Hi Jonathan -
Not quite sure what you're asking, are the 7.0 systems ext2-based?
FWIW, the XFS installer CD already has executable tools - you could
either boot it in "rescue" mode to get a shell and make filesystems, or
during the install, you can alt-F* to the console which has the shell.
-Eric
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:04, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> I'm getting ready to upgrade a bunch of Red Hat 7.0 systems and I
> wondered: Has anyone got XFS kernel and xfsprogs to work on Red Hat
> 7.0? If it isn't too much of a pain, I might try to "convert" all of
> the filesystems before the upgrade rather than having to back everything
> up.
>
> I suppose I could just copy "/" then make a new XFS during the install,
> but then I have to port in any non-RPM software and settings from the
> old root files. Then I could "convert" the rest of the filesystems
> after the upgrade. Or maybe I could hack the install CD to have the
> tools executable off the CD, make a clean XFS, then copy the root back
> to the new fs.
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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