Re: XFS installer

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:53:11PM -0400, Brandon Barker wrote:

> My intel workstation uses SGI's XFS Installer to create partitions with XFS 
> for Redhat 7.1 before it is installed, along with installing a modified 
> kernel and utilitiies.  I was wondering if there is anything like this for 
> Linux Mips (on Indys), or if IRIX 6.2 can create a compatible XFS partition 
> for use with linux.

Don't take my answer as authoritative for XFS stuff - the directory format
of XFS on disk has somewhen been changed; the Linux version only supports
v2 while IRIX 6.2 is rather old so I think only supports v1.  Thus both
flavours are incompatible.

  Ralf