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.
FWIW, I would like to see XFS support in the installer. I always use XFS on my servers, so whenever I install Debian it is through a Knoppix chroot. I would gladly assist any effort to add/test XFS in the Debian installer.
-Roberto
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