XFS for Linux Release 1.2 supports the x86 architecture and, through patches, the IA-64 architecture. XFS 1.2 allows you to choose the logical block size for a filesystem.
For a list of changes and bugfixes that have been made in user space since the 1.1 release, see the XFS for Linux Release 1.2 User Space Change Log. For a list of changes and bugfixes that have been made to the kernel space since the 1.1 release, see the XFS for Linux Release 1.2 Kernel Change Log.
Before installing the XFS filesystem for Linux, you should look over the XFS for Linux Release 1.2 Caveats for a list of limitations, requirements, and special instructions for this release.
XFS Linux Release 1.2 is available through the following distributions mechanisms:
Source installation
SGI XFS Linux Release 1.2 is available as a patch against linux-2.4.19. XFS 1.2 is distribution-independent.
For a source installation, you start with a "vanilla" linux-2.4.19 tarball (linux-2.4.19.tar.gz, or linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2) and apply patches to obtain an XFS-capable kernel. For XFS Linux Release 1.2, XFS comes as a single patch. A KDB (built-in kernel debugger) patch is also available.
You can download the release 1.2 patch files for both x86 and IA-64 architectures.
For instructions on creating the XFS tree with patchfiles, see Installing from the Source.
RPMs
RPMs based on Red Hat's kernel source have been provided for Intel x86, AMD Athlon. See Installing XFS from the RPM Packages.