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Re: state of XFS capable linux installers

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Subject: Re: state of XFS capable linux installers
From: "Scott Fagg" <scott.fagg@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:32:06 +1100
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When i said 'linux' i was referring to linux distros in general, i wasn't 
trying to equate redhat to linux, it just so happens that i use redhat.

Looks like FC2 is the closest answer, for now .. time to contribute.

I have the problem that my redhat linux ;) box has XFS filesystems on all 
partitions, thanks to the SGI supplied RH7.3 installer. Now that i want to 
upgrade, i'm caught. I was hoping i could do some tricks by installing stuff to 
the 1GB swap partition, recompiling kernels and so on, but could never come up 
with a working process.

Scott Fagg <scott.fagg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Arup Brisbane
(07) 3023 6000


>>> Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> 08/01/2004 1:39:19 AM >>>
The original poster made the common error of equating "Linux"
solely with "Red Hat," and Red Hat is indeed pretty much the last
distro that has no xfs support.

See ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/xfs_users.html 
for a list of distros that have supported xfs for quite some
time now.

-Eric

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Scott Fagg wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have a couple of RH7.3 XFS boxes i'd like to upgrade, most likely to 
> > fedora + 2.6.x.
> >
> > What's the state of the xfs-capable installers ? Is there one for fedora 
> > yet ? What we be involved in making such a thing ?
> 
> I'm somewhat confused by this question.  While I don't use off-the-shelf
> distros anymore, didn't most support XFS during install for a while now?
> Slack had it as an option back in 8.x, if I recall correctly.
> 
>       --Arthur Corliss
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> 
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