On 17/07/06, Alex Palenschat <alex at nssmgmt.com> wrote: > I recently took over a x86_64 CentOS 4.0 server running an "unsupported" > kernel. On examining the box it seems that perhaps it is because of the > use of xfs and netatalk. I would like to update the box to 4.3. I think > I can do away with the netatalk, but doing away with xfs would require a > substantial amount of work. > > Questions: > > 1: In reading the archive of this list there was a post regarding the > kernel in the Testing repo supporting xfs. Is this the case and if so, > would it be a "bad idea" to run that kernel without essentially runnning > a test box using all packages from the testing repo? > 2: Does the same kernel include netatalk support? It would be easier to > leave the netatalk in place if that were so. > 3: Should I just bite the bullet and get rid of the xfs? I'm not sure > what predicated the choice of filesystem in the first place. > > Any thoughts/comments would be welcome, If you don't need netatalk, then upgrade to 4.3 and use the kernel-module-xfs module from http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/x86_64/RPMS/ This has more up to date XFS code than the centosplus "unsupported" kernel. James Pearson