Hi Eric -
You have a few options. You could probably just run the
stock 2.4.25 kernel on your distribution, and gain xfs
support. However, there may be things in RHEL3's kernel
that you want. So, you'd need XFS support added to that
kernel.
I have some test kernels (which I really need to get
updated...) at ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/testing/RHEL
that have an xfs snapshot in them - they have had very
little testing, and have some other features in them
that you may or may not want; read the readme. I'm
planning on getting some newer kernels up fairly soon.
If you want XFS on the root filesystem, it's a little trickier,
you'd need to install on ext3, then boot an xfs-capable kernel
to copy root over to a new partition with xfs on it.
-Eric
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Eric Jordan wrote:
> I have redhat enterprise linux v3. I am new to patching, compiling,
> building, etc. Is there a procedure for setting up XFS support for
> that distribution?
>
> I would appreciate any guidance you can provide.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Eric Jordan
> 310-266-9290
>
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