RedHat's enterprise operating system doesn't provide support for XFS out of the box, due to support limitations. XFS is a mature and stable file system however, and has benefits in a number of areas, including file streaming, snapshotting, growing, and online defragmentation. In this brief article, I'll walk you through the process of adding XFS support to your RHEL5 (or CentOS) boxes.
XFS comes in two parts: userland tools (xfsprogs) for creating/checking/etc XFS partitions and xfs-kmod, the kernel module required to support XFS.
After being inaccessible for several weeks (if not months), I was finally able to get my hands on some kernel patches for Reiser4. I originally found the patches and software below on this site.
Without further ado:
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