Nicholas -
Any idea if they stripped just fs/xfs, or all of the xfs support
infrastructure? (which is really not that much anymore).
Having an "xfs-ready" kernel would be a very nice thing, you could then
just load the module into it, even if they rm -rf'd fs/xfs.
-Eric
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Seth Mos wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > We bought the basic ES product for $350 only to find that it doesn't
> > support the raid controller in the new server it is supposed to be
> > installed on. Yay. Red Hat says that the machine is not listed in their
> > hardware compatability list and as such will not do anything with the
> > support call. To make it even sillier, the driver for the raid
> > controller in question is in the rpm but not available during installer
> > time... aaarrrgh.
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> I spoke with Rik van Riel the other day regarding an enterprise kernel
> beta I found on rawhide and he said the 2.4.2{0|1} version of the Red
> Hat enteprise kernel should be going into "official" freeze any day now.
> Based on that, he predicts that a formal release of that kernel should
> happen soon (mid July?) (I'm assuming a new version of the AS/ES product
> will be released as well). Unfortunately, while it uses the more
> current -rc-ac patchset (which had xfs support), apparently they
> stripped the xfs bits from it. Still, it should be better then screwing
> around with 2.4.9 :-). Perhaps you might want to e-mail him and express
> interest in helping to get xfs support into anaconda (since xfs is
> pretty popular in the enterprise).
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
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