I went to a presentation by SGI about their new Altix Itanium Linux
machines. They claimed that they are running Red Hat Advanced Server
with XFS.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:35:24PM +0100, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 16:04 11-2-2003 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:47:10AM -0600, Vangel Bojaxhi wrote:
> >> To whom it may concern:
> >>
> >> I am investigating if the XFS can be implemented in a IBM i386 8 way SMP
> >> machine, running Red Hat Advanced Serever Kernel
> >> Version 2.4.9-e.10.10summit. Unfortunately the latest patch I could find
> >> in your site http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/.. is the
> >> "xfs-1.1-PR2-2.4.18-all.patch.bz2" , which is for 2.4.18 kernel.
> >
> >It's basically not possible to backport the current XFS code to a
> >pre-2.4.11
> >kernel, I'd suggest you use a newer kernel anyway. Anyway, where is
> >that kernel rpm downloadable? The newest kernel on RH's ftp site
> >is 2.4.9-10.
>
> The Advanced server product still uses a 2.4.9 based kernel which is
> heavily modified. I don't think it is worth the trouble to make it patch
> and work.
>
> The sources for AS are available on the ftp site somewhere IIRC but you
> have to pay $800 anually for the product itself.
>
> So I am afraid that XFS in RHAS is a no-go and it would also void any
> support that you just paid for.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Seth
> It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.
>
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