XFS again

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I sent a note to RH's product feedback/improvement but so far only have a 
automated reply.  I may ask on one of the RH lists.

I guess it's a good thing that I'm going to allot some partitions for "test 
systems" so I can install and see what breaks <G>.

Kurt Wall wrote:

> 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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