On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Keith Matthews wrote:
> On 06 Nov 2003 12:47:01 -0600
> Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:56, Mike Burger wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know if the SuSE distribution currently includes XFS
> > > support?
> >
> > Yes, SuSE was one of the early supporters of XFS.
> >
> >
> Despite the 8.1 system saying something like 'are you sure you want to
> use XFS, its still experimental'.
>
> BTW, if anyone wants to use SuSE to re-install without reformatting any
> of the filesystems - DONT. the installer as of 8.1 has no way for the
> user to specify the f/s type and assumes it is ext2/3. Certainly ext3 is
> the value put in the new fstab. ext2.fsck then comes along and tries to
> check it, complaining bitterly as it goes which implies the FS magic
> number has been overwritten (God only knows why if the f/s is not to be
> reformatted). If it was XFS the result is a completely trashed
> superblock.
>
> I have not checked 8.2.
>
> The RH and Slackware installers check, detect correctly and ask the user
> to confirm.
Hmm...I wonder about the current SuSE 9 release.
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