[KLUG Members] Re: Latest SUSE stability? -- It's always RedHat with Ext3 or XFS for me ... (fwd)

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>:
> We currently use XFS,  one of the reasons RH is becoming irritating.

???  SGI produces installer CDs for RedHat releases.
Furthermore, SGI _only_ supports XFS on RedHat.

> No, there is no such thing for 8.0.  And SGI said there isn't going to
> be.

???  Aren't you on the list?  They have an .iso on their FTP site.

> This is much less of an irritant than not being able to install with the
> filesystem you actually want to use.

That's where the SGI installer comes in.

> Yes, libacl and libacl-devel are installed.  Only they don't seem to
> work.

ACLs work better on XFS, I admit.  Chalk one up for a RedHat .0 release.

> I've been using ACLs for some time.  Not ruling out the possibility that
> listening the GW's speaches has lowered my IQ and hence I'm missing 
> something obvious. 

Why do you insist on making political jabs in a technical conversation?  We have
a guy like that over at LEAP (although you are far more intelligent/resourceful
from a technical standpoint than him -- plus you haven't asked for me to be
banned from KLUG some 500 times ;-).

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