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Re: xfs support?
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Perret Yannick <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:56:20 +0100
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Troy Dawson wrote:

> Perret Yannick wrote:
>
>> giovanni bracco wrote:
>>
>>> I have seen that xfs file system is not supported in SL 303.
>>> Is there any plan to support it in future releases?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just for information, we are using the unsupported XFS kernel (with XFS
>> openAFS RPMs) for our disks servers (2 To per machine) and we never met
>> trouble at this time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Yannick
>
>
> Officially support xfs file system?  no, not until RedHat officially
> supports it.
>
Yes, of course.
My purpose was just to indicate to giovanni bracco that we use safely
the (not supported)
XFS kernel (and so he may does).

> Have it in our contrib section and supported that way? yes.  CERN has
> provided  kernels with XFS hooks, and the corresponding XFS kernel
> modules, since Scientific Linux 3.0.2.  These are at
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/i386/contrib/RPMS/
>
> Troy
>

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