ext3 root? was Re: [lug] XFS filesystem core code goes into AC series

Wed Apr 30 09:57:05 MDT 2003

Yes, you can make Linux root drives with XFS. Mandrake allows you to 
choose it during the install. With RedHat you'll need to go to the SGI 
Opensource page and get the RedHat XFS Boot ISO and make a boot cd to do 
it. As the thread has mentioned, hopefully RedHat will include it 
soon.....Kevin

p.s. I've mkfs'd a 2 TB XFS file system on an SGI box in under 4 
minutes-pretty fast......K

Andrew Gilmore wrote:

> Meaning you can't have ext3 on root? or XFS? I have several machines 
> with ext3 root partitions. RH even makes that fairly easy. I am a fan of 
> the make the whole drive /, but I'm not configuring servers. On a 
> server, the answer is different.
> 
> Andrew

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