[Cialug] Xfs for centos

[Jeff Chapin]

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Anybody using xfs (filesystem as opposed to x font server) on Centos?  (I think Centos 4.4 or 5.2 or somesuch).  How is the support?
>
> There are several packages, how do I know which xfs support to use from yum search xfs?
>
> kmod-xfs.i686
> kmod-xfs-smp.i686
> kmod-xfs-hugemem.i686
> Etc.
>
> "Yum install xfs" didn't do anything so I probably have to pick one.
> The reason I was looking at XFS was for support on a really large filesystem.  Should I just stick with ext3 for safety's sake?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Nate
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Typically a `uname -a` will tell you what version of the kernel you are 
running, and from there you can determine if you are using a 
smp/huge-mem kernel and grab the right kernel modules (kmods) and run 
from there. I am not sure what else you need, as I don't have access to 
Cent right now.

Jeff