install xfs

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Sat Nov 14 11:09:49 CST 2009


Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:19:33 -0500 vous écriviez:
> 
>> Fedora comes with XFS included for a long time.  And even RHEL5 comes
>> with XFS kernel support, although on x86_64 and only supported if you
>> sign over your first born to Red Hat.
> 
> Wow, hell froze over. I never understood why redhat refused to include
> XFS for so long, and simply decided to ditch redhat and derivatives
> ages ago (no xfs? no mp3? grotesque rpm dependancies? you must be
> friggin kidding).

Red Hat and Fedora can't ship the patented mp3 codec.  And enterprise 
distributions routinely choose a subset of kernel options that they can 
support well for their customers.

But now I'm getting OT, so probably won't reply further.  :)

-Eric




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