XFS filesystem support in Fedora

[Mike Burger]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Ajay Ramaswamy wrote:

> On Friday 07 Nov 2003 2:38 am, Mike Burger wrote:
> > Are there any plans to include SGI's XFS filesystem support into Fedora's
> > kernels and/or installers?
> >
> > Such support would be incredibly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > --
> > fedora-list mailing list
> > fedora-list at redhat.com
> > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> 
> These two patches add the necessary support to anaconda to enable XFS support, 
> the only problem with this is that grub will hang at the end while installing 
> the bootloader, a few of us on the linux-xfs mailing list are trying to find 
> the answer to that problem too. As for the kernel & userspace utils 
> oss.sgi.com is your friend. Eric Sandeen has just put out a kernel SRPM 
> today.
> 
> Now to find the reason grub hangs at the end.

I, too, am on the linux-xfs mailing list, but I'm not a hacker by any 
means, and am not really up to the task.

I'm simply an end user who knows, from reading the linux-xfs list, that 
the SGI folks would prefer to not have to concentrate their efforts on an 
installer, but rather on the filesystem work.

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