"redhat.angus" wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> We may beat you to it... the installer will be ready post-haste, and
> we also have a kernel RPM building with all of Red Hat's patches +
> XFS - although I'm not sure at this point if that will be installed
> by default w/ the system installer, or just a "vanilla" kernel with
> XFS and a couple small patches
>
> It was precisely a point which I wanted to see cleared up because I
> use by example tux which is a patch from Ingo Molnar present only in the
> kernel by the RedHat guys but not in SGI kernel (vanilla+xfs patch).
>
> I really believe that the availability of a kernel including the RedHat
> and SGI patch is essential.
> Many functionalities are in general added by RedHat (tux, lvs...) -
> which if they are not present any more in SGI kernel - will prevent
> much administrator of migrated their machine in XFS.
I have an xfs core patch that will patch against RH7.1 kernel.
As we have not done any testing against this configuration, we
won't be "releasing" it just yet.
I may make the patch available if enough people want it but
it will be up to the individual to build and test the kernel.
>
>
> -David
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Russell Cattelan
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Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.
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