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Re: question concerning upgrades

To: "Stephen Parker" <stephen-parker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: question concerning upgrades
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 16 Sep 2001 16:57:22 -0400
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <000701c13edc$bcb091a0$0201a8c0@moe>
Organization: Linuxcare, Inc.
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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Parker <stephen-parker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Stephen> In the event that Redhat goes to another version number, will
Stephen> I be able to upgrade redhat using their cd? As opposed to
Stephen> waiting for an xfs install cd from SGI?

No, because the Red Hat kernel doesn't support XFS so you can't read
and write your filesystems.

But you can do a `manual' upgrade by installing the new Red Hat RPMs,
of course.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen, Principal Linux Consultant, Linuxcare, Inc.
mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.linuxcare.com/
SGI XFS for Linux Developer, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/


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