Why won't the installer let me choose XFS for my partitions?
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Morten Nilsen morten@runsafe.no wrote:
Why won't the installer let me choose XFS for my partitions?
The distro kernel (thus installer CD) does not have xfs support.
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Morten Nilsen morten@runsafe.no wrote:
Why won't the installer let me choose XFS for my partitions?
The distro kernel (thus installer CD) does not have xfs support.
I don't actually use a CD, but okay..
Please consider adding xfs support.. It doesn't please me to run things on ext3..
Morten Nilsen wrote on Sat, 03 May 2008 16:02:34 +0200:
Please consider adding xfs support.. It doesn't please me to run things on ext3..
Oh, it doesn't please you ... well, then ... ;-)
It's in the Centosplus kernel. Even I who is not interested in xfs couldn't avoid to get knowledge of this in bypassing.
Kai
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Morten Nilsen wrote on Sat, 03 May 2008 16:02:34 +0200:
Please consider adding xfs support.. It doesn't please me to run things on ext3..
Oh, it doesn't please you ... well, then ... ;-)
It's in the Centosplus kernel. Even I who is not interested in xfs couldn't avoid to get knowledge of this in bypassing.
You do not need centosplus to get the xfs support. xfs can be used by installing the kernel module kmod-xfs and xfsprogs, both of which are available from the extras repo. However, the kernel of the installer is not built with the xfs support which is why you cannot install the OS into the xfs filesystem.
Akemi
On Sat, May 03, 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Morten Nilsen wrote on Sat, 03 May 2008 16:02:34 +0200:
Please consider adding xfs support.. It doesn't please me to run things on ext3..
Oh, it doesn't please you ... well, then ... ;-)
It's in the Centosplus kernel. Even I who is not interested in xfs couldn't avoid to get knowledge of this in bypassing.
You do not need centosplus to get the xfs support. xfs can be used by installing the kernel module kmod-xfs and xfsprogs, both of which are available from the extras repo. However, the kernel of the installer is not built with the xfs support which is why you cannot install the OS into the xfs filesystem.
As much as I like xfs, and used it for years on Caldera and SuSE systems, I still prefer to have my boot file system(s) on non-RAID, ext3 file systems as they are close to bullet proof.
Bill
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