I don't know what are exactly the problems you are having with XFS, but I have installed Mandrake 8.2 in a Pentium III 800, a Pentium III 1,2GB, a Pentium IV 1,8Gb and a Toshiba Satellite Laptop Celeron 400Mhz all with the partitions using XFS, except swap of course, and they are working fine.
Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
