XFS WAS [Re: RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...]

[Net Llama!]

On 10/19/02 11:44, Andrew Mathews wrote:

> It provides a bootable cd that is identical to booting off the RH 7.3
> disc 1 for installation, but provides an XFS kernel, for doing a
> complete XFS installation. This eliminates the need for adding XFS
> later, rebuilding the kernel, moving data, etc. The rest of the install
> is exactly like a RH 7.3 install, but you have an XFS filesystem
> immediately. It's quite a time saver and after 100+ installs, I swear by
> it. I'd still be a month out on these machines if I had to do it
> manually. One note though. Red Hat's up2date of glibc breaks xfsdump
> which I use religiously for backups. So I update everything but glibc
> using up2date.


Andrew, do you know of any good documentation on xfsdump?  I've been 
unable to find much that sanely walks a person through using it for 
backup & recovery.

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