I've been running 7.2 for quite awhile (2.2.17 kernel). I've been wanting to try 8.0 for awhile and although I had been using reiserfs, I decided to give xfs a try (the folks at SGI having ported it to the 2.4 kernel). I still don't have everything working right, but here are some issues that came up (BTW, I was running the 2.4.3 Cooker ISO with the XFS patches/installer): 1. Although I specified my username for autologin, it doesn't (minor severity). 2. I got shot by the reiserfs incompatibility botch - since my /home was reiserfs, I had to do-si-do with a temporary ext2 filesystem and then copy things back (major severity). 3. Even though I told the installer "use GRUB!" it still installed lilo (and didn't make a boot floppy) - it took me some fiddling around to discover that the problem was that, although the kernel and the installer both support XFS, the GRUB on the ISO doesn't! And you get no indication of this until, having booted via lilo, you try to install grub and are told that the partition you told it to use has an unsupported filesystem type (major severity) [not the fault of mandrake]. 4. 4.0.3 X has the broken backing store setting (I think) - I tried switching consoles and got a blank screen, with garbage flickering at the bottom (medium severity). 5. Although I selected linuxconf in the packages list, it will not run, complaining about missing library "libgd.so.1" (moderate severity). 6. Single user boot hangs at "cleaning up /tmp" (major severity). 7. I really like the feature since 7.2 where you can use the CDROM in rescue mode - too bad that the XFS patched CDROM doesn't support XFS in rescue mode - makes it impossible to mount the root FS (moderate severity) [not mandrake's fault]. 8. pine wasn't on CD #1 (don't have the other two), but elm was. I also noticed that traceroute was present, but not ping? That honestly doesn't make much sense, does it (very minor).
