[CentOS] Unsupported Kernel for X86_64 and i386

Thu May 12 12:08:53 UTC 2005
Farkas Levente <lfarkas at bppiac.hu>

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)?

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