[nzlug] Dell are sooo pwn3d

[Michael Adams]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:51 +1000
Daniel Pittman wrote:

> 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.
> 

http://gnu.org.in/pipermail/gnowsys-dev/2006-August/000156.html
"if the xfs support is available as a module, then the root partion
cannot be other than ext2/ext3 for these are native to linux kernel."

http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux/552849-file-systems.html#post4560767

If the above advice has changed, i would be interested to hear it.

I have used XFS constantly since it was first recommended to me as a
fast journalling system in 2001. It works and works well although on my
box it is hardly pushed to the limits that the tester was doing in 2001.
I use it for all partitions bar swap.

-- 
Michael
Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion.