This would greatly help those of us possibly moving to ES or AS. :)
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:36, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:28, Austin Gonyou wrote:
>
> >
> > Could it be possible to modularize the XFS? Kind of like an XFS
> > patch-less install? I dunno if that's possible, somewhat like how
> some
> > of these driver installers work now a days for linux?
>
> You need core kernel changes to support XFS... especially in 2.4.9!
> So
> a patch-less install.... nope.
>
> OTOH we are talking about distributing the next release in 2 packages,
> an "xfs-ready" kernel, and an xfs-module RPM. That way xfs can
> beupdated without a new kernel install, as long as the interface does
> not change.
>
> Not sure if we'll get this done, but I've been kicking it around.
>
> -Eric
>
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