A patch to add XFS support to anaconda 7.2 can be found here: http://mkp.net/anaconda/anaconda-7.2-xfs.patch I haven't tested this patch; my guess is it just works.. the original author is a very well accomplished XFS developer. As for porting to anaconda-7.3; that shouldn't be too bad. Mike Florin Andrei (florin@xxxxxxx) said: > Guys, > > I might start to modify the 7.3 installer to make it use XFS out of the > box. Michael Best did some research on it, and below are his thoughts. > Do you think his plan is ok? What are the obvious things missing? > I'm planning to use the 2.4.18 XFS-enabled kernel from oss.sgi.com, and > also start with Michael's work here: > > http://www.pendragon.org/projects/valhalla-xfs/index_html > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Michael Best <mbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Christophe Zwecker <doc@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Status on RH7.3 installer ? > Date: 14 May 2002 16:10:07 -0600 > > Perhaps someone knows how to do the step that I stopped on, which was to > generate a disk/disc image for booting from the cdrom. The default > Redhat installer uses a 2.8M installer image in the dosutils/autoboot > directory of the cd: > > 2.8M cdboot.img > 1.9M initrd.img > > Which appears to be a 2.8M boot image which contains: > > 784k of vmlinuz (kernel) and > 1.9M of initrd.img plus > various bootup files. > > I need to make one of these and then I can probably make a cd that boots > with a different kernel. By simply using mkinitrd it makes a minimalist > initrd image. > > I already did these other steps too: > > *) Added the xfs utilities to RedHat/base/stage2.img > *) Added the xfs utility rpms to Redhat/RPMS on disc1 and disc2 > *) modified RedHat/base/comps to include xfs util rpms > *) updated hdlist/hdlist2 in Redhat/base/ using genhdlist from the > anaconda 7.3 source > *) learned about embedding the MD5 into the implantisomd5 and > checkisomd5 from the anaconda 7.3 source > *) examined the anaconda source code for claimed xfs support > (it appears to append XFS to the list of available filesystems > if that filesystem choice is available, more work here is needed) > > -Mike > > -- > Florin Andrei > > Spiderman according to Jon Katz: "the web-slinging arachnoid-nerd from > Queens who gets the bad guy but really wants the girl." > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
