On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:40:23AM +0200, Simon Matter wrote:
> Seems RedHat just doesn't want us to use XFS. That's why it is so
> important that XFS goes into the official kernel. Then they can't refuse
> it anymore :)
>
> AFAIK RH AS uses a quite old but heavy patched kernel. It may be
> difficult to backport current XFS patches. You may have some luck trying
> the patches from the 2.4.9-34 source RPM as a starting point.
Although the AS server calls itself 2.4.9 it is quite different from
RedHat's 2.4.9-34 (which already has more in common with the last 2.4.13-ac
then any released 2.4.9 kernel..). This does include filesystem-related
changes such as AIO to which XFS is not adoptable without major effort.
The simplest solution would to just take the 2.4.9-34 rpm which should
install fine in AS and use that with XFS. Alternatively I'm happy to
contract with you in October to fit XFS into the AS kernel 8)
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