XFS again

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach Brett I. Holcomb:
>
> 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.

It's not in the 8.0 betas that I've seen. I suspect this is a question
to ask on the Red Hat lists.

> 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?

Try it and see? :-)

> 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?

XFS patches seem to lag behind kernel versions by a bit, so your best
bet might be to apply patches to the kernel source you have. Beyond that,
once you've applied the XFS patches, you should be able to select XFS as
the file system of choice.

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

Beats me.

Kurt
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