On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Jameel Akari wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Mike Burger wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >
> > > > Fedora Core 2 is scheduled 4-6 months from now, start lobbying! :) (I
> > > > don't think RH will put XFS in the "updates", previously known as
> > > > "errata")
> > >
> > > FC2 is supposed to have the linux 2.6 kernel, so if they strip xfs out
> > > of that, then we'll know how they -really- feel about us. ;-)
>
> Well, i can tell you that FC2 kernels supports xfs - however they don't
> install any xfsprogs (mkfs.xfs, xfsdump, etc.) or acl stuff - and the
> installer won't create XFS partitions - just ext2,ext3.
That wasn't my experience (and what's an 'XFS partition')? FC2 installs
with XFS ok, as long as /boot isn't XFS. When it is, grub gets caught
somewhere and kinda hangs until you kill it manually during the install.
But yea, the xfs userspace tools don't ship with FC2, so you're on your
own in getting them, which is fairly trivial, assuming that you've used
XFS before.
> ... from the oss.sgi.com FTP site and so far it all seems to work - I've
> created a couple XFS filesystems and I've been building and burning DVD
> ISOs from them.
>
> > Has anyone tried upgrading a current RH/FC system, that already has XFS in
> > place, with the stock FC2 CDs?
>
> That's a good question, and if I had my FC2 CDs with me I'd feed them to
> the VMware gods and find out. Don't feel like blowing up a production
> system today, though I imagine a RH7.3+XFS -> FC2 upgrade would be
> interesting to watch (like say how a train wreck is interesting to
> watch...)
Personally, i'd be surprised if it turned out well, since XFS support in
the FC2 installer isn't quite baked yet.
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