ext2->ext3

[Matthew Carpenter]

Add to that the fact that I still use COLW311 CD for my emergency bootloader of choice, and XFS is not very likely to be supported there.  I will have to find a newer choice soon, but those are the things you might not think of which will bite you...

begin  Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
(Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:26:32 -0500)

> On Monday 23 December 2002 12:04 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > How many stock bootloaders like XFS these days?  That's been one of
> > the bigger problems with switching filesystems in the past.  I'd have
> > to have an older boot partition and store data on the new FS...  Which
> > still causes problems since the system and config is not on the
> > super-duper filesystem. And I'm sorry, but I am still of the opinion
> > that for my purposes I am better off using as much distro-stock as
> > possible.
> 
> And add to this the question of how many partition diddlers will handle 
> XFS partitions.  I don't think either Acronis or Partition Magic will.  
> I guess one could rely on Knoppix to do everything but I'm not sure I 
> could agree with that.
> 
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