"linux" wrote:
> i had a kernel 2.4.3 and i tried to compile it with xfs support in kernel
> and it failed ! i had gcc 2.95 , i installed kgcc with egcs 1.1.2
> and failed again. i didn't want to downgrade my kernel
> so i downloaded kernel 2.4.4.
> i applied the linux-2.4.4-xfs-TEST.patch (the
> linux-2.4.4-xfs-cvs-05022001.patch.gz
> didn't work for me).
Could you provide some information about how these failed, so that we
can fix them if it's a real problem?
> 1.how stable is xfs with kernel 2.4.4 ?
Unknown - 2.4.4 is largely untested at this point.
> 2.is it sue to make the root filesystem xfs ?
Root XFS filesystems should be fine, many people are running that way.
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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