Re: Filesystems -- was: Linux in a School envrionment

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > PLUS, SGI has modified the Redhat 7 Anaconda installer to
> > include support for XFS in the install process!!!
> > Combine that with 2.4 kernel RPM's with XFS support, and we
> > could make a new and improved "BSware-PRO" edition!  :-)
> > Any interest?
> 
> Me! Me! Me!  Actually I'd want it for RH7.1 (currently wolverine beta), as I
> don't intend to go through upgrading again until then.  My box at home is still
> RH6.2. 

SGI doesn't have a modified Anaconda installer for Wolverine,
but they do plan on a modified installer for official 7.1 when
it is released.

I probably won't bother with 7.0, and wait for 7.1 to try this,
as 7.1 should be coming out fairly soon.

> The performance of ext2 for a couple of things I do is becoming a mild
> annoyance.

Yes, it's especially annoying with directories that contain a 
large number of files.

> On an aside note, has anyone done any upgrades on boxes containing Resiserfs
> paritions, etc..., that RH's installer doesn't support?  How smoothly does that
> go?  (All such paritions for me are "non-critical", /var/spool/squid, etc...,
> but I haven't done an upgrade on those boxes yet.)

When I've done it, I've either temporally converted all ReiserFS
to ext2, or took them out of /etc/fstab and changed the partition
types to something other than Linux-83 (like BEOS).   After the 
upgrade, I change everything back.

> And how does one backup a filesystem containing ACLs?

Good question!

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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