XFS again

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Thanks.

Bob Raymond wrote:

> 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

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