On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:24:07PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > I got this error running VMware on XFS (see attached jpg).
> >
> > if xfs does support the file locking semantics that vmware wants (which I
> > assume), we should let them know so they can include xfs awareness in
> > their next release...
>
> Hmm, so you think they probe the filesystem type and then decide they
> do not know what it can do if they do not recognize the type? They could
> try a couple of tests to see what works, even different revisions of
> the same filesystem could have different feature sets.
Yes, that's exactly what they do.
(see long thread on reiserfs mailinglist on this subject long time ago -
only at that time vmware just crashed instead of telling you what to do)
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Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage
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