when your configuring slack, you get a number of choices for your files system

efs1, efs2, von fibbles Journal file system

ok ive forgotten the exact names but you know what im on about, so whats the best one to use?

I like to use the von fibbles file system as a default. Tho I switch to the eXtreme file system once I'm up and running. efs2 isn't all that bad, tho for some reason I don't get all that good of a "feeling" from it... efs1 is really old so I choose not to use it...

ok thanks, someone else said eXreme was the best as well, where can you get it from?

cd /usr/src
export CVSROOT='server:cvs@oss.sgi.com:/cvs'
cvs login
(the password is "cvs")
cvs checkout linux-2.4-xfs (if you want to use 2.4.25)
cvs checkout linux-2.6-xfs (if you want to use 2.6.4/5)
cvs update -d

(Damn emoticons....)
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cvs_download.html

I'm not sure on how to convert an existing file system into XFS.... To be honest, I haven't looked into it all that much... I always keep a spare partition at the end of my hard drive to install a distro onto.. A reiserfs or ext3 filesystem... Then, after I create an xfs on my target partition (mkfs.xfs /dev/hda*) I:

cd /mnt/newtargetpartition
cp -Rav /*

..... Crap... This is going to be longer than I thought.... cp ussually gets hung up in /proc... You don't need to copy /proc anyway over to your new partition.. Actually, this is what I do...

cd /mnt/newtargetpartition
cp -Rav /bin bin
cp -Rav /boot boot
cp -Rav /dev dev
cp -Rav /etc etc
cp -Rav /home home
cp -Rav /lib lib
mkdir mnt
mkdir mnt/cdrom
mkdir mnt/floppy
cp -Rav /opt opt
mkdir proc
cp -Rav /root root
cp -Rav /sbin sbin
cp- Rav /var var
mkdir tmp
(and here comes the big one)
cp -Rav /usr usr

But see, before you do any of that, you have to make sure you have xfsprogs installed and xfs support built into your running kernel (otherwise, you can't mount your new xfs partition, much less even make one).... Reiserfs is lookin pretty nice about now, huh?

cvs checkout xfs-cmds

You can do a make in the top level directory and it will create tarballs of all the different programs in their respective directories.. Then you install via tarball. I think you can also cd into the respective xfsprogs directory and do a ./configure, make, make install... Not sure. I forget... I've got it down to the point where I can be into my new XFS Slackware system in about a half hour, maybe slightly more. It takes some hustling tho....

Just use von fibbles if all that went over your head...

Jon

Maybe I'll make some slack-packs out of the latest xfs-cmds package. Or just use some conservative CFLAGS to build the tarballs and post them.... I'll do it if it will make it easier on you.. And if you really feel like getting a working XFS system... Otherwise, I'm not gonna...

My personal preference is Reiser, I don't like ext2
or its journaling offspring ext3... I haven't tried xfs
or jfs, though. xfs is supposed to have nice features.

Why do I like Reiser best? Because I've been using
it (with the exts) since 99, and never had any data
loss or other problems with it (which I can't say of
either of the exts).



Cheers,
Tink