On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:41, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I am trying to ugprade a RH9.0 2.4.20-9SGI-XFS-1.2.0 installation on a
> laptop (done from XFS installer CD) to a new kernel, such as
> 2.4.22 with XFS-1.3.1
>
> Any advice on what (not) to do would be welcome...
> - Is the 2.4.22 kernel-patch considered as stable?
> - Will it cause a problem that the current XFS filesystem on the disk is
> 1.2.0, i.e. does one have to 'migrate'?
> - If I happen to use the RH9.0 XFS iso disk for rescue purposes, and have
> to boot in and due xfs_repair, won't it be a problem that the iso CD is
> xfs-1.2?
> - Is there any iso for RH9.0 with XFS1.3 (if this question makes sense at
> all)?
XFS metadata format does not change between versions, there are some
new features, but nothing which has affected the on disk format. You
can always mount older filesystems with newer code.
Steve
>
> To be honest, I am a bit confused at the XFS download section;
> in the FAQ
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#stablexfspatches
> there are (dead?) links to the latest stable versions:
>
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches
> and
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/latest/kernel_patches/
>
> Anyway, I downloaded the following goodies following links from
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download.html:
>
> acl-2.2.15.src.tar.gz
> attr-2.4.8.src.tar.gz
> dmapi-2.0.8.src.tar.gz
> xfsdump-2.2.13.src.tar.gz
> xfsprogs-2.5.6.src.tar.gz
>
> xfs-2.4.22-all-i386.bz2
>
> linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2
>
> (from
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/SGILinux/)
>
> Let me know if any of these is considered obsolete, or some bugs have
> been corrected and new versions are recommended.
>
> Best wishes
> Gaspar
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