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[Brett I. Holcomb]

I think they need to update the instructios!

> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:40:22PM -0700, Collins wrote:
>>On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:40:06 -0800 Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com>
>>wrote:
> 
> I think it was in the installation instructions.  I had started
> with a reference to the SGI site, then followed their links of
> systems that support XFS in the distribitions to gentoo.  My next
> step was to start looking to see what's necessary to install it.
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
> 
> Looking at this, I find statements like:
> 
>   ``XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported
>   under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel, but be warned that it is highly
>   unstable at this time.''
> 
>   ``Please be careful with XFS; this filesystem has a tendency to fry lots
>   of data if the system crashes or you lose power. Originally, it seemed
>   like a promising filesystem but it now appears that this tendency to
>   lose data is a major achilles' heel.''
> 
>>I can't argue with the fact the XFS comes from a long, successful
>>commercial background.  My personal preference is to wait for formal
>>adoption in the kernel (2.6), since I don't need the additional hassle
>>of dealing with patches outside the main kernel tree.
> 
> My feelings exactly.
> 
> Bill
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