XFS has been officially merged

[m.w.chang]

point taken. thank you both.

step 1 is to compile a new kernel with the xfs patch
step 3 would be to modify /etc/fstab to mount / using xfs after the restore.

> no command for converion. what's so hard about the
> backup-everything-on-partition, format with xfs, and copy
> everything-on-partition to freshly formatted XFS partition?
> 

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