On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/25/13 9:42 AM, Emmanuel Florac wrote: >> Le Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:28:10 +0800 >> harryxiyou <harryxiyou@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait: >> >>> 1, How to install XFS on Linux OS, I should do like below, right? >>> a, Download latest Linux Kernel Source Codes. >>> b, Compile the Linux Kernel and select XFS feature when I do the >>> configuration (make menuconfig). >> >> No, XFS is supported by all Linux distributions out of the box. To use >> XFS, you may eventually need to install the xfs-progs package. >> >> >>> 2, Does XFS support real-time feature after I install it on Linux >>> Kernel? And how to use real-time feature on Linux Kernel. >>> >> >> Yes. What do you want to do with realtime XFS? >> > > well, yes and no. It supports the "realtime subvolume" which is > not really technically "realtime." It does have a more deterministic > allocator, but it doesn't have GRIO (Guaranteed Realtime I/O) like > IRIX does. > What about let Linux Kernel support GRIO like IRIX does. I think this would be a good feature for XFS. Actually, I prefer designing and implementing this feature for XFS. Any comments? -- Thanks Weiwei Jia (Harry Wei) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
