From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?= Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] System Suggestions Message-Id: <20020306223820.GC1353@localhost> References: <20020306210600.JKKL21197.imf11bis.bellsouth.net@taz> <1015450169.3240.80.camel@Steven> <3C869076.7010607@birddog.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3C869076.7010607@birddog.com> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Mar 6 16:37:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wednesday, 06 March 2002, at 15:56:06 -0600, Kirby C. Bohling wrote: > It's my understanding that the patches for XFS are pretty invasive > and that the latest XFS patches won't apply to the RedHat kernel because RH > has a different VM from the mainline kernel after 2.4.9 and XFS has lots > of VM dependencies in it. That is me just summarizing what I have heard > on other mailings lists, never used XFS myself. I thought SGI kept a > version of a RedHat derived distro ISO that would work with XFS that > was relatively recent like RH 7.0 based or 7.1 based. I can't remember > the link off hand. > Just for everyone's information, Andrea Arcangeli's kernel patches for 2.4.x series include XFS since at least version 2.4.18-rc4aa1 (what I am running now, fine so far). This -aa branch is said to be both stable and fast on the VM side, and could be interesting to give it a try. Greetings. -- Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (Linux 2.4.18-rc4aa1) jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk