> Hello, I'm running SuSE linux 6.4 with kernel 2.4.0_SuSE which is
> basicly
> the released 2.4.0 kernel with patches for the resier filesystem. I'm
> not
> happy with this file system. It looks so far that if I want to try XFS
> that I have to use the kernel which is supplied with it from sgi. I'm a
> little hesitant to do this as it doesn't appear to be the
> released(final)
> version of the 2.4.0 kernel. Is there a package that can be added to the
> kernel that I already have? Or even one that is compatable with the
> released 2.4.0 kernel. I would really like to try XFS. Or maybe I'm way
> off base and the kernel version from the download site IS 2.4.0(final)?
We do have the 2.4 kernel with XFS support. The cvs tree is setup
this way, this is the fastest way to get changes. I just looked at
what we have for ftp download, and it is somewhat redhat centric
right now (nothing but rpms), however, you could take the kernel
source rpm and do an rpm -bp on it to get a source tree, from this
you could feed it your kernel config parameters (plus xfs options
of course - you need to turn on experimental options for this to
be an option)
I think the source rpm you should start with - should you go that route is
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/SGI-XFS_PR-test1/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR.src.rpm
Once 2.4.1 is out and we have merged up to it then our tree will actually
have reiserfs and xfs - at the moment you would have to use different
kernels to move data out of reiserfs and into xfs - or you could apply
a reiserfs patch to our kernel if you are feeling really brave.
Steve
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Mark Hounschell
> markh@xxxxxxxxxx
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