Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Kress
Brent L. Bates wrote: As far as I'm concerned, XFS is the ONLY file system to use, period. If you care about not only performance, but also reliability, use XFS. I can confirm this, I had quite a few power line cuts and xfs always had mercy upon me. XFS compiled into kernel support

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Kress
Ralph Angenendt wrote: EXTRAS. CentOS EXTRAS for xfs. No need to enable centosplus for it. Alright, sorry. I got that now. No objections to using the centosplus kernel in production environments? Use CentOS extras *and* the "normal" kernel. Hmmm, yummm, this even sounds bet

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-30 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Michael Kress wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> There are xfs modules and tools for centos in centos-extras ... so you >> can install them for the main kernel. > > > Ah, that's right, it's the centosplus repo that contains that stuff. EXTRAS. CentOS EXTRAS for xfs. No need to enable centosplus

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-30 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 04:32 +0200, Michael Kress wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > There are xfs modules and tools for centos in centos-extras ... so you > > can install them for the main kernel. > > > Ah, that's right, it's the centosplus repo that contains that stuff. > At least I know now

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Michael Kress
Johnny Hughes wrote: There are xfs modules and tools for centos in centos-extras ... so you can install them for the main kernel. Ah, that's right, it's the centosplus repo that contains that stuff. At least I know now that I can use standard means that are really updateable via 'yum update

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: >>> Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and tr

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: > Michael Kress wrote: >> >> I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file >> systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. >> So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is >> included in the 5.2 live c

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Michael Kress wrote: Hello, I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2 live cd? I do not know if the standard xfs modules in

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Michael Kress wrote: I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is included in the 5.2 live cd? Well, try "yum install" with the "xfs" string and var