[CentOS] centos 5 with xfs root?

[James Pearson]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/23/2013 7:40 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 
>>Is it possible to install centos 5 with xfs root and how to do it?
> 
> 
> Wait.  I just realized you're asking about centos *5* and XFS?
> 
> I wouldn't use XFS with EL5, root or not....  the XFS support was very 
> preliminary, the base kernel was just too old.

That's not completely true - XFS existed in the Linux kernel before EL5 
- however, RedHat's support of XFS was added to the EL 5.4 kernel with a 
backport of a contemporary XFS release - and has had fixes added in 
subsequent EL5 kernels

However, I would agree that unless you have a very good reason for 
staying with CentOS 5, then using CentOS 6 would be better - regardless 
of XFS support

James Pearson