Weird boot problem??

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 2/10/2003 11:25 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >
> > I use XFS on *all* of my workstations & servers, and have never had a
> > single problem.  The future release of the 2.6.x kernel shouldnt' have any
> > bearing on that
> >
>
> Are you aware of anyone installing XFS on RH 8.0?

Nope.  I'd say the biggest reason is that there isn't any way of
installing RH8 natively on XFS.  And the fact that RH8 isn't considered to
be all that stable.  I've intentionally kept all my boxes at 7.3 for those
two reasons.

> I haven't embarked on the task for several reasons, among them:
> - Patching the RH kernel with XFS, seems non-trivial to me.

It is non-trivial.  Then again, you can't patch any RH kernel (AFAIK) with
the XFS patches.  The patches are designed for the vanilla kernel.

> - I've read that 2.95.x is required for stable kernel building and RH
> 8.0 only has gcc-3.2.1

Yea, i read the same, although there are alot of success stories from
folks using gcc-3.x.

> - Need space to copy the data to XFS

For RH8, yea, you do.

> - Time

Well, patching the kernel is not time intensive.  The greatest amount of
time would be shuffling the data back & forth to migrate it to XFS.

> For now, I'm OK with running ext3, but the lure of XFS is tempting me...

Well, only you can make that decision.

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