Anybody been successful formatting w/ xfs?

[cmr]

I'm sorry to say that I've been playing with this for only a week -- not long enough to say anything at all about xfs. But the solution, of editing the cp command, seems a sure-fix. I've done it several times now. It always fails at about the same place without making the change, and it always works, with the change.
I've got a spare PC to play with and I'm going to be working with it over the next several weeks. I'll keep you posted.
Other forums that I frequent, have nothing but good things to say about xfs. The only drawback is that it requires a patched kernel.

[psher]

The way I did it (doesn't require a boot _then_ runlevel change, or modifying a script for those uncomfortable with that):

At start up,
1) press "F2" for ~hints (can probably skip ths step)
2) type in: "knoppix 2"
3) type in: "knx-hdinstall" when get a prompt (or what ever the exact command is - I never type in anything over a few chars in in full -just hit tab after "knx" to complete the command)

Regards,
Patrick

[rla]

I have installed knoppix V3.2 03-03-30 de on xfs with knx-hdinstall from the root-shell.
I had no serious problems. Only a message "cp -a cannot stat /alternatives/openoffice" but openoffice is working.
It seems the xfs-problems are solved in this release.

RLA

[00alexx]

at least i assume it has got to do with xfs.

i have knoppix 3.2 and i do a hdinstall, have tried several methods:
- normal hd-install
- switching to runlevel 1, then install
- booting to runlevel 2, then install
- booting to runlevel 2 and modifying the knx-hdinstall script (remove the progress bar and let cp run verbose in foreground)

it always hanged at different positions (26%, 75%, 99% ...). except for once (under normal kde environment!), there it got through till the end, but i messed something up lateron and had to install again

any suggestions?

bye,
alex

[rickenbacherus]

Did you try this:

cp -a /KNOPPIX/* to a
intermediate
ext2 mount and then installing from there instead of CD-ROM.

[aay]

There is an interesting article here that explains differences in file systems. But even after looking it over I can't really see any really compelling reasons to prefer XFS to over ext3. Reiserfs has proved buggy to me on various systems. Have any of you seen noticible performance increases with XFS? Other reasons to use it?

[00alexx]

no, i didnt try this. the problem is that i do not have too much space left on my harddisk.
could i afterwards delete the ext partition and append it to the xfs partition without losing data?

you cannot convert ext3 to xfs afterwards, right?

bye,
alex

[aay]

you cannot convert ext3 to xfs afterwards, right?

Right you cannot do this. The only conversion of linux file systems that I know that works well is ext2 to ext3.

[yobxipponk]

Just curious- anybody got it to work? I've tried repeatedly to format xfs using the knx-hdinstall but if I do the install fails anywhere from 35% to 85% finished. Install works fine w/ ext3.

I found that on my Athlon with my install drive on a pci-ide card, the xfs install fails, but all other work. On my p3 laptop, xfs hdinstall works fine. Knoppix 3.2-20030520

[rickenbacherus]

Have any of you seen noticible performance increases with XFS? Other reasons to use it?

I've switched to Reiser- there really wasn't any reason to use xfs.