Re: query

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>]

Nandedkar, Rishiraj wrote:
> Thank you very much
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Florac [mailto:eflorac@intellique.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:35 PM
> To: Nandedkar, Rishiraj
> Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: query
> 
> Le Fri, 2 May 2008 16:12:58 +0530
> "Nandedkar, Rishiraj" <Rishiraj.Nandedkar@cggveritas.com> écrivait:
> 
>> Thank you for update but Linux 7.3 means red hat 7 update 3 red hat 3
>> update 5.In our system we are unable to detect disk which is having
>> file system in XFS format. Our system is not able to support it.
>> 2.4.21-32.EL is kenal version on our systems. Please let me know
>> which version should I use in redhat.I am trying this with fedora
>> core 3
> 
> RedHat 7.3 ( or even 8.0 and 9.0 for that matter) are really very old
> and outdated. You'd be much better for pretty much everything with
> something more up-to-date. Back then RedHat 7.x needed a special
> additional CD provided by SGI for XFS support IIRC.
> I'm pretty surprised that RHEL 3 doesn't support XFS though. Anyway,
> RHEL 4 and 5 do without any doubt (I use XFS on them).
> 

Another point could be that if you're used to and like RedHat Linux 7.3
and/or RedHat Enterprise Linux then I think looking at either the newer
RedHat Enterprise Linue (RHEL) 4 or 5 or Fedora is the way to go.

To use XFS in Fedora (http://www.fedoraproject.org) you need to add the
word "xfs" to the installer commandline and also make sure you use a
seperate, small (100MB is enough) partition that's called /boot that's
using ext3 (others work but I recommend using ext3 simply for that
partition).

// Stefan