Does anyone know what filesystems 8.0 will support? When the 7.3 release announcement was made, I wrote SuSE to see if XFS was supported. They wrote back and said it was. They did ship the XFS tools but the kernel did not support the filesystem, so I still have to compile my own kernels to use it. I would really like to see a SuSE compiled kernel supporting XFS. Jason ------------------------------------------------------
ext2, ext3, FAT, JFS, ReiserFS and XFS -- Rafael
I would really like to see a SuSE compiled kernel supporting XFS.
So would I actually, but I don't think it's going to happen in the near future. That means probably not for 8.0. The XFS filesystem is, to put it bluntly, too advanced for the Linux VFS. It makes a whole pile of changes required to support its clever features. Those changes aren't in the stock kernel as yet, and until they are, XFS will be an intrusive patch. Putting such a big change into a production kernel would be a big risk, and I don't think SuSE will do it for a while. They'll probably be one of the first distros to use it though, when they're ready. I'd be delighted to be proved wrong though! -- 4:06pm up 9 days, 1:36, 1 user, load average: 0.52, 0.21, 0.07
On Thursday 14 March 2002 7:37 pm, you wrote:
I'd be delighted to be proved wrong though!
XFS included already in 2.4.18 mantel's kernel. (its there since 2.4.17 or something like that)
Then I am, officially, delighted! :) -- 7:57am up 9 days, 17:27, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.19, 0.18
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