XFS again

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thank you.

Andrew Mathews wrote:

> 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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