ext2->ext3

[Net Llama!]

SCOdera's lack of forsight shouldn't be your burden.  AFAIK, all distro's
that support XFS natively (and there are more that do, than don't these
days) provide ER boot disks/CDs.

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 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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