Johnny Hughes wrote:
All,
There have been many requests for added kernel features that the upstream provider left out of the standard kernel. (ReiserFS, Video4Linux, Firewire support, XFS, NTFS, JFS, etc.).
We want the main release CDs to contain a standard kernel for compatibility and stability reasons. CentOS is created as a clone, and it needs to be as close as possible to the upstream distro.
That being said, the 2.6.9 kernel has lots of features that are not turned on in the default kernel. Until now the answer has been ... if you want that, you must make recompile the kernel yourself. Well ... now there is another option for x86_64 and i386. I have created an unsupported kernel for the CentOS-4 i386 and x86_64 distros. It is in the CentOS-Plus repository and is the latest released CentOS-4 Kernel (currently 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL), with the configuration files modified to turn on optional modules. It is called:
kernel-2.6.9-5.0.5.106.unsupported
Turned on (as kernel modules) are the following:
NTFS XFS JFS ReiserFS UFS (FreeBSD default file system ... Read Only) BeOS (Read Only)
what about IPX support (as it was in centos-3.x)?