Seth Mos wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone already have some experience in upgrading a xfs based system to
> a newer xfs system using the SGI installer?
> If not I am gonna try to toast my test machine.
I have upgraded 2 XFS based systems with the latest installer, and it
went w/o a hitch. Note that these systems were originally installed
with our previous system installer, not "home-brewed" although I don't
think that will make a difference.
Steve ran into trouble where he had an all XFS system, and the installer
wanted more swap space, so looked for room on ext2 filesystems to make a
swap file (not a swap partition) - and there were none, so anaconda
crashed. We have that fixed, but it's not out there yet.
So if you already have a boatload of swap (2x memory) or more than 512MB
RAM, or if you have some ext2 partitions on the system, it should work.
Otherwise, hold off for the next test...
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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