I would suggest using the kernels at
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/testing/release-1.3.3-pre2/kernels/RHEL/
These are modified RHEL kernels (somewhat out of date; will put newer
ones up soon) with much newer XFS code. The kernels have some other
modifications besides xfs; you may wish to look at the .spec file for
which patches have been added.
(Of course using these kernels will also mean that you give up Red Hat
support for them, but it's much closer to stock RHEL than a plain 2.4.27
kernel).
Regards,
-Eric
Harry Nakayama wrote:
> Dear Sirs:
>
> We are wondering if we should switch kernel from 2.4.21 to 2.4.27.
>
> We are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 3. Its base kernel version is
> 2.4.21 and Red Hat supports only this kernel version. We would like to
> install XFS on these servers with 2.4.21 kernels, but as far as we see the
> ChangeLog of the latest version 2.4.27, there seems to be many fixes for
> XFS.
>
> Is it possible to install XFS onto 2.4.21?
> What is the major issues we would have if we would not upgrade the kernel
> 2.4.21 to 2.4.27?
> What is your recommendation? Give up Red Hat's support and take the latest
> kernel?
>
> Best Regards,
>
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