yes

> 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.

dunno

> > 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?

dunno (again, not using redhat)
 
> > 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?

You need to apply the patch from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs

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

No problems here
 
Bob Raymond