Re: [CentOS] centos 5 with xfs root?

John R Pierce wrote:

On 2/23/2013 7:40 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:

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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