[CentOS] The CentOS-Plus kernel

[James Gray]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael St. Laurent" <mikes at hartwellcorp.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 9:45:09 AM (GMT+1000) Auto-Detected
Subject: [CentOS] The CentOS-Plus kernel

I see the new kernel available in the plus repository... is there some
way to view what the differences are between that and the mainline
kernel?

Googling "Centosplus" will give you the answers you seek, but to save you the effort:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt
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kernel-2.6.x-x.x.x.xxx.plus.c4
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This is a kernel that has many of the options and modules turned on which
are turned off by default in the upstream providers kernels.  A list of 
some of the items that this Kernel includes are:

File Systems:
NTFS (read and write)
XFS (read and write)
JFS (read and write)
ReiserFS (read and write)
UFS {BSD default FS} (read only)
BeOS FS (read only)
AFS (read only)

Hardware Modules:
All USB
All Firewire
All SCSI
Video4 Linux and all Video, Audio and Radio modules

IPX, DECNET, netware file mount support, ability to write to a Windows
Dynamic Partition.  There are other items as well.  See this link for
the actual config files used to build the latest unsupported kernel:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/kernel-unsupported/

Note: Starting with kernel-2.6.9-42.x.x.plus.c4, xfs-kernel-modules is
provided for the centosplus kernels and the standard centos kernels.
These modules are newer XFS code from SGI than the standard 2.6.9
modules included in the CentOS kernel.
...

They also include the userspace tools for the supported file systems too.

HTH,

James