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Re: XFS as Root

To: pongheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tan Pong Heng)
Subject: Re: XFS as Root
From: Jim Mostek <mostek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:51:28 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <38E6AF73.7ABF49D6@starnet.gov.sg> from "Tan Pong Heng" at Apr 02, 2000 10:24:51 AM
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
You are pushing XFS more than we have internally. We have more development
yet to do. We don't feel comfortable enough with XFS to use it as /usr or
any other normal file system, yet. During our testing, we normally
mkfs a fresh copy, beat on it, fix, ...

Thanks,

Jim

>
>OK, I tried the alternative - I now have XFS as /usr instead.
>Everything seems to be fine. It seems that the only problem with
>using XFS as root is to get the right process going before init start.
>(Or so I am guessing....)
>
>There is one catch though - I am not having /usr/src/linux on this
>partition yet - as that is on my home directory for CVS update
>at the moment - that would be /home.
>
>Anything specific that you would like me to test?
>


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