Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I am writing to -devel and not to -boot as I think this should be > visible for most developers, as it can have a huge impact in our > systems. > > I was reading [1] today that XFS is entering the 2.4 kernel tree - > Being we still reasonably far from having Sarge releasable, what would > you think on adding XFS support in our debian-installer? There are not > many relevant (although they might be quite complicated) bugs in > either xfs-progs or kernel-patch-xfs, and they will surely get > attention from upstrean with this announcement... > > What do you think about this? I have never used XFS for my machines, > but have heard quite a lot of good comments about it, and would like > to see it available from the official d-i setup.
Once the stock debian kernel has XFS in it, support can trivially be added to the installer, by providing a udeb in the archive that contains a mkfs.xfs program that does the usual thing. -- see shy jo
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