On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:44, Dusty Duke wrote:
> Nate
> 
> it's there.  You can even chose it when you install 8.0.  If I remember 
> correctly

It's in the kernel (although I'm not sure if it's enabled by default). 
It isn't available at *install* time (my last being around two hours
ago) which means you'd have to install and then convert your filesystems
to XFS, which I can assure you is a PITA.

> > > Since SGI has actually already done that work and provides patches 
> >against
> > > a vanilla kernel (and apparently against the RH kernel as well), I don't
> > > think it would be too much work for RH (especially given the number of
> > > other patches they incorporate).
> > >
> > > I'm just thinking it would be nice if SGI didn't have to waste resources
> > > providing their own version of the RH installer.
> >
> >it should be even less work to include reiserfs support since it's been
> >in the standard kernel since 2.4.1. Maybe redhat 8 includes this, but last
> >time I installed 7.3 it did not, from what I remember at least. I think 
> >SuSE
> >(8 at least) provides xfs, reiser, ext3, ext2, and *maybe* jfs, looks like
> >8.1 has jfs according to the website.
> >
> >I'd probably still use ext3, just so I have a system running it(most of the
> >rest are debian, with 1 suse machine, all use ext2 or reiserfs), but it'd
> >be nice if the option was there.
> >
> >nate
> >
> >
> >
> >
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