Re: XFS installer and driver/update disks

[Michael Best <mbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62072 you wrote:
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> Product - Version  Component  Status  Short Summary
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> Red Hat Public Beta - skipjack-beta1 kernel CLOSED No XFS filesystem 
in the kernel
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> Additional comment by arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx 2002-04-17 03:51:34
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> This used to be a sane bug. Now it seems (via xfs ml etc) to be some 
sort of propaganda campain; I'm not interested in being the target of PR 
campaigns.

Is there anything the XFS user community can do to help speed the 
adoption of XFS into Skipjack or a future (non 2.5 kernel) Redhat release?

The XFS team at SGI is hard at getting XFS into the main kernel, and 
they do make kernel rpms for Redhat as well as an installer that have 
been of consistantly good quality.

There are many users including myself using the XFS team installer + 
Redhat 7.1 or 7.2 and after trying Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 that included 
XFS support I too was hoping that Redhat would include XFS if not in the 
main kernel, even if only in an optional kernel.

In addition, the official XFS Team 1.1 release has just been announced.

--
 Michael Best
 Systems Administrator
 Emergence By Design, Inc.
 +1 780 413-6397

Greg Freemyer wrote:
>  >>  The real problem is that RedHat does not include XFS in their kernel.
>  >>  They ship it with 1001 patches applied but no XFS. It's a real pain. I
>  >>  have then tried Skipjack-beta1 in the hope, they included XFS. Nothing.
>  >>  I decided to call this a bug and posted it on bugzilla.
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>  >>  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62072
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>  >>  I'm asking list members not to flame on bugzilla. I guess it won't help.
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>  >>  -Simon