On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Gschaider <bgschaid_lists at ice-sf.at> wrote: > I've got a fileserver currently running under 5.3 with the > /home-partition being an XFS-filesystem. I use the kmod-xfs from > extras. It works great ;) > > Now: as I understand it from the release-notes the 5.4 kernel has XFS > already built-in. Right? Or is it just a kmod-package ("technology > preview") > > Now my question is: are there any recommendations for an > upgrade-procedure? I mean, I can probably manage, but I'll want to > minimize downtime > BTW: when doing "yum list updates" I don't see any "kernel*"-packages > in the list. Is this because the last kernel from the 5.3-updates has > the same build-numer (164 I think)? And is the 5.4-base-kernel the > same as the latest 5.3-updates-kernel? The -164 kernel is indeed from 5.4 and has xfs as a built-in kernel module. If you are already running this kernel, that indicates all is well and no further action is needed. Could you show us the output returned by: ls -l `find /lib/modules -name xfs.ko` Akemi