[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Daniel Pittman]

Volker Kuhlmann <hidden at paradise.net.nz> writes:
> On Fri 29 Jun 2007 10:37:41 NZST +1200, Craig Box wrote:
>
>> Windows and Mac OS X don't support XFS either.  Do you think it's
>> really a fair complaint that Ubuntu didn't work with your
>> non-standard configuration?
>
> Yes it is a fair complaint that Ubuntu doesn't support XFS. 

Now, this puzzles me because when y'all say "doesn't support XFS" you
presumably mean something like, maybe, "does support XFS":

daniel at enki:~$ modinfo xfs
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
license:        GPL
description:    SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
author:         Silicon Graphics, Inc.
srcversion:     ACF0B8D074EF38C212384B9
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.20-16-generic SMP mod_unload 586

> XFS is a standard Linux filesystem and I expect every Linux which I
> might or might not install to be able to handle it out of the box,
> whether I am actually using XFS or not.

I don't know of any distribution that doesn't build XFS into their stock
kernels.  Likewise, every distribution I know ships a version of grub or
lilo that can boot from XFS and so forth.

About the only place you might run into trouble is with the installer;
if you know enough about Linux to know why you want an alternate
filesystem like XFS you probably know enough to work around that one way
or another.

Regards,
        Daniel
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