[CentOS] XFS on CentOS

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 04:57 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu,
> > OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather
> > requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be
> > able to support XFS on your CentOS machine? Just seems a little odd
> > given how much CentOS is oriented to be used as a server OS.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> AFAIK, XFS kernel, modules and utils are available in CentOSPlus[1] repo

This is not correct anymore. The kernel module is in the normal kernel 
(atleast in 5.4 and 5.5) and the xfsprogs package is in CentOS-extras.

Note that XFS is not available for i386 since it has problems with 4K kernel 
stacks (in some situations).

/Peter

> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus
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